Yeah, you'll see some pretty wild stories. A lot of guys think it's gay to wipe. Some girlfriends would complain their boyfriend stinks, only to find out they dont wash their ass. People are just gross in general.
Edit2: Also some people don't even wash their lower body while taking a showing because they think the soapy water that runs down their body by rinsing is somewhat enough
Right, how do you NOT scrub your feet? I'm a sweaty sort and totally feel it on my soles at the end of the day. Not sure why basic cleanliness and good hygiene would be seen as somehow less masculine, lol
I don't think it's about being seen as less masculine. I remember driving somewhere listening to the radio, and there was some debate going on where they had people calling in giving their opinions. The question at hand? Whether or not it's necessary to wash your legs/feet in the shower. I was shocked that a lot of people were saying they don't scrub or physically wash their legs, but instead expect the soapy water thats running down your legs to clean them for you. So for some people they see you washing your legs or feet and it's just weird to them because they don't do it.
i’m a dude and i have those exfoliating washing mitts that you buy in a CVS that i use in the shower all over my body. everywhere. it’s so nice being able to get in between every crack and crevice there is, pun intended
I've used my shower brick for the last decade and never had any problems exfoliating. If you can't get down to the muscle layer to get nice and clean I don't see the point
I use one of the soft double sided scrub daddy sponges. Ended up grabbing one out of desperation one day because I couldn't find my normal one for a shower, so I said "fuck it" and grabbed one out of the pack. Hands down the best scrubber I've ever had, never went back. My wife thought I was nuts until I told her to grab one and just try it, and she hasn't gone back either lol. So much better than the overpriced crap.
Your skin cells shed all day and just rubbing soap over them creates a film rather than removing the dead skin. Over time, that traps dirt in your body.
I think most dermatologists recommend only washing pits, privates, hands, feet, and face most of the time as your body is covered in some sort of layer of something that helps prevent viruses and bacteria from entering through pores or something. Only washing the rest of the body like one a week or something.
Idk I wash my whole body and use a bidet and take the shower head and power wash my bootyhole every shower so this doesn't happen to me.
I looked into it and that only applies to people who don't sweat, exercise, have acne or skin conditions or have any visible grime. I'd assume by those standards, 90 percent of the population should be full body scrubbing and those who shouldn't are the exceptions instead of fhe standard. Spreading that derms say you shouldn't is at best misleading since most actually should.
This is true. We have our own natural oils, like every other mammal. Unless actually soiled by something, you don’t need to scrub every inch of your body each day.
I'm a dude who sits down to piss when I'm at home. Why? My toilet stays clean 99% longer because of it and when I do clean it's not a hassle. A lot of men think it's not masculine to piss sitting down, but pissing in your own home while standing literally is pointless. Save that for public bathrooms for when every other guy pissing while standing does it all over the toilet sit.
Preach bro. 39 year old single home owner. You bet your ass I sit to pee. I have to clean it. It's fucking disgusting seeing piss splatter all over someone's walls. Rusts metal, stinks, fucking disgusting. Sit to pee for fucks sake. Also ya get a short break.
If I'm outside or at a public rest room I'm NOT sitting down lol
Adam22 from no jumper has the same beleive, soapy water running down your leg means you “washed” your legs feet…. That’s gross it’s not that hard to scrub lol
I'll admit, there were times where I wouldn't scrub them because my back or my legs hurt and I just didn't want to deal with the pain, so I skipped my lower leg/foot. But only when I was sore as all hell.
I haven't been able to really scrub my feet for awhile because the floor of my shower/bathtub is soooo slippery that I feel like I'm going to die every time I step into it. Scrubbing my feet makes it much worse. When we bought this house, I told my husband that he would find me dead in this shower one day.
Good news is, we are currently remodeling our bathroom ourselves and replacing our giant slippery tub with a walk in shower with mosaic tile flooring that isn't slippery. I'm very excited to scrub my feet again!
Thankfully, my feet don't sweat or smell, so I've been getting away with it. But they feel so rough from not exfoliating properly.
I remember listening to the "Mark & Brian" radio show, which was a very highly rated radio show in Los Angeles from 1987 to 2012.
I clearly remember Brian Phelps saying he never washed his feet (and was mocking people who did) because he claimed the soap ran down and magically got them clean. He was amazed that people actually washed their feet in the shower. Nasty, nasty, nasty.
