Introducing Yet Another Weird Craze: The Vaginal Wand

Can vaginal products get any more ridiculous than this?!

A Reddit user Paid_Shill has introduced the internet to the latest craze for the misinformed… the vaginal wand!

Gynecologist Dr. Jen Gunter has explained on her blog what the wand does:

“What is that, you ask? Well, it’s a stick made of plants and ground pearls and herbs and stuff that you insert into your vagina for 2 minutes to tighten things up. For him, of course. So he’ll desire you more.”

It’s not all for his pleasure, though. The wand also claims to eliminate vaginal discharge entirely. 

Dr. Gunter says that inserting things into vaginas in order to make them “tighter” isn’t actually unusual. The belief stems from a practice to “dry out” the vagina. The theory is that a dry, non-lubricated vagina results in painful penetration, which will “tighten the vaginal opening.”

Whilst the wand hasn't gained popularity here in NZ it is more commonly used in South Africa, according to the Guttmacher Institute:

“In South Africa, men have reported that vaginal wetness during sexual intercourse is an indicator of a woman’s infidelity, and have also associated vaginal lubrication with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and the use of contraceptives."
“Both men and women have expressed preference for vaginal dryness and tightness.”

Gunter admits that some vaginas may get a little looser after childbirth or in old age, but the effects are so minimal that a normally “stretched-out vagina” won’t impact sexual pleasure for neither the man or the woman.

“Vaginas should be wet and they should stretch. That’s part of what makes them fun. So please don’t get the Japanese vagina stick,” she wrote.

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