I ran into my friend Benay yesterday at Tashi’s soccer practice in the park. She had just read my story, Stinky ‘Gina, on Offsprung.com. She said she’d never understood why people say vaginas smell like fish. Hers doesn’t. “It really doesn’t,” she said. I said I believed her. Then she said she had to tell me something. She hadn’t told anyone, not even her husband, since it happened. She leaned in close and whispered in my ear. About a week ago she got acupuncture. She was lying face down on a massage bed with her face in one of those circle things. The acupuncturist was standing in front of her, putting needles in her head. And I don’t know, maybe her eyes watered, but all of the sudden she was overwhelmed and said, “Oh my God, it smells like fish in here.” The acupuncturist didn’t say anything. When the acupuncturist walked around to put needles in her feet, Benay noticed that the smell went away.
