“There’s this unrealistic standard of what a vulva and vagina should smell like, look like, feel like,” says Fatima Daoud Yilmaz, a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology.
Black women for decades have turned to a slew of products to maintain feminine hygiene, but many of these intimate-care douches, washes and powders are rooted in racist stereotypes about the smell of dark-skinned people.
“We as gynecologists realized a long time ago that vaginal douching was just not a good thing for women to do,” said Tacoma McKnight, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, today!
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