Underwear offers a barrier that keeps residual urine and feces particals from absorbing directly into your pants.
People that dont wear underwear let their bodily fluids make direct contact with their pants, and then expose them directly to any surfaces their bits might touch.
Not wearing underwear is unhygienic.
33 Comments
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 85 pts · 219d
Oh homie, everyone is covered in pee and poo particles every time they flush a toilet. Also, urine doesn't just magically stop at the undies, it absorbs into pants too.
Humans are animals, and we are constantly exposed to pathogens and waste just like all the other animals. Wash your hands before you eat, and keep your food contact surfaces clean. Beyond that, don't worry too much about all the incidental contamination you run into, it's largely out of your control and knowledge anyway.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 219d
I see posts like OPs, and hear people saying such things IRL, and I always think, "This person would straight die in a week if they faced the most minimal survival situation."
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 219d
Eh, I don't think it's quite that serious lol. People become germaphobic for a ton of different reasons. I still have a really heavy impulse to wash my hands after touching surfaces due to covid, for instance.
Severe or unexpected illnesses experienced by a person or seen in their family can cause a lot of trauma. With the US healthcare and work system being as awful as it is, it's not really irrational to be driven to being overly cautious. I think that as long as people aren't having anxiety problems or compulsions that impact their quality of life, being a little too cautious like OP is pretty benign.
db2@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 219d
Wait until you find out about the tiny bugs peeing pooping and fucking on your face all the time.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 218d
Oh yeah I've heard about them. Please tell us more.
SarahFromOz@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 219d
Using a butt plug will mitigate the poo particles.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 32 pts · 219d
I hooked mine up to the shop vac to keep things extra tidy.
Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 219d
This is putting a visceral image of my colon get sucked out into my head.
Thanks I guess?
ccunning@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 219d
I think you have a different body plan than me.
Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 219d
Headass, what else can I say?
mikey@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 218d
username checks out
cattywampas@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 219d
There's poop germs on basically everything everywhere all the time. Life's dirty and you have an immune system, don't overthink it.
ccunning@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 219d
If you smell pee and poo, you’re inhaling pee and poo. Breathing is unhygienic.
WindyRebel@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 219d
Bruh, your underwear makes direct contact with your skin. Whether it’s pants or a layer in between, the result is the same that the barrier carries your pee and poo and it’s in contact with your skin.
motorwerks@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 219d
This, exactly. What difference does it make if it's your underwear or your pants? It's one or the other & I don't see a benefit to either unless washing 1 thing is easier. That hasn't been true in over 50+ years. Just wash your clothes, ya filthy animals.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 218d
I agree with you and all the other commenters who have this same perspective. I've spent decades mostly commando. However recently I decided underwear is probably a good idea because some of my pants have been chafing my tender bits.
SpiffyPotato@feddit.uk · 15 pts · 219d
As a Brit, this shower thought confused me for a while as in British English
pants=underwear.That aside, I agree. It is pretty ming to go commando
SomeDudeFromSpace@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 219d
Now I’m really curious. I’m not a native English speaker. If you call underwear pants, what do you call what’s over your underwear? Trousers maybe?
roofuskit@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 219d
Trousers.
SGforce@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 219d
If they are trousers, what does it mean to "trouse"?
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 219d
Opposite of dogging, mayhaps?
SGforce@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 219d
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 219d
Would trousers be the proper word?
If you don't wear pants, your wee and your shite get on your trousers?
SpiffyPotato@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 219d
Yes, that is how a Brit would say it
PorradaVFR@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 219d
Who hurt you?
tiredofsametab@fedia.io · 9 pts · 219d
I would be more worried about sweat, I think.
Then again, I don't even fart unless I'm sat on a toilet
Ydna@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 218d
Impressive
foggy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 218d
Brother I eat ass idgaf
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 217d
I would focus on removing residual urine and feces than just slapping some cloth over it
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 217d
You can never quite shake out that last drop.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 217d
Squeeze and roll like toothpaste.
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 217d
A little bit of TP or sometimes I even wash up at home with a rag.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 217d
Maybe if they don't properly wipe and/or shake after...