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7. Vaginal Steaming

A preferred treatment of everybody's favourite quackbot, Gwyneth Paltrow, vaginal steaming is a practice that involves, well, steaming your vagina (if you have one, of course).

You basically fill a pot with boiling water and any herbs or plants that you like (you can choose any because it literally doesn't matter) and squat over it for a bit whilst the most efficacious solution "steam cleanses your uterus". According to Paltrow "It is an energetic release not just a steam douche that balances female hormone levels. " That is an actual thing that a real person said.

By "energetic release", she basically means "turns you on a bit" and by "balances female hormones" she means "I have no idea how the human body works".

Whilst vaginal steaming's benefits are, at best, non-existent, those who practice it run the risk of painful burns, infections and irritation. It also "dries" the vagina, which supposedly leads to more pleasurable sex for the male, but sex with a dry vagina can be excruciatingly painful for the female, leading to skin tearing and irritation.