Hey Cliff, I was wondering if you knew if using toothpaste internally is potentially harmful (anus or vagina). I’m seeing mixed reports online and I’m not about to ask my doctor about it in person, lol. If it is, would using it around these orifices be potentially dangerous?
You know, the real answer to this kind of thing is that nobody does research on this. It’s as unknown to science as the unmapped depths of the ocean. I can sort of guess and extrapolate from stuff like “well, it doesn’t damage your mouth” and “I couldn’t find any case reports of someone seriously injured by vaginal/anal toothpaste,” but guessing is all it is.
And if you ask a doctor–or a nurse more sensible than me, frankly–they’re going to tell you not to do it. The downside if you do it and get hurt and blame us is major, and the upside if you enjoy it is… not something healthcare can really set a value on.
So I don’t really know what to tell you. It’ll definitely hurt, but I’m assuming that’s a feature not a bug for you. Anecdotally I know of people who put toothpaste on their clitorises and nothing bad happened, but that’s just anecdotes and it’s not the same as internal tissue.
So…??? It’s honestly not a question I can answer.
DO NOT. PUT TOOTHPASTE. IN AN ORIFICE. OTHER THAN YOUR MOUTH.
It contains detergent, surfactants, grit, and foaming agents.
It WILL cause microabrasions to your mucous membranes and it WILL leave your orifices prone to infection.
Okay, I think you should listen to this person.
I’m always biased in favor of sexual weirdness and against excessive caution, but she has industry sources for this. So yeah. Don’t put toothpaste up in yourself. Sorry.
People put all sorts of very bad-for-you things in their various body parts. Most of them don’t do it twice.
Most of us have had some kind of experience with the more “active” ingredients in toothpaste, menthol shaving cream, or perfumes on sensitive membranes and discovered that they burn or sting way out of proportion to how they feel in our mouths. Peppermint, spearmint, cinnamon, or eucalyptus (menthol) oils in toothpaste as well as some of the lighter esters, aldehydes, and alcohols in perfumes and shaving cremes out suspiciously mild on genital tissue (including penises, scrotums, outer labia, and clitoris hoods) but continue to get more intense. And more intense. And ow-really-fucking-burns intense.
People who are into “figging” with fresh ginger and/or chiles do this for fun. The difference being that both ginger and capsaicin oils in chiles cause nerve endings to “light up” but don’t cause active tissue damage.
You want to put something “hot” on your naughty bits my advice would be
a) don’t
b) use chiles or ginger
And AS ALWAY if you’re a top, or even just think you are, try a small amount on yourself first! It’s not just a matter of “sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander” (though it is that.) It’s that as a good, competent top you’ll appreciate what you do to your bottom a hell of a lot more if you understand what you’re subjecting them to. (And if you’re thinking hell no way I’d do that to myself then… don’t know what to tell ya, champ, for thinking it’s ok to do it to someone else.)
