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Depends on how well you know each other. I've had a "wait that's not lube any more" moment with my wife that could only be fixed with a shower and a reschedule.
Let's just say that when I did disclose it, a long time later, it went about as well as I expected. Your wife sounds far more amenable to critique than the average.
Oof. Hm. Never tried anal sex and it's not my kind of thing, but I've never gotten the impression that the women I've seen would be exceptionally angry about it.
If anything, women I've dated have been more interested in sexual cleanliness than me, particularly for themselves. I'm not sure, "you stink" would be considered a wonderful thing to say, but I don't have any doubt that I could express what was going on and it would all be okay in the end, even if feelings were hurt in the moment.
This wasn't even anal sex. The aroma hit me during doggy :(
What's worse is that, like you said, the lady in question was far more of a freak about fastidious cleaning than I ever was.
Oh, that's a different story! Anal accidents happen, but not washing your anogenital area before sex and then acting offended when called out on it is just shitty behavior, no pun intended.
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Oh, yeah, I had the same experience a long time ago. It happens, I guess.
We really do need the bidet in the west. I have basically trained my digestive system to be almost perfectly regular, and I shower every time I have a bowel movement so I can keep things clean.
This made me remember that the topic of bidets did come up during our conversation. Both FG and I agreed that they were the mark of civilization, and that TP was a barbaric practice.
He added comments about having a hairy ass that I will not reproduce, at the moment.
But you end up with your posterior dripping wet. Wat do? It just didn't seem practical to me when I tried it.
You can wait a few seconds to let the worst of it drip off. Or you can take some TP and dab off the moisture!
I have a butt that can be called a hairy one. TP leaves me with swamp ass far more often than a bidet does.
Forgive me for being disgusting (he said to the trained doctor) but loo paper is water-absorbing. If you wipe a wet bottom with loo paper, you’re going to get lots of shreds of paper stuck between your legs and what I can only describe as bum juice all over your hands. Whereas dry loo paper keeps everything on the right side of the barrier, especially if you fold it double.
Is loo paper different in India and other bidet-using countries? Thicker?
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Seconding @Muninn. Once you get a bidet installed, you will hate having to do without when away from home.
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Boy do I have some news for you! Hooks up to your existing water line so all it needs is a nearby outlet and you're good to go. Utterly life changing and I have no idea how folks endure the barbarity of making do with the standard bogroll.
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