Or if you're in Japan, you can get the real thing from a handy vending machine: http://www.photomann.com/japan/machines/ (scroll down a ways)

Thanks for the linky love. Yeah, isn't that special?

Perfectly believable, maybe, but that's not a real product. The picture won a b3ta.com photoshopping contest a couple of years ago.

Only a matter of time, Miss Prism. Only a matter of time.

"Schoolgirl fresh," huh? Yep, that's mighty creepy.

When I was in high school my friends and I discovered that you could sell used panties on ebay. At first we were all like, "ewwwww" and then we stared calculating how much money we could make if we bought cheap 100 packs of panties from Wal-Mart and sold them for the highest bidder. Luckily we grew bored with the idea as soon as the 3:05 bell rang.

Why o why do men (women?) need "schoolgirl panties?" what is it about panty sniffing, especially if the vagina is supposed to be this yucky, gross place no one should ever touch unless they have to to make the babeez.

From what I understand, that's how the used-panty business works too, UM--schoolgirls stop at the shop that sells them on their way in to school, are given a new pair of panties, put them on in a dressing room, go to school, and on their way home stop at the shop again and turn in the panties for cash. Weird, but since the girls don't have any contact with the...er, consumer, it seems harmless enough. Japan's got an interesting culture, to say the least.

disgusting.

While creepy, it's almost a compliment, sort of. In the states, it's too common for the vagina and the odors/substances associated with it to be used as an insult or joke of some sort, such as fish tacos. Again this is creepy, but also refreshing to know that there are guys out there that appreciate the natural scent of a woman. Makes me feel just a little less paranoid about what's going on down there and a bit more paranoid about what's going on out there.

now, i haven't smelled the thing, but do we actually believe that it has the "natural" smell of a woman. not the mention the fact that a vagina's "natural" smell is different for every woman. and this is really just another example of commodifying a woman's body. i'm the first person to say hooray for vaginas! but i'm not okay with the exploitation of vaginas.

it's creepy and invasive like republicans who are metaphorical panty sniffers (they get into everyone's sex life and private life because they are bunch of perverted losers).

not to mention normalizing what a vagina "should" smell like.

Ok, when you put it that way, it's really not any better.

What I was trying to get at is that even if creepy and totally disgusting, it doesn't make me feel nearly as bad about myself as comments about fishy smells and the like that are meant to make me paranoid. I actually find this less insulting than commercials promoting products to cover up or eliminate personal odors and that not so fresh feeling.

I can see though how it does assume all women smell like "this" and the use of a specific body area without even a face dehumanizes women into an object. I realize not everyone will agree with me, especially anyone that owns this product, but it makes me feel like said owner is a loser, a joke, or a pig rather than make me feel like I'm somehow inferior. I hope that makes sense.

I realize not everyone will agree with me, especially anyone that owns this product, but it makes me feel like said owner is a loser, a joke, or a pig rather than make me feel like I'm somehow inferior. I hope that makes sense.

oh yeah. i agree with you there completely. but feminism makes me feel so much better about myself, in general! unfortunately, though, not all women have feminism in their lives.

Actually, the more I think about this, the more disgusted I become. Personally, it doesn't really affect me, as I previously posted.

But if I actually think about this product and what it means, it makes me angry. Why did they choose to design this product with a partial female body instead of, say, an orange circle? Why did they choose the name they did, as opposed to say desperate housewife scent? Although I bet the answer is no, do they make a similar product aimed toward a female, hetero demographic? Most importantly, do they realize that this product increases social amiguity toward pedophilia?

"But if I actually think about this product and what it means, it makes me angry"

That's exactly how I've been feeling about a lot of things lately. This is my first time posting on feministing and the more I read about the products that are out there, how woman are being treated daily, and try to understand what's really going on outside of my little bubble the angrier I become.

Prior to now, if I saw this product in a store, or in someone's car I'd probably just frown at it and not really know why it bothers me. I'm really starting to understand that even things like this that might seem small really are saying a lot.

Prior to now, if I saw this product in a store, or in someone's car I'd probably just frown at it and not really know why it bothers me.

You're a better person than I. I'd be too tempted to give the car a tap with my own - whoops!

Above, the term 'fish tacos'. I've never understood that to be a slang term; many restaurants in my area actually, unironically, sell actual tacos with mahi and/or ahi which I find quite tasty.

No wonder folks thought I was weird when I mentioned eating fish tacos at work...

Thinking: wanted to say I know exactly how you feel. It was a struggle for me to really let all those little things and their implications in, as it left me vulnerable to feeling angry, or hurt, or both, on a daily basis, which lasted a long time. You are not alone in the process and you *will* come out the other side better off and feeling stronger (well, OK, and still angry and skeeved out a lot too...)