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.
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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.
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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.
once you fart the bacteria released largely spreads within that undergarment. Your genital areas are much less clean than you think.
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.
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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
"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.
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
What?
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.
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.
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Is this why circumcisions are so common?
Because it's gay to pull back your foreskin when pissing?
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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
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Nah, it forgot by the time it is dry.
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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.
This towel doesn't account for something like 90% of your body surface x)
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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
Smart to put the Butt label on the brown half.
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?
They'd think you're a fun guy.
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.
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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.
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