Hmmm. I find it odd that your advice seems to have simply been, “You shouldn’t be smelly down there. You probably have a form of Vaginitis.” She didn’t say she does smell, but that she thinks she does.

I would suggest that it is less likely to be a physical ailment, and more likely to be psychological. Either relating to low self-esteem, or an inherent belief that sexual behaviour is a fundamentally unclean activity. The fact that her boyfriend doesn’t seem to have detected a smell, and her compulsive and regular douching suggests to me her problem lies a little north of the equator.

@SnippiesBlog - I just stated why in my previous comment… she gave no actual indication of a physical problem in her question, but a number of psychological indications. That doesn’t mean that she has some massive debilitating psychological illness, of course, but that her worry about her own smell is just that – a worry, not an actuality.

Once again, she didn’t say she actually smelled anything. She didn’t say her boyfriend smelled anything, and she did say he continued to be eager to attempt to perform such activities as would put him in close proximity to any such smell as might exist.

She did, however, describe repeated and regular cleaning activities commonly acknowledged to be unhealthy, and a fear of odour that seems unfounded according to her comment. She repeatedly states that she feels like she smells.

Surely all of these things are strong indicators of a psychological difficulty, given the information presented above?

My ‘assumption’ of psychological difficulty was more based on her
comment than was your immediate assumption of physical illness.

@CiaoBella810 - That makes very little sense. Nobody was suggesting that thought resulted in action (and I imagine in your case it doesn’t).One can only think their stink away if their stink is imagined in the first place. Which, again, I don’t think relates too well to you.

@jediwa72 - Indeed. I agree that it is generally better to be safe than sorry, and that visiting a doctor for check-ups can be healthy. It was not that that I disagreed with, but merely SnippiesBlog’s immediate assumption that something was physically wrong despite no evidence to suggest it. While the bland and mutedly repetitive advice of ‘go see a doctor’ may be safe (for the one proffering the advice) it is hardly helpful.

@lizheartshakespeare - I appreciate your brashness. I don’t care what they say, you are not a completely blithering idiot. However, let us not confuse a gyn with a psychologist. While visiting a gyn regularly may in fact be helpful for many, I doubt it’s the idal place to go for psychological advice. Then again, neither is a blog. The point here is that one shouldn’t really be visitng the gyn to tell them whether they need to go to a psychologist. Also, you seem to be suggesting that visitng the gyn would be important mostly because of the douching. While this may, in fact, be a valid point (well done!) it wasn’t exactly the one made by SnippiesBlog in the original entry. Finally, do us all a favour, and keep your mindless and assinine blather to a minimum. I haven’t the faintest idea why you would imagine this to be something I might have no need to comment on. I benevolently share my semi-divine wisdom with all who need it, even if they haven’t the prescience to ask. Such is the burden of being me.

@Millsanicole - I appreciate your vote of confidence, but who says I’m not in psychiatry right now? Blogging is hardly a full-time career, you know. Secondly, who says I don’t have a viagina? I never remember stating that I was a man. Remember what they say happens when you assume. However, I think you are right in that this isn’t the place for actual medical advice; it’s just some random blogger putting in their two cents, which is, my dear, exactly what is happening right now. (ironically, the definination of ‘two cents’ is actually unsolicited advice, but the former is often forgotten)