Like a Virgin
There’s a cream called Like a Virgin
for about twenty-five euros that you apply daily and it’s supposed to tighten your vagina back to adolescence. The active ingredient is alum. The marketing is refreshingly blunt: you’ll feel younger and your partner will feel bigger. I have no idea if it actually works.
What struck me was reading someone genuinely think through why they’d want to try it—not manufactured shame, just the straightforward fact of how bodies change over years with different partners and casual sex and living. A normal thing. A product designed to reverse it, to keep you frozen at a particular age in a particular place.
I don’t know if the alum is even safe on that tissue. But the product doesn’t need to work to be effective. It just needs to convince you that natural change is a problem that has a solution for sale. That’s the real trick of it.