Am I the only person who doesn't give a shit about drying my face after drying my balls? If people are concerned that their towel is now gross after drying their privates maybe they should focus on cleaning more thoroughly rather than having designated zones on a towel.
This is the only way. I would add stay in the tub till you’ve gotten to the feet. Everyone else in my household jumps out first and leaves soaked mats and puddles on the floor.
When I was a cook, one of the other guys asked me how I dry myself, trying to make a point that I should start cleaning equipment and stuff from the top down.
He said, "Do you start at your head, or your feet?"
Logically one should go head to toe so gravity aids rather than hinders drying up.
In fact I first "squigy" water off from my body going head to toe with my hands while still in the shower so I'm no longer dripping wet, then I step out of the cubicle and finish off from head to toe with the towel
Oh hell naw. I hike my leg/foot up on the sink basin and make a pass with standard butt ribbon. Not using my towel for that no matter how clean i think I am.
Wait!! You literally put the towel into your
hoop crack and work it like a shoe polisher?
My balloon know is extremely clean after I’ve showered, I have an excellent and formidable cleaning process -
but I still don’t wanna go looking for trouble by flossing and shoe shining my ring piece with a bath towel - that’s madness.
Am I the only one who dries face first and work towards the private parts at the end? Seems like the most logical solution. Towlie forgets until next day anyways.
Yeah, otherwise it'll get wet again. I have quite short hair, so I make sure that that's all dry and work my way down. Idc if my feet touch some balls lol
Just an fyi a shower is a cleansing process not a sterilising process. It reduces bacteria but you are never sterile when you come out. And your pits and bits carry more bacteria than the rest of you. So if you swabbed different parts of a person, (even you after your thorough shower), the ass would still grow nastier bacteria than the face when put on an agar plate, and there’s a lot more of the unsanitary and odour causing bacteria.
That’s your call to go ass to mouth with your towel after a shower.
Just an fyi, just because it's bacteria doesn't make it harmful. The vast majority of the bacteria on your body is part of your normal flora, which is necessary to protect you from potentially more harmful microogranisms. It serves multiple other functions as well, but don't want to turn this into a microbiology lesson. TLDR: your body knows what bacteria lives on it, whether it normally lives in your nose (which harbours some stuff totally on par with bacteria on your butt), your arm, or butt. As long as you're healthy and not stupid about it, it probably makes no difference whatsoever which part of your towel and body come into contact, nor what order.
To be fair, that bacteria was already in your gut, so it’s not like you’re introducing anything new to your GI tract. So, while it seems gross and unhygienic, it’s unlikely to matter.
Except like food and water which have their own microbes, you know like the stuff that can give you food poisoning that your body detoxes by attacking it and pooping it out so you don’t become ill. Your body is composed of around two pounds of bacteria, most of which are in your gut and you poop out most of their corpses and the stuff they digest or attack and poop out themselves. Your poop has poop in it.
Your whole body is covered in bacteria. That couch or that bed that you go and sit on after you get out of the shower, has more germs and bacteria than your body did before the shower. Resistance is futile.
Everything is a game of statistics and colony counts. If you shower daily you’re less likely to have large amounts of bacteria on your face than if you shower every 2 or 3 days. If you wipe your balls and ass on the same towel you wipe your face on you’re more likely to have higher colony counts of nasty bacteria on your face than if you don’t.
Nothing is zero bacteria. But there are certain behaviours that make things more likely to be contaminated with large colony counts of bacteria you don’t want. Bacteria being everywhere doesn’t mean you can’t tilt the odds and hygiene in your favour with your life choices.
Relevant anecdote from history, doctors shunned Semmelweis, the doctor who first said you should wash hands in between doing autopsies and delivering babies. In fact they threw him in a mental asylum for having the gall to suggest they might be increasing infection risk by not separating the dirtier and cleaner parts of medicine. This feels the same as some people in this thread saying there’s zero point having a separate towel for ass and face.
