# Vagina Boiling & You \*internal screaming\* **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 27, 2019, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327 "2019-08-27T19:07:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/61 "2019-08-29T10:09:03Z")
Anything to fleece the public. Like ear candling, bloodletting, and radioactive drinking water. At least the Ben Wa balls never burned anybody. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/62 "2019-08-29T10:39:21Z")
I’m just thanking Og that I’m a gay man. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/63 "2019-08-29T12:39:23Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > Just as long as you don’t put any ketchup on it. Is that a Chicago thing? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/64 "2019-08-29T12:51:27Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > I do not get how people think this sort of shit up in the first place, nor why anyone continues to think it’s a good idea. Like circumcision. Who did it first, and why? ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/65 "2019-08-29T13:18:49Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Is that a Chicago thing? [Per the master.](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/679/why-is-there-no-ketchup-on-a-properly-made-hot-dog/) ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/66 "2019-08-29T16:09:41Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Gwyneth Paltrow is famously a proponent of it. I think she wrote about it in her unfortunately named newsletter . . . _ **GOOP** _ A good friend of mine is a cop. He was called to an appartment a couple of weeks ago due to a woman screaming like she was being murdered. Once he got there the woman told him the she had had an accidental discharge of her pepper spray, gotten it on her hands and then while wiping after using the restroom accidentally gotten a finger with some remanants on it inside of her. Her girlfriend had a history of abuse so my friend assumes that she was sprayed internally. Unfortunately, there was nothing he could do and the lady refused medical services. Afterwards we were talking and we decided this should be the new ice bucket challenge to fight STDs or we should get Mrs. Paltrow involved to say it was a homeopathic cure for burning when you peed. Either way it seems like she should be the celebrity sponsor for doing horrible things to your genettailia. ---
**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 29, 2019, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/67 "2019-08-29T16:51:46Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Like circumcision. Who did it first, and why? As a comedian once observed: “It had to be after the discovery of metalworking, because there are some things I just can’t see people doing with a rock.” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/68 "2019-08-29T17:14:57Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > As a comedian once observed: “It had to be after the discovery of metalworking, because there are some things I just can’t see people doing with a rock.” :eek: I disagree. If you have to stand there and do it to yourself using a stone or obsidian knife, that’s a canonically old-school rite of passage. Up there with sticking your arm into a sleeve full of bullet ants. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/69 "2019-08-29T18:21:51Z")
This is like anal bleaching - something that would never have occurred to me, and now that it has been brought to my attention, I wish it hadn’t. I know, hygiene is important, but there is such a thing as overkill. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/70 "2019-08-29T18:49:53Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > I disagree. If you have to stand there and do it to yourself using a stone or obsidian knife, that’s a canonically old-school rite of passage. Actually, [url=[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsidian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsidian)]obsidian can be fractured to give an _extremely_ sharp edge. > [@Wikipedia](#): > > Well-crafted obsidian blades, as with any glass knife, can have a cutting edge many times sharper than high-quality steel surgical scalpels, the cutting edge of the blade being only about 3 nanometers thick. ---
**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 29, 2019, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/71 "2019-08-29T19:07:24Z")
The ancient Egyptians had obsidian, so when I think of the comedian’s name, I’ll e-mail him to tell him his joke is historically inaccurate. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/72 "2019-08-29T19:15:30Z")
Typical. We have a perfectly good vagina steaming thread going and it’s hijacked into a penis thing. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/73 "2019-08-29T20:39:54Z")
> [@Oredigger77](#): > > A good friend of mine is a cop. He was called to an appartment a couple of weeks ago due to a woman screaming like she was being murdered. Once he got there the woman told him the she had had an accidental discharge of her pepper spray, gotten it on her hands and then while wiping after using the restroom accidentally gotten a finger with some remanants on it inside of her. :eek: How does…? I have been wiping my ass and crotch for over 50 years now and can not _ever_ recall “accidentally” inserting anything into my body. This strikes me as… not likely. Probably not _impossible_ but really really unlikely… ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/74 "2019-08-29T21:36:04Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > :eek: > > How does…? > > I have been wiping my ass and crotch for over 50 years now and can not _ever_ recall “accidentally” inserting anything into my body. This strikes me as… not likely. Probably not _impossible_ but really really unlikely… Its likely that she was inserting or pulling out a tampon - something that does involve reaching in there on occasion - and didn’t want to get into the gory details for the cop. Because - as was said - vaginas are dirty, periods are dirty, and men don’t want to or need to know so we cover them up. Both my mother and my son have had the “I think I’ll use some Ben Gay on the inside of my sore thighs”…“well, THAT wasn’t bright” experience. And over time I’ve learned that if foreplay starts with a backrub that involves Tiger Balm or Icy Hot, its very important to wash your hands before continuing or sexy fun time is less fun. I once gave myself a steam burn on my finger opening up a crockpot without hotpads covering the right places - it hurt like FUCKING HELL. I don’t want to risk my lady bits going through that experience. Not to mention, the steam burn did a little nerve damage - something else I don’t want to risk with my lady bits. ---
**Author:** ![Esprise\_Me](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprise_me/32/2947_2.png) [@Esprise\_Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprise_Me)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/75 "2019-08-29T21:42:09Z")
I know the post used the words “inside” and “vagina,” but many people use the latter to refer to the vulva, which also has mucous membranes that can hurt like hell if exposed to capsaicin. You can easily graze those tissues with your finger while wiping without inserting anything. ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/76 "2019-08-29T21:52:37Z")
Also, the cop thought she had been deliberately sprayed as a form of abuse. One of the signs of abuse is when the injury does not match the explanation. I.e., people don’t always come up with plausible fake ways of having gotten injured. There can be a lot of reasons for that, one of which is having to think up a lie on the spot while in excruciating pain. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/77 "2019-08-29T21:59:34Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > I once gave myself a steam burn on my finger opening up a crockpot without hotpads covering the right places - it hurt like FUCKING HELL. I don’t want to risk my lady bits going through that experience. Not to mention, the steam burn did a little nerve damage - something else I don’t want to risk with my lady bits. Pro tip (for all sexes!): avoid [spilling boiling hot coffee on your lap](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants)!!! ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/78 "2019-08-29T22:27:51Z")
> [@Oredigger77](#): > > Her girlfriend had a history of abuse so my friend assumes that she was sprayed internally. Sorry auto correct got me that that should have read sprayed intentionally. Of course, since it was an official matter I didn’t get the full details even if he could have told me it was mainly a story to get to the idea of pain of pepper spray on your genitals and then we moved on to ways to convince people to do this most painful thing to themselves including daring each other. Which is what made it come back to mind with the idea of steaming yourself and there was the Palrow connection. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2019, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/79 "2019-08-30T04:00:23Z")
> [@swampspruce](#): > > You know, I’ve decided that if Gwyneth endorses it it’s probably a good thing to stay away from. What little I know about her would seem to support that. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2019, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/80 "2019-08-30T04:35:31Z")
as someone whos accidentally spilled a pot of boiling water down his shorts i dont think the pain’s worth any Hygenic benefit it might have … i did know a girl who was into BDSM type of stuff who getting said icy hot or ben gay type of stuff rubbed on some body parts was an interesting feeling if you could handle it … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327.md?page=5)