# Rimming poll **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 25, 2002, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimming-poll/138661 "2002-11-25T14:23:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimming-poll/138661/21 "2002-11-26T06:14:35Z")
Personally the idea repulses rather than attracts me, so put me down for the NO and NEVER side. What I can’t understand is how it can be sanitary? We are told that many cases of e-coli food poisoning come about from fecal matter contaminating food - food preparer doesn’t wash hands properly after using bathroom, whatever - so how can you avoid ingesting fecal bacteria when actually licking up someone’s anus? ---
**Author:** ![hegel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cab0a1/32.png) [@hegel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hegel)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimming-poll/138661/22 "2002-11-26T06:21:25Z")
It’s not sanitary. Anything involving the anus is dangerous, really. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimming-poll/138661/23 "2002-11-26T06:26:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hegel \* > It’s not sanitary. Anything involving the anus is dangerous, really. I wear disposable gloves and use proper handwashing techniques at my job, and there is a REASON for that. Anything near the anus is in no way sanitary. I know that anything dealing with body fluids, etc. is bound to be not sanitary (and yet we somehow survive anyway) but anything related to fecal matter is WAY off the charts in the unsanitary-meter. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimming-poll/138661/24 "2002-11-26T12:23:26Z")
I have given to several GF’s. Dug it. Have never received, and don’t care to, really. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimming-poll/138661/25 "2002-11-26T20:38:02Z")
This is what I’m gettin’ at! This is why that chick in the Mike’s Hard Lemonade is so turned on by the 2nd Evil head! She knows he’ll tounge butt and not even worry about a misty brown-eye. Its a done deal! * * * What the hell is he talking about? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimming-poll/138661/26 "2002-11-26T20:41:55Z")
I think I’m gonna stick with Lifesavers. ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimming-poll/138661/27 "2002-11-27T01:27:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yosemitebabe \* > \*\*anything related to fecal matter is WAY off the charts in the unsanitary-meter. \*\* I recall Cecil wrote a column on the subject at some point - I think it was in [The Straight Dope](https://securesite.chireader.com/cgi-bin/dopestore/buystuff.bat#tsd), but I can’t find my copy and a search doesn’t turn up. Anyhoo - IIRC, he said that regular partners acheive a kind of ‘homeostasis’ with regard to the bacteria inhabiting said region, and you’re generally safe. ---
**Author:** ![Earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90db22/32.png) [@Earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthling)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimming-poll/138661/28 "2002-11-27T06:30:12Z")
I don’t know if these are what you were thinking of, but a search on Fecal Coliform Bacteria turned up these two articles: - [Does flushing the toilet cause dirty water to be spewed around the bathroom?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a990416.html), and - [Why are men supposed to wash their hands after urination?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_220.html) From the second article, Cecil says: > [@](#): > > It’s rare that a specific sexual practice is associated with spreading germs, but there are exceptions … Many of these illnesses stem from infection by fecal bacteria following anal sex – specifically, anal intercourse, analingus, and fellatio following anal intercourse. > \ > [M]ultiple sex partners, which exponentially increases your exposure to infection. In contrast, monogamous couples … soon achieve “homeostasis” – they’ve swapped germs, didn’t come down with anything, and thereafter coexist in a state of microbial equilibrium. Oh, before anyone jumps in with any band name ideas, please allow me to remind everybody that the [Butthole Surfers](http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol18/issue52/music.buttholes.html) is already taken. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimming-poll/138661/29 "2002-11-27T13:53:16Z")
Nope. Neither. Ick. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimming-poll/138661.md?page=1)