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
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.
If you’re still hung up about your own towel, have you ever considered the implications of oral sex? How is it too whatever to intermingle your own bacteria upon yourself, but it’s perfectly acceptable to subject your partner to an even more invasive bacterial exchange. And if even that extent of biome crossover was sufficiently meaningful, why doesn’t my face smell like pussy yet?
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
Instead of showering I just roll around in garbage, it fortifies the skin against bees and keeps dangerous people away. It keeps all other kinds of people away too which is a nice bonus.
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.
Shampoo is specialized detergent in solution, you can just use regular soap if you don't care about damaging the hairs. Also, hot take, most shampoos aren't worth it in the first place over bar soap if you have short hair.
Now if you do want your pubes and ass hairs conditioned that's another thing but you also need to be using conditioner for curly hair the structure of the follicles is different.
It's generally recommended not to clean your hair too often with shampoo anyways I think. Some people substitute the shampoo, with only conditioner sometimes.
Interesting, didn't know those details, I'll try it out with just a bar of soap, but I did find that I enjoy e.g. the feeling of my hair when I use my current shampoo (Head & Shoulders) instead of some others, and I feel like it'd be significantly easier to spread with a liquid shampoo rather than a bar of soap.
Umh...I usually take showers to get clean. So, when I´m done showering (read: when I have successfully finished the task of cleaning my whole body), I use a towel to dry my now clean body. Since my whole body is clean now, I do not distinct between single body parts, because, as previously mentioned, they are all equally clean now.
I am under the assumption that if I am clean, then the drying towel will be clean, I wash it after a while, but if it gets dirty, its because I need to shower better.
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.
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.
It's my balls! They're the ones that are gay randy, not me.
Hey, Gay Randy sounds like a fun cabaret act. Or maybe like a reverse drag queen act, like a women dressing as a man? Would that be funny? Not as funny as a drag queen, probably.
MAGAs might still hate it, and that's always funny.
Last night I noticed my thighs rubbing the side of my balls gently as I went back upstairs to go to bed. Silly gay thighs flirting with the randy gay balls.
I've lost 90 pounds (thank you, thank you), and noticed the other day that my thighs weren't rubbing together for the first time in many years. It seems that losing weight has made my groinal region less gay.
You dry your balls first, then your ass. Then, you get in the shower. After the shower, you use the same towel again to re-apply your musk. Women love it.
Additional advantage: using separate towels makes each one less wet, therefore they dry faster. In terms of hygiene I bet mold is significantly worse than using only one towel.
and you leave it hanging in the bathroom until next time you use it, ever done research on how much shit.. both literal and metaphorical, gets launched into the air every time you flush?
a closed lid reduces, but does not entirely prevent it, either.
Ehhh all of my clean towels hang too because my bathroom is so small the sink is in the hallway, and I don't have space for another dresser in my bedroom. Something something old house problems. I can worry about cleanliness of towels in the next house in 1-10 years
The butt is the dirtiest part of the body so I usually just remove yesterdays towel from my ass and then insert today's towel right up there while shaking like a dog to air dry
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
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.
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.
I'm not like a sponge connoisseur, but I've been using "O-Cedar Scrunge" sponges for about a year and they're pretty rugged. I have two sponges in rotation, and every time I do a dishwasher load I alternate them through it. They've never really fallen apart on me, but I think the green scratchy side gets a little less scratchy over time, and I just replace both of them every 2-3 months for good measure. I'm assuming that there's a scientific paper somewhere that says using sponges for that long will kill me or something, but I'm still alive so far so fingers crossed.
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.
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.
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
To avoid using the same are for my butthole before my face, I always use the left side of the towel on my upper body and the right side on my lower body. I always keep the left side on the left so I can keep track.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I do wash them with soap and water thoroughly and well and am clean shaven. I still don't think they're clean enough compared to exposed skin like arms or legs.
You shower fucking properly so that it doesn't matter wtf
Correct
There are two camps on this one, both have valid points:
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.
If you’re still hung up about your own towel, have you ever considered the implications of oral sex? How is it too whatever to intermingle your own bacteria upon yourself, but it’s perfectly acceptable to subject your partner to an even more invasive bacterial exchange. And if even that extent of biome crossover was sufficiently meaningful, why doesn’t my face smell like pussy yet?
|why doesn’t my face smell like pussy yet?|
You aren't eating enough pussy. Everyone should eat more pussy. Pussy is fucking delicious.
