I know the complete opposite is true, swallowing toothpaste isn’t good for you. But I’ve just never been able to do it for some reason. Even being in the room with someone who spits it out makes me gag and dry heave. I genuinely find it so disgusting and repulsive I think I would throw up if I did it myself. Not sure why. Anyway, I’ve been swallowing toothpaste for my whole life and haven’t had any problems.

Typing this from italy where its been 30-50% and about 34 degrees the whole trip. It's so dry the air literally burns. I come from Scotland so i grew up in the cold but ive worked in kitchens for years and don't feel terribly hot even wearing sleeves in 40+ degrees. But the air just needs moisture to feel comfortable, I've been to much hotter humid places and it was fine even for exercise.

Edit: not saying it's healthier i know its more dangerous, i just prefer the humidity. Ive spent 3 months in Malaysia before so not completely inexperienced

it doesn’t feel good. it just tickles and it’s honestly really annoying. i’m a woman, and it just makes me feel like i need to pee really bad. when i finish, it just kind of burns? it’s not enjoyable at all. i don’t like it. i don’t understand why people go crazy over it and regularly masturbate. it just feels like it tickles.

I (17f) have always been like this. From a young age, I have always hated showering. When I was forced to shower I would often just wet my hair in the sink and turn the shower on for 10 minutes so I could trick my parents into thinking I ha factually showered. It was really just not my thing for some reason I still don’t understand, and it still isn’t. Around 6th/7th grade, I was really involved in competitive gymnastics, and that’s really about the only time anyone (including myself) ever noticed a significant smell (I got some comments from my parents telling me my coaches thought everyone in my group should wear deodorant more often, but I’m not sure if it was specifically directed at me).

As far as I know, I don’t smell. In fact, I’ve had several friends and family members confirm that I don’t smell, despite my showering habits. I would also like to point out that in every other regard, I stay relatively clean. I wash my hands often, brush my teeth at least once (up to three) times a day, use deodorant when I go out, maintain a daily skincare routine, and change my underwear at least once a day (but not my clothes/shirts—long story short, I have a t-shirt that I’ll wear at home for 3-4 days, but I often change when I leave the house). I’m genuinely not some disgusting person who smells all the time for the fun of it, I just don’t see the point in showering so often.

There are many reasons this system works for me, but these are my top ones:

•As a white girl with straight, unoily hair, I don’t need to wash my hair more than once or twice a week. My hair stays manageable throughout the week without much problem. As far as I know, it isn’t bad for my hair and it often helps keep my hair shiny and smooth because of the natural oils that accumulate through the week.

•It feels like a waste of time. Even though my showers only take about 20 minutes, it feels unnecessary if I don’t feel dirty.

•Apparently I don’t smell. If smell were ever to actually become a problem, I’d probably start showering more, but as far as I know genuinely no one seems to think I smell because I keep up my hygiene in every other regard. I make sure to tell my friends to be honest with me about if I ever smell, and every once in a while after a workout without deodorant, they’ll let me know they got a whiff.

I usually realize I need to shower once my hair becomes oily and unmanageable. Until then, I never force myself to shower. Because it actually stresses me out sometimes 😃

I’d also like to mention that throughout covid, my hygiene has actually gotten better. I still shower about the same amount as before, but I take a lot more care to change underwear, wash my face, and use deodorant, among other things. They’re small things, really, but fixing those aspects of my life helped me feel more accomplished in ways that I just couldn’t achieve by trying to force myself to shower more.

This isn’t exactly related but when I shower, I always shower with the lights off and with music playing, using water that is barely warm— the shower itself takes about 20 minutes but the entire pre- and post-showering process including getting into the bathroom, pre-shower stuff, drying off, etc takes about 40 minutes. My showering experiences nowadays are much more pleasant because I get to have them on my own terms and I get to set the mood properly. I feel satisfied when I finish showering and I love the feeling of being freshly clean, but I often don’t feel the need to have that more than once a week.

