• ewigkaiwelo@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    There are two camps on this one, both have valid points:

    1. different bacteria live on different parts of the body, makes sense to use different towels for different parts of the body that don’t come into contact much
    2. if when you leave the shower you feel that you can’t use one towel for the whole body you should go back to the shower
    • MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io
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      23 hours ago

      Counterpoint to 1: Your microbiome is massive. You are constantly emitting bacteria. It surrounds you in a cloud like Pig Pen from the Peanuts comics. The reason you have different bacteria on your face and balls is not because they can’t get from one place to the other; it is because they can’t survive/compete there.

      If you’re still hung up about your own towel, have you ever considered the implications of oral sex? How is it too whatever to intermingle your own bacteria upon yourself, but it’s perfectly acceptable to subject your partner to an even more invasive bacterial exchange. And if even that extent of biome crossover was sufficiently meaningful, why doesn’t my face smell like pussy yet?

    • Tiger666@lemmy.ca
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      16 hours ago

      What about the bacteria in the towel?

      If you are using certain sections of a towel specifically for certain body parts, you dont know what germ theory is.