This is such an american question.
It’s after a shower. At that point your balls should be as clean as your face, or you’re doing it wrong.
This is the type of Q&A that makes the internet so important
Submitted 20 hours ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago
LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
You would be shocked how bad most people are at cleaning themselves. They think just being under running water is enough or only wash upper with soap and the “rest runs down and gets washed”
Been washing my balls n ass since junior high and guys would look at me like I’m insane when i mentioned i shampoo downstairs, is how i came to find out most of them don’t even do basic soap let alone scrub down there
Redex68@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Yeah, I use shampoo on my balls, ass, front, armpits and hair. Back is a pain so I don’t and I pretend the arms and legs don’t exist cuz I can’t be bothered.
visnudeva@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
Exactly
ewigkaiwelo@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
There are two camps on this one, both have valid points:
- different bacteria live on different parts of the body, makes sense to use different towels for different parts of the body that don’t come into contact much
- if when you leave the shower you feel that you can’t use one towel for the whole body you should go back to the shower
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 16 hours ago
Counterpoint to 1: Your microbiome is massive. You are constantly emitting bacteria. It surrounds you in a cloud like Pig Pen from the Peanuts comics. The reason you have different bacteria on your face and balls is not because they can’t get from one place to the other; it is because they can’t survive/compete there.
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
|why doesn’t my face smell like pussy yet?|
You aren’t eating enough pussy. Everyone should eat more pussy. Pussy is fucking delicious.
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
What about the bacteria in the towel?
If you are using certain sections of a towel specifically for certain body parts, you dont know what germ theory is.
Routhinator@startrek.website 5 hours ago
You just got out of a shower. If you washed well, what’s it matter?
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I hope my balls are clean after I shower.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
this, if anyone os worried about the hygiene of towels, that means they aren’t confident on their shower.
if you’re clean it doesn’t matter if your dry yer anus first.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I have always used the same towel for everything but I do realize now that I pick the towel off the rack and place it over my head the same way, making it so my head gets dried with the “top” of the towel legs with the bottom, and it gets put back on the rod the same direction. So it is possible the ball section of the towel never touches my face, that said… I wouldnt be worried about it anyways. I’m not exactly scared of balls, and they aren’t naturally acidic and even a vaginas acidity (~tomato) level, isn’t dangerous for our skin.
hOrni@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I also wipe my asshole with that same towel. No particular order. I’m coming out of the shower clean so what does it matter.
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I eat my fiancée’s ass like she’s hiding crack up there so I genuinely do not care.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I assume you do, in fact, encounter crack at that point.
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Yes, I suppose you’re right.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
Yeah I’m not using a different towel. I’ve just come out of a shower where I’ve scrubbed myself clean.
TIN@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
These threads are always such a fascinating voyage of discovery
Mickey7@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Any time I think I’m mentally fucked up, and for sure I am, I see stuff that at least makes me feel better about myself.
BunScientist@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
I find this question a little weird, the same thing can apply to women
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Do women dry their balls first or last?
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
They always dry their ovaries first.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
Touching your balls is gay.
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I had a 9th grade student who didn’t believe that men washed their own asses because it was gay. Yes, he was retarded, but in that behavior classroom kind of way.
We, the students and I, could not convince him otherwise.
FatVegan@leminal.space 12 hours ago
Hah, i worked for the military and had to supervise 60-70 guys from 20 to 40 years old. For some reasons bidets came up and the fact that i have one. They thought it was super weird. I said that i’d find it weird if you accidentally touched some poo, clean it off with a piece of paper and then call it a day until you take a shower.
The big takeaway was that no one washed their ass in the shower ever because that’s gay. Man, i too wonder why no one gives them blowjobs.
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
Washing your ass is also gay.
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
You lost, Reddit boy?
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 10 hours ago
Of course not! I lick it clean first!
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I’m in the 'new towel every day" club.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
More people would upvote this but theyre still doing laundry
Godnroc@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Every towel I have ever used has a tag on it, that’s the crotch end, dry your face with the other end.
nuko147@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Hmm… Two towels? One for body, one for head (hair and face).
