Like the author, I too believe that if you really need a douche, you’re better off watching FOX news, where there are douches aplenty. I found this to follow my own line of thinking exactly:

The truth, simply, is that the vagina is the original self-cleaning oven. It needs no help. Douches are not only unnecessary, in most instances, they are detrimental. Douching, say the experts, actually upsets the chemical balance of the vagina, making a woman more susceptible to all manner of infections and therefore, ironically, more prone to the grave and tragic “feminine odor” she’s been trying to avoid.

Exactly! There’s absolutely no need to go about putting the gods-know-what in your vagina. Your vagina doesn’t need it and, got to love those two men at the bottom of the article, men don’t really care about it.

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Alternet | Cherry Trifle, SeXis Magazine

Thanks to a media marketing machine bent on making money by making women feel bad, women used to pour Lysol in their vaginas. Some still douche. But why?

Douche.

It’s a magnificent word, really, in its adopted American sense. To me, a lifelong writer and incessant talker, the word “douche” is pure. Simple. It even somehow sounds like what it is, so much so that I can’t even roll it over in my head without the image of Sean Hannity’s face appearing and hovering there in my frontal lobe, green-tinted, translucent and undulating like some Scooby Doo villain whose scheme, state-of-the-art visual effects and real identity are yet to be revealed by those meddling kids.
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