You want me to put what, where? Myths about the romance of personal hygiene products
It's hard for most of us to imagine that popular magazines and newspaper advertising would make claims suggesting that an individual's worth (most often a woman's) was determined by the quality of her hygiene. The Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health (sure to be a summer hotspot this year) has a collection of examples of these ads - ads that suggest that "an unwashed vulva and an undouched vagina can end a marriage, even for the woman whose meals are tasty and on time, whose house is orderly and dust free, and whose kids are better than the neighbor's."
That's right... Lysol - the highly caustic product that we use to rid ourselves of dirt and grime. Women were encouraged to annihilate their naturally occurring vaginal flora and open their entire genital tract to irritations, infections and disease by spraying poisons up their punanis.
Surely we've learned something over the past 85 years? Take a look at this recent print advertisement and decide for yourself.
Posted by Jenn on June 27, 2006 11:15 AM
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ok, one more before i hit the road, because this is fuckin' important:
i LOVE women. Head to toe. The fact that males are squeamish about menstruation makes me fucking sick AND ashamed of my gender. But it doesn't end there.
Putting aside the fact that people tend to enjoy each other's bodies the most after a shower (unless you're into the whole heavy duty sweat and odor thing, which, i am not)... A natural vulva and vagina are wonderful things. i hug and kiss with as much passion between the legs of a woman as when it is with the mouth of a woman. In fact, moreso. It's a major turn on, and if i am attracted sexually, i'm usually begging to provide the services of oral sex.
i don't know why there are men who not only don't offer but actually REFUSE to provide oral sex to their female sex partners. Yet males seem to EXPECT oral sex be given to them.
INSANITY.
Am i the only one who seems to be programmed to want to spend all evening luxuriating in the peaceful and soothing scent of a woman?
sigh.
i hated my gender from the first moment of hearing boys make odor jokes at girls. That was back in freakin' grade school!!
i'm compelled by and desiring of it and it seems to me to be a criminal act that any female should be lead down the path of insecurity about the scent between their legs.
i've rarely received oral sex, but i have enjoyed providing it to every sex partner i've had (not like i've been with the world or anything, still) and i will come right out and say that each have appreciated it and claimed i did a very good job (sadly, one who was the most insecure about her body didn't want me down there because of "that" and someone i knew from my former career, a beautiful girl, with a beautiful body, was terrified of the concept of oral sex offered to her because she expected it must be gross!!)
crime, i tell you!!
The one i was with who didn't want me "down there" is also the only girl i've been with who was waxed hairless. sigh. All the trappings of social programming. i don't demand hair removal, but that makes accessibility for oral sex ideal. What a shame. But then, there were worse problems lurking with that poor girl.
Even my 7-year non-wife would now and then ask again "so you actually like it and it doesn't bother you?"
WOMEN! LOVE YOUR BODIES!
i sure do.
-- Posted by: Jace at January 7, 2008 4:44 AMp.s.:
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/12/nancy_redd_sees_vulvas_everywh.html
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