For example:
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
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.
Wool underwear my friend. No more bad smells, comfort for the whole day, leave em to hang and they’re good as new the next day.
[…] leave em to hang and they’re good as new the next day.
No, sir!
once you fart the bacteria released largely spreads within that undergarment. Your genital areas are much less clean than you think.
You are so wrong about my ass eating priorities
Username checks out thoroughly.
🫡
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.
Let me know when my phone starts generating shit, so I can promptly light it on fire. Until then, I’ll be over here making out with it. Come here baby, give me some of that nasty 5G wavelengths. Oh yeah, that always gets me going~ a little tongue in the USB port and 💦
Signed, a gay dude who is basically oral-only because of experiences.
You might want to avoid !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
Was it near X or Facebook/Instagram lately? There is lots of shit on there 🤣
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.
Assumed it’s mostly an Asian thing. Is arranged marriage a thing in the west?
In several parts of the South, yes. Also happens in a few Latin American countries.
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.
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’m sorry if the verified behavior of other men has triggered you
Get well soon
Just out of curiosity what about the response above seems like being triggered?
For me it’s kind of funny joking about toxic masculinity as a coping mechanism for having to live in a society
I’m still trying to understand why you need a cloth or luffa to wash your body.
I think some people really like to remove skin as part of the “cleaning” process
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!
…there is no way thats good for the mucus membrane in your anus…
Haven’t had one of those for years. Washed it clean out. Don’t miss it. Don’t need it.
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.
It’s obviously not gay to wipe your butt but every time you poop is excessive. Unless you have some kind of GI issues, once every ten poops is plenty. Anything more than that is just wasteful
Welcome to Lemmy, Ken M. You’ve been missed.
I hate that I actually can’t tell if this is a joke
That’s why I have a poop counter so I can keep track
Sounds over-engineered, unless your “poop counter” is nine brown smears on the toilet lid.
I make those smears with the poop knife
Poopy knife, happy wife!
Oh shit, I just read diarrhea.
What?
That is some quality mild trolling, the best kind
What.
There is ALWAYS residue, you nasty little bugger, the amount just depends of how much your body absorbed the water from the poop before. Sometimes I have shits that require me to wipe a dozen times or more.
Just seems like a waste of paper to me. I go ten or so poops, then wipe and get up from the toilet. Cleaning while you cook makes sense, cleaning while you poop is odd.
after popping
Gotta pop it out
Popp
Pepp
Is this why circumcisions are so common?
Because it’s gay to pull back your foreskin when pissing?
Pulling back the foreskin makes it way more challenging and uncomfortable to piss. I don’t really discuss the status of my foreskin with anyone, so maybe I’m unexpectedly in the minority, but … What?
Pulling back the foreskin makes it way more challenging and uncomfortable to piss
No it doesn’t?
If it’s uncomfortable to move the foreskin and completely uncover the dick head you might have phimosis AKA the one real reason to get a circumcision
(But of course you shouldn’t just take medical advice from a random internet stranger, if it’s bothering you try talking to a real doctor)
The act of pulling it back isn’t uncomfortable. Peeing while doing so is what is, at least for me, uncomfortable.
I’m still not sure I believe in those people. Sounds made up.
there’s no easy way to tell this but: i met one of them - it came up in conversation somehow. a few days later when we met again he told me how great he feels bow that he properly washes his ass in the shower…
Wait… Wat?
I didn’t get that memo.
weak, I wipe my ass during popping
This user don’t let shit bother them
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.
Why not just start drying top to bottom, and completely avoid the need for the labels?
This helps only if you wash your towel after each shower.
People switch towels after every shower?
I’ve heard of people taking multiple showers a day, but not switching towels after each shower.
If you’re a hairy man living in a humid climate, this can be necessary. We’re entering the rainy season now and I’ve been cycling two towels for a few weeks already. One might be used only for sponging sweat, with no need for a shower
I was proud of myself just for finally washing them weekly regularly
I do have several towels in the rotation each week, though, as my bathroom doesn’t vent moisture super quickly so they can be slow to dry, and sometimes I do shower more than once a day (mostly just in the summer — morning, after doing dirty/sweaty work like woodworking or yardwork, after sports, etc). I run hot and I sweat easily.
But, like, shower and drip dry… there’s not much left to towel off tbh
I wash my towels weekly too. Imo that’s the norm for things like towels and bedsheets, depending on use.
I don’t care that it’s completely freshly clean; a butt is still a butt and has butt germs and I would rather not think about it. I’m gonna do laundry anyway, it’s easier that way.
