To ask if you wash your bed linen every time you have sex?

[StandingOvulation]

I tend towards slatternity so I didn't realise this was A Thing

Luckily it's only high days and holidays nowadays, so it's not as though Id be ploughing through the Bold on Bed sheets.

It's this another MN requirement where I come up wanting?

YABU: wash em straight away you grim creature.

YANBU: Meh, wash Em on the normal processing time, no need to rush.

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Surely most people change them at the same time as washing out the penis beaker?

@Baileys123

Hellithurt...if you can sleep in dirty, smelly, sex stained bedding then OK. I just have standards and prefer clean bedding..each to their own......

Oh and it's not smell either

Also... I don't understand why sex fluids should fundamentally be considered more dirty than any other kind of bodily secretion.

Obviously people (normally) don't piss and shit in their beds, but they do sweat, dribble etc. I'd bet the average person emits more fluid through sweat in a night than through sex fluids.

Do people have a similar horror of their children getting into sheets which have absorbed sweat and rush to change them before their children get into bed? No.

Pure neurosis.

MN is THE weirdest place when it comes to laundry and sex.

I don't believe anyone in the real world is changing the sheets immediately after sex. Its ridiculous

@thepeopleversuswork

Also... I don't understand why sex fluids should fundamentally be considered more dirty than any other kind of bodily secretion.

Obviously people (normally) don't piss and shit in their beds, but they do sweat, dribble etc. I'd bet the average person emits more fluid through sweat in a night than through sex fluids.

Do people have a similar horror of their children getting into sheets which have absorbed sweat and rush to change them before their children get into bed? No.

Pure neurosis.

This 100%

@Baileys123

Every time I never wanna risk my children getting in

😂😂😂😂

Laughing at the idea that not washing the sheets is unhygienic.... surely sex is inherently unhygienic...am I doing it wrong... perhaps everyone on Mumsnet wears a full body condom to ensure they don't get the other person's bodily fluids on them!

Do you really choose to lie your baby down in your husbands semen? Why??

Dear God. Just how much do some men produce? There's usually plenty of room in the bed to be able to put a small baby down while still avoiding the wet patch!!

No, dp gets to sleep in the wet spot as its him whose leaked his stuff everywhere.
I dont think ide have the energy to change the sheets after sex.

2bazookas you awful awful vile person for that comment 😔 I cant keep up with all the nastiness EVERYONE is giving me but this one is truly sick...shame on anyone for finding it funny

@Baileys123

Hellithurt...if you can sleep in dirty, smelly, sex stained bedding then OK. I just have standards and prefer clean bedding..each to their own......

Hey, you can't insult people and the complain people are insulting you...that's double standards

None of you are having much sex if you're busy posting on MN

Well, DH is at work at the minute and the window cleaner is in his 60s.

@iklboo

None of you are having much sex if you're busy posting on MN

Well, DH is at work at the minute and the window cleaner is in his 60s.

He might have learned a trick or 2 in 40 odd years,give him a whirl

You only wash the bedding? I burn it and bury the ashes next to a rowan tree under a full moon.

Absolutely, I can''t stand laying on the stains it grosses me out. So sometimes put a towel on the sheets so don't have to worry about it LOL

Nothing quite says romance like “leek proof blanket”
The PP actually wrote leak,

What would a leek proof blanket be used for?

@resuwen

You only wash the bedding? I burn it and bury the ashes next to a rowan tree under a full moon.

LOL

@Goldrill

I wash my sheets way more often than I have sex. They'd be properly gross if I left them that long.

Haha - this! Me too.

@Blossomtoes

What would a leek proof blanket be used for?

Those embarrassing vichyssoise moments

Nothing would put me off sex more than knowing I'd have to change the bedding after.

Laughing my head off at this , there are so many very witty people who post on here. As with so many posts, there is no right or wrong, if you choose to change sheets every time, have a shag blanket 😉 or once every two weeks it doesn't mean you're a slut or an uptight control freak. Do what you're comfortable with and don't criticise other people who do it differently

Blimey, I know I'm laid back about these things but it had never occured to me to leap out of bed and start stripping down the sheets while still in full post-coital glow.

TBH we usually just lie in a tangled heap, I mean obvs I try and steer him into any wet patches but quite frankly remembering to go for a wee afterwards to stave off potential UTIs is about as much as I can manage.