Feuchtgebiete, which translates as Wetlands, or Moist Patches, is the debut novel from Charlotte Roche. As it opens, we find 18-year-old narrator Helen Memel in hospital, after an accident shaving her intimate parts. The remainder of the book plays out entirely on the proctology ward where, in between ruminating on her haemorrhoids and sexual proclivities, Helen asks her male nurse to photograph her wound, tries to seduce him, and hides under her bed to masturbate. She has an insatiable, childlike curiosity about the sight and smell and taste of bodies, especially her own. She is also exuberantly promiscuous. Hygiene, she reflects, “is not a major concern of mine”. When she uses public toilets, she likes to rub her vagina around the lavatory seat, and she has experimented with “long periods of not washing my pussy”, to investigate its erotic impact - dabbing her own personal pubic perfume behind her earlobes. "It works wonders from the moment you greet someone with a kiss on each cheek.
Uhhhhhh…mmmm…well…ah…just goes to show how careful you need to be with sharp objects ![]()
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Most people have a phobia about lavatory seats…now I understand where they’re coming from ![]()
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Well I will say that women as far back as Cleopatra used there own copulins as a perfume to attract men. Its in some history journals I once read. How they know this information is beyond me LOL
I dont suggest anyone do the toilet seat thing though and I dont even want to contemplate the shaving accident (ouchy) Get it waxed, Hurts like a bitch bit only lasts a few minutes LOL
Great find though, ![]()
Tisha