BIZARRE: Read What The woman Who Ate Yoghurt Made From Her Own Vagina Has To Say!

When PhD student Cecilia Westbrook
found out there was an entire cookbook of
recipes based on sperm and nothing
similar about vaginal secretions, she
didn’t just get angry – she decided to do
something about it.
That something was making two batches
of yoghurt out of her own “jazz juice”, with
nothing more than a wooden spoon, a pan
and her own ingenuity (for ‘ingenuity’ read
‘vaginal flora’).
The process was chronicled by Janet Jay
on Vice, who reported Westbrook ate the
first batch, which tasted like “Indian
yoghurt”, with blueberries while the second
batch tasted like “slightly-spoiled milk”. In
her piece Jay also spoke to scientists and
America’s Food and Drug Administration
(FDA), which advised against the process
on the basis it is risky and could
potentially spread disease.
After Jay’s story broke it generated a
predictable backlash, with some
commentators accusing Westbrook of
being mentally ill and others vowing never
to eat yoghurt again.
For her part, Westbrook has no plans to
culture any more vagina yoghurt and told
Jezebel she believes much of the criticism
is “gendered”: “The tenor of comments
here have just been ‘who would even do
that’ and ‘why’ and ‘this is terrible’ and
‘that’s just gross.” And it’s kind of hard not
to feel like that’s a little gendered.”