Anyone for a vajacial ?

I like to go through phases of reading bouts of non fiction on a particular subject. A few months ago it was the truth about sugar and now it's feminism

But not as you'd know it. After almost devouring the everyday sexism book which proved to be relate-able, fascinating and some what harrowing a read , I was more than primed to read more on the topic. Then along came vagenda. What can I say , I was intrigued . It stems from

A blog of the same name written by a group of women fed up by the way the media speaks to and portrays women. It's described as a zero tolerance guide to the media.

I'm only a few chapters in but so far it's Keeping me interested and amused. Last  

Night I was reading about how the beauty industry and women's magazines are co-conspirators in a somewhat sinister plot to make women more insecure in order to sell more Beauty products and treatments. The kind of thing that sounds completely far fetched until they break it down and then you wonder how you never noticed before.

if you're thinking this is a wild exaggeration then think for a moment of the vagina.Apologies if this blog post suddenly got a bit more crude than you were expecting.
 For a long time it was just there allowing women to menstruate , have sex and give birth ( not at the same time obviously ) women didn't give it much thought and certainly wouldn't dream of grooming it and nor would men have had any such expectations of lady garden grooming .

Now look at how it is these days. The sheer range of treatments for your vaginal

Region is equal parts astounding and horrifying.

You can ;trim it, shave it or wax it ( with every option from bald as an eagle to porn star like landing strip),you can dye your pubic hair or have it waxed into a particular shape, you can get a vajazzle ( nothing like some diamanté on your vagina to get your man excited ), you can have a vajacial which Is a facial for your vagina ( because that's totally your other face. The only thing more horrifying than the idea of this treatment is the notion that it's someone's job to give vaginas facials), you can get on all fours and have your anus waxed and bleached , you can even get dye for your clitoris ( mind you some men could probably do it with it glowing in the dark if that's an option, might increase the chances of them actually finding it ) and if all of that doesn't seem extreme enough then

You can always get a labioplasty or cosmetic surgery on your vagina. Niiiice

Sorry if it makes me boring but I for one am abstaining from extreme lady garden maintenance. I am trying my best to not be swayed too much by the rigorous Beauty standards that have me clamouring for more and more beauty products. It takes hard work to silence the voice in my head that tells me I'm

Not good enough , too fat or Unattractive . And yet I still frequently shave my underarms and legs, bleach my top lip, carefully apply make up before daring to leave the house so clearly I have a long way to go.
But maybe by the time I have finished reading vagenda and moved onto something equally scintillating, I will be smart enough to really be making decisions about my appearance for my myself instead of allowing the beauty industry to make them for me.