Thank you, dude. This shit has me heated!

🎶I know when you’re emailing/

so where can I subscribe to get these emails....

And you know when that punter fling

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First off, this is funny. Sorry, it is. Now let me put on my IT guy hat....there we go.

I don’t know, sounds like even the writer’s think it was the right choice. It is much better to have a more streamlined condensed package than overbloated story. Streamlined because of constraints gets you the Star Wars OT, unbridled spending gets you the prequels.

Every student is nervously sweating about their ill advised middle school email address right now

Caravaggio’s Judith Beheading Holofernes

Well, one thing adult people routinely put in their mouths and one people don’t. It’s pretty offensive to me to have vagina juice compared to shit.

Bacteria lives on your body. Do you know that? The bacteria in your gut makes it possible for you to have solid poo. The bacteria in your vagina prevents the overgrowth of yeast. The bacteria on your skin prevents colonization of scary bacteria not normal to your body. Every person has a different mixture of bacteria…

Kind of mystified as to how this is supposedly a “Hard R” in the US, but only a 15 in the UK. I rather suspect it isn’t that hard of an R.

If you read the comments, they’ve actually found that the vaginal bacteria get even closer to the digestive tract population close to delivery. Nature is WEIRD, man.

Baby has been in mom but the amniotic sac is remarkably protected from bacteria and friends. For good reason - you wouldn’t want even so called “friendly” probiotics to get out of balance in such a sensitive environment. This is about digestive tract biome, which the baby isn’t exposed to until the mucus plug goes and…

You are allowed, too, sure, just as I’m allowed to explain why that’s silly. This article has made lots of people, including you, go “ewww, that’s NASTY, eww vaginal secretions!” And it’s stupid, frankly.

It’s not “unspecified”- the gauze was inserted during the labor process, just before birth. They didn’t have the women walking around for 9 months with a piece of gauze in their vaginas.

The uterus is actually a sterile environment, so the first bacteria the baby comes in contact with is either vaginal or from the skin in the case of c sections. These are the sources of our gut bacteria, which actually play an important role in our health.

How do you think the baby comes out of your vagina? In shrink wrap? Your vaginal secretions are ALL OVER the baby. It’s by design.

well, if they’re born vaginally, they’re getting a hefty dose of it in every crease and crevice. Nothing gross or weird about that.

If you’re totally freaked out by the idea, then you can just try to make sure that you have pretty good flora yourself (lots of yogurt and probiotics) and the baby will slowly get your bacteria through exposure anyway. People have FLOATING CLOUDS of bacteria surrounding themselves, it’s going to happen.