You don't douche? No wonder you can't get laid.

[modernwizard]

From Duke University's Ad*Access, a digital collection of many ads from the 20th century, comes a 1950 ad for Zonite vaginal douche. Playing directly on fears of ostracism, the ad warns that dire consequences will befall those women who do not douche: "homes broken up, few social invitations, the feeling of being shunned without knowing WHY!" Beware, ladies -- heterosexual HELL will be yours unless you harass your vaginal canals with a liquid that removes the self-cleaning mucous secretions of the canal walls themselves and leaves you susceptible to infections. Your husband won't want to have sex with you; no one will even want to talk to you; society will collapse, and it will all be YOUR FAULT.

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Causes more problems than not

[(Anonymous)]

If only more women realized how unnecessary douching REALLY is!!!

I've been telling other women since I was 17 not to do it! My husband's grandmother was told as a young woman that douching after sex prevented pregnancy!