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I've noticed that for many, PIPY is a villain, but if he were a villain, what would his crime be? First-degree seduction? Manipulation of desire? A Machiavellian plan to perfume bodies and confuse minds? In the court of public opinion, he has been accused of many things: of feeding insecurities, of smelling of submission, of selling embalmed pleasure, but honestly, that way of seeing him doesn't make sense to me.

If that were the case, I would choose to see a world where all intimate cosmetics are a crime and where any attempt at artificialization – even conscious and informed – must be fought.

The funny thing is that the same people who see him as a villain almost end up placing him on a hero's pedestal, as if he had promised to free women from shame, give them a superpower of instant confidence and turn every date into a cinematic spectacle and I understand, but let's not get things mixed up. We are all grown up enough to know that a bottle could never carry so much power.

PIPY never dreamed of being this kind of savior and these promises were made not by him, but by his opponents, the same ones who prefer to see him as a villain.

In fact, PIPY does not save anyone, nor does it destroy anything.

It's not a feminist manifesto, but it doesn't seem to me to be a capitalist coup either. It's just an intimate haze, like so many others, but it's also much more than that because everything we touch gains layers and meanings.

Above all, I felt that PIPY reinforced our knowledge about vulvar health and opened up the discourse on intimate cosmetics, a sex-positive topic that requires exactly this type of dialogue and information so that people can make safer choices . Or are you going to tell me that you never sprayed perfume on your thighs before that date , or even more relatable, that you never wondered if the other person smelled the same way you did?

PIPY is certainly not the solution, but neither is it the problem... It is neither a hero nor a villain, but there is no doubt that it plays a fundamental role in the story. It is the element that moves the plot, that forces the characters to take positions, that makes them reveal what was already inside them. It does not create insecurities, but it exposes the ones that already exist. It does not solve self-esteem issues, but it puts its finger on them.

No, it is not a feminist revolution, but it is certainly not an enemy of empowerment. It is just a mirror and each person sees in it what they already carry inside themselves. Basically, it is like those “lucky underwear”.

JUST MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE: It didn't give me any itch, in fact, my sexual appetite increased and my confidence at work too.

Perhaps that is the true effect of PIPY: an invitation to feel more like ourselves.

Was PIPY necessary for this? Apparently, yes. The secondary characters exist for this very reason, but the ending is not about them, is it? It is about us.

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