# Ladies, don't let lax vaginal hygiene cost you that big promotion! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 27, 2010, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-dont-let-lax-vaginal-hygiene-cost-you-that-big-promotion/551648 "2010-08-27T10:13:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-dont-let-lax-vaginal-hygiene-cost-you-that-big-promotion/551648/61 "2010-08-28T02:01:39Z")
> [@ZPG\_Zealot](#): > > > [@Broomstick](#): > > > > Actually, with the guys I work with, I’d probably have better luck douching with beer and BBQ sauce, that seems to be what interests them. > > I’m wouldn’t be surprised to find such a product in an adult novelty/sex toy store. If you don’t wash it for like a month, won’t it taste like beer naturally? Or, sourdough bread at least? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-dont-let-lax-vaginal-hygiene-cost-you-that-big-promotion/551648/62 "2010-08-28T02:21:40Z")
Belgian beer, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Zany\_Zeolite\_Zipper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/4af34b/32.png) [@Zany\_Zeolite\_Zipper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zany_Zeolite_Zipper)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-dont-let-lax-vaginal-hygiene-cost-you-that-big-promotion/551648/63 "2010-08-28T02:32:16Z")
I feel thick. Could someone explain the relationship between pelicans and vagoos for me? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-dont-let-lax-vaginal-hygiene-cost-you-that-big-promotion/551648/64 "2010-08-28T02:36:31Z")
> [@Zany\_Zeolite\_Zipper](#): > > I feel thick. Could someone explain the relationship between pelicans and vagoos for me? Pelicans like fish. Took me a bit t get it too. > [@GHO57](#): > > So… they assume women are willing to accept a crotch sniffing boss as normal as long as they get paid? …what kind of a job are we talking about exactly? “That boss of mine is a real son-of-a-bitch.” “Yeah?” “I asked him what my prospects for a raise were, he said ‘Ruff’.” ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-dont-let-lax-vaginal-hygiene-cost-you-that-big-promotion/551648/65 "2010-08-28T02:51:48Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > > [@pbbth](#): > > > > I would think the raging infection you’d get from spraying chemicals up your hoo-ha would cause much worse smells than a normal vagina. I can’t see why anyone would need anything other than regular showers, soap, and a daily changing of their underpants. > > And if they DO need more than that _it’s time to see a doctor!_ Hear, hear! As someone who has smelled his share of vaginas, if it stinks, you probably have a yeast infection and a little [Flagyl](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metronidazole) will clear that right up. Stink may be common, but it is not normal nor healthy. We now return you to your regularly scheduled laff riot thread… ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-dont-let-lax-vaginal-hygiene-cost-you-that-big-promotion/551648/66 "2010-08-28T05:25:36Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] I can’t think of even one time in my life when I smelled a woman’s pussy when I did not have my face right down in there. And I work in an office full of women. [/QUOTE] Uh, and what’s your job description exactly? ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-dont-let-lax-vaginal-hygiene-cost-you-that-big-promotion/551648/67 "2010-08-28T07:14:23Z")
There use to be a very large woman, larger than me and I am quite huge, who rode the same bus that I did all too often. She stank, and a large part of her aroma was rotten cooter, but it did not smell yeasty rotten. It was bad enough that I could tell that she had been on the bus and departed before I got on by the gag inducing odor. That is the one of the few women who had odor foul enough to be noticeable in a normal public context. But there have been coworkers who stand way to close to me when i am at the computer in my cubical and this places their crotch way too close to my nose. I read advice once that said that male bosses should not stand too near females they supervise who are sitting at their work station because it may make her feel as if you are about to put your dick in her ear. This is good advice. If you are a woman or a man and you are standing that close, your employee/co-worker may be able to assess your genital hygiene using olfactory methods, so please back off or pull up a chair and sit down. Heck even sitting on the desk is preferable than standing there with your crotch in their face. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-dont-let-lax-vaginal-hygiene-cost-you-that-big-promotion/551648/68 "2010-08-28T07:36:03Z")
I’m douching like a motherfuck! ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-dont-let-lax-vaginal-hygiene-cost-you-that-big-promotion/551648/69 "2010-08-28T12:23:55Z")
