A douche is a device used to introduce a stream of water into the body for medical or hygienic reasons, or the stream of water itself. The word comes from the French language, in which its principal meaning is a shower (it is thus a notorious false friend encountered by non-native speakers of English; the phrase for vaginal douching is douche vaginale, meaning vaginal shower). The word can refer to the rinsing of any body cavity but usually applies to vaginal irrigation, rinsing of the va… (More on Douche)