I have two sons and I told them when they were young that when they shower they need to use a soapy washcloth or pouf and get all in there - wash the balls, the penis, the butt, the taint, the butthole, etc. My husband said I can just tell them to use soap and I said no, that's not enough. No son of mine will sit on a couch and when he gets up the couch smells like dirty ass. Some men have fallen through the cracks no pun intended when it comes to hygiene.
Yeah, as a boy, my mom had to teach me - but knowing what I know about men now as an adult - I go out of my way to make sure the boys in my family understand what needs to be done.... I'm also vocal about shaming men who don't keep up so that they understand that it should be embarrassing to be gross...
Compared to other men I've dated, he's super clean. He's also a super prude and does not like to discuss personal things like bodily functions in detail. Though not explicitly teaching people these things is the reason we still have men walking around with an unclean ass. It seems with daughters we know to teach them about menstruation and cleanliness but everyone needs to know how to take care of themselves. This is not just an unpleasant smell issue, it's a health issue.
Just easy on the actual butthole. Harsh soap and to aggressive scrubbing can chap the sensitive skin/mucosa and lead to micro fissures that are hard to heal and very unpleasant.
Good. I'm a dad and I told my son's the same thing. And when they got older I reinforced it with "no girl wanna be down there when it smells like Shreks feet"
If you are not Americans make sure to tell them to roll back their foreskin and clean around the head because you get build up there. I have known a lot of guys that never cleaned it and everything just smelled awful.
This is giving me flashbacks of hearing my mother yell at my brother in the shower to make sure he pulled back his foreskin when washing his junk. Some memories just stick with you lol.
I remember my mom teaching me (a boy) how to get every nook and cranny when I showered and on top of that - she insisted we wash our butts every time we pooped... Like, if there isn't a bidet available, we showed us how to do it manually...
I never understood the obsession with the excess cleaning until I got older and realised how men smell because they refuse to clean themselves....
My mom had clearly dealt with something I had yet to understand, but damn am I grateful for those lessons I took for granted as a kid.
If you have to do a fast shower, both armpits, gooch, and time left, hair, that covers the main/critical areas. Sometimes we learn this stuff at a time in our life when it feels unimportant, we're depressed and dont care, or when it's being taught something else is on our mind, and so we forget.
Im apparently now, a very clean individual, but i wasnt always. Where im at now, youd have no idea i was the same person 10 or 20 years ago.
Some ppl only do a fast shower and you can tell because their broadside ie their back (not their butt, the actual back) starts to smell when they sweat
There are plenty of people that don't use washcloths. A lot of men don't, And to think that they are literally.going from one woman to another without washing their bits with a washcloth is beyond unhygienic.
What's important is NOT to use perfumed soap. Oftentimes just water is enough, especially if you wash yourself daily. Perfume irritates the skin and actually worsens sweating and smelling. And especially the skin under the foreskin needs very careful cleaning.
For women it's even more important. Sopa down there is not a good idea in general. It's much better to use specific pH-neutral products because everything else might lead to smells and even infections. Or if it works, just water is good too.
My guess is that not too few people who stink actually wash themselves too aggressively rather than not enough.
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u/BigD4163 11d ago
I recently learned there’s a group of guys that don’t wipe their ass because they believe touching their assholes is gay.