The Gentle News

CECIL ADAMS IS TALKING ABOUT VAGINAL FLUIDS!

“First let’s agree on what we don’t know. I don’t want to get into the details either, but I too have personal knowledge of the fluid under discussion. I agree it’s not a “lubricating secretion”–unlike the vaginal fluid produced during arousal, the ejaculate is watery and somewhat acrid to the taste.”

Make him stop! I didn’t flinch at the topic, and I didn’t flinch when he agreed to tackle it, but that comment went a little far for me. And it only got worse.

Look, this is a valid topic, but leave it to the Dan Savages and the other hit-and-miss sex columnists. I know Cecil is supposed to be a hip Marilyn vos Savant (though he’d cringe at that), but I have always pictured him as some cynical old asexual Catholic coot. Why can’t I just keep that image? It’s not a bad image.

Yeah, yeah, he can do whatever he wants. But I can still be disgusted, I repeat, not necessarily by the subject, but by the fact that I just never expected to read it there.

It would, however, be humorous to see a thread about this column in VagPag.