For example:
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.
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.
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.
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.
once you fart the bacteria released largely spreads within that undergarment. Your genital areas are much less clean than you think.
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!
You are so wrong about my ass eating priorities
Username checks out thoroughly.
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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 🤣
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.
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?
No clue what the last of us looks like but you’re literally making my point for me. No part of your body is clean, arguing a fucking butthole is clean is absolutely insane and is in no way scientifically accurate. Yes, there is bacteria everywhere. There are poop particles everywhere. Ergo, there is poop everywhere. How the hell is poop getting everywhere if your fucking BUTTHOLE IS CLEAN???
Yes and no.
What you are actually smelling are mercaptans, specifically methyl mercaptan (aka methanethiol), hydrogen sulfide, and a few other organic compounds.
They are particles that came out of your ass. It’s not like you just magically smell fart when someone rips without something traveling from their butthole to your nose.
Edit: How in the world am I being downvoted for something that is unequivocally true. Mercaptans are particles. They come out of your ass.
Organic molecules aren’t dangerous or infectious in any way. They might have smells but they are chemically identical to other sources of the same particles.
If particles bother you, you are gonna have a hard time.
You’re getting downvoted because you’re trying to make a somewhat scientific argument about a thing that is completely a subjective feeling of disgust. It’s totally valid and honest to say you have that feeling, we all have irrational feelings about things. But many of our problems in the world come from people trying to write stories to explain their irrational feelings rather than shrugging and saying “It’s just how I feel, I know it doesn’t make sense.”
I didn’t say they were dangerously or infectious, where the hell did you read that? I said there’s clearly stuff coming out of your butthole all the time, it’s not a clean location, no matter how much you clean it. Acting like putting some soap on it means it’s clean in an hour is completely disingenuous and scientifically inaccurate. And the example I gave was of one single thing coming out. If one thing is coming out then more is as well.
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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
Is this why circumcisions are so common?
Because it’s gay to pull back your foreskin when pissing?
“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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Jesus mary fucking llamas, I can’t imagine getting naked in front of a massager, much less being unclean in front of one.
Lmao wtaf
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 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.
after popping
Gotta pop it out
Popp
Pepp
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!
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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 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.
No… that would be insane. Do you wash hand towels after washing your hands each time? Both things are incredibly wasteful and completely unnecessary.
I mostly let my hands air dry when I wash them, just shake 'em out real good and it only takes a few seconds.
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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
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.
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…
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?
Certain parts like your feet can have fungus diseases, even if not visible. They do not simply wash off and you don’t want transferring those to your face or other parts.
A single towel is fine if you just had a shower, just dry yourself top to bottom and wash the towel.
But if you’re only washing your feet you don’t want to use the same towel that you will use to wipe your face.
Anyway, that’s what I was taught.
Would women find me more handsome if I had an athlete’s face?
Depends whether you get the Ronaldo foot fungus or the Rooney kind.
Translation into American: the Tom Brady hindpaw gunk or the Larry Bird stuff.
Can someone post photos for reference?
They’d think you’re a fun guy.
Brooklyn 99, the one grey towel:
