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{{Construction Site}}The '''vagina''' is the elastic, muscular part of the female genital tract. It extends from the [[vulva ]] to the [[cervix]]. The outer vaginal opening is normally partly covered by a membrane called the hymen. At the deep end, the [[cervix ]] (neck of the [[uterus]]) bulges into the vagina. The vagina is lined with mucosal tissue. The vagina is moisturized and lubricated by Bartholin's glands.<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Bartholin%27s+glands |title=Bartholin's glands |last= |first= |init= |publisher=The Free Dictionary by Farlex |date=2005 |accessdate=2023-01-09}}</ref> The vagina allows for sexual intercourse and birth.

The vagina receives the [[penis]] during [[sexual intercourse]]. To accommodate smoother penetration of the vagina during sexual intercourse or other sexual activity, vaginal moisture increases during sexual arousal in human females. This increase in moisture provides vaginal lubrication, which reduces friction. The texture of the vaginal walls creates friction for the peni[[penis]] during sexual intercourse and stimulates it toward [[ejaculation]], enabling fertilization.==History==Knowledge of the overwhelming superiority of the [[intact]], [[foreskinned]] [[penis]] over the [[circumcised]] penis in assuring the pleasure and orgasm of the female partner is of long standing. Rabbi Isaac ben Yedaiah, who lived in Southern France in the late 13th century, wrote effusively of the pleasures that the [[foreskin]] provided to the woman. Marc Saperstein (1980) provided a translation:<blockquote>A man uncircumcised in the flesh desires to lie with a beautiful-looking woman who speaks seductively to attract him. He vexes his mind to be with her day after day, growing weary in his attempt to fulfil his desire through lovemaking with her. She too will court the man who is uncircumcised in the flesh and lie against his breast with great passion, for he thrusts inside her a long time because of his foreskin, which is a barrier against ejaculation in intercourse. Thus she feels pleasure and reaches an orgasm first. When an uncircumcised man sleeps with her, and then resolves to return to his home, she brazenly grabs him, holding on to his genitals and says to him, "Come back, make love to me." This is because of the pleasure that she finds in intercourse with him, from the sinews of his testicles—sinew of iron—and from his ejaculation—that of a horse which he shoots like an arrow into her womb. They are united without separating, and he makes love twice and three times in one night, yet the appetite is not filled.<ref>{{REFweb |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/cultural/yedaiah1/ |title=Decoding the Rabbis: A Thirteenth-Century Commentary on the Aggadah |last=Saperstein |first=Marc |init= |publisher=Harvard University Press |date=1980 |accessdate=2023-03-07}}</ref></blockquote>

Warren & Bigelow (1994) reported the [[foreskin]] "provides slack [[shaft skin|skin on the shaft ]] of the erect [[penis ]] allowing it to [[Gliding action| glide ]] within its own sheath of [[skin ]] during intercourse, one effect of which is to conserve vaginal lubrication. The gliding of the foreskin eases penetration<ref name="taves2002">{{REFjournal |last=Taves |init=D |author-link= |title=The intromission function of the foreskin |journal=Med Hypotheses |date=2002 |volume=59 |issue=2 |pages=180 |url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306987702002505 |quote= |pubmedID=12208206 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10. This 1016/s0306-9877(02)00250-5 |accessdate=2023-06-18}}</ref> and provides for more enjoyable intercourse for both partners and avoids problems with vaginal dryness."<ref name="warren1994">{{REFjournal

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