UPDATED 3:00 PM, 5/27. Scroll to the bottom for updates.
What the fuck, Liberator? No, seriously, what the fuck? A blog post entitled “Brutal Honesty from Guys: Bad Pussy” was published on the Liberator blog. And yes, it’s just as bad as it sounds.
The post sets the scene for you as such:
You read the wine list and choose with care. The waiter nods approvingly and departs. He reappears cradling the well aged bottle like a piece of jewelry. You nod and the uncorking ceremony begins. He pours a drop for your approval. You sniff the cork and furrow your brow, the slurp a few drops to be sure and… aaarghh! Tastes like Aunt Minnie’s underwear drawer. Corked! You spit. He sniffs and frowns, apologizes and whisks away the wretched swill. If only it was that easy with pussy.
I’m not quite sure where this is going, but I already know I’m not going to like it. Yes, if only pussy was as easy to send back as bad wine or undercooked steak. If only. The post continues, describing a situation in which you meet a woman at the bar, share a few drinks, and head back to your place.
Mmmmm! It’s good. Your lips slide from her fire hardened nipples down her torso, seeking the depths of her femininity. And…aaarghh! BAD PUSSY! Except this time, there’s no obliging waiter to whisk away the offending swill.
Yes, it’s “bad pussy,” and there’s no polite way to get rid of it. Now, look, not every person’s bodily fluids and smells will be pleasing to every partner they have. In fact, we prefer certain people’s smells and tastes for a reason; it’s most likely derived from evolutionary mating stuff. Compatibility, health, etc, are measured to some degree by our preference for a certain person’s smells or tastes. You know that infamous “sweaty shirt” study? If you dislike someone’s smell, it’s your body’s way of either warning you that they might have an infection or a disease, or that this isn’t the person you want to mate with. BUT, just because someone’s smell or taste is not pleasing to you, that does not make it BAD.
However, the article continues, and becomes even more rage-inducing.
There’s the “stealth attack of the monster snatch thatch”. I’m going green and 100% natural. Yeah great. You could lose a Buick in there, and there‘s no way you want a piece of that hair pie for dessert.
God forbid a woman has pubic hair. You know, LIKE ADULT WOMEN DO. And, you know, chances are that the dude is going to be sporting a bush, too, and hey, we don’t fucking bitch about it.
Or maybe you’ve met Miss Monilia DiFeta. This Greek salad is best with heavy dressing.
Great. Cheese references. Is this in reference to a bad tasting pussy? Or a yeast infection? Either way, having my vaginal secretions compared to cheese is fucking offensive as all hell.
Have you ever come face to face with a sushi queen? The minora in labia minora is supposed to mean “smaller.” This variation on “fatty tuna” is as appealing as a can of expired mackerel.
Oh man. So here we have a “fish” reference. Because, you know, “bad pussy” smells? tastes? like fish. NEVER HEARD THAT ONE BEFORE. And then, there’s body shaming! Not ALL WOMEN have smaller labia minora! Vulvas come in all shapes and sizes, and it’s shit like this that makes women self-conscious about their genitals. And for the record, Mr. Liberator Blogger, *I* have more pronounced labia minora than labia majora, and my pussy is fucking beautiful.
But nothing can compare to the thrill of a whiff of some other guy’s cum. Hey, if I wanted to give BJ’s I’d have gone to that “different” bar.
God forbid a woman has had sex with SOMEONE ELSE. And GOD FORBID you’re forced to get too close to some other dude’s cum, you homophobic ass. And that “different” bar? REALLY?
The post then goes on to talk about how “love artists” never encounter “bad pussy.” Because they, apparently, have some sort of technique for testing the waters and determining beforehand if the pussy is “bad.”
Love artists incorporate an ounce of prevention into their foreplay before venturing into terra incognita vaginatum, proving that the best erotic defense prevents offense. Take a towel moistened with soothing warm water and just a trace of anti-bacterial cleanser. Use it to give a sensual massage to her thigh, tummy and crotch. Check out the goods and part the jungle as needed. Invite her to do you the same way. Maybe you’ll be inspired to follow up with some lube, or whipped cream.
