Ewwwwwwwwww! Today I learned that Lysol douche was an actual product that actually existed! And was marketed with a terrible, terrible ad campaign about women not getting sex if they don’t ‘practice complete feminine hygiene.’ WTF, people?!?
How many poor, mislead, confused women in the 1940s went to bed sobbing every night with raging, chronic yeast infections because they were liberally watering their privates with “a proved germ-killer… that cleanses thoroughly yet so gently!”
Dude, we NEED those germs. Douching disrupts the body’s natural protective cleansing system and rinses away the bacteria and yeast that protect your wu-tang. The resulting irritation makes it easier for chicks to get STDs, HIV and bacterial and yeast infections. Not cool.
Seriously: women are not dirty creatures, and our vaginas can take care of themselves. Leave that thing the hell alone. There’s supposed to be stuff in there. Christ. Do you think dudes are spritzing their cock and balls with antimicrobial Povidone-iodine, Citric Acid, Edetate Disodium, Purified Water, Sodium Benzoate, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate and Trisodium Phosphate? NO. THEY’RE REALLY NOT.
Sorry, brief bout of rage against the machine, there.
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It burns!
does that rule out the use of Coke as well? :p
Awesome choice of illustration. 😀
Well, let’s keep in mind that the doctors who recommended douching were probably the same ones recommending Chesterfield cigarettes for their “beneficial effects to the throat.”
-CP
Wow.
My question is this: will we, in 50 years, look back at today’s advertising and see it as being just as manipulative and unsubtle as that appalling ad?