How often do you bathe/shower?

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Precisely!!!

I don't even want to know what the state of your bottoms are that you think you need more cleaning activity on them than a bit of toilet paper after the act and a nice shower once a day or so.

Either that, or you live in countries where bottom-transmitted illnesses are so rampant that this sort of rear-end cleanliness paranoia is somehow justified.

Now, if you just like the feeling of a bidet, then that's a different matter, and all power to you.

 

At the risk of getting my wrist slapped....there is something a bit kinky about using a bidet.

Anyway, this thread is about baths and showers, not about various bottom cleaning methods

 

Its not your wrist Id be slapping...

 

It's more that I don't believe those medical benefits, given that nobody I have ever met has a bidet, and they're not exactly keeling over from being so unhygenic. I think those medical benefits were written by somebody trying to sell more bidets.

But, I recognise that millions of people have and love bidets, so I accept that there must be something cool about them, but I don't really get it.

 

I tend to think anyone who points a stream of water at their nether regions for extended periods, several times per day, is not doing so for cleanliness reasons....

 

I personally don't see what's wrong with a Bidet. I actually think it sounds fairly useful, that is if I could get accustomed to the idea of one.. it does seem rather outlandish. I take a shower once a day in the morning (only shampoo my hair every other day, as if I do every day it gets far too annoying to put up). However, as a drummer my lower regions tend to get rather sweaty when I play, doesn't make me dirty but it's just not comfortable and it's a hassle to take a shower after every drumming session. Though I always take a shower after runs or after a two hour+ gig as my whole body is sweaty.

Anywho, Taluntain has a point about ease-of-use of a bidet in certain situations. Plus, it's always important to keep your junk clean so the fairer sex is more enthusiastic. The idea of using a bidet after using the rest room seems sort of silly. But, for general cleaning where a shower is excessive it could be useful, again, if I could get used to the idea. It just seems... odd in practice, because I've never heard of one until now. Then again I'm sure I'd think a bath was just as odd if I had gone my whole life without knowing what one was. I don't know how much taking showers affects your immune system but I do know from personal experience too many showers in a short period of time can irritate the scalp. And shower caps are no fun at all, without one even the humid air too often makes my hair become annoying.

P.S. for reference, I'm male, I just have long hair.

 

Tal, I have read the information linked and posted here, but I still don't buy the argument (from someone who sounds like they have shares in a bidet company) that a bidet is a hygenic necessity, as important as washing your hands (as it says on that Bidet site). I eat food with my hands and touch all sorts of things that other sick people might have touched, so it makes sense to wash my hands. But I don't eat with my bottom, and I'm not like a dog who licks my bottom, so what is the point of taking extra steps to wet and clean my bottom, beyond a few sheets of poo ticket at the time, and a rubadubdub in the shower every now and again.

 

I just realized I never put my in here, so in my on-going objective of increasing my post count:

Daily shower. Usually when I get up, but if its a weekend, and I have grubby chores to do in the morning, I'll wait untile after those chores are done.

And bidets? - no. I use toilet paper. (Tal's earlier post notwithstanding.)

 

I shower every day - to be precise, at night, some time before I sleep. I would shower when I wake, but I don't have time, and it's nice going to bed feeling clean and comfortable. I think it's an Asian thing to shower at night, btw - all Asian families I know do it, while generally Western families seem to do it at daytime.

I actually feel quite odd if I go a day without showering (which happens sporadically in holidays). I stink, my head gets oily, and my body aches.

Perhaps Tal is secretly a bidet salesman and the whole of SP is one big conspiracy to sell them?

 

I can't sleep after a shower...it wakes/keeps me up afterwards. Even it's a near-scalding yet relaxing 30 minute shower with a massaging showerhead.

 

You're aiming the massaging showerhead at the wrong part of your body.

 

Bad Bruno, Bad!!!

 

I am appalled of the lack of hygiene in the colonies. This is not what we have taught. Our troops are in the wrong place.

 

Does that mean Tal's gonna get a warning?

 

I shower everyday, either a t night so i can sllep in an extra hour before heading out for work or once I wake uo when I don't have work that day.

 

I shower every other day, being a lazy kinda guy I don't find myself exerting myself too much so I can get away with...sometimes I need to shower everyday though, just depends I guess. I also started taking baths while I'm at home, since my parents just refitted the bathroom with a MASSIVE bath I can actually lay down properly in, also the best shower ever...I'm spoilt for choice at home!

I tend to take an unnecissary amount time in the shower, 20 - 30 minutes, I sleep and sit funny so my shoulders and back muscles get all kinked up...a nice hot shower sorts that out no prob

As to this bidet thing, I'll admit to bidet phobia...they just creep me out a little...if it was my own personal one that none else had used ever then maybe I could get on with the idea. But I only ever encounter them in hotels and just can't bring myself to go near them