...to feel strongly that women should not wash their private parts with soap, nor use feminine freshness wipes?

[Needlesswidow]

And the reason this is bothering me now is because I have had an argument with my (otherwise lovely) "waxing technician" because every time I go for a brazilian she insists on wiping me, inside my vagina after every spread of wax, with these packeted wipes.

How is it that we are in 2014 and the medical profession has not done a good enough job to make women aware that using products which remove the oils/mucous from places like the urethra/vagina/anus, causes problems with bacterial infection?

We're having tapas tonight.

Taste tester time?

If only there was a Brussels based sexual health nurse or gynaecologist on MN :(

This should go in classics...

women should not wax their bits and what i do to mine has got naff all to do with you op

One coffee shop we went to in Japan had a lady button on their super toilet.
It shot a jet of warm water all over your foof.

We went to that cafe a lot.

Well you can get bent op because I use shower gel everyday on my fanjo and I've never had thrush or any kind of infection or mucus membrane problem. And when my dh goes down on me he always complements me on how much I smell of strawberries! So I'll stick to what I've always done thanks op and carry on knowing that I have a sweet smelling fanjo

women should not wax their bits and what i do to mine has got naff all to do with you op

I do hope that sentence was meant to be ironic.

women should not wax their bits and what i do to mine has got naff all to do with you op

Hilarious! [grins] giving you the benefit of the doubt

Luckily enough for the soap etc. manufacturers, many women will get no ill effect from their products.

Other women, such as myself, due to who knows what (allergies? genetics?) can only use plain, cool water, and will smell worse after products because BV appears in a flash when using them.

I do not smell and have no skid marks in my knickers, I have been relieved of years of non specific inflammation, thrush and BV that started when I was around 10 yrs old. I am not better or worse, nor cleaner or dirtier than those who can lash Original Source Chilli Mint all over.

Another way to keep your bum with the minimum of residue when pooing is to squat rather than sit which helps keep piles away and your stools a good shape by finishing defecation properly. I expect that will need need another thread.

What I find astonishing about this thread (apart from my own ignorance about female anatomy) is that MNters are getting all offended at the idea that I am "telling them what to do" with their fandangos.

If you can suspend your disbelief for two seconds, please at least see that my intentions are in the right place. This is not Stalinist Russia and I am not trying to be a dictator whose trumped-up ego is attemtping to get you all to wash only with water to save the 'state' money, or because I think you're all unclean or you should all do the same thing.

It's because (even if I am wrong) I worry that washing internally with soap causes bacterial infections for people.

Turns out that there are many women who can use soap up there and it doesn't cause a problem. Obviously I am wrong. But I know from my experience that soap causes irritation.

As for hot wax on my parts - in my opinion, it is a lot less harmful than chemical-ridden "cleansers." Just my opinion though, you are of course (as I have seen!) entitled to yours.

if you have a western style toilet, how do you squat?

This thread is bizarre.The oddest thing for me at the moment apart from the non bum washers is that there seem to be people who use the shower massage jet wash setting for anything other than giving themselves a happy ending to their shower?! I thought that was what it was for...

cardamomginger - on the rim of course. Or if you are not able to due to difficulties with balance, muscle weakness etc, you can make or buy something, one of the commercial contraptions is called a squatty potty.

huh. isn't that a bit complicated? do you take shoes off? tights? trousers?

squatty potty looks quite sensible and easy to use.

Needless I don't think people wash internally!

You perch your feet on the edge of the toilet bowl and squat down? That seems fraught with all sots of dangers!

I think I'll ring the Casualty script writers, I'm sure they're always looking for new dangerous domestic scenarios.

Squatty potty has to be a joke.

I might wash my clit off .

OP, no one should be washing internally (vagina or rectum). Full stop. One should (imo) be washing everything on the outside - labia, clit, bum crack - with soap/shower gel if you are fine with that or plain water if you are delicate of lady garden.

Squatty potty is actually a good idea - takes away some of the danger from toilet rim squatting although, in my opinion, doesn't really allow for a true squat.

For those of you who scoff at squatting - try it just once and you will be amazed at how much better it feels.

Although make sure its just a poo, weeingf in a squat seems to go horribly wrong.

Internally means inside.
I think there's very few of us who wasg inside any of our orifices.

This is quite the funniest thread I have ever read on here

'The Squatty Potty- cures your Spotty Botty'- this must be said in a booming American accent.

I wish I'd seen that Dragon's Den episode.
"Im looking for fifty thousand pounds to invent a step to squat on while I take a dump"