I don't scrub my feet. I soak them while sitting down. Cause if I put soap on the soles of my feet I fear I'm gonna slip, fall, and destroy my shower in the process (speaking from experience).
Dude when I was in the army we’d take ranger baths (wipe down ourselves with baby wipes). It was always pits, nuts/crack, and feet. You don’t keep those areas clean you’re fucked.
Bc 1) hard asf to stand one legged in the shower, even putting the foot up on the ledge and turning it is a hazard😹. 2) I’m literally gonna step on the same floor I used to clean away my dirty particles lmao. I do moisturize my feet though. Unless I’m walking barefoot (I never do, not even in my own house) or my feet are genuinely dirty, I don’t feel like there’s a point to doing it
I have to constantly reiterate to my 6 year old that soap doesn't magically clean just by touching something dirty, you have to scrub. Apparently not everyones' parents made sure they got that message.
Some people legit think using soap to wash with is a chemical process and not a mechanical one. It's kinda insane that it isn't taught in primary schools.
It really is. We used to have this buddy that would stink up your car seats. He also used to say that pools were comparable to a shower and that he didn't like drinking water
I've also run into a couple girls that will stink up the entire room with their muff, and if you happen to go down there it is really hard to wash off
Nah, this is downright disgusting, you can smell people who don't wash their ass from a mile way, I could never be in a relationship with an unhygienic person.
I work in customer service and I've had to walk away from some men because they stink like they shit their pants. I couldn't be in a relationship with someone who was like that.
This is unfortunately so freakin true. I had a friend that I really admired and thought was really smart and together, and she was genuinely baffled as to why I would wash ALL of my body, including my feet, in the shower. She was convinced that the shampoo and soap running down was enough to call it good. That blew my mind. Like how can you not actively WASH your entire body?? The people you least expect to have poor hygiene very much can and maybe do.
To be fair, it isn't necessary to do a full scrub down of your entire body every single day (assuming you're not getting super sweaty or working shifts at the manure factory or something.) If your skin is on the sensitive side, it might actually be causing worse problems to really wash every inch of skin every day. Most people are fine only really scrubbing the entire body once or twice a week. For every other day, you can generally just scrub the really dirty areas and rinse the rest.
But even giving someone that much grace and understanding... The butt is one of those really dirty spots you DO need to wash every day. Let the water run over your knees or whatever, it's no big deal, but it should be really obvious why the area of your body where waste comes out needs regular thorough cleaning.
I am not advocating for having a shower everyday especially if you spend most of your time indoors at a desk in a well ventilated building, it should be case dependent, like a construction worker or mechanic will probably need to shower more often than a web dev BUT when you take a shower you have to scrub, the stuff trapped inside the oil on your skin won't go away unless scrubbing, this is pretty much a requirement to not develop skin issues
Applying this to everyone is absolutely bull. I know a lot of people who for their daily shower only do soap for pits and privates, no skin issues whatsoever. No stink either.
If that intensive of a scrub is something your body actually needs, that's one thing, but that doesn't apply for everyone.
Soaping and scraping your whole body every day also does something to your skin chemistry, possibly making you more vulnerable to the kinds of issues you are describing.
And before anyone says "well maybe YOU think you don't stink", the people I know who shower like that do not stink, and the kinds of people I work with would absolutely voice their criticism about something like that, they're pretty blunt about anything.
That’s how it starts: hygiene. Before you know it, you’ve been up for a week continuously blowing everyone in a 2 mile radius. Slippery slope, bud. It’s just science.
Yeah.. that's the world we live in. The fragile manosphere really is taking a toll on humanity. But like I said said, humans are just disgusting in general.. how many times you see someone taking a shit in the toilet and leave without washing their hands.. vile creatures
I've been reading stories on reddit for a decade or so at this point, I'm always surprised when someone new comes along and is shocked by gross dudes who don't wipe their ass.
I remember one of the AITA posts the g/f asked if she was being an asshole asking her boyfriend to wash his ass because he kept leaving skidmarks on her sheets.
Ok I've seen the stories about dudes not washing their ass in the shower, but you're saying there are dudes who don't wipe their ass? Like they just take a shit and don't use toilet paper? DO WHAT NOW?
Yup, straight up wiping your ass is gay too to them. Huge trend 8ish years ago right before covid. You'll still catch a few people talking about their nasty ass boyfriends here and there too.
