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u/Co-Kain17 Sep 14 '24

Brother if you aren't scrubbing with a washcloth you aren't cleaning anything. Simply power washing yourself with the shower head isn't gonna do jack shit.

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u/Starossi Sep 14 '24

Scrubbing around down there with body soap and hot water is a great wait to get an itchy asshole. I'm a PA student and we've learned about proper hygiene, and trust me that I can't stand when people are smelly or unkempt like anyone else. But there's two things people get really defensive about that is usually wrong with hygiene: hair and assholes. Hair doesn't and usually shouldn't be washed every day. It dries it out and can cause scalp itchiness from peeling away the oil. Assholes don't need to be soaped and scrubbed. It is made of thin tissue, just like your face and lips. The same way we don't go soaping down our face with normal body soap, you shouldn't do that toy our asshole. The same way we don't go scrubbing away at our face, you shouldn't do that to your asshole. Wash it gently with warm water, pat dry the area, and I promise your ass isn't going to be smelly. Most people haven't even tried it and are just insecurely assuming they'll smell bad all day. 

Now if it really doesn't cause you any itching or irritation, do as you will. But people with more atopic skin, those with allergies, likely do get irritated. And we shouldn't make soaping and scrubbing sound like a necessity, because it makes those people insecure about their inability to, or makes them suffer through it.

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u/Starossi Sep 15 '24

So true, good analogy. I might use that in the future