Starting to Douche ?

I started when I became sexually active as a teen. I like to use diluted blue mint Listerine. It keep me tingling and minty fresh ??

I hope your minty fresh feeling ... didn't leave you a little blue.

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Good Luck!!!!!!

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I started when I became sexually active as a teen. I like to use diluted blue mint Listerine. It keep me tingling and minty fresh ??

Minty fresh is an interesting concept. I like it.

Listerine, for instance, was invented in the nineteenth century as powerful surgical antiseptic. It was later sold, in distilled form, as both a floor cleaner and a cure for gonorrhea. But it wasn't a success until the 1920s, when it was pitched as a solution for "chronic halitosis".

Listerine has had many uses since its invention. Using it diluted as a douche wasn't a bad idea.

.Listerine, for instance, was invented in the nineteenth century as powerful surgical antiseptic. It was later sold, in distilled form, as both a floor cleaner and a cure for gonorrhea. But it wasn't a success until the 1920s, when it was pitched as a solution for "chronic halitosis".

Listerine has had many uses since its invention. Using it diluted as a douche wasn't a bad idea.

Pretty surprising. Since this was posted, I wondered if it was a joke or not. Listerine seemed too strong to be used vaginaly, even if diluted, but I guess you're right.

Eric

The post is not a joke. In the pre antibiotic days of the late 1800s, Listerine was used to fight gonorrhea. I don't know the dilutions if any, that may have been used.

Susie:

Zonite was a very popular brand of liquid douche concentrate and actually was one that I used early on. While Massengil had a telltale wintergreen scent, Zonite had a peppermint one. I liked Zonite because any residual odor in the house didn't shout out the fact that I had just douched. However, there were dentists who would dilute Zonite and use it as a mouthwash so the idea of using Listerine as a douche is a reasonable idea.

Ok. So, I've found this all very enlightening and educational. I never knew, I knew so little about douches.

So, heres my thought, with the caveat that I'm out of my expertise here: could one use the orange listerine to make their vagina smell fruity fresh? Like, in my head that sounds delicious.

I started douching probably early 70s and vaguely remember massengil coming out with disposable douches rather than having mix your own.

I started simply because it was the norm in our house with my mother and older sister doing so.

My mom douched every night. The bag and vinegar bottle never left the bathtub. I learned a great deal about the female anatomy peeking at her process from an amazingly close vantage point of crumbling grout behind that bathtub wall.

Saraswitches: Under which circumstances were you advised to douche? my mother in law advised my wife, after she got her periods, to douche with water + vinegar "if needed" especially during/just after periods. She understood later that through allusions her mom was advising her to clean up menstrual blood before sexual relations, or to clean after intercourse.

Well when I started it was for menses at the end of a period. Definitely should not during.

But I learnt to after sex sometimes.

@Flushky said

My mom douched every night. The bag and vinegar bottle never left the bathtub. I learned a great deal about the female anatomy peeking at her process from an amazingly close vantage point of crumbling grout behind that bathtub wall.

I thought that only happened in cartoons!

I started douching when I became sexually active on a regular basis.

@repressed

Re Mercury, a couple of things:

Mercury metal is pretty harmless. It's mercury compounds, if they enter the body, that are harmful. This is like many other heavy metals.

For hundreds of years, people used Mercury thermometers and blood pressure guages and they were completely safe. The same would be true of Mercury inside Ben Wa balls. The Mercury only becomes a risk when the devices are broken opden, either accidentally or in the trash.

Also, you mention strips in a First Aid kit. Are you sure? Perhaps you mean this:

https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2518/what-happened-to-mercurochrome/

I started douching when I became sexually active on a regular basis.

Was that so your "other" partners wouldn't know what you were up to or just to prevent the "drippies" after morning sex? 😁 😁 😁

@lex

Flavored douche products were common years ago. Cupid's Quiver and Jeneen are two examples:

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/cupids-quiver-raspberry-douche-1801961122

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_738624

In the early 1970s, douching was still popular and the Fleet Summer's Eve was fairly new to the market. There were several 'high end' douching appliances on the market, including:

Finesse:

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-finesse-feminine-douche-enema-130076112

Aqua-Fem:

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-electric-aqua-fem-hygiene-20651043

Uniflow Shower Attachment

This was essentially a valve installed in series with a shower that redirected a part of the water stream to a hose and standard douche nozzle.

There was a small cup connected in the hose for a douche additive.

The two machines above were designed for use while sitting on the toilet. The Uniflo while standing in the shower.

At the time, I was dating a woman and we'd shower together. I had one of these installed in my shower and after soaping each other up, I'd stand being her, reach around, and slipped the douche nozzle into her. Within a very few seconds she'd have a powerful orgasm. So, there was a least one good use for douching.

In reading this thread, it struck me that douching was inextricably intertwined with enema usage back in the 50's and 60's. This may well have been true well before then. My favorite medical text of the day, made reference to both procedures and even discouraged using the same equipment for both.

That being said, those beautiful rubber implements that adorned many shower heads and bathroom doors, became quite a curiosity for many of us. As we know, the names of those items seemed to be fairly subtle advocacies for their intended use.

The common red "enema bag" was eventually accompanied by an amber "douche bag". Those long black douche nozzles were usually attached around our home. While as a youngster, I didn't appreciate the differentiation between the two, I knew that the nozzle was inserted to deliver a fair amount of water into one of the body's openings.

As I became more sexually curious, I realized that either item could trigger tremendous sensations. I suppose that my equipment fetish blossomed during that time and my enema paraphilia had become a lifelong indulgence.

I can say that I was always jealous, or envious, that you gals could possess and use such items without the embarrassment or humiliation that we guys seemed to endure. Douching back then was quite common and accepted. While one might surmise that a wet bag hanging up to dry had been used for an enema, it was just as likely that mom or sis had recently douched.

Either way, tingles ran up and down my spine and other involuntary reactions were difficult to suppress. If nothing else, it's high time to encourage a return to manufacturing those great rubber items, the disposables be damned!

I was instructed to use them for hygiene reasons.

I started to douche purely at the instruction of my mother after I'd begun menstruating as late preteen/ early teen.

I continue to douche as got older mostly when my period was finished or sometimes post sex.

Was that so your "other" partners wouldn't know what you were up to or just to prevent the "drippies" after morning sex? 😁 😁 😁

LOL! I was in college at the time and rarely had morning sex through the week. OMG, do I hate the "drippies"!

@ddell2 Isn't it sufficient to shower?

@ddell2 Isn't it sufficient to shower?

No, I don't want to feel any dripping.

@ddell2: OMG, do I hate the "drippies"!

So do I and when hubby and I have morning sex I'll still douche in the shower. The other option is condoms and now that I am past menopause we haven't used one of those in years.

I've never done douches or enemas. Neither was part of my growing up or was anything my girlfriends ever discussed. Really only learned about them on Zity.

The other option is condoms and now that I am past menopause we haven't used one of those in years.

@Emom My husband says using a condom is like taking a shower in a raincoat.

@ddell2 A long time ago, my girlfriend complained about some condoms as "feeling fucked with a plastic bag". We resolved this by buying some thinner, better brand instead of the cheap ones that I mistakenly bought, thinking that all must be the same.

When did your husband make these remarks? I suppose condoms have improved over time…

@Jacana

My husband has never used a condom with me. He was making a joke. I have always handled my own birth control.

@ddell2: My husband says using a condom is like taking a shower in a raincoat.

Interesting because my husband refers to a condom as a raincoat for his organ. LOL at the coincidence.