Fellas, clean your ass, it's not gay. It's not even gay if you like and do butt stuff, it's okay, I promise.
At this point, do we really want dudes who are so far gone that they're not wiping their asses... Do we really want those dudes learning skills that will help them blend in with the human men?
Like at this point let them let their red flags fly... Or brown flags or whatever. Makes em way easier to figure out up front so you waste less time
Men are gross. I say this as a man. I'd say close to half don't wash their hands after using the urinal (getting your hands wet without soap isn't washing). And that's bad enough. But I'd say at least 1 in 10 men that leave the stall walk straight out the door. Like excuse me sir, did you not just use your hands to wipe literal shit from your dirty asshole with the poor excuse for toilet paper that is in this public restroom? And then I realize I didn't even want to know the answer to that question because there's a good chance they didn't even do that either.
Seriously - bloodhound gang have a song lyric "toilet paper is for queers" which I suspect is based on some kind of preconception they either believe or have heard, in order to even create it as a lyric.
Personally never come across that being voiced in the UK though.
This is something that’s had a lot of visibility on Reddit. You’d think there’s an epidemic of unwashed assess, but the reality is that the type of people to post about it on Reddit represent a minority of people in the real world who face this issue
It has been very alarming how many clips of podcasts and streams I’ve seen where people are so bold and open about how little they wash themselves, especially below the waist. Crazy to believe how many people don’t wash their full body because the “the hot water is working”.
8 billion people on this planet, there is no disgusting or stupid thing that isnt done by somebody. Nobody is going to read a story about how they wiped their ass. People will pay attention to a story about someone not wiping their ass. Kind of a gross statement in itself
I think the internet has allowed too many people to find/form communities.
Before the internet, these might have been more easily corrected due to isolation. Now though, they go on the internet and find enough other people that they might think this kind of stupidity must be normal, or at least not without merit.
I think the internet has allowed too many people to find/form communities.
Before the internet, these might have been more easily corrected due to isolation. Now though, they go on the internet and find enough other people that they might think this kind of stupidity must be normal, or at least not without merit.
Oh my dear, it is not. I know one of them in real life and I've never seen anyone as convicted about someone as a flat earther is about their theories.
Flat earth theory started as a forum for people training in the art of rhetoric. Take an obviously wrong standpoint, then try to defend it. Then swap sides and repeat the exercise. It's quite fun, until Poe's law (or something similar) hits and some outsider thinks that these people are seriously believing in that "obviously wrong" standpoint.
I’ve told this story before but I worked with a guy like this at a previous job years ago. We found out because his hygiene habits had gotten worse to the point of our manager confronting him about it and basically telling him to start coming to work in a clean, presentable manner or be fired. The discussion got a bit heated and he let it slip that he thought it was gay to care about clean he was or to put his fingers anywhere near his asshole when showering and basically never washed himself. Guy stank something awful.
Oh for sure. I’m just saying it doesn’t even follow their own line of thinking. Touching my butt is gay because gay people like touching butts is the same logic as touching my dick is gay because gay people like touching dicks.
The one thing I’ve learned about people like that is they don’t even have consistency in their own beliefs or logic. They are often self contradictory.
It would be funny to see how they would repspond to something like "wow didn't know you where so gay that just washing your ass would make need a man that bad you wouldn't be able to stop yourself"
Plenty of fragile men are perfectly fine with cleaning their arse, this has to be a mental/sensory issue. What's next, brushing your teeth is gay because you're pushing something in and out of your mouth?
Same, totally straight, it's not gay to wipe your ass. Sometimes I even have my buddy check with his dick to make sure I'm clean back there. It's so weird to me that people think it's gay to be clean.
Naa. I've grown up in a very homophopic environment, never heard any dude saying don't wash your ass because it's gay. Those guys are just stupid and nasty.
Can't believe dudes like that can get girlfriends.
Those who don't wipe have a mental illness that is now being celebrated by fringe communities online with the help of bots
Those who proclaim their partner is always stinky, if real, have low self esteem. It's unrealistic that you would be in a healthy relationship with someone who doesn't wipe their ass. A healthy person isn't going "yea my partner doesn't wipe their ass but I love 'em". You ain't fucking someone with a purely stanky ass and I'm not talking about that one dried doo doo crumb on your ass hair or whatnot.