Because you know what the best way to avoid “bad pussy” is? Using whipped cream in your play and possibly giving her a yeast infection that’s SURE to make her vagina smell AWESOME. Way to go, “love artist.” But, at least the article gets one thing right: “Bottom line, men are pigs.” Yes, and especially THIS MAN.
You are then encouraged to write in and share your own “bad pussy” stories. The only thing I would encourage you to write in and share is your outrage over the body shaming, misogynistic, homophobic article that Liberator published on their blog. You can email the author at kinkydoc at liberator dot com. Oh, yes. According to his bio, this man is an ACTUAL MD. Who clearly knows nothing about the human body or anatomy.
I support Liberator and I think they make fantastic products, and I would hope they would be a more sex positive company than this. Because this? Is sex negativity, any way you look at it. It’s not snark. It’s hate.
UPDATE: As mentioned in the comments, Liberator pulled the post fairly quickly, due to the response. However, Crista.Anne screengrabbed it before it was taken down, so if you didn’t get a chance to see it, you can read it in its entirety. While Liberator has not made a statement about the post, they defended it on Twitter:
However, there is a huge difference between humor and body shaming. Real humor doesn’t need to take digs at people’s bodies and appearances in order to be funny. And comparing women’s genitalia to fish or cheese, or making comments about what vulvas are “supposed” to look like is never funny.
UPDATE 2: Phallicity posted about his thoughts on the piece, and AAG wrote a post highlighting one of Kinkydoc’s other posts.
I'm Britni, a snarky bitch and generally awesome person. I write about sex, love, and bullshit. If sex-positivity, discussions about BDSM and kink, queer issues, and topics that are completely inappropriate by society's standards make you uncomfortable, then this blog is not for you.
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Thank God someone is standing up to Liberator! I just read that post a little while ago and was absolutely appalled! WTF is wrong with having large labia minora? Mine are long and the coloring of them makes them look like butterfly wings. I’m proud of mine, dammit!
I don’t know what to think of Liberator now. I’ve always drooled over their furniture, but I think my crush on them has been crushed. Seriously, who the hell wrote that and who the hell let them publish it!?! Hello! PR people! Don’t piss off your customers! Morons….
I left a comment on the post on the Liberator site. I wonder if they’ll approve it.
I left a comment, too. Refreshed to see if it was approved about 15 minutes later and I got a 404 message. Looks like they took the stupid post down.
I felt it would be more appropriate to leave a comment on his blog, since he was encouraging so much feedback. I hate being lumped into the same category as such smug douchebags.
I left a comment there, as well. I’m hoping it gets approved.
Here is the email I just wrote them:
To whom it may concern,
I just wanted to express my absolute shock and displeasure after reading an article on the Liberator Blog entitled ‘Brutal Honesty from guys: Bad Pussy’. I wasn’t sure which part of the Liberator team to direct this to, so apologies if there was an email for the Liberator Blog that I overlooked. If I’ve come to the wrong place, I’d really appreciate being directed to the appropriate email address/person I should get in touch with.
Basically, the whole article approaches an important topic, sexual health and cleanliness, in a demeaning, rude and totally inappropriate way. Coming from a company like Liberator, which I have genuinely admired for its attempts to make sex an enjoyable, safe and positive experience, such an article seems totally out of character. This article has just put prejudice, body judgement and unsafe practises under the guise of ‘brutal honesty’, when really what it has to say is nothing of the sort. I fully support both men and women doing their best to keep their genitals clean and in tip-top condition, but this article eschews that instead to approach the subject with apparent humour (which relies on comparisons to food in various insulting ways) and misleading advice.