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
Do you use one towel or a fresh towel everyday.
I have a fresh towel everyday. My current partner thinks I am absolutely insane for this. A 6 pack of basic decent bath towels is $35 shipped online. My partner came from a more affluent family than me and makes more money than me but I still think this is worth spending $35 on once every like 5-7 years until the towels wear out.
Their argument is that you come out of the shower clean but that’s not really true. You come out less dirty still with bacteria, skin mites, dead skin cells, fungi, etc that get transferred to that towel. It’s probably fine to reuse it for a few days assuming the towel dries in between uses (which it may not, given the humid environment of a bathroom, especially if shared), that you don’t have weird situations going on (athletes foot, bacterial acne, etc), and that you’re not sharing it. But why bother when again a weeks worth of towels is like $40 and slightly more laundry. Yuck
Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk 19 hours ago
I think you have a humidity problem if your bathroom is humid all the time.
BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
You’re forgetting the cost of an extra laundry load for those towels each week.
Fresh towel already has bacteria and fungi on it before you dry yourself with it.
Scrawny@reddthat.com 16 hours ago
Do you change your sheets every day? It’s your own bacteria anyway. As long as you’re not sharing the towel it’s fine for multiple days. A fresh one is just wasting time and water on laundry.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
You need to air out your bathroom more or get a dehumidifier if yours is constantly humid. If your towels dont dry I wonder how you dont have mold growing on the walls.
bryndos@fedia.io 19 hours ago
Do you use a fresh dishcloth/kitchen sponge every time you wash up?
re: mythbusters ep 135.They didn't test towel unfortunately unless there was a follow up that i cant remember.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I cycle the kitchen towel every few days (sooner if there’s a spill). I replace the sponge twice a month because I haven’t found a sponge at any price that doesn’t completely fail apart and look gross after doing dishes for two weeks or so.
I’m raising a child, so it’s probably a little more intense for me.
LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I use a towel twice. Once then hang to dry use again then done. I find if i try to hang to dry again it either doesn’t quite dry by the next day or just has a kinda bleh texture i don’t enjoy, not soft anymore. So 2 uses it is
Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
It’s probably fine to reuse it for a few days
My dude, hardly anyone uses a new towel every day. Its much more than “probably” fine. Its perfectly fine.
Is affluence the cause of germophobia because their parents convinced them frivolous luxury was actually important for staying healthy?
Don’t get me wrong, enjoy your fresh towels! That’s nice. That’s a luxury. Luxuries are nice. But don’t fool yourself into believing that you’re any healthier for not using the same towels twice.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 18 hours ago
The trick is to put on your bathrobe, do other things, and when you’re dry, manually dry the parts that weren’t covered by the bathrobe. Maybe in the meantime I can do something else, which is more efficient.
smh@slrpnk.net 18 hours ago
Luxury is drying the your folds with a blow dryer in winter.
mika_mika@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Winter? This is how I do it year round. My blow drier is not for my hair (it’s long and takes forever to dry but I don’t want to damage it with heat) it is for my balls, ass and feet.
Uri@infosec.pub 12 hours ago
Thats a 4chan question?
TisI@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
I use 4 towels. Hair, face, body, and genitals. And for those saying you should be clean, that’s all fine for yourself, but would you let your mother kiss your face when you know you wiped it after your ass? Yeah, no thanks.
MBech@feddit.dk 15 hours ago
Yes? You’re clean, wtf?
glitch@lemy.lol 13 hours ago
He apparently doesn’t know how to shower.
LucidNightmare@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
HowAbt2day@futurology.today 16 hours ago
Who wets their face in the shower?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
WTF? Who DOESNT?
Duranie@leminal.space 16 hours ago
I tend to wash my face separately from showering, and also avoid directly spraying water in my face because some lizard part of my nervous system thinks I’m waterboarding myself.
That said, there’s generally enough random drippage and mist during a shower to require I dry my face.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
You shower fucking properly so that it doesn’t matter wtf
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Correct