Edit 2 because I thought this was really funny:

So someone mentioned smelling clothes you wore last week to see if you smell. So I found some clothes that I wore for a long time and sniffed them. Nothing smelled. I asked my mom and another woman who lives with us to smell them and they smelled nothing :D

-leggings I wore for two days during practice: don’t smell good kinda just smell like my sport (“musty”) but no BO smell -sweater I wore on and off for a week: smells like a person but not in a good or bad way -shirt I wore for three days in a row: has a smell but neither good nor bad -shorts I wore to leave my house for like a week: literally smells like nothing

We all agreed with those notes^{^}

Edit:

Well this is a LOT more controversial than I thought it would be. I have never understood the term “RIP my inbox” like I do right now. Here’s some edits I’d like to add:

-First and foremost, the reason I don’t shower daily is because I don’t want to. That is why I choose not to shower. There are many reasons why I believe this works for me, but they aren’t excuses. They are just factors that I believe affect how often I need to shower.

-I use my hair as a gauge of when I need to shower. I’m not claiming that people who shower every day wash their hair every day. I’m just saying I don’t find it important enough to shower if I’m not going to be washing.

-I’m a very ~not oily~ person. When I was a kid and I was forced to shower every day, I had really bad eczema. After I stopped showering so often, I noticed that my eczema went away. Similarly, my hair does not get oily for a long time. These are main reasons that I find it difficult to shower very often.

-At the moment, I live about 95% of my day indoors with AC. I stay pretty not-sweaty and pretty not-dirty for the most part because I don’t really go places to get that way. This summer, I’ll have a job as a lifeguard and I plan to shower more often for that. Until then, I’m fine living my disgusting hobo life.

-Apparently people really think I stink🥲 Honestly? I have no idea. Before posting this I was pretty confident that I didn’t smell much at all, but considering everyone here really disagrees, maybe I was wrong. All I know is that it doesn’t affect my life enough for me to lose friends or family over it, and that’s all I care about.

I really wish you people would come smell me in real life 🥲

Ok title is kind of a lie. I don't wear my socks throughout my ENTIRE shower, but stepping in and washing my hair before taking them off is my usual. I hate the feeling of stepping into my shower and feeling the cold stone underneath my feet because it feels so disgusting. The friends I've told about this call me a psycho, but don't hate until you try it.

Edit: I've been seeing a lot of people telling me to get a bath mat or wear flip flops or to turn on warm water for a bit before stepping in.

1) i've tried using bath mats before but the silicone feels weird underneath my feet and i prefer the stone floor

2) i HATE the feeling of the y shaped strap on flip flops or the band on sandals, i dont even wear those when my feet are dry, but ESPECIALLY not when they're wet

3) admittedly, running hot water before stepping in would work, but i've been doing this since i was maybe 10 so I've just grown accustomed to my routine of taking them off mid shower

also for the people saying my socks smell or are moldy, they go into the washer as soon as im out of the shower, theyve never grown mold

I call it The Transcation as you're sliding the soap bar like you would a debit card. I feel it's a good way to clean your buttcrack as you're getting it all soapy, then rising it off. And not just letting water run down your back which doesn't do the best job.

You wouldn't NOT scrub any other body part clean if it touched shit.

1. Use toilet paper to do the heavy lifting
2. Scrub your asshole clean with soap and water using your hand
   • Liquid soap is ideal, so you don't have to have a dedicated soap lying around
3. Dry with paper or towel, doesn't matter
   • I go personal towel because it'd make me uncomfortable sharing my genital towel with visitors, but not because of fear of shit

UPDATE: This is for both bidets and showers. I don't think a bidet's water pressure is enough, unless it has enough pressure to tear you another hole, which sounds extremely unpleasant.

Notes:

• I don't care if this is the intended use of the bidet apparatus, that's the only correct way to use it in my book.
• I recognize these instructions may only apply to people with dicks. It may require you to be skinny too? Idk. You have your entire life to figure it out, so... figure it out. Good luck.
• I wash my dick too while I'm at it, in case you're wondering.

The feeling of dry, crackly lips is great! And even better, I get to peel them off. Though sometimes I get too eager and peel when the skin isn't dry enough then it's not satisfying. Usually, I do only the bottom lip, but if it's a really good single-piece peel and I want more then I go for the top lip but it's never as good.

It's winter now and getting in the -10C area, and my lips are totally destroyed. But it's fine, cuz then I can just destroy them even more. My lip was kind of bruised from yesterday's peel so it took almost an hour to do it today cuz I had to be so slow and careful to minimize pain. I actually had to use toilet paper cuz it was bleeding so much lmao.

