This actually exists? This is a REAL product?
Somehow this corporation has managed to create a product which makes a woman’s smell consumable. I cannot really say why I have such an violent and sad reaction to this product. Could it be that it is an organic, natural, bodily fluid only present and accessible in intimate moments?
I can guarantee there is no product equivalent to Vulva marketed to women. (Eau de Teste???) I hypothesize why; it’s twisted and creepy for numerous reasons. Most women would like to know the person they smell. By nature, scent is intimate and personal. A bottled bodily fluid from some company is artificial intimacy and suggests some sort of power struggle. The company is capitalizing on the alienation between the sexes and has created a product which is based on the most personal of scents without actual intimate interaction. It allows access to such personal fluids without the having to communicate with a person, removing the woman completely from the equation. I think my biggest problem with this is that it gives the illusion of intimacy but further alienates men and women from each other. Something as private and personal as a woman’s vaginal smell becomes available on the market lends to the notion that a woman can be bought.
A human’s smell cannot be commodified. This company is attempting to commodify something which cannot be commodified; the intimate, personal and uniquely female experience.
I don’t want to appear prudish. I do not think the smell of a woman is dirty nor the appreciation of the scent. It can be very enjoyable thing to share between lovers. I do think the company is exploiting the sexually marginalized and that is where the shame should lie.
On a humorous note, I wonder how they bottle Vulva? I was immediately reminded to this Kids in the Hall skit “Husk Musk”
Jan 15th, 2010 by lindsayjoy