To not wash the inside of my vagina?

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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?!

Vulva has always been with Simple unscented soap and flannel or hands. Plus hair. When I had periods I had to wash more but definitely not inside.

Made the mistake of using original source tea tree there too. Oww!

A friend of mine uses Summers Eve.

Apparently bleaching bumholes is a thing.

Water the lady garden, do not flood the rabbit hole!

Thinking about it, I'm quite old and seem to remember douching being a thing, never did it though. It's widely known now its a bad thing to wash your vagina.

Yes, I fell about laughing as well. Brilliant phrase!!

Seriously, no you’re not supposed to wash inside your vagina . Unbelievable what some folks are doing to themselves.

That poster specifically said throat, nose and anus. She didn't mention mouth.

Even if you have no teeth you will have cavities where teeth used to be which can become infected. You don't have that in your vagina.

You also don't eat or eat sugar with your vagina.

Its not really a comparable orifice.

@ChristmasTreeCookies I hope you're joking
... once a week?!

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Blimey, I really hope that you are joking too. Please tell me you are 😆

I learnt the hard way not to use original source tea tree shower gel 😱

Oh the memories! That was my late OH's shower gel of choice, I like Badedas gel and once I grabbed the wrong one, tingle tingle tingle.

You also don't eat or eat sugar with your vagina.
Its not really a comparable orifice.

There was that thing about Mick Jagger and the Mars Bar though 🫢

I always misunderstood that: I thought he was supposed to have stuck the Mars Bar in Marianne F, then taken it out and eaten it. I could never see the point!

My periods were so heavy I would have bled down my legs - fine while water is running, but I'd bleed over the bathroom floor and towels if I didn't.

If you’re not setting about yourself with a set of chimney sweep’s brushes and a bucket of hot Dettol, you’re just not trying hard enough.

Thanks @BrightYellowDaffodil

Off to give Bert a call to help me get it supercalifragilisticexpialidociously clean.

More idiocy on Twitter. You should never wash your vagina, it cleans itself. You can cause harm putting chemicals up there. Do these people squirt chemicals up their bums too?

I think there's a lot of confusion because so many people don't know the difference between vagina, vulva etc.

What gets me is it’s hundreds of women all saying the same thing- that it’s gross to wear a tampon in the shower and you don’t get clean. I’ve not seen a single person respond and say it’s fine.

How on earth do you wash up there without douching (would also make me cringe) ?

I was told the same OP. The vagina is basically self cleaning and anything you put in there can upset the PH balance. I’m particularly sensitive to strong bubble bath and oils.

Goodness, didn’t take long for the tedious transphobe crowd to swarm all over this thread, got to shoehorn in their bigoted agenda as much as possible 🤢

Definitely confusion on the thread agree with @Blanice. You surely wash inside though because there can be a build up... which smells and needs cleaning.

If there's a 'build up' of anything internally or it smells offensive than you likely have an infection, perhaps thrush or bacterial vaginosis, and need to see a doctor. Healthy vaginas don't have this problem.

The Eve Appeal highlighted this.

Just HALF of young women can correctly identify the vagina on a diagram. 65% have problems even using the words vagina and vulva. It's truly shocking the way we condition young girls and then adult women to perceive their own bodies.

I said it was fine!

A buildup of what?! It comes out in the form of discharge which is normal, if you go messing around with it you will create an imbalance in your vaginal flora which actually helps to stop the growth of yeast and bacteria 😨Then you'll actually have a buildup!!

Well, yes. It's really not that hard!

Sorry, but I cannot imagine showering with a tampon in. At that time of the month, that's the part of you that NEEDS a clean, surely? All this, 'self cleaning' nonsense... period blood smells! 🤢🤢

Not true. The 'healthiest' vag can still smell, purely just by nature of what and where it is.