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?!

Only brush once per day?? Evening or morning???

Not sure why you would wear a tampon in the shower.....?

This!

It'll be the same ones who say that wee boys need circumcised because uncircumcised penises get infections because of not being able to clean it well enough. And they're citing multiple examples of infections and phimosis that they don't realised were CAUSED by retracting a baby's foreskin to clean it when it shouldn't be touched.

Maybe you don't want to bleed everywhere in the shower, on the towels, etc.

Same. I don't deliberately insert shower gel up there but I do use shower gel on the outside and slightly inside.

Never had an infection or anything either 🤷🏽‍♀️

In almost 60 years on this planet, I have never washed inside my vagina. What fresh hell is this?! 😆

What? I just paid a chap called Reece £40 to clean my oven!

Nothing inside! No douchrs, soaps. It cleans itself.

If you do, it can cause BV or thrush as it unbalances natural bacteria.

I personally don't use a tampon if I'm showering, but that's simply preference and not because anyone should be washing INSIDE their vagina. If someone prefers to use a tampon while showering, that's perfectly fine in terms of cleanliness/hygiene.
The vulva (e.g. labia minora and majora) needs to be washed, just like one's bum cheeks and bum crack need washing. The vagina (that is, the inside) does not need washing. YANBU.

Why don't you think about it for 3 seconds? What is the purpose of a tampon?

I think you will find an awful lot of the people
on X (and Mumsnet) have no idea what a vagina is. The number that refer to the vulva or labia as a vagina absolutely baffles me.

The vagina is self-cleaning. It is harmful to try wash inside.

The vulva, is not. And many women get this bit confused. You do need to properly wash the vulva. Unfortunately some people use the terms interchangeably.

We've found a vagina jet washer!!!

How far up do you wash? Just a cm or as far up as you can reach?

It's really not advised. The natural fluids flush outward. They cleanse as they go. These natural fluids are vital to a healthy vagina. Like eyeballs. You wouldn't wash your eyeballs.
The ph balance is vital for a healthy vagina. Washing deep inside can unbalance this.

Nope. Never wash inside the vaginal canal. That only messes with it and leaves you with things like BV.

I swear some women would go up it with bleach on a bottle washer and wonder why they had problems. 🤦

There's good money to be made convincing us our normal and natural state is dirty, smelly and needs cleaning and misogynistic shit about how women smell like fish and other absolute bollocks has left many totally paranoid.

Vaginas should smell like vaginas. Not roses, not lilac, not the smell of a rain on a fresh spring morning and certainly not pledge or domestos.

😂Until 1 hour ago, opening my oven door when in grill mode would make my eyes sting and water. Granted, I haven't had a partner for a while, but I'm pretty certain taking my knickers off doesn't illicit the same reaction!

I didnt need to read this 5 minutes before lunch 😖

Exactly! The idea of not washing around the anus and crevices if the vulva with some sort of cleanser is horrible. It's like a man not washing under his foreskin.

Good point. The same people arguing for vagina washing probably don't realise blood and urine come from different places and that women have some control over their blood flow.

Not if it's inserted correctly and surely only if you were errrmm jet washing the area.

You absolutely do not need to wash inside your vagina. You absolutely do need to wash your vulva. There was a long thread about this recently and I don't want to kick it off again but I was surprised at the amount of women who only wash their vulva with water. However, anybody who tries to wash the inside of their vagina needs to stop it.

This surely is a man😂

We have some control over our blood flow?
You mean by using pads or tampons, right?
For a minute there I thought you meant you thought we could clench it in and let it all out in the loo 🤣

Just going to get my Kärcher pressure washer... 😰

@Secretname123 people are thick and don't know the difference between vulva and vagina. Even when they possess them on their own body. You are not wrong at all.

Do people actually do that? Omg..