For example:

Face/butt labeled towel

    • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      I have never figured out their utility.

      If I wash my butthole with my finger I can just wash off my finger.

      If I used a washcloth I’d have to put it in the washing machine and use a fresh washcloth every shower.

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        Nah you’re essentially washing the washcloth every time if you load it up with soap before using it, which is what I do. I usually switch it when I switch towels, which is like every three or four showers.

        Edit: oh and the utility is that they scrub better than your fingers…

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    I mean regardless of cleanliness I think most people would consider licking a finger they’ve scratched their butt with less preferable than licking any other finger even after having a very thorough shower.

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    My routine:

    1. Quick rinse of everything with just the hot shower water
    2. Hair shampoo and face wash
    3. Conditioner so that it can sit until final rinse
    4. Phase 1 pass of rear with body wash using just my bare hands, washing hands afterwards
    5. Loofa with body wash over everything aside from face and hair, this includes phase 2 of the rear. Really can go to town back there since phase 1 has been completed
    6. Final rinse
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    WTF at a face butt towel… then again who us our president?

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        People switch towels after every shower?

        I’ve heard of people taking multiple showers a day, but not switching towels after each shower.

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          I don’t care that it’s completely freshly clean; a butt is still a butt and has butt germs and I would rather not think about it. I’m gonna do laundry anyway, it’s easier that way.

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          I was proud of myself just for finally washing them weekly regularly

          I do have several towels in the rotation each week, though, as my bathroom doesn’t vent moisture super quickly so they can be slow to dry, and sometimes I do shower more than once a day (mostly just in the summer — morning, after doing dirty/sweaty work like woodworking or yardwork, after sports, etc). I run hot and I sweat easily.

          But, like, shower and drip dry… there’s not much left to towel off tbh

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            I wash my towels weekly too. Imo that’s the norm for things like towels and bedsheets, depending on use.

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          You wash a towel after each use? Do you also wash your pants daily? What a waste of resources.

          Edit: Trousers for the smug Brit about to reply.

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            Do you also wash your pants daily? What a waste of resources.

            You don’t have to? What a life of leisure.

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            I do wash my pants after each wear, if that’s what you mean. Not jeans, because denim breathes, but like khakis and stuff. All of these stretchy clothes with artificial fabrics get real nasty after a single wear.

            Edit: Should also add that I at least won’t be the smug Brit that replies because I used the word “khakis” instead of chinos.

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          No… that would be insane. Do you wash hand towels after washing your hands each time? Both things are incredibly wasteful and completely unnecessary.

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          Not where I live. I am clean, the towel is clean, and it has a lot of open space to air dry between showers. Wash every 3 or 4 showers just in case the house is more humid than I think to avoid the possibility of mildew if the towel gets bunched up.

          When I travel sometimes it is every time if the location is really humid since air drying there doesn’t work very well and they frequently have hooks that don’t let the towel spread out.

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    I use my towel in the opposite direction of what’s shown here. Although there shouldn’t be an issue if you’ve cleansed thoroughly (and I do), I personally cannot get past the thought of drying my ass and face with the same exact part of the towel. Luckily, I let my face air dry for skincare purposes.

    • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      Think of it like an XOR or whatever bullshit cimpsci majors would use to describe how either side can wash other stuff that’s not a face or butt

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    Given we learned way too many men think it’s gay to wipe your butt after popping

    I very much doubt they’re washing their ass either

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        This is unfortunately is a very real thing you can encounter while just dating random dudes

        If it was fake so many women wouldn’t have personal experience with this

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          Like I said I’ve only ever seen the meme mention this. You’re the first person I’ve ever seen say this directly.

          But if that’s your experience, that’s your experience. Im still trying to get used to the idea that some people apply bars of soap directly to their body instead of making a lather.

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            Besides myself I’ve met plenty of women who dated or were still dating men who don’t wipe their ass. It ranges from not wiping at all to barely wiping

            And no, none of them had good high fiber diets or I wouldn’t have heard the stories to begin with

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              Wait…I’m a guy. I wipe my ass. Am I supposed to be not wiping my ass? Is that a womens thing? Like crying at movies and drinking tasty mixed drinks, uh, I mean fruity mixed drinks?

              Ok. Fine. I’ll stop wiping. Maybe that’s why I’m single. Women think I’m gay because my pants lack brown streaks.

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                  Just out of curiosity what about the response above seems like being triggered?

                  For me it’s kind of funny joking about toxic masculinity as a coping mechanism for having to live in a society

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            I make the lather with the bar of soap. I rub it on me until I get the lather going. Then I stick the bar inside my butthole until I get a lather in there.

            I poop bubbles, bitch!

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            As a former massage therapist (not “masseuse”)… I’ve encountered dozens of men who would show up with a dirty ass. Skid marks when they get up off the table. WTF. Got expensive throwing sheets out.

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        There are 8 billion folks on the earth, and half are guys. I’m sure there are a few who have that thought, but it’s just like anything else: numbers make a mockery of all/none or even most/some claims.

        The part about it being gay is also just for trolling/stupid dunking purposes. I would bet that if you got the people you were asking the question of to read a few books and learn to express themselves, you’d find that most people don’t scrub their asshole because it’s generally seen as dirty and contaminated, so they limit themselves to using the toilet paper, thereby not contaminating their hand or wash cloth in the shower. Nothing to do with thoughts of it being gay or not.

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      It’s obviously not gay to wipe your butt but every time you poop is excessive. Unless you have some kind of GI issues, once every ten poops is plenty. Anything more than that is just wasteful

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        there’s no easy way to tell this but: i met one of them - it came up in conversation somehow. a few days later when we met again he told me how great he feels bow that he properly washes his ass in the shower…

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        Pulling back the foreskin makes it way more challenging and uncomfortable to piss. I don’t really discuss the status of my foreskin with anyone, so maybe I’m unexpectedly in the minority, but … What?

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      “I’d rather have an itchy asshole, skid marks, and a smelly ass than BE GAY, that’s worse than any of those things!!” and then they wonder why they’re single 90% of the time and if they ever get a woman it’s from an arranged marriage.

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    Certain parts like your feet can have fungus diseases, even if not visible. They do not simply wash off and you don’t want transferring those to your face or other parts.

    A single towel is fine if you just had a shower, just dry yourself top to bottom and wash the towel.

    But if you’re only washing your feet you don’t want to use the same towel that you will use to wipe your face.

    Anyway, that’s what I was taught.