# Vaginal steaming **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 31, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-steaming/711388 "2015-01-31T00:35:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-steaming/711388/21 "2015-01-31T22:29:16Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > … now it’s Gwyneth freaking Paltrow holding her hoo-hah over an repurposed Stanley Steamer. Oh. Dear. Og. They still Rent those things at supermarkets! You mean someone might rent one to clean a carpet after someone else… Oh, Hells No!!! “Helen…? There’s something not quite right about the living room carpet. Did the kids spill anything in here…?” ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-steaming/711388/22 "2015-01-31T23:58:27Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > Oh. Dear. Og. > > They still Rent those things at supermarkets! You mean someone might rent one to clean a carpet after someone else… Oh, Hells No!!! > > “Helen…? There’s something not quite right about the living room carpet. Did the kids spill anything in here…?” I think you have that backwards. The idea of somebody else’s nasty carpet grunge being wafted up one’s ladyparts is a far worse idea. Carpets are filthy disgusting things before and \*after \*cleaning. Adding a little steamed leftover ladyjuice isn’t going to harm your precious carpets even a smidgen. Nor render them any more anti-hygienic than they already were. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-steaming/711388/23 "2015-02-01T01:21:18Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I think you have that backwards. The idea of somebody else’s nasty carpet grunge being wafted up one’s ladyparts is a far worse idea. > > Carpets are filthy disgusting things before and \*after \*cleaning. Adding a little steamed leftover ladyjuice isn’t going to harm your precious carpets even a smidgen. Nor render them any more anti-hygienic than they already were. You just might be right. To be fair, I’ve never Once heard of a Lady Bits Tattoo stating either, “Welcome!” or “Wipe Yer Damned Feet, You!” “…You certainly are one FINE woman! Where are you from again?” “Karastan…” ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-steaming/711388/24 "2015-02-01T01:46:37Z")
I was at the Korean Spa today and plenty of people were getting their mugwort steam on. I don’t think its literal powered steaming. I think it may be like sitting over a bowl of hot tea. Hard to tell though, because the ladies wear these crazy sack dresses that go from the neck and encompass the entire steaming apparatus (so you can’t see anything but their head). Also, they call it a “hip bath” in English. It involves neither hips nor baths. Discuss. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-steaming/711388/25 "2015-02-01T01:49:41Z")
For my next fortune, I shall markets [these](http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/exhibits/quest/images/steamcabinet.jpg) made small enough to attach to the metrosexual penis and testicles. BTW, do they give themselves facials? ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-steaming/711388/26 "2015-02-01T03:47:58Z")
I’ve only had them raw, never tried them steamed. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-steaming/711388/27 "2015-02-01T04:21:58Z")
By the way, even among crunchy granola woo-woo crazies, these are controversial at best and commonly eeeeewed. I just can’t figure out the anatomy involved. I mean, forget that the vagina is a self cleaning unit…how do you get the steam up in there? It’s not an open tunnel! But whn you ask Them if they mean vulva steam, they say no, vagina, and then attribute all these internal benefits. I dunno. Sounds f’ing weird to me. Sounds like part of that thinking that vulvas/vagina are dirty and bad. ---
**Author:** ![dba\_Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c37758/32.png) [@dba\_Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dba_Fred)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-steaming/711388/28 "2015-02-02T11:57:39Z")
“I’ll take a half-dozen with lemon juice to go. What, you’re a Korean spa, not a restaurant? But your sign out front says _Special Today: Steamed Clams_.” “Next you’ll be telling me the brasserie down the street doesn’t sell women’s foundation garments.” ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-steaming/711388/29 "2015-02-02T12:11:17Z")
> [@Flywheel](#): > > That would make one hell of a Don Martin cartoon. [This](http://www.davidrhoden.com/images/weblog/poit.jpg) is the most risqué sound effect I’ve seen him do. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-steaming/711388/30 "2015-02-02T14:41:22Z")
According to the link, the steam is supposed to cleanse the uterus. Tantilizingly unexplained is how the steam passes the cervix. Perhaps a new piece could be added to “The Vagina Monologues,” so that Ms. Paltrow can learn anatomy. ---
**Author:** ![tim-n-va](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim-n-va/32/3001_2.png) [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-steaming/711388/31 "2015-02-02T16:04:47Z")
> [@Fubaya](#): > > I’ve only had them raw, never tried them steamed. Battered wasn’t what I thought either… ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-steaming/711388/32 "2015-02-02T16:11:17Z")
It’s especially helpful if you like it with pleats. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-steaming/711388/33 "2015-02-02T17:08:26Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > You just might be right. > To be fair, I’ve never Once heard of a Lady Bits Tattoo stating either, > > “Welcome!” > or > > “Wipe Yer Damned Feet, You!” > > “…You certainly are one FINE woman! Where are you from again?” > “Karastan…” what about “abandon, ye all hope, who enter here”? ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-steaming/711388/34 "2015-02-02T17:12:10Z")
Sounds like the usual advice against vaginal douches - that the vagina is self-cleaning and attempts to clean it with vaginal douches can do more harm than good - might also apply to this vaginal-steaming procedure. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-steaming/711388/35 "2015-02-02T17:27:39Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > By the way, even among crunchy granola woo-woo crazies, these are controversial at best and commonly eeeeewed. > > I just can’t figure out the anatomy involved. I mean, forget that the vagina is a self cleaning unit…how do you get the steam up in there? It’s not an open tunnel! But whn you ask Them if they mean vulva steam, they say no, vagina, and then attribute all these internal benefits. I dunno. Sounds f’ing weird to me. Sounds like part of that thinking that vulvas/vagina are dirty and bad. I get thinking it’s completely stupid, but what’s so “ewwwww” about crouching over a bowl of hot water? I mean compared to eating placenta or breast feeling until the age if 12 it’s pretty tame. The steam gets in there the same way a fan running in your room kills you: it doesn’t, the whole thing is superstition-based cultural practice. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-steaming/711388/36 "2015-02-02T17:35:01Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > what about “abandon, ye all hope, who enter here”? ‘Arbeit Macht frei’ ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-steaming/711388/37 "2015-02-02T17:35:24Z")
> [@Fubaya](#): > > I’ve only had them raw, never tried them steamed. Same here. And I’m no Rockefeller. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-steaming/711388/38 "2015-02-02T17:44:42Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > How would the steam get anywhere NEAR the uterus? Does Gwyneth Paltrow have a huge gaping vagina or something? That would be Chris Martin of Coldplay. ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-steaming/711388/39 "2015-02-02T17:58:54Z")
> [@Hello\_Again](#): > > I mean compared to eating placenta or breast feeling until the age if 12 it’s pretty tame. Sorry, what again? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-steaming/711388/40 "2015-02-02T19:19:39Z")
> [@Hello\_Again](#): > > I get thinking it’s completely stupid, but what’s so “ewwwww” about crouching over a bowl of hot water? I mean compared to eating placenta or breast feeling until the age if 12 it’s pretty tame. Because humans are monkeys with internet access. Even among supposedly sex positive hippie freaks, vaginas are gross when \*other \*people talk about them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-steaming/711388.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaginal-steaming/711388.md?page=3)