You’re gonna do a lot more laundry if you wash that many towels.
Eh, I have enough to do towels two-three times a month. I’m okay with that tradeoff.
Nah, it forgot by the time it is dry.
…Do people not wash towels after each shower?
You wash a towel after each use? Do you also wash your pants daily? What a waste of resources.
Edit: Trousers for the smug Brit about to reply.
Do you also wash your pants daily? What a waste of resources.
You don’t have to? What a life of leisure.
I do wash my pants after each wear, if that’s what you mean. Not jeans, because denim breathes, but like khakis and stuff. All of these stretchy clothes with artificial fabrics get real nasty after a single wear.
Edit: Should also add that I at least won’t be the smug Brit that replies because I used the word “khakis” instead of chinos.
Not where I live. I am clean, the towel is clean, and it has a lot of open space to air dry between showers. Wash every 3 or 4 showers just in case the house is more humid than I think to avoid the possibility of mildew if the towel gets bunched up.
When I travel sometimes it is every time if the location is really humid since air drying there doesn’t work very well and they frequently have hooks that don’t let the towel spread out.
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.)
E. Coleye
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…
WTF at a face butt towel… then again who us our president?
You’re drunk.
I like you.
But you’re drunk.
This towel doesn’t account for something like 90% of your body surface x)
Think of it like an XOR or whatever bullshit cimpsci majors would use to describe how either side can wash other stuff that’s not a face or butt
I use my towel in the opposite direction of what’s shown here. Although there shouldn’t be an issue if you’ve cleansed thoroughly (and I do), I personally cannot get past the thought of drying my ass and face with the same exact part of the towel. Luckily, I let my face air dry for skincare purposes.
My routine:
- Quick rinse of everything with just the hot shower water
- Hair shampoo and face wash
- Conditioner so that it can sit until final rinse
- Phase 1 pass of rear with body wash using just my bare hands, washing hands afterwards
- Loofa with body wash over everything aside from face and hair, this includes phase 2 of the rear. Really can go to town back there since phase 1 has been completed
- Final rinse
- Try to get the temperature just right, it’s still too hot when I get in.
- Stand under the water for a couple of minutes to get my bearings, and contemplate my life choices.
- Rub bar of soap vigorously between legs and under arms, hitting chest, arms, and back suggestively.
- Repeat step 2.
- Wash face, neck, and ears with wash cloth.
- Wash hair. If it’s short, use bar of soap. If it’s long, use shampoo.
- Shave, using bar of soap.
- Step 2, again.
~15 minutes to here, depending on how I’m feeling about myself.
- Get out and dry off with the towel that is only used for drying off after a shower, but hasn’t been washed in at least a month.
- Comb hair, brush teeth, swab ears, and put on antiperspirant.
Similar:
- Shampoo then conditioner (no rinse yet)
- Wash, in order: pits, crotch, feet
- Rinse conditioner
Steps 1 and 3 are only needed every other day.
Beating off not numbered?
No, why would it be? Water is the anti-lubricant
I’m guessing you’re circumcised something
It’s just the truth, water washes away lubrication. I would be interested to know how thats different for uncircumcised individuals though.
You don’t need lube if you’re not cut. Jerking it in the shower is no problem
You just maintain. Are you new to the gooning scene or something? Shower is like your rest time.
Conditioner?
Man the fuck up.Well, one of us is getting their hair pulled in bed tonight, then softly stroked and twirled around the lover’s fingers…
and I don’t think it’s you.
I’m just kidding around.
But you’re right. I’m away from my wife atm, so not me.OOoooooh, aight. Well, in that case, let me give you some advice I got from my 15 year old friend when I was 13: conditioner is dangerous, shampoo will do.
Ok bud. Whatever that means, you do you.
you do you
I always do. It’s why this is so sad.
Tell me why you’re sad. Maybe I can help.
Smart to put the Butt label on the brown half.
And when you can’t read “Butt” anymore it’s time to wash the towel
Black socks never get dirty
Wash cloths exist for a reason.
I have never figured out their utility.
If I wash my butthole with my finger I can just wash off my finger.
If I used a washcloth I’d have to put it in the washing machine and use a fresh washcloth every shower.
Nah you’re essentially washing the washcloth every time if you load it up with soap before using it, which is what I do. I usually switch it when I switch towels, which is like every three or four showers.
Edit: oh and the utility is that they scrub better than your fingers…
Thanks for the explanation!
Brooklyn 99, the one grey towel:
It’s a joke. I guess someone needed to tell you but: It’s a joke.
What’s a joke? This post, or the towel in question?
the towel
