Female Dopers, have you ever douched? Why?

So, in your opinion, I am:

  1. Ignorant of my natural cycle;
  2. Unaware of the changes in my vaginal discharge
  3. Brainwashed; or
  4. Stupid

Get over yourself - not everyone is comfortable with vaginal odor of any kind, and some of us don’t like having panties with vaginal mucus on it at the end of the day.

Hey lads, the fragrance is coming from over here!

Kramer’s through the door Hello, ladies :smiley:

I love the scent of day old cooter. Going to town on a freshly showered scentless vagina is like screaming down the highway without wind in your hair - honestly.

I’m fairly sure I’ve never tasted a cooter and thought “Hmm, needs a scrub”, and I’ve certainly dined on hiker-hoot and enjoyed the strong taste. Mind you, if I’d tasted that on non-hiker-hoot I’d probably pause and wonder why.

A single time when my fiance and I were about to know one another I went to unwrap the lady jungle to see that she had… lady smegma? She’d been sick and hadn’t showered in a few days. Good opportunity for some shower sex!

Mind you, we’re the couple that knows what a good thrusting can do for period cramps, and I’ll admit that the sight of a slightly bloodied penis switches on something primal. As someone once said on this very board, “Hey, if we do this right we’re gonna need a shower anyway, right?”

You complain about assumptions, then end with one yourself, nice. :dubious: Some of us have discovered another way to deal with the bolded that doesn’t require douching or suffering with the horrors of mucus on our undies.

Whew, just making sure. I had horrible images of people tossing and turning over man juice in the night :eek:.

Excellent, we have a guy here, ladies!

Also, lady smegma made me snort :stuck_out_tongue:

It seems like being grossed out by normal, healthy vaginal secretions is something more worthy of ‘getting over’.

I don’t know why you persist in feigning persecution, when you’re the one who keeps implying that my perfectly delightful pussy is somehow disgusting. :dubious:

Have we MET? :confused:

My comments had nothing to do with you or your humble opinion on this or any other matter. Simply an observation and something I have heard echoed by Drs who got tired of ovulating women coming in for their monthy “infection” that was causing all the profuse, stretchy discharge. :rolleyes:

The fact is, vaginas naturally lubricate themselves constantly, same as eyeballs, and cervixes produce the mucus you are likely to encounter in your panties…scant, thin and watery, like sexual lubricant prior to ovulation, profuse and thicker, stretchy leading up to and during, and scant and tacky after.

If you don’t care for any of it, fine. I really don’t care one way or the other.

Me, I change my panties (if I wear them) every day, so I could really care less if they have some pussy juice of whatever variety on them. It all comes out in the wash.

Of COURSE we have guys here…they are just mostly laying low and reading, so as not to put our wind up. :wink:

So, who’s going to start the thread on male smegma (aka “dick cheese”) and the proper hygiene involved? :smiley:

Sex is dirty, but only if you’re doing it right. :slight_smile:

Smegma is never a problem for me, seeing as between my hands and Fastidiess’s various contributions (petitioned for or not), my willy hasn’t got the time to accumulate any.

Also, I shower (or douche, as it were).

Bon douche! :slight_smile:

Are you Fastidiots about it? :wink: Ba dum dum.

I thought it was spelled “bain”. :slight_smile: Ba dum dum again.

Sorry, I’ll get my coat…

I have used a finger to find out what my mucus is like, to know what’s normal, but i’m honestly not getting how there could be so much crud that i would need to douche. Same with my period clots, and i’m in the bathroom, changing tampons, clots and bits are gone quck.

Whenever i go to the bathroom after sex, pee, wipe wash my hands and things are clean enough. My vagina and me are friends.

Oh yes, the lovely panty liner. The panty liner that traps moisture against my stuff, chafing and rubbing, not letting it breathe. That’s a much better solution than a quick finger in the morning shower. :rolleyes:

I’m with you on that. It’s about personal comfort.

Thank you. I now have the old jingle for that “My Buddy” and “Kid Sister” doll from the 80s stuck in my head with reworked lyrics.
My vagina (My vagina!)
My vagina (My vagina!)
My vagina and meeeeeeeeee!

Fastidiots, step right up and claim your prize!! :stuck_out_tongue:

Whereever I go, sheeeee goes!

Ok, now I will NEVER get that out of my head. Damn yoouuuuu…

I speak for the lurkers! Yeah, we’re having trouble holding in the laughter too.

I just don’t get what poking your finger in there does. I could suction out the vag with a Shopvac ™ first thing in the AM and it would still emit mucus all day, rendering my panties moist by the time I get home. shrug

It’s like. . . watching a baby bird spread its wings and fly into the sunset. Fly on, “hoot”- take on the world!

wipes tear from eye