To ask how you wash your 'bits'

[NotTheBelleoftheBall]

I'm not using the word 'bits' as some vague twee-ery to describe my vulva, I mean, everything under your knickers.

But I've got to 38 years old and suddenly wonder if the way I do it is the established norm (spurred on by recently hearing about douches and various online comments about how soap should never do much as touch your undercarriage).

For me: I always shower (bath about one a year), wet whole area (externally) wash external area with mild soap (including mons pubis, groins and bum crack), then using hand held part of shower rinse including rinsing inside a bit (vulva not vagina). So although I don't actively soap my vulva I use mildly soapy water to cleanse it. Then rinse well.

So far it's worked for me, my 'bits' are not prone to infection, but am I doing it all wrong? Should I be avoiding any water/vulva contact at all?

In the olden days the pp above was right, questions like this were ten a penny and not sneered at.

It's gone downhill

BTW I love your username IAMNOMAN perhaps I could steal yours?

Really? I have been here since 2011 and don't remember there ever being a multitude of threads like this.

Maybe one or two in General Health if there was an issue.

"Would someone seriously post this? maybe I am mistaken but it's a bit to personal and weird for my liking."
Yes, someone would seriously post this. I read the other thread, it's an eyeopener. The OP also read it and it's sparked the thought of 'Am I doing what's best for me'. As for personal - have you not been here for very long? This is the place to come for all manner of musings. We live under a barrage of information; some accurate, some batshit. It can be hard to separate the two sometimes, but consensus tends to do the winnowing pretty well.

If you want to know the time, ask a policeman. For anything else, ask the nest of vipers .

Sit on the loo and wash with cotton wool and water.
No soap or shower gel

I use shower gel or soap - wouldn't feel clean without. Never had any problems with thrush, but that's just good fortune.

"Questions like this used to be totally normal on here"

Did they really? That's news to me.

sadly you do get a lot of men posing as women on these threads asking personal questions so I guess that's what makes people question these types of posts.

They bend over under the shower. Tbh I prefer a bath.

Fly spray. Sandpaper. Five minutes in the blast furnace. Repeat annually.

Hot water and flannel. Soap makes me itchy.

I expect to see this in the Daily Fail tomorow.

A bit of Milton, or domestos if we've run out.

this is obviously a perv wanking away behind the screen-worded question in a serious way to get more replies but love some of the replies! probably not what they were looking for!!
AUTOGYNEPHILE ALERT

A simple search for her username shows that NotTheBelleoftheBall is a regular MNer so no need for all the sillyness surely

Anyway, Belle, I think it's a perfectly reasonable question to put to an anonymous mainly female forum. I mean, I'd ask sensitive Qs here than I would be too embarrassed to ask IRL, and this isn't the sort of thing that has ever come up in conversations with friends. Besides, if parents/guardians don't teach us how are we supposed to know?

So to answer your question...I rinse, then use very mild soap between my labia (the flaps/outside bits for those who don't know WTF I'm talking about) and around my arsehole applied with my hand. Nothing at all in the vagina (this is only the inside bit for those who don't know WTF I'm talking about) as that's the self-cleaning part (the vulva - labia major and labia minora - is not self-cleaning and is where smeg collects). I don't use a flannel or anything like that as using my hand means I can feel for any lumps or bumps while I'm washing. HTH.

Why would you post this in AIBU though? The joke topic?

Nuke it from orbit - it's the only way to be sure.

I don't think this is necessarily such an odd question. Well it is, but we all have them from time to time, we just wouldn't be able to ask people we knew IRL.

I use much the same method as OP - shower gel externally, rinse in and out with shower head.

Carbolic and a yard brush.

can you not just look on advice pages on the Internet? you can find out a whole host of information these days and professionals advise on there as well.
Kind of reminds me of the body form and tampax adverts on television.
We all know what periods are we all know where to go for supplies so do we really need to be reminded on t.v.

By asking a forum of strangers how they wash their bits is not really going to help you as what works for one person might not work for another eg some women are more sensitive than others etc

can you not just look on advice pages on the Internet?
This goes for everything though. I reckon there's very little advice asked for on MN that people couldn't Google and find the answer to themselves. We may as well get rid of most of this forum then in that case?

I am aghast! If you are who you say, then I can only offer a

😂😂😂😂 just water and occasionally a squirt of femfresh (0ph or whatever it is)

IamNoMan
Ooops. Outed. [Blush]
Must ask MNHQ to delete my unconscious coupling thread.

"can you not just look on advice pages on the Internet?"
T'internet is full of bullshit though. And often bullshit with an agenda. Those douche manufacturers have products to push, and the internet is one big infommercial with a bit of swivel-eyed fundementalism on the side. If you have good reliable internal filters, all well and good. But it can be helpful to go through other people's filters too. Concensus - very useful.

Nobody needs advice about this though.