Um, there is no pussy eating on grindr.
Get yourself a nice trans boy.
Clearly everyone should also suck more dick. Or at least increase the amount of oral sex they engage in.
Quite right. Mmm tasty gock 🤤
My cat would disagree lol. She is such a sweet fluff ball.
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.
Counterpoint to 2: I'm just paranoid
You never leave your shower?🥺
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.
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
Shampoo’s not for body hair. You’re better off with body wash or regular soap.
Idk it works pretty great on my pubic hair, makes it much softer. I'm not over here using it on like my arms legs etc but my bush appreciates it
Instead of showering I just roll around in garbage, it fortifies the skin against bees and keeps dangerous people away. It keeps all other kinds of people away too which is a nice bonus.
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.
Shampoo is specialized detergent in solution, you can just use regular soap if you don't care about damaging the hairs. Also, hot take, most shampoos aren't worth it in the first place over bar soap if you have short hair.
Now if you do want your pubes and ass hairs conditioned that's another thing but you also need to be using conditioner for curly hair the structure of the follicles is different.
It's generally recommended not to clean your hair too often with shampoo anyways I think. Some people substitute the shampoo, with only conditioner sometimes.
Interesting, didn't know those details, I'll try it out with just a bar of soap, but I did find that I enjoy e.g. the feeling of my hair when I use my current shampoo (Head & Shoulders) instead of some others, and I feel like it'd be significantly easier to spread with a liquid shampoo rather than a bar of soap.
You should get one of those Japanese exfoliating washcloths. They’re long enough to get your back easily.
Exactly
Umh...I usually take showers to get clean. So, when I´m done showering (read: when I have successfully finished the task of cleaning my whole body), I use a towel to dry my now clean body. Since my whole body is clean now, I do not distinct between single body parts, because, as previously mentioned, they are all equally clean now.
Hey everybody! This guy touches his butt!
Butt toucher! Butt toucher!
This. And I use more soap on my ass and balls than about anywhere else on my body JUST TO BE EXTRA CLEAN.
But now your chest is less clean and you will end up re-dirtying the EXTRA CLEAN areas.
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The links certainly work.
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Then the second url gives an internal server error (500).
The other links work.
Perfect Dilbert reference, friend. Lol
I just wish Adams hadn't gone bananas
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.
I hope my balls are clean after I shower.
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.
Ok, but also no, because how many times are you going to use a "clean" towel to dry off? I usually use it twice then wash it.
I am under the assumption that if I am clean, then the drying towel will be clean, I wash it after a while, but if it gets dirty, its because I need to shower better.
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.
I eat my fiancée's ass like she's hiding crack up there so I genuinely do not care.
I assume you do, in fact, encounter crack at that point.
Yes, I suppose you're right.
Indeed, hiding crack in the crack of her crack
You just got out of a shower. If you washed well, what's it matter?
Touching your balls is gay.
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.
Maybe they're worried that if they prod around there with a soapy finger they'll throw a boner in front of their friends.
Washing your ass is also gay.
Just thinking about it is gay.
All day one of your balls is touching another one of your balls. If your balls are gay, you're as gay as they come.
Oh Gawd, my balls are having gay sex all day!
More like gay foreplay I think. You must be so randy!
It's my balls! They're the ones that are gay randy, not me.
Hey, Gay Randy sounds like a fun cabaret act. Or maybe like a reverse drag queen act, like a women dressing as a man? Would that be funny? Not as funny as a drag queen, probably.
MAGAs might still hate it, and that's always funny.
Last night I noticed my thighs rubbing the side of my balls gently as I went back upstairs to go to bed. Silly gay thighs flirting with the randy gay balls.
I've lost 90 pounds (thank you, thank you), and noticed the other day that my thighs weren't rubbing together for the first time in many years. It seems that losing weight has made my groinal region less gay.
You have done very well indeed! Kudos on the straighter thighs.
You lost, Reddit boy?
I find this question a little weird, the same thing can apply to women
Do women dry their balls first or last?
They always dry their ovaries first.
Yeah I'm not using a different towel. I've just come out of a shower where I've scrubbed myself clean.
Both are clean so what's the problem?