So yeah, dry lips are cool, peeling off your dead lip skin feels great and I swear this isn't some kind of fetish lol. The only thing I don't like is the metallic taste of blood and that after peeling spicy food is really painful. I wonder how much mass of lip skin I've discarded over the years 🤔

There are women who just won't sleep with you because it intimidates them or they're anticipating a painful experience based on prior experiences with well-endowed men.

Additionally, you can't wear certain clothes or else you risk getting a lot of attention (mostly unwanted) from both men and women.

Having a large cock also comes with a lot of physical discomfort depending upon your fashion choices

Another issue is locker room jealously or awkwardness if you get dressed in the gym. Some guys just have no chill and will literally ask you how big it is...which is super annoying and uncomfortable.

Acne/dust mites/pollen/dead skin/bacteria/etc - google anything about an old pillow and you’re met with a myriad of detrimental health concerns. But like I feel like none of it is true.

My pillow used to be the colour of piss and my skin was glowing. Going by what these so called dermatologists say, my face should’ve resembled a pepperoni pizza because of my pillow. But no, as I said I was glowing! My skincare game is good, but it’s not that good…why was I glowing?

So…I caved and washed my pillow. Deep cleaned it. It looked brand new. What happened?? My worst breakout in 5 years. Nearly 20 pimples over a month. My pillow was no longer inoculating my face with the microbiome it’d come to know.

Conclusion? Sleeping on a dirty pillow is good for you.

I have always had super painful cramps to the point to where I can spend the day doing nothing but being curled up in pain and throwing up. The best way I can describe the pain is that it feels like someone is taking a blowtorch and burning my back, lower abdomen, and even all the way down my legs. At times they’re to the point to where my blood pressure drops significantly, and it causes me to pass out, so they truly are beyond awful.

However, I don’t manage my pain using contraception or OTC pain medications because whenever I have these attacks, they resolve themselves within 12 or so hours, and the “high” I feel off of the endorphins from experiencing pain for so long makes it worth it to me. It’s like in no other context do I experience so much relief at once, and there’s something about it that feels so good to me.

Edit: I also like extremely spicy food, very carbonated sparkling water, and going to the dentist (especially when they scrape away at my teeth) all because they create mild discomfort. Maybe it’s all related.

This is the way I've been doing it since I was only maybe 4 or 5 years old. It makes orgasms feel so much more intense than the usual method, which I have always found extremely difficult to achieve; it also feels kind of foreign and alien to me. When I do it on my stomach shimmying back and forth against a blanket, mattress, etc. it feels so much more natural.

Title.

Now I acknowledge that as a guy that has foreskin, it gets a bit worse for me in this field than most of you guys; but still, I just feel disgusting if I don't wash my dick after a piss.

A few months ago, I started washing my dick after every piss - either with just water or water + soap depending on the piss, and I just can't go without it nowadays. If I piss with my foreskin pulled back like I do most times, just water. If I'm unable to pull it back, like when I'm taking a shit, it's water + soap.

Now that I've started it, I can't go without it nowadays. I usually hold my piss when I'm out in public areas since I can't wash my dick in public bathrooms or a friend's house's bathroom. Just keep a separate towel to dry your groin after the wash, and you're golden. There are no disadvantages to doing this, except maybe 10 extra seconds spent washing.

I now strongly believe that every guy should give those extra 10 seconds to wash their dick after every piss, since it literally is much cleaner, and just feels a lot better. If I had to give a comparison, it's like switching from using toilet paper to using a bidet.

Edit: In public restrooms, I just use a stall and a piece of toilet paper to dry the penis.

I think the way other people wash dishes is revolting. They scrub all the shit off with some old, nasty sponge, and then just dry it and put it away. I'm really baffled why this is considered hygienic and acceptable.Regular dish soap doesn't kill bacteria, it just washes it away. Do people really trust that ragged, nasty sponge to properly clean their dishes?Even with antibacterial soap, I can't trust all the food particles and germs are gone after a swift swipe of the rag.The dish smells fucking awful afterwards too. Whenever I've been at someone else's house, I can't eat off their plates because that smell is completely nauseating.

My dish washing process is this: scrub the shit off with soap, rinse, soak in soap and bleach-filled sink for at least five minutes, scrub with another sponge, dry. I go through so many sponges, but there really is no other way to do it. I can't eat off a dish unless it smells like nothing or bleach.

