# Ask the nude sleeper anything! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 16, 2010, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-nude-sleeper-anything/557323 "2010-10-16T07:16:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-nude-sleeper-anything/557323/101 "2010-10-20T23:37:35Z")
> [@whole\_bean](#): > > You can buy them seperately. > > As for the “why are you so het up?” folks, I’m not. Not really. I detected condescension early in this thread from the nudies (‘ever heard of bathing’) and just felt like taking 'em down a notch. I could care less is somebody’s little corner of tract housing paradise has ass-scented sheets. Ah, fighting condescension with condescension I see. Hey, my waterfront mansion is just as nice as yours. Tract housing indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-nude-sleeper-anything/557323/102 "2010-10-21T02:25:53Z")
> [@whole\_bean](#): > > just felt like taking 'em down a notch. Did you succeed? ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-nude-sleeper-anything/557323/103 "2010-10-21T03:26:43Z")
Whoever “whole bean” is, all he/she/it has succeeded in doing is looking like a hysteric loony and making people wonder about his/her/its personal hygiene since he/she/it can’t conceive of sleeping in sheets naked and not having them smell like ass. ---
**Author:** ![Gestalt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/90ced4/32.png) [@Gestalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gestalt)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-nude-sleeper-anything/557323/104 "2010-10-21T03:59:18Z")
> [@whole\_bean](#): > > Compare to my sheets, which havent been changed since last Wednesday and don’t smell _at all_ of ass. We obviously have different standards. “Not much” smell of ass is too much smell of ass for me. > > Also, let me straighten something out. I sit in an office chair all day. I park in a covered garage at work and home - it’s cool. I don’t sweat during the day, I even use powder, and yet, my underpants still smell like crotch and ass. That’s why I limit my ass’s and crotch’s contact to toilet seats and underpants and give 'em good lathering once a day. Oh God, this is reminding me so much of the douching thread . . . ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-nude-sleeper-anything/557323/105 "2010-10-21T04:12:25Z")
Which ALSO doesn’t make my sheets smell. When I sleep naked. Which I usually don’t, although I did in college because my alma mater, despite being in Atlanta, had no air conditioning in its historic dorms. ---
**Author:** ![Khaki\_Campbell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Khaki\_Campbell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khaki_Campbell)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-nude-sleeper-anything/557323/106 "2010-10-21T07:14:52Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Ah, fighting condescension with condescension I would imagine well a geeky hipster alternative band making a quirky cover of Metallica’s “Fight fire with fire” and call it “Fight condescension with condescension”. ---
**Author:** ![Norse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a9adbd/32.png) [@Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norse)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-nude-sleeper-anything/557323/107 "2010-10-21T12:07:50Z")
> [@whole\_bean](#): > > you’re rubbing your post sex junk all over the sheets. Dunno 'bout you, but I don’t feel any strong urge to hump the mattress after having had sex (with someone else 😉 ). I usually turn over on my side and sleep quite soundly And a box of Kleenex comes in handy for avoiding both the wet spot (for her) and the icky feeling of a wet penis flopping around (for him). It’s also siginficantly more hygienic than storing your wet pecker in the warm, moist and enclosed environment of the crotch area of a pajama. Apart from that, what’s so gross about sex fluids? Is oral sex unhygienic and gross? ---
**Author:** ![Blut\_Aus\_Nord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Blut\_Aus\_Nord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blut_Aus_Nord)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-nude-sleeper-anything/557323/108 "2010-10-22T19:18:23Z")
Just for the record, I do realize I was rude to the OP with the filthy sheets comment, which led to some hypocritical backpedaling and hole-digging on my part, so sorry about that. I think the only thing that would actually settle any argument on this matter would be some cites for the cleanliness of sleeping habits, because I’ve actually never seen anything to suggest that nude sleeping is in any way worse. I just assumed the reasoning **whole bean** is giving was true, but I’ve been trying to catch myself for ever assuming anything, for obvious reasons. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-nude-sleeper-anything/557323/109 "2010-10-22T20:01:44Z")
I sleep nude or with PJs depending on how cold it is and I never notice a difference in how clean my sheets are. I’m not a very smelly person in general (I don’t need to use deodorant most of the time, for example) and I don’t sweat much, so that probably helps. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-nude-sleeper-anything/557323/110 "2010-10-22T20:56:02Z")
The vehement insistence that my sheets absolutely must smell like ass after a week thanks to two people sleeping naked and rutting repeatedly on them is somewhat amusing. It’s interesting how a person’s uninformed opinion can so easily become a well-established fact. ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-nude-sleeper-anything/557323/111 "2010-10-22T20:56:16Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > Whoever “whole bean” is, all he/she/it has succeeded in doing is looking like a hysteric loony and making people wonder about his/her/its personal hygiene since he/she/it can’t conceive of sleeping in sheets naked and not having them smell like ass. This is funny. _Whoever this “poster name” is_, like I’m some masked dude running around a party. God forbid I come across as an “hysterical loony.” I guess there are worse things I could do. I mean, it’s not like I came unhinged over the name of a confection. Again, I could give two shits what you guys do or don’t sleep in, but I think if you put some thought into it, you might start to see my point. Which of the articles of clothing that you routinely wear most often smells the least pleasant? What is it about that article of clothing that contributes to (if not solely causes) its unpleasant smell? How many wears does that article of clothing get before it’s set aside to be laundered? Hopefully, most of you (‘cept of course those high falutin’ bidet owners without stinky bums) would answer those questions, respectively: underpants; it rests against my ass and crotch\*; and once. Now, if you re a nude sleeper, it’s more than likely that your ass and crotch rest against your bed sheets for a duration multiple times greater than the amount of time you wear your underpants before a laundering. This isn’t high level math \*Simply wearing underpants - no wiping your ass or deep scratching - is enough to make them smell less than pleasant. I don’t know about you, but no other article of clothing (except gym clothes) stink at all when I’m done with them. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-nude-sleeper-anything/557323/112 "2010-10-22T22:16:20Z")
> [@whole\_bean](#): > > \*Simply wearing underpants - no wiping your ass or deep scratching - is enough to make them smell less than pleasant. I don’t know about you, but no other article of clothing (except gym clothes) stink at all when I’m done with them. I’ve never actually noticed them to have a noticeable smell unless I engaged in either the gym or the aforementioned deep scratching, actually. Maybe you’ve just got some relatively highly active sebaceous glands. ---
**Author:** ![Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fried_Dough_Ho)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-nude-sleeper-anything/557323/113 "2010-10-22T23:21:43Z")
> [@whole\_bean](#): > > I don’t know about you, but no other article of clothing (except gym clothes) stink at all when I’m done with them. Same here – so with that logic, why would my sheets smell? ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-nude-sleeper-anything/557323/114 "2010-10-23T00:29:54Z")
> [@whole\_bean](#): > > This is funny. _Whoever this “poster name” is_, like I’m some masked dude running around a party. Well at least we know that if you were to run around at a party, you would wear PJs or underwear and a mask, rather than the mask alone. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-nude-sleeper-anything/557323/115 "2010-10-23T00:53:41Z")
> [@Zeriel](#): > > I’ve never actually noticed them to have a noticeable smell unless I engaged in either the gym or the aforementioned deep scratching, actually. Maybe you’ve just got some relatively highly active sebaceous glands. Same here - maybe **Whole Bean** just has an unusually smelly crotch and doesn’t realize it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-nude-sleeper-anything/557323.md?page=5)