I'm in the 'new towel every day" club.
More people would upvote this but theyre still doing laundry
You dry your balls first, then your ass. Then, you get in the shower. After the shower, you use the same towel again to re-apply your musk. Women love it.
These threads are always such a fascinating voyage of discovery
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.
So, what is so holly with the female genitalia that they have to ask this question?
Their junk is a bigger hazard if anything. My penis ain't leaking blood or mucus most of the time.
I guess it's the whole internal vs. external thing
Ladies, do you have a special towel to dry your ass crack?
Towel has two sides & two ends. Check mate.
Also four sides and four corners. Use this information with wisdom and not foolishness.
The corners are used for cleaning ears
Drying ears, you mean?
Otherwise I fear for the purpose you're going to put those edges to.
The remaining corners can be used for drying, yes
I keep my corners pristine as a sign of arrogance & superiority.
Additional advantage: using separate towels makes each one less wet, therefore they dry faster. In terms of hygiene I bet mold is significantly worse than using only one towel.
Tag side = balls
Non tag side = face
It's not that hard lol
I always put the tag in the top left corner holding it up. Otherwise the same.
No, cause I wash the fucking towel like a civilized human being.
You use a fresh towel every day?
Yes, because I'm not a fucking animal.
That's kinda of wasteful isn't it? Washing a perfectly good towel after a single usage.
If the body was cleaned correctly, you could just air dry and use it like 2 to 3 times.
I use two towels per week, and they never smell bad before I put them for washing.
i'm doing a load of whites once a week regardless, so no, its not wasteful.
Do you shower once a week?
you do realize a washing machine can wash more than one towel at a time.. right?
I see, if you are using the same amount of water regardless, I think that's reasonable
Don't newer washers auto detect the load size? And if so, wouldn't larger load mean more weight, and therefore more energy used?
I mean, when you use a towel to dry off your clean body, does it dirty the towel that much?
and you leave it hanging in the bathroom until next time you use it, ever done research on how much shit.. both literal and metaphorical, gets launched into the air every time you flush?
a closed lid reduces, but does not entirely prevent it, either.
Ehhh all of my clean towels hang too because my bathroom is so small the sink is in the hallway, and I don't have space for another dresser in my bedroom. Something something old house problems. I can worry about cleanliness of towels in the next house in 1-10 years
You really are though
Every towel I have ever used has a tag on it, that's the crotch end, dry your face with the other end.
Wait, you guys don’t dip your balls in isopropyl?
I mean they’re clean AND dry afterwards…
Of course not! I lick it clean first!
One side face and hair, other side body and crotch.
The butt is the dirtiest part of the body so I usually just remove yesterdays towel from my ass and then insert today's towel right up there while shaking like a dog to air dry
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
I think you have a humidity problem if your bathroom is humid all the time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm not like a sponge connoisseur, but I've been using "O-Cedar Scrunge" sponges for about a year and they're pretty rugged. I have two sponges in rotation, and every time I do a dishwasher load I alternate them through it. They've never really fallen apart on me, but I think the green scratchy side gets a little less scratchy over time, and I just replace both of them every 2-3 months for good measure. I'm assuming that there's a scientific paper somewhere that says using sponges for that long will kill me or something, but I'm still alive so far so fingers crossed.
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.
https://youtu.be/4NWxU5RIUnI
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.
And electricity
And my axe!
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
To avoid using the same are for my butthole before my face, I always use the left side of the towel on my upper body and the right side on my lower body. I always keep the left side on the left so I can keep track.
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.
Luxury is drying your folds with a blow dryer in winter.
Your folds?
The bits where skin touches skin. Like in the crotch or under the breasts.
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.
If this isn’t enough to be clean, then I don’t know what is besides magma. Lol
That's a thin sheet of woven asbestos and you know it
Hmm... Two towels? One for body, one for head (hair and face).
Towlie!!??!?
Thats a 4chan question?
Who wets their face in the shower?
WTF? Who DOESNT?
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.
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.
Yes? You're clean, wtf?
He apparently doesn't know how to shower.
Even if I'm clean it's still my ass. Asses could never really be that clean.
They can if you wash them with soap and water.
I do wash them with soap and water thoroughly and well and am clean shaven. I still don't think they're clean enough compared to exposed skin like arms or legs.
That’s fucking stupid.