• ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    the key is to wash each other, not just take turns showering yourselves….
    although shower sex is a lot trickier and not worth it….

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    Whenever I’m in there showering with my wife, it’s never fun, but it is important. Getting clean while discussing the impact of student loans on our budgets, worrying about politics, searching for hope, and drying off.

    We come out better for it, but it’s nothing like what the movies suggest.

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      5 months ago

      Was gonna say, my hubby and I shower together intending to get freaky but we end up talking about deep shit and bonding without a single sexual thing happening.

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      a lot of people don’t.

      i’ve dated women who didn’t want me to touch/kiss them ever outside of sex. it was weird. i can imagine that some people tolerate that behaviour and just have a partner who never touches them. i will say they all had massive control/anxiety issues in other areas of their life as well. I’ve also had partners who hated certain sex acts that seemed perfectly fun/normal to me.

      a lot of people have very strict beliefs about the context in which touch should occur even with romantic partners. or consider touch to be ‘dirty’

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        That’s valid but also kind of sad. I’ve dated ace before so I get that some people just aren’t wired for certain things. I but feel a little bad for people who can’t even have nonsexual contact free of shame, but maybe there’s a perspective I’m lacking. Just feels like shame should have no place in a relationship even if physical touch isn’t present either.

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          5 months ago

          Some people just don’t like being touched. Sometimes it’s trauma, sometimes simple preference. It’s not always about shame

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            I like being touched and touching, it’s just horrible to try, or imagine trying, and then being rejected. What if I’m coming on too strong? What if they don’t want to touch right now? What if they don’t want to touch right now, or I’m actually smelly from a mild amount of sweat and they have to endure that because they don’t want to tell me off but I haven’t realized it, and now I’m subjecting them to unpleasantness that they feel obligated to endure?

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        Not all of that, but a whole lot of it is from being raised in… the American version of a Christian household.

        These are the kind of parents who will spy on their kids, catch them masturbating, and then punish them harshly, tie it directly into their moral/spiritual validity as a person.

        Puritanism is very much still alive and well.

        It produces uptight, broken, neurotic people with those control and anxiety issues you mentioned.

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    The other comments have stupid suggestions, the trick is that the one in the water pees on the other, that way no one stays cold.

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    My husband and I designed and (literally) built our own shower. It was a removed, but worth it because it made us think about things like this. It’s a nicely sized space split with a bath tub and shower. We’ve got a big waterfall shower head fixed at the center of the ceiling in the shower area, then a separate hosed shower head where one would normally place one. Then the other far end of the shower is slightly dryer with no direct water.

    Kicks ass for having shower sex. Also great for just shower and/or bath time together to vent/chat in the middle of our work day.

    cool shower

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    It’s the emotional intimacy, and sharing in something mundane together.

    Not “sexy,” but can be comforting and special anyway.

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    Y’all need a shower head with a detachable wand in the middle. Revolutionized showering together. We both get to shower at the same time

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      My first time trying this it resulted in me holding her entire bodyweight up, spreadeagle in a corner of the glass shower frame while hammering away. We were both a tad concerned for the shower glass but continued anyway, and it was thankfully ok. 10/10 recommend.

      Edit: lol the downvotes. Sorry, not everyone has such sad experiences in the shower with their partners.

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    If you get the chance go for the second shower head with a larger shower. We love ours even if it’s just one of us using it.