For example, one particular phrase caught my eye. The author says that, ‘The minora in labia minora is supposed to mean “smaller.” This variation on “fatty tuna” is as appealing as a can of expired mackerel.’ Such an inappropriate and entirely untrue remark couched in such rude terms is not in any way shape or form a way to speak about vaginal health, nor women’s bodies. There is 100% nothing wrong with a vagina which has larger inner lips, it’s simply how some women’s bodies are shaped. That’s not a sign of any vaginal problems, nor does have anything to do with smelling like rotten fish. Clearly, the author’s own personal judgements on what constitutes an attractive vagina are ringing through loud and clear here and that’s not appropriate when writing under the guise of ‘brutal honesty’ – that’s simply one man’s opinion, an extremely close minded one at that.
In addition to this, the advice to use anti-bacterial wash is a poor idea. The vagina is a self-cleaning organ and as such only requires soaping and douching in rare situations. The use of anti-bacterial soaps as a clean up before sex really is entirely unnecessary and likely to upset the delicate balance within the vagina. Similarly, suggesting you use whipped
cream as a warm up to oral sex overlooks the fact that in some women it can lead to yeast infections and imbalances – precisely the sort of problems which would have the author shouting ‘…aaarghh! BAD PUSSY!’ Except this time, there’s no obliging waiter to whisk away the offending swill’ or sadly his offensive ignorance.
As I understand it, this article is written by ‘a medical doctor (yep, MD), in practice, well, let’s just say over 20 years’ who…just ”BAM!’ became a sexpert! Clearly, if this is the case, he has no understanding of what he’s speaking of in this context. For a supposed MD to write such an article defies belief! Yet, not only in this article does he come out with numerous unpleasant and inappropriate comments, but his other articles share similar judgemental and misogynistic undertones. He writes that he examined an ‘enormously fat woman’ with a ‘monstrous’ ass in which ‘you could lose an Abrams tank in there.’ Such hideously judgemental and unnecessary judgements would be inappropriate anywhere and directed at anyone let alone in the context of patient doctor scenario. If KinkyDoc is genuinely an MD, that is a serious worry, but to let him write articles with such a tone, regardless of his background, is poor form.
I hope there can be something done to rectify this matter because right now, I would feel hesitant to recommend Liberator as a company because of the negative and misleading articles, which seem to contradict the message and image of safe, consensual and positive sex you seem to be trying to promote.
Regards,
Uh clearly I didn’t full proof that email before I sent it, some poorly worded bits there. Haha, definitely just had my panties in a twist and wanted to get it out there quickly.
I still think it was nicely written. Thanks for standing up for us!
Great post! I agree 100% and it was very offending to read that. I don’t know what Liberator was thinking with that one!
Link is dead, it’s not showing on the blog front page either that I can see, of course I’m medicated to the gills. They got the hint I think.
Oh great. He’s a doctor too? Yeah, I’m going to a new gyno today and I was already feeling anxious enough about laying spread eagle for them to do my pap smear.
Lo and behold – guess what I CAN’T find there? This man is totally disgusting and I believe Liberator should consider dropping him from their blog. Misogynistic assholes like that are NOT going to make women feel more comfortable about having sex, or about showing our bodies in general. I currently don’t own any Liberator products – was saving for a major purchase of one – but I’m rethinking my decision and might just invest my hard earned money in a company that cares enough about their clientele to ensure crap like that never gets published.
I’m all for the acknowledgment that not everyone smells good to each other (the difference between the last two guys I was with — the former, kind of icky, the latter, good god, if they made a bodywash of him I would take a thousand bubble baths with it), but wow, that is just offensive.
I’d like to add that NOTHING antibacterial goes anywhere on my body, let alone my fucking vaginal area of all places. Gross.
Also, how does he know what cum smells like anyway? OH SNAP.
(To clarify, my comment supposes the homophobic straight guy thing where they can’t even deal with their OWN ejaculate, i.e. won’t kiss you after you blow them, etc. If that wasn’t clear.)
I agree that post seems out of place and out of character, but taken on its own and without any contextual consideration, it’s actually quite funny.
