• TheTiltster@feddit.org
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    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.

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    There are two camps on this one, both have valid points:

    1. 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
    2. 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
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      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?

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      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.

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    5 days ago

    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.

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    Comparative illustration of women drying themselves versus men. The woman uses separate towels for bum, hair, and face, whereas the man comically uses one for everything, starting with his bum to genitals, to face.

    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.

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      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.

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          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.

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      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.

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    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.

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    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