This practice not only leaves them in pain but endanger their lives at increased risk of HIV.
Dry sex is a practice where women reducing moisture in their vaginas in order to make intercourse more pleasurable for men.
It is borne out of a cultural belief that men find sex more pleasurable if a woman's vagina is tight, dry, and that men will reject women whose vaginas have been ‘stretched out’ by sex.
To achieve dryness, women insert, chalk, sand, pulverized rock, herbs, paper or sponges before sex, according to Vice journalist Wendy Sykret, who has reported on the practice in South Africa.
They also douse their vaginas in detergents, antiseptics, alcohol and bleach.
Javanese women even 'smoke out' their vaginas by standing over burning herbs.
In other areas of Indonesia it is common to insert a cigar-shaped stick made of a plant root into the vagina.
Not only is this practice extremely painful for the women involved, it can lead to cuts, sores and inflammation in the vagina, and increases the chance of a condom breaking.
These factors increase the chance of the women contracting HIV.
The practice is known to be carried out in South and Central Africa, and Indonesia
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