...highlighting my vulva!?

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My first thread, so please bear with me.

AIBU to ask what in the world is going on when there's a new product launching this Thursday to highlight vulvas (Not Volvos)!?

I think it's called PerfectV and it's certainly not for victory. Not for women anyway. I understand it's supposed to be some sort of beauty product that helps sort your V out after all the waxing, piercing, vajewelling, etc that goes on down there!

Is it healthy to highlight vulvas? I doubt it very much...

Elsewhere the OP is helpfully recommending Incognito insect repellent and telling us she thinks we might be able to buy it from Holland and Barrett. Call me cynical...

"If it's not for you then don't buy it. I personally won't be buying it either. It's not another 'attack' on women's self-esteem. If you don't want to shave your legs or under arms don't. If you don't want to be tanned and a size 6 then you don't have to be. You have something called a choice."

Sigh. Choices do not happen in a vacuum. Our decision making is influenced by dozens of messages a day. In the 60s few women waxed their public hair off. In the 1940s few women shaved their armpits. Millions of individual women did not suddenly make a personal call to remove their pubes in the last 20 years. They are following a trend or bowing to pressure. Every magazine, TV show, film, newspaper, billboard and website features hair free women. This is internalised as normal. Especially for young girls who look to pop culture for how to fit in.

Pubic, not public, obvs.

It's too late for me, after two pregnancies my V is ruined. Think vulval varicose veins (I didn't even know they were a bloody thing) and you'll get an idea of what my kids did to me . I think I'd probably need a miracle at this point!

Couldn't agree more skatergrrrl

It's not a choice if you're young and impressionable and believe the whole female population are expected to look a certain way.

Seriously people - the OP is patronising us while simultaneously setting feminism back a few years with her (is it even 'her?') fake twat sparkle thread. Just search the insect repellent threads... she's all over here pushing products. MNHQ where arrrre yoooou????

@damewithaname please don't mention that idea to anyone under 25!

Oh, it's already a thing!

www.infopresse.com/article/2015/10/7/selvies-montre-le-vrai-cote-de-la-vie-plutot-que-de-l-embellir

Ohlavache yes I found those threads too...with the nonchalant listing of stockists...very helpful

OP- you should be ashamed of yourself for promoting this Vag whatever stuff... and in such a dishonest way.

Spy - I'm fuming. She / he must think we're stupid.

Pretty quick way to piss off and alienate a lot of people. I'd say 'potential customers' but it seems (thankfully) as though most women can see through this please-hate-your-body-for-our-profit shit.

I think it's vile and hideously retrograde and I'm - I guess - their target market.

and if heaven forbid they find a sparklier fanny elsewhere, we can simply direct our nethers towards the sun and signal a new mate.

crying here :)

So twitter tells me that Dianne Vavra, PR person specialising in 'creating buzz through non paid channels' is pushing this product. Just sayin'... www.puropulence.com/interviews/dianne-vavra

Paxillin where do I sign?? I'd like my lovely locks the same shade as my hair do, A lovely deep purple 🤗 😂

have not rtft but it's not for the vulva (or vagina) it's for the mons pubis.
Still a stupid idea though.

Good work OhLaVache. Although I don't think Dianne Vulva, I'm sorry I meant Vavra, is the OP. Surely a close friend of Sharon Stone and Dianne von Furstenburg would not readily use the word "minge" ? Must be one of her minge-ions.

Do they offer a landing strip version for the sight-challenged among us? I don't think I've seen mine in years.

Fair point spy ... maybe someone she employs to do her pube lic relations??

What absolute shite. What I treally don't understand is the 'softening'. Softens what exactly? "I've got a minge like a dried up elbow, must be softened" WTAF would you need to do to require softening?

Omg this is beyond hilarious.
What is the world coming to!?
I'd buy Perm a Pube paxillin... it's sounds amazing

OP your posting style is so mannered it hurts.

'Nordic Purity'?

Of course the founder has the usual backstory about moving country and finding a simpler, better, freer life in exotic Denmark... I must say I've known quite a lot of Scandinavian women and none of them have exfoliated or highlighted their 'V' (bleurgh)

I have seen my arse and all of its inner parts, thanks to a painful colonoscopy. All of those parts and bits are there for a reason, including pubic hair. I fear for younger women and men being made to feel functioning parts of your body are somehow unpleasant unless prettified.

Also surely it'd rub off in your knickers? I imagine it'd be a bastard to wash out. Unless you're only meant to use it before sex...