washing your junk after sex

Is it really that bad to just take a shower after I've woken up?
ILX makes me feel like a bad person sometimes.

I wonder how males' responses would break down among cut/uncut.

can we factor this into all ilx polls?

I am circumcised & think Graduation > Late Registration
I am uncircumcised & think Graduation > Late Registration

hahaha

getting too far away from accepting & embracing that sex is generally kinda sweaty is a negative, imo. it isn't like coming home from work and wanting to get the funk off and feel clean; it's the kind of remnant feeling you should be okay with, i think, with there being no need to starkly delineate it happening and then you being all clean.

― sitcom neighbor (schlump), Sunday, July 31, 2011 6:23 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

This... this is pure poetry. Sing it Schlump!

i don't understand why people would not do this, you can get infections and diseases!!!

― sarahel, Monday, August 1, 2011 9:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

I just.... you must hate having sex...

It's fucking great to be locked together and eventually fall asleep after, with the atmosphere, bodily fluids, heat, love, all still there in between youse. Screw thinking it is "wrong" or "dirty".

are we talking UTI - uhh, other than that, what kind of infections or diseases?

Yeah I don't really think that line thinking is correct. It's a good idea for girls to pee after if they're prone to UTIs but other than that there's no reason to get up and wash immediately afterwards as far as I know.

It reduces possibility of like HPV and herpes a little, but imo if that's a bridge you're crossing regularly then you provably have it in a routine and it's not what most people do.

I mean, in my experience.

Also if your junk looks like a murder scene due to circumstances it kind of makes some sense? I dunno, that is kind of an outlier too

Like period sex? Well yeah but that's a whole other story imo

i'm willing to have my junk washed after sex, but it seems rude to demand it

I just.... you must hate having sex...

that's a ridiculous assertion! That's like saying, "You must take no joy in eating, since you don't like food that is moldy."

it takes quite a bit of time for things to get 'mouldy' i'd imagine?

ie I don't think the question is 'do you ever wash your junk'

Yeah feeling "ew must clean up" the moment yr done seems a bit dispiriting to me (going to toilet aside).

depending on the circumstances, an over-ripe odor can happen pretty quickly

sarahel i agree w/ u for once. sometimes it smells like penguins after sex, and ain't no cure but a washin' up

hence the need for more poll options detailing what kind of sex necessitates post-sex showers

like I'll usually wash up if I just took a facial but if all I did was a little shrimping I don't see the need to get all over-meticulous about things

feel a need to just auto-redact this post on the one hand, and to stand by it on the other

no point in drawing that line if you refuse to cross it

Am I alone in thinkin if yr junk smells bad or unpleasant enough to want to shower it off after sex, maybe you need to be seeing a doctor?

bacterial vaginosis

I think the proper analogy is, after eating a 9 course meal with lobster, steak, a vanilla sundae topped off with apple pie, do you brush your teeth before you go to bed?

sure, if I'm sleeping at my own place

so do all you people voting "no" only have sex before sleep?

Well, there's no shower in my car

Heh.

Actully in my case I'd say "about 70% of the time yeah".

But hang on we're not talking about "eventual showering" here, right?

We're talking about "finish the deed and immediately go rinse yer things off". Which is ... nuts.

Oh man one time when I was drunk and had been out at a bbq place I thought it'd be hilarious to put a bunch of those little hand wipes from the bbq place in my nightstand next to condoms. Of course, I only remembered when I went to grab a condom and pulled out ye olde moistened hand towel and just about cracked up

Which only brings the question: does wiping your junk off with a bbq wipe count as "washing"

It's fucking great to be locked together and eventually fall asleep after, with the atmosphere, bodily fluids, heat, love, all still there in between youse. Screw thinking it is "wrong" or "dirty".

right on the money(shot)

xpost this is basically how i break it down to an extent.

one of the best things about sex is curling up/cuddling with the other person afterwards, which you can't do if you immediately get up to wash yer crotch. likewise if you get up to use the shower, they may follow you in, and then it might lead to more sexual activity which ISN'T necessarily a bad thing, but sometimes when it's 4 a.m. you just wanna go to fuckin' sleep and your loins are worn out!

like i don't think anybody here is growing mushrooms on their sack, I usually shower the next morning and give a lil scrubdown and all is well in Whoville.

