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Thursday, 13 July 2017

Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop posted a defense of its jade eggs for vaginas. It’s a mess. - Vox

Goop mockery crystalized into a fervor early this year when the site posted this whopper of a headline: “Better Sex: Jade Eggs for Your Yoni.”

The post featured a Q&A with Shiva Rose, a “beauty guru / healer,” who claimed that inserting egg-shaped jade rocks into the vagina “can help cultivate sexual energy, increase orgasm, balance the cycle, stimulate key reflexology around vaginal walls ... [it goes on for awhile]... and invigorate our life force.” And Goop, of course, would be happy to sell you said eggs for just $66.

The backlash to this absurdity was swift and furious...

Read full article: Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop posted a defense of its jade eggs for vaginas. It’s a mess. - Vox