Irwin Goldstein, MD, is director of sexual medicine at Alvarado Hospital in San Diego… a clinical professor of surgery at the University of California, San Diego… editor in chief of Sexual Medicine Reviews… and coauthor of When Sex Hurts: A Woman’s Guide to Banishing Sexual Pain. SexualMed.org
When vaginal dryness started making sex uncomfortable, a 50-something friend decided to try a personal lubricant. But at the drugstore,…