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Do people really make their partners "wash their willy"?

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Blurby · 14/10/2019 17:30

Years ago I was friends with a girl who casually mentioned in a conversation that when she and her boyfriend are in the throws, and she decides to perform fellatio (great word), she'd make him wash his willy first.

I've now, ten years later, stumbled across a similar comment being made on a TV show I'm watching. This time the guy is required to do so before any sexual encounter.

Maybe I'm just lucky because my husband is a well-kept, clean guy...

AIBU to think that willy washing before sex etc. would take away from the moment?


If you've found this page in your search of how to clean up after sex and cleaning your sex toys, you might find our guide to the best sex toy cleaners useful. Hope this helps! MNHQ

OP posts:
SpillTheTea · 08/03/2020 21:33

I'm internally shuddering at the thought of sweaty dick smell. A recent wash is a must.
Why has this turned into a circumcision debate?

Ronnie27 · 08/03/2020 21:57

Tbf I wash myself thoroughly before sex and expect the same courtesy. Surely if anything the fact that I’m having to ask would be more of a turn me off for me than my asking would be to him? Grin

SayNoToCarrots · 08/03/2020 22:02

Just to add to the circumcision debate, not all fgm is to the degree of cutting off clitorises and labia and sewing up the rest. Some cultures have a ceremonial cut that is easily healed from and causes relatively little distress. It is still unnecessary mutilation.

I grew up in a culture where male circumcision was the norm. My brother asked me to spare my son.

They are not the same, and not directly comparable, but surgical interference with genitals is not acceptable unless medically necessary.

Branleuse · 08/03/2020 22:03

dp always washes his cock under the tap if hes been for a piss anyway.
I aways wash my foo before sex

PigletJohn · 08/03/2020 22:19

you can get a low-level washbasin designed for the purpose

Also ideal for use as a baby's bath, dolly bath, dog's drinker and cat's bed.

Do people really make their partners "wash their willy"?
happyandsingle · 08/03/2020 22:22

I prefer circumsised all the way.Funny enough all the men I've slept with have been circumsised.I mainly date foriegn men so guess that could be why.
Is it the norm for english guys not to be circumsised?

Shockers · 08/03/2020 22:26

We squirt each other’s bits with Domestos before any nudey prod can happen.

It’s just basic courtesy to be 99% germ free, isn’t it?

Blurby · 09/03/2020 00:35

@BuzzShitbagBobbly

Loving how OP thinks she has the world's cleanest bloke

I don't know where you got that from - just heard the phrase "wash your willy" more than once and was surprised people openly shared it as public knowledge. My fella has an action man package anyway so we're all good. SmileGin

@LettertoHermoine

The words of an absolute pro, spoken like an angel. You should submit that to the Poetry Society's annual poem competition. Or even better, perform it as spoken word in a dimly lit room while smoking a cigarette.

OP posts:
Blurby · 09/03/2020 00:36

@Shockers

I think scooshing a couple of glugs of toilet bleach also does the trick.

OP posts:
Fieldofgreycorn · 09/03/2020 00:39

It’s funny how other animals love the smell of each other’s bits. Dogs smell each other almost as a casual greeting.

avamiah · 09/03/2020 00:42

My OP’s Willy is fine but it’s his breath that gets me .haha
I have to tell him to brush his teeth.
And I have told him to make a dentist appointment.

SpokeTooSoon · 09/03/2020 00:47

happyandsingle

Yes, uncircumcised is the norm here, unless they’re Jewish.

SpokeTooSoon · 09/03/2020 00:54

There are many differences between the cultures of the world, and it's very ignorant to assume that yours is the one that's got it all right, just because you don't agree with the practices of others

Actually I’m very comfortable in my belief that not cutting and hurting infant boys is the better culture.

Lynda07 · 09/03/2020 01:02

Fieldofgreycorn Mon 09-Mar-20 00:39:42
It’s funny how other animals love the smell of each other’s bits. Dogs smell each other almost as a casual greeting.
........
We still have a recognisable male or female scent even when scrupulously clean, it just isn't unpleasant.

PhilCornwall1 · 09/03/2020 06:03

@Blurby give him a few minutes with hand sanitiser down there. Kills two birds, he's clean and sorted out at the same time.

Now, what shop has hand sanitiser left? Hmmmmm Hmm

Oblomov20 · 09/03/2020 06:08

Why are there loads of threads about this atm?

I'm saddened that you are all so obsessed with cleanliness. No spontaneity, no waking up and having sex?
This is all really obsessive.
Dh has never smelt!

checkingforballoons · 09/03/2020 06:11

Genuinely surprised how common this is! Each to their own but it had never occurred to me that so many people did this.
I’m now wondering if previous partners remember me fondly because of it. ‘Yeah, we just went for it. She didn’t even mention Dettol. I wonder what happened to her?’ Grin

kevintheorangecarrot · 09/03/2020 06:19

I'm lucky my husband always keeps himself clean down there every day, including under his foreskin. However he does give it a quick rinse if I'm giving him a BJ and he goes for a piss first. Blush

Branleuse · 09/03/2020 07:19

Ive also heard that ciecumcised cocks smell cleaner even if they dont wash, which makes sense, but my partner is not circumcised and also doesnt smell as he washes it frequently, which is not exactly a problem. He gets to retain the other benefits of a foreskin such as not needing lube even to wank, let alone for sex most of the time, and normal sensitivity.

Vulpine · 09/03/2020 07:39

How does spontaneous sex work then? Hmm

TomPinch · 09/03/2020 07:48

Hooray for the NHS (because it does not perform the odious practice of circumcision of baby boys as a routine matter).

LettertoHermoine · 09/03/2020 07:49

The words of an absolute pro, spoken like an angel. You should submit that to the Poetry Society's annual poem competition. Or even better, perform it as spoken word in a dimly lit room while smoking a cigarette

@Blurby what a fantastic idea! Might see if Graham Norton is interested in my angelically spoken, literary classic!! Ohhhh I could end on this little ditty....

If he wants a little blow
Make sure that he is fresh below.
He's been out all day so don't be silly,
Don't be like Blurby and WASH THE WILLY!

I am taking it to all the downtown, dimly lit jazz bars where I will wear a red cocktail dress, smoke up a storm and tell all the men in dirty, stained raincoats, in my gravelly, smokers ANGELIC voice, to go home and give their mickey a bit of a rinse if they would like someone to put it in their mouth and suck on it. IMAGINE the amount of woman who will not be offered a pissy, sweaty, stuck to my ballbag all day in my Snickers trousers fixing a radiator penis after listening to "The Wash yer Willy Woman" down at Harry's Bar on a Tuesday! The lives I could change!!! See you there @blurby!! Don't worry! Change is a comin!!

dottiedodah · 09/03/2020 08:02

OccasionNachos 12 hour shift at work ? Amazed you have any energy left for Sex !

Namechangexyz1 · 09/03/2020 08:04

Wth my two ex-partners, non-circumcised, I used to get them to wash because it always stank under there.

WTH

I've honestly never experienced a man having odour there. They showered daily and cleaned themselves daily and I never had any reservations about their hygiene.

That sounds as if they are not bothering to shower or clean it as much as they should.

Me personally I like to freshen myself up first even though I'm confident there would be no problem. I just prefer to.

Namechangexyz1 · 09/03/2020 08:07

Circumcised men with that horrible hard rubbery glans that has had to thicken because it has chafed on clothing where it shouldn't have. No thanks.