This story originally appeared on Out.There are glute workouts that will give you the round hockey butt of your dreams and butt facials to make your peach silky smooth, but what if you want everything to look perfect when you bend over and spread your cheeks?Anal bleaching is the answer you’re looking for, and it’s probably how your favorite porn star or OnlyFans creator has a picture-perfect asshole. Comparing yourself to an adult film star is a great way to undermine your confidence, but if you’re looking to lighten your anus, borrowing from their playbook and trying anal bleaching could give you the booty of your dreams.But how does anal bleaching work, and just how safe is it? What is anal bleaching?Anal bleaching is an umbrella term for a niche cosmetic service that aims to lighten the skin around the anus and get rid of hyperpigmentation by using medical-grade topical chemicals and can also include laser and chemical peels.“It typically involves using a prescription-strength brightening cream that suppresses melanocytes, the cells responsible for producing pigment,” says Chris Bustamante, an aesthetic nurse practitioner who provides this service at his practice Lushful Aesthetics. “The goal isn't to make the area an unnatural color, it's to create a more even, balanced skin tone.”Registered Nurse Michael Aronwits, who provides anal bleaching services as an aesthetic specialist at Bespoke Surgical, says he uses a “professional depigmenting peel made from a mixture of acids and skin-lightening agents” that works to reduce excess pigmentation “around the anus, between the buttocks, or other intimate areas.”Anal sex and talking about intimate areas is still seen as taboo, which means that there are a lot of misconceptions about anal bleaching, including that the smelly stuff you use to whiten your clothing isn’t the same as the chemicals used for this cosmetic procedure and that while the process starts in the office, part of the treatment