How Is Pussy Supposed To Smell?

The short answer is: “It’s supposed to smell like pussy.” This is a great sex-positive article written by a gynecologist regarding female attitudes toward the smell of their love canals, and how language usage can make women with perfectly normal pussies think they’re sitting on a fish market on a hot afternoon.

While there’s some great info here, reading it causes me to renew my objection to the use of the word “vagina” in sex education. This is fun and very informative, but it could have been fucking hilarious.

One of my gynecology patients approached me this week to ask about her “V-pourri,” (the scent emanating from her nether regions). When I was writing my book What’s Up Down There? Questions You’d Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend, I got so many questions about how coochies smell that I was inspired to write a whole chapter about it.

With nicknames like “Fish Taco,” it’s no wonder we freak out. Many women I meet absolutely despise their vaginas, as if they completely buy into whatever childhood messages they were fed about how the vagina is “dirty” and “bad.” For these women, any odor wafting up from down there acts as a big stinky banner of how much they hate their girlness. With vagina nicknames such as “fish taco,” “crotch mackerel,” “cod canal,” “fish factory,” “fuzzy lap flounder,” “tuna town,”and “raw oyster,” it’s no wonder we worry about how we smell. But I say it’s time to change all that. Why should we hate what’s normal, healthy, and part of the rich female experience?

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  1. An entire book about the finer scientific points of a pussy?

    Well it looks like a book has made it to top priority on my list.

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