Last year, she didn’t know a clitoris from a vulva. Now, Gwynnie’s all clued up on the female anatomy – and diving deep into the nitty-gritty of intimacy and orgasms. Result!

Released on Netflix last year, The Goop Lab was Gwyneth Paltrow’s first foray into “factual” television. Amid endless talk of energy fields and snowga (yoga, in the snow), there was one must-watch moment: when Gwynnie, the undisputed leader of women’s wellness culture and pelvic steaming advocate, realised she didn’t actually know what a vagina was. Yes, the purveyor of jade eggs for your jacksie thought that it was “the whole thing”. It took stalwart second-wave feminist Betty Dodson to explain. Unable to bear Paltrow’s wafty California-style talk about the holy of holies, she leaned forward and said in her unmistakeable New York rasp: “The vagina is the birth canal only. Ya wanna talk about the vulva – that’s the clitoris, the inner lips and all that good shit around it.” Our princess of the steamed pudenda was visibly shocked.

Now comes another Netflix venture, Sex, Love and Goop (not a title I would have gone with, given that the goop is very much the worst part of sex, but we shall not dwell). It does not reference the Dodson moment, but it is nice to imagine that it prompted Paltrow to perform what we probably should not refer to as a “deep dive” into the area. In any case, she is passing on her newfound knowledge to couples with sex and intimacy issues, bringing with her the experts she found along the labial way.

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Source: The Guardian