# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2019, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/81 "2019-08-30T10:13:33Z")
As **DPRK** and **nightshadea** have said about spilling hot coffee or water on your crotch, it’s a Bad Idea and Painful Experience, as I found out empirically one snowy winter morning while driving to work. (and is why I avoid styrofoam and paper cups for coffee, I don’t flinch as severely these days though, so that’s good) There is so much wrong in this. The idea of women steaming down there. First the steam part, Nancy that! And who said infuse herbs and stuff into it? I don’t want ANYTHING that smells like bread or even vaguely reminds me of yeast in the bedroom. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2019, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/82 "2019-08-30T11:19:35Z")
On the other hand, I _have_ sat in the nude in a steam room at the gym, with no ill effects; a sort of whole-body weiner steaming. Granted, I wasn’t aiming jets of steam at my gentleman garden, but I don’t recall any specific groinial pain. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2019, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/83 "2019-08-30T15:03:33Z")
Important Life Tip (and even tangentially related): Use gloves when chopping hot peppers (habenaros in this case) to avoid having to dip your bits in buttermilk (It’s what was on hand. Yogurt will also work) when you have an errant itch. Also, applies to itchy eyes which only occur when you can’t rub them (Jalapenos that time). ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2019, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/84 "2019-09-01T02:43:59Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Let’s just say after making love, your bedroom smells like a New York pizzeria. Oooooooh, Deep-Dish. NOW I get it ! ---
**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:** [September 1, 2019, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/85 "2019-09-01T03:28:55Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Typical. We have a perfectly good vagina steaming thread going and it’s hijacked into a penis thing. Weird how the penis thing gets inserted into the steaming vagina thread. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2019, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/86 "2019-09-01T03:39:18Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > Weird how the penis thing gets inserted into the steaming vagina thread. You mean the whole thread is fucked? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2019, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/87 "2019-09-01T04:23:40Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Threads like this are the reason I keep coming to the SDMB. The thread is funny, but one of the linked articles called vaginal steaming “body shaming”, and I realized the subtle misogyny of the practice: the subtext that vaginas are dirty and need to be treated. That’s the sort of hidden misogyny that I, as a man, often miss. Which is accented when you realize you’ve never heard of testicular boiling becoming trendy. (Which some of the men in charge would certainly deserve.) ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/88 "2019-09-01T15:49:06Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > I knew someone, and I say KNEW someone for 9 months. Her cycle was exactly synced to the full moon, each and every time. She claims it has always been so. I can just tell from the blood and her stating it for me to realize it. I imagine a female astronomer who nicknames her period after where the terminator crosses the moon: “Yeah, Tycho’s coming up” ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/89 "2019-09-02T05:44:21Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > 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 Good lord. I thought **mixdenny** and you were joking, but it really is a thing. For the record, it’s not about hygiene. It’s about lightening the, uh, area. And then there are [vaginal glitter capsules.](https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a10263548/dont-put-glitter-in-your-vagina-please/) ---
**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:** [September 2, 2019, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/90 "2019-09-02T05:55:51Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > Good lord. I thought **mixdenny** and you were joking, but it really is a thing. For the record, it’s not about hygiene. It’s about lightening the, uh, area. > > And then there are [vaginal glitter capsules.](https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a10263548/dont-put-glitter-in-your-vagina-please/) Gives a whole new meaning to describing glitter as “the herpes of the craft world”. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/91 "2019-09-03T14:35:26Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Which is accented when you realize you’ve never heard of testicular boiling becoming trendy. > > (Which some of the men in charge would certainly deserve.) Though to play devil’s advocate - testicular waxing is a thing - and there has to be a special kind of self hate going on to want to do that. My ovaries just shrunk back into my uterus thinking about that in solidarity. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/92 "2019-09-03T14:41:39Z")
So is testicular boiling - well, heating anyway - as a form of birth control. Look it up, I ain’t linking it! ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/93 "2019-09-03T14:42:59Z")
> [@swampspruce](#): > > Important Life Tip (and even tangentially related): Use gloves when chopping hot peppers (habenaros in this case) to avoid having to dip your bits in buttermilk … Then coat them with graham cracker crumbs, and you have a surprise for dessert. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327/94 "2019-09-03T15:13:55Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > Though to play devil’s advocate - testicular waxing is a thing - A guy I know told a group of friends that we should never use Nair (a depilatory) on our “private areas”. Everyone cracked up laughing, because who would be that stupid? Turns out he would. He was pissed off & embarrassed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vagina-boiling-you-internal-screaming/839327.md?page=4)