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.
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.
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’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.”
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.
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.
Because humans are monkeys with internet access. Even among supposedly sex positive hippie freaks, vaginas are gross when *other *people talk about them.