KEEPING IT CLEAN





Image result for Couples Showering TogetherI love shower sex.

There is something wonderfully erotic and refreshing about sharing a shower with
another person, or group of people for that matter. It doesn't even need to be about sex, though that's (obviously) a very nice extra.

I love shower sex. And I also love shower intimacy. Even if it doesn't end in sex, being close to another person and sharing the experience can be a powerful and erotic bonding experience.


Image result for Showering with FriendsIn our home we have specifically designed the showers to allow more than one person to shower at a time. In the master bedroom's bathroom the shower is so big it could hold three. (Even the bathtub is large enough for two...)

But they so rarely have been used for more than a single person that it's a lost opportunity. Our guest bathroom - we have a section of the house set aside for guests and we frequently rent it out on AirBnB - features a dual-head shower large enough for two, and we like to think some of the people who stay with us take advantage of it.

It's not strictly about sex. It's the sensual experience of another person's hands touching you. Washing your back. Sharing the closeness.


Yes it can lead to sex. Really, really good sex.

Image result for Showering with FriendsImage result for showering togetherBut it can also bring people closer together by simply giving them a way to "commune" other than sex or being clothed. Communal showers in gyms - the YMCA, for example - was once a spot where men (and women) could go. It was often a quick thing to doff the clothing, wash and dry off, but most guys talked or laughed or joked around. Sports teams shower together
, not out of necessity so much as for team bonding.


It's an ancient act, this bathing together. But I kinda think the ancients knew what they were doing. Humans are a social species, and bathing is a ritual found in virtually all social species other than our own. We deprive ourselves of this simply act of bonding, and I have to wonder if we might be a little less judmental and argumentative if ritual bathing was part and parcel of the American social life.

Unfortunately we'll probably never relax enough to know.


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