Women’s health doctor has stark warning for over Wicker movie bedroom trend
We’re just weeks away from Wicker being released, but a women’s health expert is warning against trying the movie’s raunchy on-screen antics at home.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, there’s no doubt you’ll have seen clips from the very unique upcoming film all over social media.
Directed by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson and based on the short story The Wicker Husband by Ursula Wills-Jones, it stars Olivia Colman as an ostracized fisherwoman who commissions the local basketmaker (Peter Dinklage) to weave her a husband.
She ends up with, you guessed it, a wicker lover, played by Alexander Skarsgård, who proves to be ‘unexpectedly extraordinary,’ and his presence ignites jealousy and upheaval that threatens their quiet village.
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If the trailer is anything to go by, the fisherwoman is very satisfied with her creation, leading to a scene where their risqué action is so intense that it breaks the bed.
The trailer has resulted in a flurry of hilarious memes about women getting saucy with their own wicker baskets.
The homeware store IKEA even joked that wicker lamps, ottomans, cabinets, and headboards were made of ‘husband material’.
But jokes aside, a doctor has warned that, even if you’ve discovered this is a fetish of yours (we’re not judging), you really shouldn’t be putting anything wicker, ahem, down there.
Dr. Amy Novatt, an OB-GYN at the sexual wellness brand Dame told the New York Post: “Wood can splinter, and plant material harbors bacteria and molds that can cause infection.
“In my career, I have examined women with cuts, tears, infections and injuries from foreign objects, and I have taken some of them to the operating room. Many were simply seeking pleasure and never expected harm.”
Novatt warned that, while the vaginal lining is ‘tolerant and quick to heal, that doesn’t mean you should test its regenerative abilities out’.
Sticking a foreign wicker body inside yourself can disrupt your vagina’s balance in healthy bacteria, pH, and mucus layers.
The women’s health expert urged: “What it was not designed for is receiving trees, shrubs or other plants.”
Before putting anything into your vagina, Novatt says you should make sure it’s smooth, unbreakable, cleanable, and most importantly, retrievable.
The good news is that most sex toys are made with this in mind, so they’re unlikely to cause any harm. A wicker lamp on the other hand, is an entirely different story.
Novatt concluded: “Fantasy is healthy and to be encouraged. Women have always imagined an ideal partner, one who takes care of all our emotional and sexual needs. “My concern begins where fantasy tempts us to act it out literally, at the expense of our health.”
Reacting to the trailer for the movie, which will hit cinemas on 23 October, one fan joked: “I fear I'm the target audience for this,” while a second agreed: “Finally a movie about my type.”
A third penned: “This one is for the monster romance girlies,” and a fourth gushed: “Yes. A thousand times, Yes. I am into the weird movies, long may they reign.”
Topics: Women's Health, Entertainment, Sex and Relationships, TV And Film, Celebrity
Madison Burgess