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And more importantly, how often do you change yours? I have no fucking idea how often its supposed to be done, so like any high-school pseudo intellectual West Wing fan, erotic cosplay enthusiast, stoner, or token Mormon, I'm throwing the question out to NSG.

Once a week, and I wash mine once a week.

Once a month if nothing gets on 'em.

Well, personally, I have an mattress cover and a topsheet. The top sheet I change once a week, and the mattress cover I pull off and wash once in a month.

I have no idea if those are the correct names, but there's like... a mattress cover, then a sheet, then where I sleep, then a sheet, then blankets (as req'd).

You should change your bedding prior to a new (as in different than the last one) female/male/mormon friend crawling into it with you for various... adventures.

It varies form person to person -- a kid with a bedwetting problem, for example, should have more bedding changes than a cleanliness nut.

You should change your bedding prior to a new (as in different than the last one) female/male/mormon friend crawling into it with you for various... adventures.

When I walk through the door with a new female, the first thing I always say is: 'by the way, you might want change my bedsheets'.

This way I get:

1. A confirmation that she's up for it.
2. My sheets changed with no hassle on my part
3. An understanding of whether she's the type of female to do this on a regular basis
4. Time to quickly catch up with the news while she's changing them

Winner all round, if she's not the type to change sheets, maybe she's just not good enough for me anyway.

Every other weekend during the winter. More often during the sweatier summer months.

Whenever I'm like "this shit is gross, and the dried semen is giving me a skin condition."

When I walk through the door with a new female, the first thing I always say is: 'by the way, you might want change my bedsheets'.

This way I get:

1. A confirmation that she's up for it.
2. My sheets changed with no hassle on my part
3. An understanding of whether she's the type of female to do this on a regular basis
4. Time to quickly catch up with the news while she's changing them

Winner all round, if she's not the type to change sheets, maybe she's just not good enough for me anyway.

Clever. How does it fair between the "Oh, I never thought you'd call!" crowd vs. the "From sunset till sunrise..." girls?

Whenever I'm like "this shit is gross, and the dried semen is giving me a skin condition."

I have wondered about that before, but it's the kind of question politeness usually has me avoid. However, since it's probably less rude to ask in this context: how big a problem are bodily "fluids" for a married or dating couple? Is there a lot of mess? Does this make for many trips to the washing machine? What a topic. :D

I always shower before bed, so it usually stays very clean. I change it on a quarterly basis because there's no way in hell I'm climbing up there to do it unless I'm going home for break.

well it's been my personal opinion that it gets washed whever i leave for scout stuff on weekends. which varies this month i'm working on scout stuff every weekend next month is wide open.

and it bothers me cuz i get home and there are no sheets on my bed. i wont do anything abuot untill i go to bed at midnight so i have to find them and put them on. i couldnt find them last time so i had to sleep in my sleepingbag.

well it's been my personal opinion that it gets washed whever i leave for scout stuff on weekends. which varies this month i'm working on scout stuff every weekend next month is wide open.

and it bothers me cuz i get home and there are no sheets on my bed. i wont do anything abuot untill i go to bed at midnight so i have to find them and put them on. i couldnt find them last time so i had to sleep in my sleepingbag.

I sleep in my sleeping bag while my washing is washed, because I can't be bothered putting new sheets and washing the duvets and stuff.

I have wondered about that before, but it's the kind of question politeness usually has me avoid. However, since it's probably less rude to ask in this context: how big a problem are bodily "fluids" for a married or dating couple? Is there a lot of mess? Does this make for many trips to the washing machine? What a topic. :D

I wish I was in a dating couple.:(

Clever. How does it fair between the "Oh, I never thought you'd call!" crowd vs. the "From sunset till sunrise..." girls?

It only works on a one night pick-up, drunk enough not to think about it too much, not so drunk that they fall asleep on seeing the bed.

It's a tricky tightrope to walk but worth the effort I think.

