Yoni Steaming: An Exposé

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Gwyneth Paltrow is in the news again promoting scientifically dubious treatments for your vag. One practice that Goop has popularized is vaginal steaming. In this episode, we find out the history of V-steam and whether or not it’s actually good for you (Spoiler alert: It’s not! Don’t steam your vag!). OB/GYN Dr. Jen Gunter joins us to explain why your vulva doesn’t need a steam cleaning, and Lizzie Marx educates us on steaming’s weird Medieval ancestor, womb fumigation.

Image: A speculum with holes to allow the vapours of fumigation to enter the vagina. Peter Uffenbach, Ambroise Paré, and Conrad Gessner, Thesaurus chirurgiae, Frankfurt: Jacob Fischer for Nikolaus Hoffmann, 1610. K.7.31 (p. 531).

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