For example:
Yes. People have a very disturbed picture of hygiene of their body in general. The genitals are one of the cleanest things on your body, by far - after a good scrubbing under the shower they get put into a (idealy) freshly washed piece of underwear, until the next shower. Your hands, hands, mouth, face, feet and legs touch so much stuff constantly. Phone screens are the dirtiest surface in your whole aplt, probably. Yet you'd rather lick that than eat a nice ass.
The genitals are one of the cleanest things on your body, by far...
I don't know if I'd go that far. It's not very open to the air (bacterial and fungal dream) and the anus is like right there. After a long sweaty day, shit migrates.
But I don't get the fear when using a towel immediately after a shower.
You are so wrong about my ass eating priorities
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once you fart the bacteria released largely spreads within that undergarment. Your genital areas are much less clean than you think.
Your hands, hands, mouth, face, feet and legs touch so much stuff constantly.
You think my hands touch more than my dick? Pssshhhh!!!! Yeah, ok. Shows what YOU know! Here, hold this........it's my dick.
I'm gonna guess you don't live in a hot country.
Asshole is not clean dude. You fart, if you’re smelling it that is literally poop particles you’re smelling. Your butthole is not clean. Everything else sure.
Yes and no.
What you are actually smelling are mercaptans, specifically methyl mercaptan (aka methanethiol), hydrogen sulfide, and a few other organic compounds.
I think if the average person had fecal-vision they would either have a nervous breakdown at the amount of personal body fluids and materials that coat everything we see and touch, or they would have to get over squeamishness immediately in order to keep functioning.
I promise your phone, right now, has bacteria that are produced in the bowels of a person. It's also on every surface of your bathroom, on your keyboard, shoes and hands and probably everything else.
Your body is constantly seeking equilibrium with your microbiome. You wouldn't want to get rid of that bacteria or you would die.
If you have good hygiene and don't let shit dry in your ass cheeks, those areas are actually more likely to be in equilibrium than other parts of your body, because they don't get sterilized or handle sources of foreign bacteria. Meaning there isn't a harmful imbalance of one kind of bacteria versus another.
It's very easy to test. You take a swab of your ass, your hands and your mouth and let it grow. Can you guess what petri dish is more likely to look like the opening credits to The Last of Us?
There's this youtube video where a lady checks the bacterial density that accumulates on a towel as it is used for several days in a row: https://youtu.be/4NWxU5RIUnI
TL;DR is that it's completely fine for the first 9 days or so
Given we learned way too many men think it’s gay to wipe your butt after popping
I very much doubt they’re washing their ass either
"I'd rather have an itchy asshole, skid marks, and a smelly ass than BE GAY, that's worse than any of those things!!" and then they wonder why they're single 90% of the time and if they ever get a woman it's from an arranged marriage.
We did? I thought it was like one social media post meme floating around.
This is unfortunately is a very real thing you can encounter while just dating random dudes
If it was fake so many women wouldn’t have personal experience with this
Like I said I’ve only ever seen the meme mention this. You’re the first person I’ve ever seen say this directly.
But if that’s your experience, that’s your experience. Im still trying to get used to the idea that some people apply bars of soap directly to their body instead of making a lather.
As a former massage therapist (not “masseuse”)… I’ve encountered dozens of men who would show up with a dirty ass. Skid marks when they get up off the table. WTF. Got expensive throwing sheets out.
Lmao wtaf
Jesus mary fucking llamas, I can't imagine getting naked in front of a massager, much less being unclean in front of one.
Well, we do make sure to drape with sheets so we never see your bathing suit area. We aren’t in the room when you get undressed and under the sheet. And lots of people leave their underwear on. Somehow the dirty butt ones almost never do though 🤷♀️
Besides myself I’ve met plenty of women who dated or were still dating men who don’t wipe their ass. It ranges from not wiping at all to barely wiping
And no, none of them had good high fiber diets or I wouldn’t have heard the stories to begin with
Wait.....I'm a guy. I wipe my ass. Am I supposed to be not wiping my ass? Is that a womens thing? Like crying at movies and drinking tasty mixed drinks, uh, I mean fruity mixed drinks?
Ok. Fine. I'll stop wiping. Maybe that's why I'm single. Women think I'm gay because my pants lack brown streaks.
I make the lather with the bar of soap. I rub it on me until I get the lather going. Then I stick the bar inside my butthole until I get a lather in there.
I poop bubbles, bitch!
I'm still trying to understand why you need a cloth or luffa to wash your body.
There are 8 billion folks on the earth, and half are guys. I'm sure there are a few who have that thought, but it's just like anything else: numbers make a mockery of all/none or even most/some claims.
The part about it being gay is also just for trolling/stupid dunking purposes. I would bet that if you got the people you were asking the question of to read a few books and learn to express themselves, you'd find that most people don't scrub their asshole because it's generally seen as dirty and contaminated, so they limit themselves to using the toilet paper, thereby not contaminating their hand or wash cloth in the shower. Nothing to do with thoughts of it being gay or not.
Is this why circumcisions are so common?
Because it's gay to pull back your foreskin when pissing?
if you have skid marks on your towel, you either need to wipe better or have constipation.
Or should find a new place to buy your towels.
Or stop leaving them out when guests come over. And also, get new friends.
I mean regardless of cleanliness I think most people would consider licking a finger they've scratched their butt with less preferable than licking any other finger even after having a very thorough shower.
Perfectly cleaned with soap does not equal sterile. I don't want e. coli in my eye.
(Lil ETA. You also think people who recommend those with a vulva wipe back to front even when peeing to avoid a UTI are all gross? No, e. coli is there even if you're fully clean.)
There is an order of operations that does not start with your rectum...
You use a different towel every day?
Ah, yeah. I do and was blind to the reuse of towels for a period.
We also have a towel rack that I installed which has temperature over 155F, that may be a solution for folks who reuse them to fend off bacteria between swaps. However, it is probably more of a value \utilitarian proposition to spend the $100+ on more towels and detergent...
This towel doesn't account for something like 90% of your body surface x)
My routine:
Similar:
Steps 1 and 3 are only needed every other day.
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