For as long as there has been women’s based literature, there has always been a secret little section detailing all the ins and outs of vaginal care and sexual satisfaction. These articles, teetering on the edge of the explicit, soon become synonymous with the trademark use of fingering fruits to simulate pleasure and tantalize the reader.
We chatted to a group of furious fruit about their experience and how they feel they have been subjected to unnecessary sexualization.
“I get it, you can’t use a real pussy,” says a clearly weathered grapefruit through long, desperate drags of a cigarette, “but I’ve met people who thought their period would be blue because of censorship in commercials. I worry for the idiot who panics when they realise they’re not full of seeds…”
It’s become impossible to pinpoint when and how fruit became the go-to female sexual organ iconography, and whether or not it has helped or hindered vagina owners’ sexuality. Regardless, this brave group of fruit want to put a stop to this trend, saying they are fed up and simply want better.
“I don’t know how they did it, but they managed to make a health food horny!” a flustered papaya tells us, furiously picking up their now loose and fallen seeds knocked around from years of photoshoots, “You can’t even eat a banana in public without feeling like you’re putting in your 10,000 hours in for a different activity!”
When asked what steps the industry can take to improve it’s practices, passionfruit had this to say, “I think the industry really needs to look at itself, and look at what vaginas look like, and regroup. Shoving your fingers in anything with a slit, a vagina does not make”.
“Look, the industry has been good to me, it put my kids through college” says grapefruit, “but the way I’ve been poked and prodded over the years has hollowed me out more than childbirth ever could. I wouldn’t be surprised if I’ve been the cause of a lot of terrible, misguided fingering over the years – and for that, I’ll never forgive myself.”
Asked if this work had ever impacted future project orange claims, “There was a 3 year period where I was all the rage in summer salads, but now? I’m just the girl behind the Cosmopolitan masturbation tips article, most of which are IMPOSSIBLE to execute alone”.
To find out more about fruits fight against sexualisation and metaphor, or to download a picture of a diagram of a vagina, head over to their Instagram “The Salad Hole” for more resources.