To not wash the inside of my vagina?

[Secretname123]

First AIBU so please be nice! There is a huge debate going on on twitter where people are horrified that some women wear tampons in the shower (it seems to be the majority of the many women responding to the tweets who are horrified). They claim it’s unsanitary because then you can’t wash inside your vagina. I thought we weren’t supposed to do this? I’m sure I had this drummed into me as a child. I never have and have never had an infection. Have I been doing it wrong all these years?!

@TallulahBetty know, i was refrerring to the use of soap, rather than just water.

I don't jet wash the fucker 🤣🤣🤣😳

I need nothing else from the internet today 🏆

@JellyComb

Spooky! I was just reading this thread thinking awww I remember when I was able to use mine as squirty bath toy. Glory days 🤣

WTF

Douche is highly popular in the states as far I know, I mean much more widely sold as a product in chemists than I've ever seen here.

Horribly unhealthy. If you have to poke the soap in, it probably shouldn't be going in there. 😂

Whut?! I have literally never done anything like that. That is insane.

im wondering how you clean a vagina??? What have they got… bottle washers??? Ouch.. can just picture someone flinging towel over their shoulder and picking up a bottle washer now 🙈😂

Vulva including all the creases with soap and water.
Inside the vagina nope

Lol cracking up with laughter at that don't jet wash the fucker comment 😂😂.

Teeth is the only thing that surely is a must? Morning and night, like literally doesnt hurt/is only a good thing?!

Good grief, I really hope the inside of my vagina is nothing like the inside of my oven!

Urgh, it;s Twitter, they'll argue over everything on there.

😂😂😂

Twitter /X is a waste of life.

Anyone who gets involved in nonsense on it needs to stop.

It's a toxic cesspit most of the time.

Is water not running down your body sufficiently to give it a smush about down there?! I have never had to take the shower down to clean myself, a flannel/my hands with some suds is perfectly sufficient

These are the same women that are telling us to mop our walls aren’t they?

You're right, except of course when they take the tampon out the vaginal entrance will be ever so slightly manked up again, so it's better to shower without one perhaps.

I used to use a bit of soap up there, but I have an upper vaginal cyst and I think that could be how I got it. So yes, don't do it.

Some confusion on this thread

‘Outside bits’ = vulva
’inside bits’ = vagina

That wouldn't work for me, I don't think it gets in the crucial areas.

If you wear it in the shower it will absorb water and feel heavy.
Also give yourself a sweep with the index finger and hook out the heamorages making their exit - saving yourself clogging a tampon that morning.

God these threads are getting tedious. Same thread, same answers all the time.

They won't be men. They will be American women. America is fucking insane when it comes to what's perceived as necessary hygiene. Most men in America are circumcised as babies 'for hygiene' and 'douching' is really common for women there. I've seen conversations where a lot of (not all, but a lot) of American women responding have insisted that it's gross to have sex unless you have both showered immediately beforehand.

Euw, no no no!

Of course you don’t need to wash the inside. I do use soap on the outside but only because I’m not as continent as I used to be.

Good Grief! Honestly I cannot imagine an actual woman posting this kind of nonsense.