# Ladies: Are Your Intimate Areas the Whitest They Can Be?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-are-your-intimate-areas-the-whitest-they-can-be/635789
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 25, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-are-your-intimate-areas-the-whitest-they-can-be/635789 "2012-09-25T16:23:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2012, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-are-your-intimate-areas-the-whitest-they-can-be/635789/21 "2012-09-26T05:21:39Z")
> [@monstro](#):
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> Hey, I could turn my privates white and keep everything else the same. My stripper name can be Oreo. PROFIT.
^LOL!
But seriously are there women out there bemoaning the fact their external genital skin is not lighter than the rest of them? I was so ashamed my pussy was not Caucasian!
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### Author:  [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2012, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-are-your-intimate-areas-the-whitest-they-can-be/635789/22 "2012-09-26T13:40:06Z")
I thought pink was the preferred color for those areas.
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### Author:  [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-are-your-intimate-areas-the-whitest-they-can-be/635789/23 "2012-09-26T13:42:23Z")
I went out with one Japanese woman who had a white pussy. Really strange, but at least you could see it in the dark.
Which was good, because I hate stepping on cats.
Thank you, thank you. I’ll be here all week.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2012, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-are-your-intimate-areas-the-whitest-they-can-be/635789/24 "2012-09-26T14:03:51Z")
I wonder if it works on nutsacks.
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2012, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-are-your-intimate-areas-the-whitest-they-can-be/635789/25 "2012-09-26T14:28:18Z")
India has lots of skin lightening creams on advert. I suppose they must have this stuff, too. :eek:
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2012, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-are-your-intimate-areas-the-whitest-they-can-be/635789/26 "2012-09-26T14:39:08Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#):
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> I wonder if it works on nutsacks.
Every time you had an erection it would look like you’re trying to surrender.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2012, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-are-your-intimate-areas-the-whitest-they-can-be/635789/27 "2012-09-26T14:50:52Z")
> [@lieu](#):
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> Every time you had an erection it would look like you’re trying to surrender.
Which would come in handy during our French infantryman/sexy Nazi roleplays.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2012, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-are-your-intimate-areas-the-whitest-they-can-be/635789/28 "2012-09-26T15:01:37Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#):
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> Which would come in handy during our French infantryman/sexy Nazi roleplays.
And by “our,” I didn’t mean to imply **lieu** and I are having French infantryman/sexy Nazi roleplays. He would never fit in the brown skirt, for one.
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### Author:  [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2012, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-are-your-intimate-areas-the-whitest-they-can-be/635789/29 "2012-09-26T15:41:22Z")
> [@grude](#):
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> But seriously are there women out there bemoaning the fact their external genital skin is not lighter than the rest of them?
I imagine the idea is that it’s supposed to do the same thing as whitening creams for the rest of the body, but more “gently” (i.e. some people may be hesitant to rub acid on their crotches).
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### Author:  [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2012, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-are-your-intimate-areas-the-whitest-they-can-be/635789/30 "2012-09-26T15:46:50Z")
“… some?” :dubious:
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### Author:  [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-are-your-intimate-areas-the-whitest-they-can-be/635789/31 "2012-09-26T15:52:43Z")
> [@corkboard](#):
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> My wife is of Swedish ancestry- quite pale skinned. If her intimates were any whiter, they’d be transparent. Which would NOT be a turn-on.
Well, it is to those of us with a “visible inner-workings” fetish!
Okay, I’m probably the only one.
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-are-your-intimate-areas-the-whitest-they-can-be/635789/32 "2012-09-26T15:59:53Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#):
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> Well, it is to those of us with a “visible inner-workings” fetish!
> Okay, I’m probably the only one.
Nope, actually. I’ve seen X ray/cross section porn. Always keep Rule 34\* in mind; whatever kink you have, there is porn of it.
- Internet Rule 34: “If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions.”
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### Author:  [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2012, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-are-your-intimate-areas-the-whitest-they-can-be/635789/33 "2012-09-26T16:07:06Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#):
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> Nope, actually. I’ve seen X ray/cross section porn. Always keep Rule 34\* in mind; whatever kink you have, there is porn of it.
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> - Internet Rule 34: “If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions.”
You know, I thought of that as I typed what I wrote. I was kidding, I’m a relatively kink-free guy, and the sad thing is that I thought I was coming up with something original.
Curse you, Internet Rule 34!
Seriously…“cross-section porn”? Eww. Who’s into that? Biology professors?
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### Author:  [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-are-your-intimate-areas-the-whitest-they-can-be/635789/34 "2012-09-26T16:32:58Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> I’ve read that many of these skin-whitening products have very astringent ingredients that could actually cause skin problems in the future. Like it’s burning into your skin or some similar process. Sounds like the modern-day equivalent of those bone0-breaking corsets in the 19th century.
More like some of the quainter cosmetic ingredients of ye olden days. Like [white lead](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22546056/ns/health/t/suffering-beauty-has-ancient-roots/#.UGMo2VE-Eng) and arsenic.
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### Author:  [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-are-your-intimate-areas-the-whitest-they-can-be/635789/35 "2012-09-26T17:55:50Z")
> [@monstro](#):
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> Hey, I could turn my privates white and keep everything else the same. My stripper name can be Oreo. PROFIT.
–choking with laughter–
Damn you !! 😃
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-are-your-intimate-areas-the-whitest-they-can-be/635789/36 "2012-09-26T18:07:30Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#):
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> Well, it is to those of us with a “visible inner-workings” fetish!
> Okay, I’m probably the only one.
Tom:“Well, I guess opacity IS a good quality in a nose.”
Mike:“It beats transparency!”
```
----The MSTKed "Eye of Argon".
```
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2012, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-are-your-intimate-areas-the-whitest-they-can-be/635789/37 "2012-09-26T20:03:32Z")
In my 53 years, I’ve seen a few. Can’t think of a one that wasn’t really nice.
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2012, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-are-your-intimate-areas-the-whitest-they-can-be/635789/38 "2012-09-26T21:12:30Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#):
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> “… some?” :dubious:
Cue Jinny Cash, “Ring of Fire”.
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2012, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-are-your-intimate-areas-the-whitest-they-can-be/635789/39 "2012-09-27T02:31:14Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#):
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> Cue Jinny Cash, “Ring of Fire”.
JOHNNY CASH. Never post by a phone with stupid auto-correct when people are rushing you to get back to work.
I fell into a burnin’ ring of fire
I went down, down, down
And the flames went higher,
And it burns, burn, burns,
The ring of fire, the ring of fire…
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### Author:  [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-are-your-intimate-areas-the-whitest-they-can-be/635789/40 "2012-09-28T00:32:42Z")
I find it completely hilarious that the third Google hit for “White Intimate” is a Sherwin-Williams paint color.
So . . . is this meant to whiten the regular, outer skin of the crotchal region, or the actual mucous membranes within? If it’s the first, it’s just stupid, but if it’s the second, then I’m terrified.
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