Update: To summarize the comments and replies,yes I do have OCD
yes I know I'm not going to get sick doing dishes the "normal way"
yes I know using bleach on my dishes is harmful
This post was just me talking about my habits and how they make me feel better, I didn't make this post trying to convince people to bleach their dishes.
I read the comments about the harm bleach does, and I will be using less. Thanks to those who educated me or gave me helpful advice.

Those of you using mental illness to berate me are way out of line. I never asked for this post to blow up and be called schizo again and again. Yes, I have OCD, I am not crazy or stupid, not cool to degrade a mentally ill person or joke about me developing cancer from this.

So my vision started declining when i was like 7 and ever since then i’ve been using glasses and contacts. But during the first lockdown i kind of just... stopped because like tf would i be looking at at home. When things went back to kinda normal I continued to not wear glasses/contacts unless absolutely necessary and didn’t have any issues since i got pretty used to it. Recently i started wearing contacts again regularly and man do i fucking hate it. I now see every tiny pimple on people’s faces, every piece of dust and every cat hair on the floor, nothing slips past me and it SUCKS. Looking in the mirror is a special kind of torture because apparently i look nothing like i thought i did, especially from the distance. The worst thing is that I can’t go back cause my vision had declined past the point where glasses are optional. 20/20 vision is glorified for no good reason

Edit: several people have made assumptions about me not being comfortable with the way i look. I did say that I wasn’t used to the way i look in the mirror after not wearing contacts for a while, but i don’t remember mentioning that I didn’t like what i was seeing. I am by no means self-conscious about my looks so that’s not the problem.

Yes. You eliminate every hint of piss, and with it, you have your penis clean all day with no odor. I just put my penis in the sink and voilà! Clean penis equal happiness, and you avoid disgraces in case you have unexpected sex. Edit: Spelling

Just that.

My glans is really, really sensitive, and something that I learnt very quickly in my sex life is that I enjoy sex way more if there's that barrier between my glands and my partner preventing friction.

Also, since I'm a very anxiety-drive lad, I also enjoy it more because the odds of a pregnancy are less.

Edit: I did have phimosis as a child, but I got treatment really young for it (6-8 yo), and I didn't have it when I went through puberty.

Seriously, like why can't you people just eat before you get on the plane. Or when you get off the plane at your arrival city? Most domestic flights aren't that long. Not hard not eating for 4 hours

Like the rest of us shouldn't have to smell your spicy garlic wings while we're all packed in a tin can. Nobody should be subjected to your Panda Express 10 rows away.

While some of you may say, well they serve food on a plane. That's fine. I have been on 16hr flights and eaten breakfast, lunch, and dinner on the plane. It's fine because we all get served the same food at the same time.

Also small snacks, crackers, and candies are fine. Because they don't stink up the whole plane. But next time eat your cheeseburger and fries in the airport!

I learned this while playing kings cup a year ago. We got to never have I ever, and his was “Never have I washed the lower half of my body.” The whole group of us drinking and playing exploded. He defended himself by saying he washes his upper body and just lets the soap run down and that makes him clean. The wildest thing is his wife said she does the same thing.

Ever since I was little I always put the toilet seat up to take a shit. I don't like the feeling of my anus getting constricted. It's more narrow for the poop to go through and leaves more to clean with the toilet paper afterwards.

I have great tap water where I live, and I have a good filter and everything. I've also tried many, many different brands of bottled water - spring, mineral, you name it.

However, my favorite kind to drink is distilled water straight from a jug. Everyone says that it tastes flat and bland, but I disagree! I think other waters taste weird, or in the worst cases I think they taste like dirt.

Distilled water in a jug tends to have a unique plastic-y taste in the top of my mouth, which I personally find extremely pleasant! And I find that it does a better job of quenching my thirst than any other kind - in fact, lots of bottled waters or filtered tap water actually make me feel more thirsty after drinking.

