Like the rest of us, vaginas have had a tough year.
They’ve been through ridiculous opinions about the existence of the female orgasm (it’s real, mate. You just haven’t witnessed one), an increase in people asking for labiaplasty to meet a restrictive ideal of genital beauty, and, as usual, a whole host of terrible vagina-related detoxes, cleanses, and fads.
You’d hope that after all the ‘please don’t put ___ in your vagina’ articles of 2016, people would stop doing strange things to their vaginas.
But alas, the vagina-related misery continued into 2017.
We blame our general shame around the vagina and the lack of education concerning all things vulva and vag. No wonder people are reaching for bizarre DIY vagina treatments when they’re not taught about basic vaginal hygiene (namely that the vagina is self-cleaning and you can pretty much leave it to it. Just wash the vulva – the external genitals – with warm water).
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