When
advertisers talk about
feminine hygiene products, they generally refer to
tampons,
pads, and those magical
Instead things (
your guess is as good as mine).
We need these things. Granted, sticking a roll of
chemically-bleached paper into your
holy of holies begs certain
questions for consumer pontification. But
it must be understood that this is
very different from douching.
Douching is not right.
Douching is wrong.
But, in this instance,
so is soap Soap is to vagina as Listerine is to eyeball. It'll
get the sucker clean, but at what cost?
Vaginas are like self-cleaning ovens. They
stink terribly once in awhile, but it's nothing a
regular shower or a
soak in a tub won't kill.
I don't know anyone who douches, but those who do (unless they have whatever dubious "
medical conditions") must assume that
women's bodies are fundamentally dirty, that
nature is poorly designed, and that
menstruation is something to be ashamed of. They are
wrong on all counts.