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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI give up. Tech company striving to make women smell like peaches.
And by women, I mean the Vagina. Yes, I wish I was making this up. Apparently a biotech company has come up with a probiotic that destroys yeast, and have named it after the "side effect" of making the Vagina smell like a peach. The "Sweet Peach" probiotic has apparently been getting some bad press this week. Gee, I wonder why?
If you are a woman, you might wonder which problem this is really solving. If you are a woman and have heretofore eschewed the douchebag industrial complex, you might, in fact, be perfectly happy with your healthy vaginas natural smell and have never felt the slightest urge to have the scent of fuzzy fruits waft up from your lady garden. And you almost certainly would wonder why two guys have such firm ideas of how your vagina should smell.
I don't know where to begin, or end with this insanity. What is with the world today? I mean, the photoshopped body sculpted insane search for perfection has gotten out of hand. Now this. This abomination. This pathetic search for perverse perfection has gotten out of hand.
Guys, it's a vagina. I know you've probably not seen too many, or possibly any in a romantic setting. However, it doesn't need your help. I'll be damned if I want a world in which we expect women to flavor the vagina to suit the tastes of the partner. "Gee honey, tonight why don't we try Tequila Sunrise?" She smiles. "Sorry, I already set it up for Blueberry Surprise. Oh, I ordered the new flavor, I think you'll like it. Hawaiian Sunset."
Yes, this is ridiculous. Yes, this is insulting. And yes, I'm pretty annoyed about it.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Kind of like vajazzling, in fact.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)or root beer? It makes no sense.
Besides, there are already body sprays on the maket, for those too lazy to bathe or without access to a shower.
I always thought the perfumed tampons smelled gross, and I felt embarrassed if I had to loan a perfumed tampon from a friend, because I was afraid people would smell cheap perfume wafting from my vajayjay.
Warpy
(111,292 posts)I had to borrow one and it broke my ladybits out horribly--swollen, sore and itching all at once. I think they use the same stench they put into toilet paper, something else that breaks my pink bits out. I always had to stop and buy a roll of Scott plain on my way to visit my folks. Smelling vaguely like fish when it was time for a change was tolerable. Smelling vaguely like fish thrown into a gardenia patch was not.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)Wow, I gave myself a mild pang of nausea just thinking about it.
Likewise, a giant stinky dump only smells about 100 times worse when someone sprays perfumed "air freshener" in the joint.
Any case, healthy and regularly washed vaginas don't stink.
But I could be talked into "smoky BBQ" scent. (Just kidding)
Arkansas Granny
(31,521 posts)I haven't purchased them for several years, myself, so I guess I'm behind the times.
xmas74
(29,674 posts)I remember them being around when I was a teen but I was always told by my doctor to never use them.
Tampax and Kotex had them. Sometimes they call them scented, sometimes deodorant. Either way I was told that they sometimes break the insides out in hives and that it was best to avoid them.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)I doubt perfumed tampons exist in ths century, but you never know! Sounds like a trend that never dies.
How about "maple bacon"?
bravenak
(34,648 posts)The itch terribly. Probably why they put the right next to the monistat.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)Honestly, for all we know, these guys could be genuinely trying to offer a service that they think will make women happy(yes, even if it was branched off from another project).....and, no doubt, some women, at least, would definitely appreciate it(with that said, however, I could care less; whatever women want to do with their vaginas is their right, and theirs alone. :hi .
With that said, however, there are indeed some valid concerns regarding it's potential abuse; there are, sadly, men out there who would, no doubt, use this as a tool of outright control.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)But yes, if they can make my vagina smell like smoky BBQ with a bacon undertone? Now we're talking.
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)As I said, though, I guess it doesn't matter, as long as those women who do decide to use it, for whatever reason, aren't being forced to, or, I'd like to add, don't suffer any serious negative health effects.....
Quantess
(27,630 posts)With great, extra, emphasis on stupid
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)wtf is this about about, wtf, wtf.
Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)I didn't come up with that - saw it on Facebook in response to this news. Made me LOL there so I thought I'd share it.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)(edible panty industrial complex)
Rex
(65,616 posts)No, seriously.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)How'd it work out?
Rex
(65,616 posts)I don't normally scream in pain and run out of a theater sans pants, but when I do - it's because 'movie butter' is liquid for a reason.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)petronius
(26,602 posts)Pork and beans, bacon and eggs, banana-kiwi...
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)Revanchist
(1,375 posts)The owner of the company, a woman, got in contact with the reporter and set the story straight.
[SNIP]
For the record, that's not how Sweet Peach will work. According to Hutchinson, a user will take a sample of her vaginal microbiome and send it in for analysis. After determining the makeup of her microbiome -- in effect, taking a census of the microorganisms that reside in her vagina -- the company will supply a personalized regimen of probiotic supplements designed to promote optimal health. By making sure desirable microbes flourish in their proper balance, the supplements will help ensure that bad ones, like the ones that cause yeast infections, can't get a toehold.
The name alludes not to any quality of the product but to the way peaches have been used as a symbol of the vagina in literature for hundreds of years.
"I'm obviously sort of appalled that it's been misconstrued like this because it was never the point of my company," she says. "I don't want to apologize for [Austen], but at the same time I want to apologize to every woman in the world who's heard about this and wants my head on a stake."
Sounds like it was the case of a guy talking out of his ass.
Kurska
(5,739 posts)Quantess
(27,630 posts)Sounds like...
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)U4ikLefty
(4,012 posts)BKH70041
(961 posts)I love peaches!
chrisa
(4,524 posts)wrong. It's basically like putting in size 72 font "Here is my opinion!" and then in size 12 font "But don't trust it, because everything I typed is bs! Shhh..."
Revanchist
(1,375 posts)who, for all intents and purposes, had no right to present this information (incorrectly at that) to the public before the owner of the company was ready to make it known.
Also, the redaction/correction notice should have been placed below the title, not at the end of the story.
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)There are indeed some valid legal/ethical concerns that could be addressed: Best outcome I could think of, is the two sides can try to work out some sort of deal, that maybe these two guys can still make this spin-off product, but as long as they give *plenty* of credit to the formula's original creator, amongst other things.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)My mother used to douche with Lysol, believe it or not. It was advertised as germ killing. However, back then they didn't know the diff between normal vaginal flora and bad buggies (like yeast, which take over when antibiotics kill the good buggies).
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