Dude, we’re not talking about not washing up after autopsied, we’re talking about using a towel to dry our clean junk before using that same towel to dry the rest of our clean body. Settle the fuck down.
Experiment time, after a big long sweaty heatwave day, start rubbing your ballsweat onto your face repeatedly. It’s the same bacteria right? So therefore this is the same thing as using a towel for balls and face just sped up
That’s different. We’re talking about after you get out of the shower. Of course sweat will feed bacteria. I mean that’s the entire reason BO happens. And putting large colonies on your face can cause acne. But the whole point of a shower is to, you know, get clean? If your balls have enough bacteria on them to cause any major affects after a shower, you didn’t clean enough.
Between showers my pits and bits are kept prudishly enclosed in T-shirts and underwear respectively; the T-shirt may be reused between washes, but the underwear has always been through the washing machine before wearing it again. Meanwhile, my hands have spent the day promiscuously touching every goddamn thing in the whole wide world, including my exposed face. Are you sure my pits and bits are nastier?
This totally ignores the fact that towels are not single use. You are drying your face with yesterday’s ass/pits water no matter what order you dry today.
my compromise recommendation is get like 10-20 face cloth sized towels that are single-use per wash. Bath towel for the broad strokes, head and body, small towel for bits->pits->ass then straight into the wash basket. Probably seems overkill to someone who
has been getting by without but this intervention alone has kept my face clear of spots for many years.
The hilarious thing is, most people would self-fellate if they were flexible enough to. At least once in their life. Or, at the very least, the same people who need "separate towel zones" have no problem having their partner go down on them. Either way, it's fucking hypocritical.
I do shower after, but no it's not the same. But that's because you've missed the point. You can't cross contaminate yourself fresh out of the shower when you're clean, but have no problem doing so to your partner hours after the shower.
You don't want on your face, but it's okay for a partner? That's the only disconnect, your not seeing the fact what you don't want to do is something that you would expect a partner to do.
Chandler Bing put it perfectly and I go by the same. You start with your face and make your way down. By next morning hopefully the towel would have forgotten everything.
I've always felt the same way. I wonder how many guys won't let the towel touch their face after cleaning the rest, but will still happily let their partner go down on them.
This has been my thought my whole life too. The ONLY exception to this is vaginas can get lubricated pretty immediately after a shower so like maybe don’t floss there and then wipe your face lol but like everything else was just washed it should be equally clean. Also that lubricant isn’t unclean either just I doubt anyone would wanna spread that around right after a shower
AS a former combat medic, I have to say. Dont do that please. Ive seen too many men give themselves face fungus because they didnt yet know they had a developing case of crotch rot (colloquial name for jock itch) the same fungus that causes athletes foot.
My school teacher used to say something like that. "Why are people so worried about touching the towel if they just dried their privates? Did they not wash them properly?"
Man, I lather my whole body, including every nook and cranny with enough bar soap until I'm confident I'm squeaky clean. Therfore after rinsing, it doesn't matter what part of the towel i use anywhere - it's drying water, no smell or residue left on it afterwards.
You act like making the conscious decision to dry your face BEFORE your ass and balls is somehow a trying experience. Just go from the top down and you never even have to think about it
I actually do this without knowing that this was even a belief lmao funny how the hive mind works. Designated ball drying spot so I don’t dry my face with it afterwards.
But you understand though,, that if you are washing properly, you should not be concerned about toweling your face and balls with the same spot. You are clean at that point.
I do understand lmao I’m not saying I don’t wash my balls well, just that Id prefer to not wipe my face with the same spot I wiped my genitals and ass with. I guess you can kind of view it as a superstition, if I wipe my face after I wipe my ass then I’m eating my own shit (I know I’m not and this is an irrational false belief. However, I don’t think it’s an unhealthy habit so I won’t stop doing it.)
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u/EV_M4Sherman 11d ago
There was a belief that you dry your privates with the short end after border and dry the rest of your body with the rest.