To think he must be dirty down ‘there’!

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Am I being unreasonable to think that if a man has BO and doesn’t have a particularly physical job that it’s because he hasn’t washed and used a deodorant? And if he hasn’t washed his armpits then he hasn’t washed his penis? It just occurred to me the other day. I don’t mind a bit of BO if you’re in very very close range but when it smells from a few metres away, how clean are those penises?

Presumably it’s safely tucked away in his underwear where no one has to smell it! I’d be more concerned about the cleanliness of his hands.

Must you ?

Would you apply this to women too? Or just men?

You’re probably right OP but I can’t but feel you’re overthinking this. I haven’t ever given a second’s thought to the state of random todgers that that are safely encased in trousers (and hopefully pants too).

Actually I tell a lie. I think it has crossed my mind in relation to public swimming pools. Along with poo crumbs, piss etc etc.

Yes definitely women too!

Why are you concerned about that?

If someone is unwashed and smelly then it’s likely all parts of them follow the theme. Some people do smell as soon as they start sweating though, it’s not always due to being unwashed.

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I’m thinking more about if I was attracted to someone (which I’m not as I’m married) and I overlooked their mild BO only to discover something a lot worse on closer, romantic inspection! 🤣

I'm more concerned about the state of your mind

I think I’m thinking about this because I once started to get intimate with a guy who turned out to have smegma (I stopped) and I’ve had a bit of a phobia of it since.

Well if you find yourself to be single one day avoid the smelly ones and you'll no longer have to worry

Yes that’s good advice!

I clearly have an overactive imagination.

I have colleagues who are related to each other. Mother and her adult children.

Mother is reasonably high up in the company (care home) and her children are on the care and maintenance teams.

They live together.

The smell. Oh god. I think they must all have one bath a week and share the water. To make it worse they all smoke, so stale fag smell on top.

It got so bad that management had to have words. It got better for a while but soon went back to normal.

Last summer, the heat and a busy workload with unforgiving sweaty uniforms....urgh. It was awful. We now have air freshener in our drawers purely to get rid of the smell of them.

I have often thought, but not put too much thought into it, that they must be properly filthy in all areas. It makes me feel ill.

Everyone has smegma, OP.

But not everyone has it like cottage cheese. You can wash it off before it starts to congeal like that.

isatis no they don’t

Would you apply this to women too? Or just men?

Presumably just men, since OP is asking about their penis

The last person I dated before my OH has issues with the cleanliness of his mansausage. It made me feel like I was going to vom. I guess that taught me not to get intimate with someone before I felt comfortable enough to say something about it.

OH has to be forced into the shower and he's obese and gets that overweight smell. Last summer, his downstairs area/ butt crack smelt awful. But I can tell him. He might not like it but if he wants me to put my face down there, then he needs to learn some basic hygiene.

Sometimes I suspect it’s more to do with poor laundry habits. I know folk who shower/wash hair on a fairly normal basis, but rewear their clothes far too often. Stale body smells accumulate quickly in fabrics, especially modern synthetic ones. And if you just whack everything in the machine, with cheap detergent, with no real regard to the cycle, it may not actually clean them sufficiently.

Even drying clothes without care can easily make them mustier than when you started.

It does surprise me how sensitive some of our noses are to ‘body smells’ these days, given how we evolved to all live together in crusty stinky groups with only the odd rain shower to wash us! It’s also strange how whiffy folk can’t smell themselves as bad (and do something about it). Or do most of them know but just not care? Leaving aside people with MH issues, and those who can’t afford to care.

@Isatis they really don't

Umm,, ye olde smeg is mostly there even after a shower that morning by eveningtide there is some of it. Best ask him to have a quick shower before any sexual combat takes place:)

Unless he's been cut not so much of a problem so i hear, can't speak for meself on that one!

It's a long time since I came across the word smeg! Nostalgic it ain't, still wincing at your cottage cheese analogy....

Brings a whole new meaning to the term "Dirty Sex.