Will Snizek wrote:
I'd imagine 2nd hand lingerie would be a great way to catch something that doesn't come off.  I guess you can kill most diseases with hot enough water, but it would still seem kinda nasty to me.

Anything you'd be worried about "catching" can't outlive the hot water, chemicals in detergent, or live outside the body for long enough to infect you. The only way you can "get anything" from someone else's underpants is if they just took it off and you put it on right after them.

Most bacteria/viruses are more fragile than we think.

If this weren't true everyone's households would have to have individual dedicated sets of bathtowels for each member, because washing them wouldn't get the ick off from when they dried their junk after a shower.

Yes, that's right, you're drying your head off with a towel that once came in contact with someone else in your houses asscrack, the world is ending.



You might think its gross just on principle, and that's fine, but its not medically unsafe as long as you wash them properly.

Laura UnBound wrote:
Yes, that's right, you're drying your head off with a towel that once came in contact with someone else in your houses asscrack, the world is ending.

Yep.  And when you go to a hotel and use their towels....or sleep in their bed....

Or try on clothes at a store.....

Laura UnBound wrote:
Yes, that's right, you're drying your head off with a towel that once came in contact with someone else in your houses asscrack, the world is ending.

Better the ick you know than the ick you don't, eh? 

-Ira wrote:

Yep.  And when you go to a hotel and use their towels....or sleep in their bed....

Or try on clothes at a store.....

edit:  For the record whenever I have bought clothing for a shoot I let the model take it home.  Rarely fits me anyways.

Will Snizek wrote:
I'd imagine 2nd hand lingerie would be a great way to catch something that doesn't come off.  I guess you can kill most diseases with hot enough water, but it would still seem kinda nasty to me.

Be careful of those public toilet seats.

Lumatic wrote:

Better the ick you know than the ick you don't, eh? 

If you've got half a brain and can push the buttons on a washing machine in the correct sequence....there's no ick at all. That works better for me than strange or familiar ick.

Laura UnBound wrote:

If you've got half a brain and can push the buttons on a washing machine in the correct sequence....there's no ick at all. That works better for me than strange or familiar ick.

Heh.  Yeah, but the other personalities that rent out fractions of my brain like to argue with the half that knows that. 

Laura UnBound wrote:
Most bacteria/viruses are more fragile than we think.

If this weren't true everyone's households would have to have individual dedicated sets of bathtowels for each member, because washing them wouldn't get the ick off from when they dried their junk after a shower.

Yes, that's right, you're drying your head off with a towel that once came in contact with someone else in your houses asscrack, the world is ending.



You might think its gross just on principle, and that's fine, but its not medically unsafe as long as you wash them properly.

I never heard of a family that shares bath towels! When I was a kid, the bath towel went in the laundry after using. My wife and I have never shared a bath towel, if I even mentioned it I can imagine the look she'd give me.

Matt Knowles wrote:
People get grossed out about some stupid things. We have lingerie that is over 100 years old in our collection. Not one model has ever been grossed out about wearing any of it.

But some of you are grossed out wearing something even if you knew it had been properly washed? Silly. You're far more likely to get sick because the photographer or makeup artist coughs in your direction.

I don't think they are afraid of catching anything. I think it's purely the grody factor.

SitronStudio wrote:
I never heard of a family that shares bath towels! When I was a kid, the bath towel went in the laundry after using. My wife and I have never shared a bath towel, if I even mentioned it I can imagine the look she'd give me.

I meant after washing. Since the whole point of the post your replying to was to say "if its been washed, its clean"

Do you throw your towels away after one use, or do you wash them? If you wash them, does each member of your family use the exact same towel after every wash or is it possible that you're currently using a towel that, one wash ago, your wife had used? Are you grossed out by the fact that prior to washing, she dried her vag with it and now you're using it to dry your face? Are you afraid that your face might "catch something" from that towel or are you confident that all the germs she put on that towel when she used it were killed when that towel went through the washing machine?




Further, if its a bath towel, you ought to be clean by the time you're using it, you and your wife don't take good enough showers that you'd be grossed out by having to share a towel to dry off with? I hear they make this thing called soap now.

SitronStudio wrote:

I never heard of a family that shares bath towels! When I was a kid, the bath towel went in the laundry after using. My wife and I have never shared a bath towel, if I even mentioned it I can imagine the look she'd give me.

Depends on age.....when I was a kid older generations in my family shared bath water.....

Cherrystone wrote:

Depends on age.....when I was a kid older generations in my family shared bath water.....

I still share baths with my fiance...but uh, that's different



And we use soap and know how to wash ourselves so it doesn't really matter who's towel is who's.

Cherrystone wrote:

Be careful of those public toilet seats.

I am.  Public restrooms are a genuine fear of mine.  I'd rather go find a spot off a road a little ways into the woods than use a public toilet.  Lol

SitronStudio wrote:

I never heard of a family that shares bath towels! When I was a kid, the bath towel went in the laundry after using. My wife and I have never shared a bath towel, if I even mentioned it I can imagine the look she'd give me.

I'm pretty sure she meant using the towel of someone else AFTER having been washed.  In our house we have 4 identical bath sheets, two are in use in the bathroom (on dedicated hooks one each for me and my wife) and two are in the laundry or clean.  But when we go for a clean towel we have no idea who used the last one because they don't have serial numbers or monograms. 

Same is true for the face clothes used in the shower.

But every now and again one of us will step out of the shower and realize we did not bring in a clean towel from the linen closet - in which case we might well use the others'.  We are after all clean when we get out of the shower - and at that point the towel goes into the wash.

Azimuth Arts wrote:

I'm pretty sure she meant using the towel of someone else AFTER having been washed.  In our house we have 4 identical bath sheets, two are in use in the bathroom (on dedicated hooks one each for me and my wife) and two are in the laundry or clean.  But when we go for a clean towel we have no idea who used the last one because they don't have serial numbers or monograms. 

Same is true for the face clothes used in the shower.

But every now and again one of us will step out of the shower and realize we did not bring in a clean towel from the linen closet - in which case we might well use the others'.  We are after all clean when we get out of the shower - and at that point the towel goes into the wash.

This in my household too.

Azimuth Arts wrote:

I'm pretty sure she meant using the towel of someone else AFTER having been washed.  In our house we have 4 identical bath sheets, two are in use in the bathroom (on dedicated hooks one each for me and my wife) and two are in the laundry or clean.  But when we go for a clean towel we have no idea who used the last one because they don't have serial numbers or monograms. 

Same is true for the face clothes used in the shower.

But every now and again one of us will step out of the shower and realize we did not bring in a clean towel from the linen closet - in which case we might well use the others'.  We are after all clean when we get out of the shower - and at that point the towel goes into the wash.

I don't even share family bath towels after being washed.  I have my own bathroom that no one else uses with my personal set of towels.  But I know I'm weird.

Wander Lost wrote:

This in my household too.

Sorry,  my bad. Not the first time I've misunderstood someone.