Kourtney Kardashian’s ‘Lemme’ health line is surrounded by controversy over one of its latest releases, vitamins that they promise a “magazine vagina” by making your vulva smell and taste “like candy”.
It is not the first controversy with vagina and odors that has been experienced. Gwyneth Paltrow, for example, created a candle with the smell of her vagina (and one with scent of her orgasms also). But the controversy of Kourtney Kardashian will help us to put on the table an issue that worries us, and that is the smell of our vaginas is judged.
Kourtney Kardashian released pills that supposedly “help the vagina taste and smell delicious.”
One more product that makes us think that there is something wrong with our body, that our vagina should smell like flowers or candies. pic.twitter.com/YumKb3ihBF
—Ceci Kalach (@KalachCeci) February 20, 2023
What should a vagina smell like?
There is something that must be said before continuing and that is that a vagina smells like a vagina, just like a penis, it smells like a penis. Vaginas do not have a bad smell, but rather their own odor like any other part of the body. In fact Perhaps the phrase “it smells strong” is the worst excuse that exists to claim not to do cunnilingus. Be careful, no one should be forced to do anything when it comes to sex, that sex is consented pleasure, but does anyone believe the smell? Because no woman has ever believed it, that’s how it is.
The only thing that has generated us these kinds of comments and thoughts for years is a feeling of discomfort when we masturbate (if you don’t know how to do it, I’ll tell you in detail how to masturbate your partner) or eat our pussy, speaking clearly. Will I smell bad? Will it taste very strong? Will my vagina be wrong? These doubts make us feel uncomfortable and prevent us from enjoying one of the most pleasurable sexual practices.
Why we don’t have to change the smell of our vulva and vagina
The sexologist Mamen Jimenez explained to us that vagina perfumes and deodorants is not something we need. “A healthy vagina with correct hygiene measures smells like that, like a vaginais it really necessary that we put our health at risk so as not to “bother” the most sensitive and demanding noses?”
Our vagina is not dirty from smelling, in fact it has a self-cleaning system (one of the amazing things you probably didn’t know about your vagina), and throughout the menstrual cycle our flow changes in texture and color. In all these phases the vagina has an odor, but a weak one, not invasive and not at all strong (no matter how much Manolo says yes to not go down the pylon despite asking us to let’s do fellatio).
As explained by the gynecologist Carolyn Moyers to Buzz Feed Products like these jelly beans that Kourtney Kardashian has launched, “distort our body image and make women feel that something is wrong with them; perpetuates this idea that we are broken and need to fix our bodies to be attractive“.
It doesn’t have to smell like roses and taste like candy, but rather smell like vagina and taste like vagina. We do not have to improve the taste and smell of our vagina because it is what it is The idea that the vagina should smell different than the way it does is absolutely ridiculous and only puts our health at risk. Of course, if you notice that it is not the usual one or it smells too much, perhaps we are talking about a vaginal infection. And I guarantee you one thing, it is not something that the Kardashian pills are going to solve.
Photos | instagram @lemme