I don't expect anyone else to feel this way, and I use filtered tap water to give to guests and for cooking. However when it's just me chilling around the house and hydrating, it's distilled all the way.

putting an edit up top here because people commenting all seem to be jumping on the abuse thing, the abusability of benadryl is not my primary gripe with it. i'm far more concerned about it being used long term as a sleep aid, which is something it is actively marketed as for some fucking reason despite there being plenty of research that proves why it should NOT be used for that. as for its main use as an antihistamine there are better options available and for emergency allergy situations i think epipens should be otc, but that's kind of it's own post. anyways edit concluded, carry on to the initial post:

i have many personal gripes with that stupid pink antihistamine to go over in this post, my qualifications for having such gripes including being a nerd about dementia and also having a history of abusing the shit like a fucking dumbass. i should also preface this by saying that benadryl is one of the only antihistamines that works for me, so i am coming at this from the perspective of someone who uses it and is less biased than someone who it doesn't work for

in order to understand why benadryl is such a fucked up medication we first have to understand how it works. benadryl is a first generation antihistamine and acts as an anticholinergic (meaning it interrupts acetylcholine h1 receptor neuron signals, which is how it blocks histamine response) and an antimuscarinic (which blocks specifically muscarinic acetylcholine neuron signals). while these do get the job done relatively effectively, these come with a myriad of side effects that greatly outweigh the benefits. chronic use of benadryl, especially when used for sleep due to it preventing proper rem sleep, has been linked to a higher risk of dementia, especially when taken by people over 60. this is due to it being anticholinergic as while it does block the h1 receptor to stop histamine responses it also just blocks neuron communication in general which is not good for you. it also breaks the blood brain barrier and is moderately neurotoxic which is why it makes people loopy and can be used "recreationally" (i put recreationally in quotes because this shit is not a fun party drug or something it honestly kinda fucking sucks, i would know i've struggled with on and off use of it for years because i'm bipolar and am also kind of stupid)

if the neurological effects aren't enough to turn you off another thing it fucks up is your renal system. it is highly dehydrating and again is antimuscarinic which can lead to urinary retention and kidney damage if used excessively. even when not used excessively it can cause prostate issues and pain and just generally kinda fucks with that part of the body. it also increases your heartrate by a not insignificant amount and can cause sudden cardiac arrest if abused (which again is fucking stupid don't abuse benadryl)

going back to the abuse of benadryl another reason i believe it shouldn't be an otc medication is because of the ease of access for abuse and the dangerous ramifications of the abuse. some people may just view this as a darwinism thing where if someone is stupid enough to do so they deserve what they have coming but i personally don't for obvious reasons

benadryl does have its benefits at times i will admit, such as when used to help treat multiple sclerosis and overactive bladders, and also as an antihistamine to give during an allergic reaction. beyon that though it's just an overall shitty medication that really shows its age

you may be wondering what i propose as an alternative to benadryl and to that i point to second generation and onward antihistamines such as claritin and zyrtec and even just other gen 1 antihistamines that are less aggressive like hydroxyzine

tldr benadryl sucks fuck benadryl

edit: the abusability is not the primary reason i think it should be prescription only, the main reason i think it should be prescription only is that i think only people who other antihistamines just don't work on should be using it due to the side effects that come with it or for people using it to help with things like multiple sclerosis. beyond that, other options are just better

edit 2: i have been informed by people with multiple sclerosis that it is in fact not good for that use either, that was wrong on my part

I hate when I got to use a machine and it is wet because someone just wiped it down.

I live in a place with virtually no humidity. It’s pretty hard to work up a sweat here. People aren’t sweating on these weight machines. They’re just wiping them down making them wet for the next person. I don’t like to sit down and feel wet cleaning solution thru my gym shorts.

I don’t care if someone touched a piece of equipment before I used it. It’s not like I’m going to lick the machine. I touch things other people have touched all the time all day every day.

I was surprised to learn that other people don't do this, but apparently I'm the odd one. My eye site is terrible and I never take my glasses off, except to sleep. This includes showers/baths. I just don't see a point, the warm water cleans my glasses and I can just wipe any droplets off afterwards. Fogging isn't a problem because that's basically what it looks like without them, and again, I can just tilt them under the water until it's gone. I don't wash my face in the shower (Don't worry, I do wash my face, but it's when I first wake up), so they don't bother me that way. I will take them off and put them on the soap ledge while washing my hair, but then they immeadiately go back on. Maybe I'm just lazy for not taking them off but I don't see why I shouldn't. Also, there's no chance of losing my glasses from putting them somewhere I don't remember.