When your self-made online store gets 1 million hits, you know you’ve made it. This is what happened to Australian mother of three last weekend Lola-Butterflie Von-Kerius when her website hawking what she calls Passion Dust Intimacy Capsules caught the collective interest of Instagram, thanks to a handful of unexpected memes and turned her into an overnight sensation. Her product, a capsule that a woman can insert into her vagina an hour before sex, that dissolves in the intervening time before intercourse occurs and then coats the penis and the vaginal fluids with bright, iridescent glitter, that is sweet to the taste and increases the viscosity of bodily fluids. A pleasant visual experience as well for those so aesthetically inclined.

Has there ever been a better way for a vagina to make an entrance? We doubt it.

This isn’t the first product that Von-Kerius has made to enhance sexual pleasure and intimate encounters but this is the first one that is gaining the attention of the Internet. Understandably so. This is one of the few erotic products that is not somewhat phallic or geared towards enhancing the pleasure of the male partner. Plus the Intimacy capsules are non-obtrusive and do not need to be handled during intercourse. However, it is also gaining the attention of doctors across the world.

Gynaecologists are starting to weigh in on the capsules worried that inserting synthetic materials of any kind, especially materials that cannot be easily extracted (the users of the vagina glitter bomb cannot accurately determine when all of it has safely exited their vaginas and have to hope their bodily fluids flush out all the foreign material). There are also concerns that the glitter bombs might have materials that some women might have strong allergic reactions to since the product was created by a woman with no scientific background and hasn’t been tested to ensure it can be inserted inside the body. There are also some feminist agitations arguing that it suggests that insinuates that women’s natural emissions aren’t good enough. A stretch, but oh well.

Whatever the case, Von-Kerius has the attention of the world, and showing that just maybe we are too stringent with our ideas about what constitutes interesting sex/foreplay.

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