> [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](#): > > See, I think this is reflective of how far feminism has come. In [1948](http://www.mum.org/Lysol48.htm), you were only supposed to worry about how your snatch smelled to your husband - now you’re supposed to worry how it smells to your _boss_. Talk about progress! > > (Yes, that’s an ad for Lysol. To be squirted up your vagina. Maybe we have made \*some \*progress.) That picture in that ad is hilarious…the disappointed husband, the worried wife…hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-dont-let-lax-vaginal-hygiene-cost-you-that-big-promotion/551648/70 "2010-08-28T18:43:12Z")
The lysol thing was for spermicide, not smell. I read it around here. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-dont-let-lax-vaginal-hygiene-cost-you-that-big-promotion/551648/71 "2010-08-28T19:06:19Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > > [@Broomstick](#): > > > > And if they DO need more than that _it’s time to see a doctor!_ > > Hear, hear! As someone who has smelled his share of vaginas, if it stinks, you probably have a yeast infection and a little [Flagyl](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metronidazole) will clear that right up. Stink may be common, but it is not normal nor healthy. > > We now return you to your regularly scheduled laff riot thread… A nitpick - Flagyl is usually used for [Trichomonas vaginalis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichomonas_vaginalis) infection. Monistat or Canesten would be your first choices for a yeast infection. As a former lab tech, we used to get very excited when we did a vaginal swab and saw the little fellers waving back at us from the slide. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-dont-let-lax-vaginal-hygiene-cost-you-that-big-promotion/551648/72 "2010-08-28T19:29:53Z")
A coworker once confessed to me that the boss had told her that she stunk and other employees had been complaining about it. Granted, he said nothing about the smell being from “down there” and a raise wasn’t hanging in the balance. But I suppose it could have been. Now why someone would tell another person that they once stunk so bad that the boss had to pull them aside…that’s a whole 'nother matter all together! ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-dont-let-lax-vaginal-hygiene-cost-you-that-big-promotion/551648/73 "2010-08-28T20:06:59Z")
> [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](#): > > See, I think this is reflective of how far feminism has come. In [1948](http://www.mum.org/Lysol48.htm), you were only supposed to worry about how your snatch smelled to your husband - now you’re supposed to worry how it smells to your _boss_… Well, I now know more about the history of menstrual product advertising than ever before. :eek: Somehow this has just gotta be worked into an episode of **Mad-Men**. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-dont-let-lax-vaginal-hygiene-cost-you-that-big-promotion/551648/74 "2010-08-28T20:17:10Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Huh. > Like those “feminine wipes” (do they have “masculine wipes”?) Well, What used to be known as Crotch-rot, then got sensitized to jock itch, has been further reduced to “masculine itch” for some medicines I noticed. ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-dont-let-lax-vaginal-hygiene-cost-you-that-big-promotion/551648/75 "2010-08-28T20:48:41Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Boy, this thread isn’t making me ULTRA SELF-CONSCIOUS or anything. > > _mental note - better plan on TWO showers a day and not just one_ **Anaamika** , if you’re showering daily and applying deodorant/antipersperant, you’re doing just fine. But you’re just lucky enough not to have run into someone with truly amazing BO, and I don’t mean someone who just worked out or waited for the bus in the heat, etc. I went 23 years of life having never experienced it…then last year at my new workplace, my new boss had incredibly bad BO. It’s no medical condition; her clothes were often flaked with dandruff and clearly not washed, her hair limp with oil, and her appearance just generally…blah. She was a _terrific_ boss, always gave me a lot of responsibility, help whenever I needed it, took me out to lunch when I was new, gave me reasonable deadlines…but that 10% of the time when she had to come _near_ me to explain something, I almost fainted. She simply didn’t value hygiene or cleanliness. It was incredibly bizarre. She had the ability to wear clean clothes, which she wore if we ever had something to present to higher ups, and I imagine her interview had her seated _across_ the table from someone, so I’d imagine her resume and her killer personality got her the job but…man. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-dont-let-lax-vaginal-hygiene-cost-you-that-big-promotion/551648/76 "2010-08-28T20:52:09Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > do they have “masculine wipes”? > > At the time they were first promoting vaginal sprays, they also pushed several lines of men’s crotch deodorants, like the imaginitively-named “Man’s Other Deodorant” Wait a minute, do you mean I’m using the roll-on ball deodorant incorrectly? ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-dont-let-lax-vaginal-hygiene-cost-you-that-big-promotion/551648/77 "2010-08-29T04:30:53Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > The lysol thing was for spermicide, not smell. I read it around here. No, as I posted on the other thread, I read on a bottle of Lysol as late as 1979 that douching for freshness was one of its many uses. If it was intended as a spermacide, they weren’t telling. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-dont-let-lax-vaginal-hygiene-cost-you-that-big-promotion/551648/78 "2010-08-30T15:52:50Z")
