{"id":1144,"date":"2008-08-20T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2015-07-22T14:21:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T18:21:31","slug":"you-dont-douche-no-wonder-you-cant-get-laid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/08\/20\/you-dont-douche-no-wonder-you-cant-get-laid\/","title":{"rendered":"You don&#8217;t douche? No wonder you can&#8217;t get laid."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Duke University&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/library.duke.edu\/digitalcollections\/adaccess\/\">Ad*Access,<\/a> a digital collection of many ads from the 20th century, comes a 1950 ad for Zonite vaginal douche. Playing directly on fears of ostracism, the ad warns that dire consequences will befall those women who do not douche: &#8220;homes broken up, few social invitations, the feeling of being shunned without knowing WHY!&#8221; Beware, ladies &#8212; heterosexual HELL will be yours unless you harass your vaginal canals with a liquid that removes the self-cleaning mucous secretions of the canal walls themselves and leaves you susceptible to infections. Your husband won&#8217;t want to have sex with you; no one will even want to talk to you; society will collapse,&nbsp;and it will all be YOUR FAULT.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ljcut\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/ads\/zonitedouche.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Duke University&#8217;s Ad*Access, a digital collection of many ads from the 20th century, comes a 1950 ad for Zonite vaginal douche. Playing directly on fears of ostracism, the ad warns that dire consequences will befall those women who do not douche: &#8220;homes broken up, few social invitations, the feeling of being shunned without knowing&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/08\/20\/you-dont-douche-no-wonder-you-cant-get-laid\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You don&#8217;t douche? No wonder you can&#8217;t get laid.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[664],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-misogyny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5856,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/5856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}