Comments on: Health: The Downsides fo Douching http://www.lifespy.com/2008/health-the-downsides-fo-douching/ analyzing lifestyles Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:35:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: bri http://www.lifespy.com/2008/health-the-downsides-fo-douching/#comment-252722 bri Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:14:48 +0000 http://www.lifespy.com/?p=3533#comment-252722 Douching is incredibly harmful for you. It's not so much that women like to be squeaky clean "down under," it's more that we've been conditioned to feel that "down under" is dirty and smelly more often than not. Doctors used to recommend douching with Clorox back in the day -- hardly a good idea. And the current products certainly aren't much better. Perfumes and chemicals don't need to be in your vagina. If you have an infection or are irritated/sore, douching is just going to make it worse. To be honest, I can't believe that women in 2008 still douche. That's a very foreign idea to my modern sensibilities. Occasionally you'll see a commercial for it on television but personally I can't imagine squirting perfume into my vagina. If there's a bad smell, then you either need to take showers more often or you have an infection of some sort. Douching won't fix that. Douching is incredibly harmful for you. It’s not so much that women like to be squeaky clean “down under,” it’s more that we’ve been conditioned to feel that “down under” is dirty and smelly more often than not. Doctors used to recommend douching with Clorox back in the day — hardly a good idea. And the current products certainly aren’t much better. Perfumes and chemicals don’t need to be in your vagina. If you have an infection or are irritated/sore, douching is just going to make it worse.

To be honest, I can’t believe that women in 2008 still douche. That’s a very foreign idea to my modern sensibilities. Occasionally you’ll see a commercial for it on television but personally I can’t imagine squirting perfume into my vagina. If there’s a bad smell, then you either need to take showers more often or you have an infection of some sort. Douching won’t fix that.

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