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There is a running-gag in the gay community "a guy with an unwashed ass" which is used for straight guys.

Also, many women told me that they were in love with guys with bad hygiene, some of them never washing between their cheeks because "nothing goes between my ass cheeks, that's gay shit!"

Some women even going so far as saying "if sexuality was a choice, why in their right mind would anyone choose (unwashed) men?!"

So maybe this isn't that big of a problem in terms of sex and intimacy as you and I would think?

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Memes aside... Sex has weird and sometimes offensive smells. This holds true for queer folks, straight folks, and even folks with good hygiene. I feel like most sexually active adults already know this.

You aren't always going to get a shower and a toothbrush just prior to bumping uglies.

Body odors are one thing. Not having showered for weeks is another.

Maybe, when everyone stinks you'd get used to it and think nothing of it?

I once spent a summer working in the equivalent of a knacker's yard. The first day or two there the smell was appalling but it got to the stage where I no longer noticed it. People away from work noticed me though!

> Sex has weird and sometimes offensive smells.

Check the condom brand/type. Sex has no smell most of the time. I found the condom to be the culprit.

> Sex has no smell most of the time.

Your bodily fluids have a smell. Maybe you can't smell them, but other people can.

There's a huge difference between washed-in-the-last-day-or-two genital odor and MONTHS of unwashed genitals!!

Straight guy here. Anyone who doesn’t wash their ass is fucking disgusting.

Many people in the modern world don't. It was a surprise/culture-shock to find that France and the USA don't have any kind of bidet on their toilets.

Yeah, I’m a Yank and I think it’s kind of gross that we don’t wash after every bowel movement. But taking that a step further and not even washing your ass while showering is just foul.

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