Joe, I applaud you for writing this and I cannot thank you enough! As one of the many, many, many women who has spent my entire life feeling insecure about the scent of my vagina, this piece is so helpful for me to get past this insecurity. An insecurity that was born the first time that I was intimate with a boy, who vividly described the scent of my vagina to all of his friends as being stinky and smelly in the most negative way. Looking back now, I know that as teenagers, the smell was foreign to us both and we probably didn’t understand that the odor was completely natural. But that moment traumatized my psyche and I spent the next 30 plus years in constant fear that I have a stinky vagina. Enter the premenopause years and hormones have made my aroma stronger and quite honestly, it has heightened my insecurities even further. Despite the many men who have tried to reinforce for me that my vagina and its aroma are quite intoxicating, I still cannot get past that moment from all those years ago. Damn that dumb teenage kid. Damn society. But bless the amazing men in my life who try so hard to make me understand the power of my sexuality and everything that comes with it. And bless you for writing this on behalf of all the men who stand where you do.