# Men, do you wash your, **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 20, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-wash-your/400989 "2007-04-20T20:12:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-wash-your/400989/81 "2007-04-22T07:28:17Z")
Hey!! :mad: Any excuse to rub it!!! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-wash-your/400989/82 "2007-04-22T08:02:10Z")
[QUOTE=mangeorge] Been told that cut or uncut really doesn’t make a lot of difference. Don’t know for sure, though. And we _really_ don’t want to restart that tired old dabate here, right? This has been a lot more fun than I expected. 😛 mangeorge [/QUOTE] Well if you spent any time down there you’d know it makes some difference. I’ve never run in to (well I don’t run into them, that would hurt) a cut one I had a problem with. One the other hand American uncut can be pretty funky. (The British uncut are sparkly clean) ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-wash-your/400989/83 "2007-04-22T08:18:10Z")
[QUOTE=alice\_in\_wonderland] ::_Mom, sometimes I just don’t feel fresh…_:: [/QUOTE] I thought it went: “Mom, do you ever feel ‘not-so-fresh’?” ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-wash-your/400989/84 "2007-04-22T11:18:23Z")
[QUOTE=Shagnasty] I realized that is true but if you just throw it over your shoulder, your dick is right there as well. [/QUOTE] Wouldn’t that make me a continental soldier? 🙂 What everybody else said. Wash it! ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-wash-your/400989/85 "2007-04-22T11:30:55Z")
If I don’t wash the area daily, my pubic hair turns into wire. This is not fun. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-wash-your/400989/86 "2007-04-22T11:55:23Z")
Every day. With soap. Thoroughly. And twice. Sometimes a quick freshen-up with a damp towel before getting into any… er… extracurricular activities. Since this is a comparatively recent development, I’m still a little paranoid about washing before. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-wash-your/400989/87 "2007-04-22T16:18:32Z")
[QUOTE=betenoir] Well if you spent any time down there you’d know it makes some difference. I’ve never run in to (well I don’t run into them, that would hurt) a cut one I had a problem with. One the other hand American uncut can be pretty funky. (The British uncut are sparkly clean) [/QUOTE] Right, I’ve always seen the info referred to as that it “doesn’t make a difference” \*\*_IF_ \*\* you clean it properly to begin with. Which a lot of people in a culture where cut was the default, and talking about genital maintenance discouraged, didn’t learn to. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-wash-your/400989/88 "2007-04-22T17:15:38Z")
“Even cut men still have some skin, and crevices and such. If cut men don’t wash, they too get funky”. Note the (")'s Circumcision was invented back in the day when pretty much nobody bathed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-wash-your/400989.md?page=4)