Is it perhaps possible that you’re being a little over-sensitive? I mean, “bad” pussy is inherently subjective: for the sake of example, just as every woman has different labia minora from every other, so does every man (or woman) have a different labial preference from every other. In fact it’s SUCH a subjective matter that it really is pointless arguing it either way, and it’s even more pointless being angry about it.
-JY
You must be a guy.
Telling people what they should and should not be angry about is really condescending and annoying, you know that?
from one girl to another, “and my pussy is fucking beautiful” totally makes my day. Can I get that on a teeshirt? I think it’d look good with my really tight spandex leggings and high heels
Holy shit is that appalling as all fuck, not to mention disrespectful, degrading, and just pure insanity. I was hoping that the hetero-normative-patriarchal-paradigm had cooled its jets just a tiny bit, especially from sex shops that expect women to buy and support their revenues. Ewww.
Thank you for blogging about this and raising awareness.
Part of me is glad that Liberator pulled their lame-ass post, but IMHO, an apology/addendum/we-fucked-up would have been a helluva lot better than the houdini act just because they got scared.
Le sigh.
LOL, backpedal! How long do you suppose it will be before the delete the referencing tweet?
But they are defending it on Twitter: “ALL of our posts r written with humor”
Well, it’s a good thing they have surgeries, lightening creams, and floral scented douches so my vagina can smell/look pleasing for this one man! God forbid he ever have to tolerate anything less then his idea of what a “perfect” vagina should be. It’s not like us women have ever had to deal with smelly, hairy, flaccid, lackluster dicks before.
This is a beautiful response. The Lib post and this person’s other Lib Blog posts have been making me sick all morning. This is a sex-positive doctor? I think not.
For anyone who hasn’t seen, I screengrabbed the post before it was taken down. UGH.
“our” posts, yet i notice on the screengrab there’s no byline.
do they always hide authorship?
It took me a while to find the author, as well. But if you clicked the link where you can send in your “bad pussy” stories, when the post was up, it went to KinkyDoc’s email, who is listed as one of their “sexperts.”
He’s “a medical doctor (yep, MD), in practice, well, let’s just say over 20 years. And believe it or not, I’m a normal, curious, open-minded, horny human. Put these things together and-BAM!-sexpert!” Right.
Also, the rest of his posts are lovely, too.
Where do men like this hide? I’ve never been with a man who didn’t think my — unshaven, undouched, un-whipped creamed, ffs — genitalia was lovely.
He’s got some extreme woman-hating going on. Wanna bet he calls himself a “Nice Guy”? Also, I find it very hard to believe that he’s an actual doctor, considering all the unhealthy things he recommends.
Btw, my boyfriend’s commentary on this guy is, “what an idiot. Definitely a total ass.”
Having a medical degree doesn’t mean you know everything there is to know about the vagina (unless you’re an OBGYN). I continue to be amazed at the number of men who feel they have a right to shame women for perfectly normal things; vaginas have hair, they have different smells, different discharges, different appearances, and it’s all normal.
Just because you have a dick doesn’t mean you should act like one.
Solid kvetching, in my opinion. Brava.
I’m not going to lie, some people, both those innies and outties, have bad hygiene. I have definitely gone down on a woman or two for whom that was the case, and that’s not pleasant. But this reads like something off a urinal wall. I don’t get what purpose this piece serves. To annoy people that have vaginas/preferred term of choice here? To repeat all the tired shit we had yelled at us in 5th grade after we had to watch that video in health class? Booooring.
Also, just going back over your excerpts, one thing really stands out to me. Why are there no readily available cliches for me to mock a dude’s smegma? There are thousands of convenient terms and metaphors to police EVERYTHING on a woman’s body from her eyebrows right down to the size of her labia (if she is equipped with labia) and there are even dozens of ready-made jokes about the way aforementioned labia SMELLS. So why are there no corresponding jokes for gym-sock-ball-smell? I really feel like we need to get on this, because I’ve yet to read any kind of article about gym-sock-balls. Personally, I’d rather stick my face in some sushi.
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