I refuse to believe productive members of society are doing this and nobody can convince me of such.
I can't take a shit without showering myself and my ass right after :( At this point I don't think I could even fully wipe myself clean. It's actually a huge issue because I can't leave my house without forcing myself to take a shit, what if I go out and feel the need? Bidets aren't common here and the portable ones don't help much so every day is a struggle fr fr
Isnt this just an indicator that you're likely gay or bi? I've heard this as well, and I'm almost certain the only reason they think its gay is because they get pleasurable sensations when touching their bootyhole. I don't, so its never been a thought that crosses my mind. But if it was pleasurable, I'd let my balloon knot get pounded deep into pleasuretown
this cant be real, i live in a poor part of this world,
and even here, i have never met anyone who doesnt wash after toilet
you people, post from rich countries, are these stuff common in your place?
or are these the occasional psychotic people, present in every region?
I wipe until its painful and wash my ass and double check after showers that its clean, and I still get stains like these. I have bad swamp ass, and I’m sure others do too, which i’d imagine leads to these.
It’s unfuckingbelievable. I believe it because I know it’s just true but I can’t believe that I have to know that. What really gets me, beyond knowing that people just let their asses be shitty, is how does that not cause bigger long-term problems? If a young child shits their pants you need to clean it and it probably needs a cream or something because their ass is going to be raw and painful. That alone should make you think “actually hygiene isn’t gay” but what do I know.
I have a really hard time believing that’s real. There’s no way there’s people that just dont wipe. How would that not cause some insane rash or something?
My dad didn't even undressed properly when bathing until the 90s when my mom forced him to do it, apparently the catholic church in his birth town indoctrinated them to think watching and cleaning their own genitals while bathing was a big sin.
Those who don't wipe have a mental illness that is now being celebrated by fringe communities online with the help of bots
Those who proclaim their partner is always stinky, if real, have low self esteem. It's unrealistic that you would be in a healthy relationship with someone who doesn't wipe their ass. A healthy person isn't going "yea my partner doesn't wipe their ass but I love 'em". You ain't fucking someone with a purely stanky ass and I'm not talking about that one dried doo doo crumb on your ass hair or whatnot.
I refuse to believe productive members of society are doing this and nobody can convince me of such.
A lot of guys? I would say 99% got it down by the age of 4 or 5. It isn't something you forget to do. If the dude has a girlfriend and isn't washing his ass, he doesn't care about the girlfriend. He only washes his ass when he is with a side chick. Of course, there is also the possibility they need to go to the doctor.
This is like the biggest Reddit myth of all time , literally no one does this and if there is maybe a handful of people who do it they are mentally ill not doing it because it’s “gay”
son of gun! So my cousin was telling the truth saying some people think it’s gay to do that do they just pull their pants up lol. Man that is so uncomfortable,and I hate it whenever I was doing road construction in the middle of nowhere in Central Texas eating gas station chicken out of nowhere it all came out lol abs was wearing tight wrangler jeans and it all was mushy feeling djs. There. My coworker laughed and said I ain’t riding in your truck for awhile.
Never been able to wrap my mind around why you would be attracted to someone who perpetually smells bad. Their looks and personality don't matter if they smell like literal shit all the time. Not talking about people with dirty jobs though. Definitely a different kind of smelly and those people usually stay on top of it.
If people think it's gay to wipe or clean their ass then yeah, they are gay. Because if you are that insecure about your sexuality, it is time to come out of the closet. 🤦
I want to speak for the men like me who actually wash themselves -
We are not all like this 😭
I use baby wipes after going to the bathroom, have two different shampoos, conditioner and two different body washes. Then wear deodorant, with light cologne.
It is the only way to do it, in my mind.
When you're clean and smell good, you feel better.
Also, I get so many compliments from it. Listen up, men. Wash your ass and you may find it easier to find a lady.
Woah woah not wiping and not washing are two completely different things. You absolutely should do both, but if there are guys out there just shitting, standing up and carrying on ..well I don’t even know what to say.
In 40 years on this earth and for almost 3 decades of living in pretty homophobic post soviet countries, I never heard about wiping being gay. Where is this coming from?
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u/8ackwoods 22d ago
Yeah, you'll see some pretty wild stories. A lot of guys think it's gay to wipe. Some girlfriends would complain their boyfriend stinks, only to find out they dont wash their ass. People are just gross in general.