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?

Off topic - tf is a douche?!
www.webmd.com/women/guide/vaginal-douching-helpful-or-harmful

I use a toilet brush with a bit of bleach, if it is particularly dirty I use vim good scrub and its box fresh

once or twice a year I get dynorod in to give it a good seeing to

NotTheBelleOfTheBall. There's nothing wrong with your question at all. I'm sorry you felt the need to out yourself to prove you weren't a troll.

IAmNoMan. You don't come across as a prick, not at all, no need for a break.

You are right about questions like this being the norm years ago. Before that stupid bloody p3nis b3aker thread. If people are offended, worried, confused or just don't like the contents of a thread, they can go & read other threads, there are plenty of them. There's no need to hang around mithering over whether it's 'necessary' or not.

I'm wondering if 531 hasn't heard that of that saying before and is taking it as a literal suggestion? It's the only thing I can think of to justify her OTT reaction.

"Knock yourself out" is a turn of phrase for go ahead, go for it, do as you please

Calm down

user1490465531, to save you more confusion in the future, I'd like to make you aware that anyone telling you to 'fill your boots' is not suggesting you put anything in your footwear.

In the same vein, if they say 'go mental', they are not telling you to develop a psychiatric disorder. And if they say 'be my guest', they are not requesting that you let them host you.

I just do a cartwheel through a car wash.

Hot wax for special occasions.

I'm surprised that nobody has confessed to using zoflora yet given the obsession with it on some threads. I used it a week ago in the downstairs toilet and it still smells strongly of it. Clearly it would be an effective fanjo cleaner.

I'm sure a saw a thread title recently asking how people wiped their arses.

How can people type on an Internet forum yet not feel confident in their fanny washing and arse hole wiping capabilities?

Wow OP I think you should change your username to MissFuckingFemfresh 👍🏻

Because there are some weird arse washers out there. I mean there are people who stand ffs and there are people who go in from the front and 'push' the paper

So it stands to reason there may be weird and wonderful ways to do another part of the body.

I'm 43 and had no idea you shouldn't use / shower gel, or just wash in the normal shower without removing the head and doing proper internal.

I really didn't know that Dixie thanks for that useful peice of knowledge.

Some of you are total cunts. And although I love mine, that isn't a compliment.

To answer the question: I have baths so don't really think about it. If I can't bathe for whatever reason I find a (clean) flannel covered in warm water more than adequate

Apologies NOMAN never heard of the term knock yourself out as in meaning go ahead! you do learn something new everyday.

WhatALoadOfOldBollocks thank you. That sounds horrific in a squeeze-my-legs-shut kind of way 😣

I wonder most if other people actively wash their belly buttons...

patheticpanic Zoflora in the 'downstairs toilet' would sting way too much...

Iris, are you Gwyneth Paltrow? I'm sure she wrote about that in Goop.

scary clown 🤡 I've wondered the same, though I might now be too afraid to ask.

Personally I go over it with a sponge and soap. Occasionally I get in there with a facewipe. As a child my belly button was so deep I had to clean it with warm olive oil and a cotton bud, which is pretty grim.

Jesus, sorry if you're actually afraid of clowns, typing error inserted clown emoticon.

Must thank posters on here for all the LOLs😂
Just don't do what a colleague did IRL, the poor woman mistook Vim for talc and gave her undercarriage a good powdering. Got to work but had to leave again very soon with extreme itching and burning.

I don't use soap, just a wet, warm flannel. But I also don't use soap anywhere else but my underarms because I'm sensitive and tbh ... I usually use olive or baby oil it the shower
waits for judgement

I stick my stack in the top drawer of the dishwasher, close the door as best I can, set programme 1 and hold on as best I can.

User 'Knock yourself out' means 'Yes, certainly, go ahead and enjoy doing it'. (It refers to using the username you asked her about) It was an americanism bit has become used often now in GB. It isn't at all offensive. DH asked me the other day about a whole range of silly things for my birthday (which he loves doing and I tolerate because he loves it so much) and I said 'Yes go on, knock yourself out' and gave him a hug. 🙂