I think the proper analogy is, after eating a 9 course meal with lobster, steak, a vanilla sundae topped off with apple pie, do you brush your teeth before you go to bed wipe your mouth with a napkin or just take care of it whenever you eventually shower?

I pretty much go straight to the cunnilingus after that, no napkin in between

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/health/21hiv.html

Watching the clock for the right time to wash the HIV off my dick is the least romantic part of post-coital cuddling, imo

Lol Kerm

I just.... you must hate having sex...

that's a ridiculous assertion! That's like saying, "You must take no joy in eating, since you don't like food that is moldy."

― sarahel, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:53 (5 hours ago) Bookmark

Ehm, what? No. Trayce sums it up nicely:

Yeah feeling "ew must clean up" the moment yr done seems a bit dispiriting to me (going to toilet aside).

To me the notion of wanting to disinfect yourself of bodily fluids straight after, says you want sex but - "ewewewww i feel icky, must clean up" - do not see 'junk' as even being remotely part of it. Righting your wrong analogy it would read:

"OMG that was the best piece of pie I ever had.. whoa, orgasmic, soooo delicious... Ok eww now where's my toothbrush, mouthwater, floss GET THIS TASTE OUT OF MY MOUTH."

Zactly, which is what I guess dyao was gettin at with his lobster dinner post too.

I mean I'm not averse to the idea tht if you are then off to work/school you'd want to clean up!

OK . . .

PENGUINS!!!

They're kinda hard to spoon with

too short for 69

STOP IT RIGHT NOW

too short for 69

this made me cry for penguins

http://breakingbelgium.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/penguin.jpg

"Don't cry for me, Steven Tyler"

feeling woozy

Time to wash your junk

http://www.brandidentityguru.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/manjunk.png

what is in the bottle

Gwyneth Paltrow's head

Omfg, dying

the whole 'wallowing in fluids and squelchiness is fun and if you don't like it you're missing the point because it is natural and intimate' thing is kind of a canard, b/c no matter how much i love somebody i am not really aroused by bodily fluids of any stripe i.e. i don't find armpit stank or sweaty backs on myself or others erotic or awesome just ... pleh. the human body is capable of a lot of nasty excretions, and while they might be fun in the mood and the afterglow, at some point you have to realize there are some foul substances lurking

also yeah, sometimes the whole smell is greater than the individual contributions i.e. PENGUINS or THE POLAR BEAR ENCLOSURE

when I see this thread title I hear it sung to the tune of Syd Barrett's "waving my arms in the air"

lol why do I have this thread bookmarked

lol otm

oh hey new answers in... oh, I have this bookmarked too

with the bookmark brouhaha I decided to look to see what I had bookmarked, since that's functionality I rarely use, and this thread was near the top

lol

tw1zt3d p0llst4rt3r 2 tapered off pretty quickly. not very twisted, imo.

"sometimes it smells like penguins"

withdrawal in disgust is not the same thing as apathy

this thread is a delight

I just want you all to know that thanks to this thread, when I was caroling last year, I couldn't sing The Christmas Song without hearing "nutsmell wafting off my partner's face" and wanting to laugh

also I don't really want to be noticing my nutsmell wafting off of my partner's face as I'm trying to eat bacon

― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Tuesday, August 2, 2011 2:33 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sometimes it smells like penguins after sex
sometimes it smells like penguins after sex
sometimes it smells like penguins after sex
sometimes it smells like penguins after sex
sometimes it smells like penguins after sex

i can't stop laughing at all of this

well i mean,

man for a thread about balls this is taking a weird turn

― frogbs, Wednesday, August 3, 2011 12:53 PM bookmarkflaglink

Good snapshot of frogbs’ bad posting years

for the record, most of my posts in this thread were trolling

I never shower/wash after sex. Can’t be arsed. I prefer to have a smoke.

great revive

i must be hanging out with the wrong penguins.

the other day I was at the grocery store in the vegan section, and looked upon the shelves of nutcheese, and thought immediately of this thread.

please advise

can't, too busy lolling at "nutcheese"

i apologize to any and all vegans on ilx reading this thread

any fellow uncircumcised kings who do not wash after sex are asking for a visit from the yeaster bunny

is that what this is

put it that way: would you go to sleep wearing a pair of damp socks?

that way? this way

circumcised kings go to sleep wearing damp socks like this, cueball princes go to sleep wearing damp socks like this

Well i no longer want my hummus

Donate it

I keep a clean house, me; visitors need not wipe their feet upon leaving