New York Post

Should you add some sparkle to your sex life?

- — Jenn Hoffman

They say that glitter ends up everywhere.

Passion Dust Intimacy Capsules — pills that release candy-scented sparkles from a woman’s nether region — have gone viral.

According to the product’s Web site (PrettyWoma­nInc.com), the $7 pills should be “inserted . . . at least one hour prior to having sexual intercours­e” to make sex a “magically delicious” experience.

The mad scientist behind the pills, Lola-Butterflie VonKerius, of Houston, has made and sold sparkly cosmetics for years, but it wasn’t until 2015 that she got the idea to make a uniquely personal product.

“I saw a T-shirt that said, ‘I sweat glitter,’ and . . . I thought, ‘I want to sweat glitter, too. What would be a safe way to glitter from the inside?’ ” She started tinkering. “I mixed up a batch [of my homemade glitter lip balm], placed it inside myself and forgot about it — until the next day, when I used the bathroom. I looked down and saw the sparkling everywhere.”

Von-Kerius began testing the product on friends and decided it was safe to sell based on what she calls “experience-based evidence.”

She claims that not one of her clients has ever reported a bad experience with Passion Dust, but doctors remain skeptical.

Canadian gynecologi­st Dr. Jen Gunter publicly denounced the product as “shameful slime” in a blog post. She wrote: “Could [it] be an irritant and cause a vaginal contact dermatitis? Yes and ouch. Think vaginal sunburn!”

To such critics, Von-Kerius points out, “Doctors say ideally nothing would be inserted into the vagina, ever. But we still use condoms, sex toys and lots of crazy flavors and colors of lubricants. This is no different.”

She claims that the ingredient­s of Passion Dust are “nontoxic and FDA-approved.” And that the results are fun. “You can see yourself shine,” she says, “and play with it all day.”

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