A woman opened up to My Strange Addiction about her apparent obsession with 'vabbing', supposedly undertaking the seemingly NSFW pastime up to 50 times a day in hopes of attracting a partner.
There are many sex-related addictions out there, but away from some admitting they're addicted to watching pornography, others include compulsive masturbation, intimacy anorexia, and a rise in the trend of things like 'gooning' or 'figging' (we suggest you don't search for that one on your work computer).
In the wide world of sex trends, vabbing is another word you might not have heard of, with it taking off on TikTok and being a portmanteau of 'vaginal dabbing'.
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It's the method of applying your own vaginal fluids to the pulse points of your wrist, neck, and behind the ears as a way of attracting a mate with your 'natural' scent. While it's said that vaginal fluids do contain pheromones, research has largely focused on animals.
Still, the vabbing trend has even become the focus of My Strange Addiction
As reported by TMZ, Cassy is a Boston woman who's never been in a relationship but became 'obsessed' with vabbing as a way to find a potential suitor.
The video explained how Cassy sticks her fingers inside her vagina up to 50 times a day, then applies the discharge onto her neck. That works out at 350 times a week, 1,500 times a month, and 18,250 times a month.
In her own words, Cassy explained: "When I first started, I would go up there, and the more I did that, I started to create rips in my vagina, on my vaginal wall. So, now I use coconut oil as lubrication."
As far back as 2019, sexologist Shan Boodram was causing a stir by saying she vabs before a night out, while a 2022 article from The Independent said the shock surrounding vabbing is just another way to demonize the bodies of women.
Cassy is aware of the potential stigma, adding: "If I got a boyfriend, it would be really amazing, but I wouldn't stop vabbing. I would just do it in secret because I would think that's how he became attracted to me, so I would want to keep on doing what would make the person stay."
Answering the question that many are sure to be asking, she said she doesn't think she 'smells of vagina' because no one has said that she does.
In her own words, Cassy chuckled: "It's supposed to attract a man, and I'm hoping that it will, because if it's not, then I'm just doing 'weird' stuff."
While many unfairly ridiculed Cassy, others were there to support her. However, it seems there's more to the story.
In a follow-up, TMZ spectacularly claimed that she made the whole thing up as a way to find fame and actually bag herself a boyfriend (without the vabbing part).
According to TMZ, Cassy has since uploaded a video to YouTube and then made it private, saying that she'd applied to numerous dating shows but been rejected. After hearing about the trend of vabbing, she seemingly lied to producers about having the addiction.
Admitting that she was drinking heavily and 'generally unhappy' at the time, Cassy explained: "I was really desperate to find a boyfriend. And I thought, if I expose myself, if I put myself on TV, that will increase my chances of finding a relationship."
Cassy says she's gone on several dates following My Strange Addiction, but apparently, she doesn't feel embarrassed about making up her vabbing story because she suffers from alexithymia – a neuropsychological phenomenon referred to as 'emotional blindness'.