TAOL Staff Douching Guide for Beginners
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A staff guide to cleaning your butt...
Summer means anal! Apparently? We see an increase in anal interest during summer. Our guess is people have more time on their hands to live it up (and clean up). We get a lot of questions on hygiene so this week we will go over the basics and questions I hear the most. I will also be providing my main beloved resource that helped me the best when I was starting out.
We will be focusing on douching, as it’s what most people need/ask about.
A few important things pertaining to your butt hygiene.
- Douching ≠ Enema
Douching is less invasive, cleaning ONLY the rectum (where poop is stored when you need to poop). An enema is a deeper cleanse that passes the rectum, through the sigmoid colon, and basically forces your body to initiate the poop sequence.
So, douching is just rinsing out and leftovers in your storage and an enema makes you poop.
Douching can be done under 10 minutes, while an enema may take well over 30 minutes.
Douching doesn’t really feel like anything. An enema will cramp really bad like you have diarrhea, and you may find it difficult to hold it in.
If you are just having penetrative sex, getting fingered, shorter dildos, butt plugs, basically anything that will not go past your rectum, stick with douching.
Enemas are reserved for depth play, long/monster dildos, deep fisting, and its medical function of colonoscopies.
- The Poop Fear
Even as someone who does anal on the regular, I still don’t want to see any brown during sex. Butt (I think I’ve made this joke on multiple occasions at this point), it comes with the territory. Your poop chute is, well, where the poop comes out. I totally understand this aversion to poop. That’s where I started off too! That is why we clean and take precautions.
If putting a condom on your dildo, or wearing gloves, or putting down a pee mat settles the unease you feel about any accidents, DO IT! Anal isn’t enjoyable when you’re tensed and stressed out. If you’re still to stressed out, take a step back and come back to it when you’re ready. Anal isn’t for everyone, but if you’re interested in it, you have to take everything slow.
It got better overtime, especially when I became more confident with douching. The next point really helps with clean poops too.
- Fibre is your best friend
Whether you eat a bunch of non-soluble fibre, or drink supplements, your anal life will be cleaner and more convenient if you can bulk up your poop. If you have good clean poops, there’s a possibility that you won’t even need to douche. Doesn’t hurt to do a cursory bulb of water to check though. If you plan on incorporating anal more regularly into your life, eat more fibre! It’s good for you anyway. The less time on the toilet, the more stuff you can do.
Personally, I like to start my day off with a bowl of oat meal. That’s the first thing I eat during breakfast, then I go for my eggs and toast and fresh fruit. You can eat whatever you want for your fibre. I just find oatmeal is cheap and easy. Soft creamy oats with milk and a bit of honey and cinnamon, yum!
TOOLS
The bulb I use holds 89ml of water. You don't need anything huge. The photo of this post has the bulb I use, the small black one. "Prowler Bulb Douche" if you are interested in getting it. We have larger ones too. I use two bulbs of the smaller one, so if you get a larger one you can get away with just one bulb full of water.
CLEANING
Okay! To the actually cleaning where we put water up our butts.
The first step is to go poop. If you poop after an enema that doesn’t make too much sense. If you are a once-a-day pooper and already did the biz earlier, you can skip this step.
Drug stores may sell enema solutions. They are not necessary. Some have laxatives in them and we do not need to force a poop.
Start off by filling a cup with tap water. The water should be slightly cool to the touch, a little cooler than your body temperature. Warm water can irritate your insides and cold water is mostly just uncomfortable.
There is no one size fits all for the amount of water you need for a douche. Start off with 1 bulb. While in an upright position-I find it easiest to access my anus when sitting on the toilet-lightly press the nozzle onto your butthole and squeeze. We are upright to prevent water from entering too deep, which can result in a poopy surprise later.
You can insert IF you use lube. Otherwise, as long as you do not clench, water will enter fine. If you force the nozzle in with no lube, you may irritate your butt and sex might be painful.
Chances are we didn’t use all the water in the bulb since we are upright (gravity), I usually do another bulb so it adds up to 1 full bulb.
Count to 5 and let it out. Do this until you do not see any brown particles anymore. Yellow mucus may show up, this is discharge. Butt mucus basically. This may also show up during sex, totally normal. Other than the fact that it is your anus, it is not a byproduct of fecal matter.
And you’re done! I like to clean up my bathroom and sit around a bit, just in case there’s still water in me. Not necessary, it’s just for my peace of mind.
howtocleanyourass is my favourite resource to recommend. This was the first resource that helped me make sense of douching. It gives a good baseline to start out, I’ve just provided what works best for me in this article. Also in lots of different languages. It also has information on enemas if you are interested, I am not well versed enough to write an article about this yet so don’t expect one anytime soon.
Peace and love!