Dr. Laurena White Responds:
“Vaginal steaming extends far beyond a cleansing modality. It has nothing to do with cleanliness at all. Steaming is really a therapeutic modality that addresses a dysfunction in your reproductive system. Just like any endometrial ablation. I mean that’s a therapeutic modality. It’s very invasive, and almost a little bit too invasive considering potentially what you’re getting done, and could be dangerous. This is steam we’re working with here. I mean I want everyone to focus on the fact that this is steam. Steam evaporates. Like, this is not a solid mass of anything that’s entering your vagina. It’s steam that has been medically infused with healing herbs. This isn’t something we made up in the United States like, two years ago. This is something that’s been going on for thousands of years, in different cultures, in different communities, that literally has been something that’s been healing women for eons. The actual therapeutic modality, in and of itself, is designed to be healing, and there isn’t anything about it that’s shaming your vagina. Steam is actually treating your vagina to a wonderful experience. So that you can enjoy your vagina even more.
I steam after my periods and I don’t have any reproductive malfunction at all or any dysfunction whatsoever. I’m actually proud of my periods, I brag about it, because my period is really amazing. But there is that tending-to-self component after my period, where I just want to have that forty-five minutes where I am relaxing, knowing that, therapeutically, I am not being “cleansed” but I’m being tended to — even with everything working and operating. It’s not that you’re dirty.
People take showers too but just because you take a shower doesn’t mean that you’re dirty or have something to be ashamed of. You do it to maintain and prevent from accumulating dirt.”