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Yes, Your Vagina Can Bleach Your Underwear, And Here’s How

Ah, the vagina. A mystery portal into the unknown. Despite the world’s fascination with this wonderful internal sex organ, very little about the non-sexual side of vaginas is openly discussed. That means a lot of people with vaginas think totally normal things about them are freaky and alarming.

Or, on the other side, they don’t know when something is wrong. If you’ve been hesitant to jump into the vagina feet first, come dip a toe with this little explainer about the crotch-bleaching properties of the vagina’s natural juices.

Basically, a healthy PH balance in the hoo-ha is usually slightly acidic. Everyone is different of course, but a good mix allows for the kind of bacteria you want to exist in there without problems. If your discharge is clear or slightly opaque, like egg whites, you’re doing good. And did I mention discharge is normal? Yes, it is, whatever Ben Shapiro and his wife might think. Your vagina gets wet, it is an open orifice in your body and stuff comes out of it.

Why are we talking about this right now? Mainly because a TikToker named Alyssa Cochran-Caggiano, or @ulissuhrose, shared her underwear story on her account, setting off a big discussion about the amazing vagina’s bleaching properties:

@uhlissuhrosePlease duet this with your pussy bleached underwear so I don’t feel alone. ##underwear ##WhatsPoppin ##ThrowbackSongs ##QuickRecipes ##foryou ##fyp ##wap♬ original sound – uhlissuhrose

She starts by saying, “If you don’t have a vagina, you’re going to be very confused by what I’m about to say. Is no one else completely terrified by the bleaching properties of a vagina?”

via TikTok/@uhlissuhrose

She then shares pics of her underwear, which she says ARE CLEAN, showing how the crotch of all of them has been bleached out. 

Here is the outside of a pair of black underwear, and the inside:

via TikTok/@uhlissuhrose

A few more examples:

via TikTok/@uhlissuhrose

Now, if this info is freaking you out, know that the bleaching effect isn’t just from corrosive discharge boiling away inside you. The discharge was likely exposed to air in her laundry basket before being washed, and the effects of oxygen brought the whole chemistry experiment home. 

And it’s not just Alyssa. Twitter user @simsimmaaz also started a vagina bleach convo this week, though it’s unclear if she was inspired by the TikTok or it’s just the time for humanity to have this convo:

Maybe it doesn’t matter if this remains a genital secret, but some of the comments show how many people want to talk about this and how many people have kind of sad perspectives about their own bodies because of the lack of open discussion about them:

via TikTok/@uhlissuhrose

You learn something new every day. Also know that if your underwear isn’t bleached, that’s all okay. We are all okay.

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Aimeé Lutkin