> [@lindsaybluth](#): > > > [@Anaamika](#): > > > > Boy, this thread isn’t making me ULTRA SELF-CONSCIOUS or anything. > > > > _mental note - better plan on TWO showers a day and not just one_ > > **Anaamika** , if you’re showering daily and applying deodorant/antipersperant, you’re doing just fine. But you’re just lucky enough not to have run into someone with truly amazing BO, and I don’t mean someone who just worked out or waited for the bus in the heat, etc. I went 23 years of life having never experienced it…then last year at my new workplace, my new boss had incredibly bad BO. > > It’s no medical condition; her clothes were often flaked with dandruff and clearly not washed, her hair limp with oil, and her appearance just generally…blah. She was a _terrific_ boss, always gave me a lot of responsibility, help whenever I needed it, took me out to lunch when I was new, gave me reasonable deadlines…but that 10% of the time when she had to come _near_ me to explain something, I almost fainted. She simply didn’t value hygiene or cleanliness. It was incredibly bizarre. She had the ability to wear clean clothes, which she wore if we ever had something to present to higher ups, and I imagine her interview had her seated _across_ the table from someone, so I’d imagine her resume and her killer personality got her the job but…man. I was just joking, really. Put it this way. In my life, there have been many many times where I have been stinky from sweat or BO, from hard work, or hard playing or whatever. I sweat a lot. And am not always a girly girl. But I have never had a stinky twat. (How I love the English and their silly words. Twat is hilarious. It sounds like Tweety the Bird saying “Trot”. Twat twat twat twat twat.) And yes, I have run into people with amazing BO. I’ve ridden the bus downtown, after all! But the worst, absolutely the worst, was the guy who lived in our apartment complex in downtown. The building was only three stories, and we had the top floor, and when he left his second story apartment and went downstairs, his stench would linger for hours and hours and hours, behind him. He was awful. Thankfully I only had to deal with him for a few moments at a time. And his stench, for longer. It was like Foul Ole Ron from the Discworld, it had its own sentience. I can’t imagine working with someone like that. I did have a classmate in college who I had a crush on and would have considered dating - until he opened his mouth. Terrible, terrible oral hygiene, and his breath stank. He was Russian, and very sexy, but my fantasies switched abruptly from lovemaking in Russian to lovingly showing him the use of a toothbrush and some mouthwash. ---
**Author:** ![limegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@limegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/limegreen)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-dont-let-lax-vaginal-hygiene-cost-you-that-big-promotion/551648/79 "2010-08-30T16:14:09Z")
I have a teaching colleague who had to be told that she stank, not just down there, but all over. The HS students would just about pass out if she leaned over to help them with something. We all complained to the principal, who had to have a conversation with her. She came to me to share the story, mortified, but I truly think she had no idea that she stank. Take a shower! Wash your hair! It’s not rocket surgery. ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-dont-let-lax-vaginal-hygiene-cost-you-that-big-promotion/551648/80 "2010-08-30T19:04:32Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I was just joking, really. \ > > I did have a classmate in college who I had a crush on and would have considered dating - until he opened his mouth. Terrible, terrible oral hygiene, and his breath stank. He was Russian, and very sexy, but my fantasies switched abruptly from lovemaking in Russian to lovingly showing him the use of a toothbrush and some mouthwash. Whoops, I missed the sarcasm! Had this been in the past few years, you could have sent him an anonymous email, and then made sweet sweet love. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-dont-let-lax-vaginal-hygiene-cost-you-that-big-promotion/551648.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-dont-let-lax-vaginal-hygiene-cost-you-that-big-promotion/551648.md?page=5)