Gwyneth Paltrow wants you to steam yours with mugwort; fans of the “vajacial” endorse slathering on masks and enzymes, but vaginas are true marvels that need little to stay fit and healthy aside from some very basic TLC. As a sage Russell Saunders writes in The Daily Beast, “women should no more steam their vaginas than flush them with Lysol.” Indeed.
In celebration of that intricate, most complex of privates, we offer up this ode to the vagina and just a few of the amazing things it can do:
1. The vagina is self-cleaning and self-regulating.
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As the Cleveland Clinic puts it: “Men need recovery time after orgasm, called a refractory period, during which they cannot reach orgasm again.” Women’s bodies, on the other hand, need no such time out, and “many are capable of a rapid return to the orgasm phase with further sexual stimulation and may experience multiple orgasms.”
Case in point: the woman at the Denmark Masturbate-a-thon (which is apparently a thing) who achieved a reported 222 orgasms in a row.