I wish I was in a dating couple.:(

Ouch. Sorry. :( I had a feeling that I crossed a line with that question, regardless. Ah well.

When I walk through the door with a new female, the first thing I always say is: 'by the way, you might want change my bedsheets'.

This way I get:

1. A confirmation that she's up for it.
2. My sheets changed with no hassle on my part
3. An understanding of whether she's the type of female to do this on a regular basis
4. Time to quickly catch up with the news while she's changing them

Winner all round, if she's not the type to change sheets, maybe she's just not good enough for me anyway.
* waits for you to get labeled a MCP.......

I wish I was in a dating couple.:(

Eh don't worry, you get used to the loneliness.

Hey, at least when you do decide to end it all, you don't have to worry about her coming home to stop you in time! :D

And more importantly, how often do you change yours? I have no fucking idea how often its supposed to be done, so like any high-school pseudo intellectual West Wing fan, erotic cosplay enthusiast, stoner, or token Mormon, I'm throwing the question out to NSG.

Once a week. I shower when I get ready for bed, so it doesn't funkify too much in seven days, but going more than seven days, and it starts to get all nasty and stinky.

It only works on a one night pick-up, drunk enough not to think about it too much, not so drunk that they fall asleep on seeing the bed.

It's a tricky tightrope to walk but worth the effort I think.

For sure. I was just happy with a pot of KD in the morning, but clean sheets?!

Eh don't worry, you get used to the loneliness.

Hey, at least when you do decide to end it all, you don't have to worry about her coming home to stop you in time! :D

Hush, you. I'm still young, I have possibilities!

Once a week unless:

You're sick, in which case, as soon as you're well.
You do something untoward on said bedding, in which case you may need to get a new bed.
You're having company of the opposite gender, in which case, even if you changed them the day before, you need to change them.

The default of once a week of course, presupposes that you bath on a daily basis and don't go to bed dirty, that you don't eat in bed and that animals don't share your bed with you.

Once a week unless:
You're having company of the opposite gender, in which case, even if you changed them the day before, you need to change them.

Aha. My curiosity has been tactfully satisfied. Enlightening, if a little disturbing.

The default of once a week of course, presupposes that you bath on a daily basis and don't go to bed dirty, that you don't eat in bed and that animals don't share your bed with you.

Animals in the bed? People do this? Maybe cats, I could see happening. Anything else would be a bit unhygienic, no? My goats sure never slept on any goosedown.

You're supposed to have bedding? Even for just sleeping?

I'm saving the link, the next time someone tells me "there are no girls on the internet", I'm gonna show them this thread.

I change the sheets whenever I'm expecting to have to share the bed.

Which would make it sometime in the early nineties, except that it was actually more recent than that, because (a) I got a new bed, a nice futon the gay couple up the road threw out when one of them died, and (b) that time I set the bed on fire and there was a big hole in the sheet and a horrible burnt smell.

Your poll sucks. There should be an option "when required."

weekly more if your having sex on it regularly.

Animals in the bed? People do this? Maybe cats, I could see happening.

And dogs. Rats, rabbits, guinea pigs ... anything furry and mammalian really. They're all good in bed.

I change the sheets whenever I'm expecting to have to share the bed.

Which would make it sometime in the early nineties, except that it was actually more recent than that, because (a) I got a new bed, a nice futon the gay couple up the road threw out when one of them died, and (b) that time I set the bed on fire and there was a big hole in the sheet and a horrible burnt smell.

Your poll sucks. There should be an option "when required."

Did one of them die on it?

'Cause I'd paid to sleep on the bed (I accidentally wrote dead there, first, kind of appropriate) out of morbid desire.

And more importantly, how often do you change yours? I have no fucking idea how often its supposed to be done, so like any high-school pseudo intellectual West Wing fan, erotic cosplay enthusiast, stoner, or token Mormon, I'm throwing the question out to NSG.

I change ours at the latest every other week... it starts to smell, and I can't stand that.

Did one of them die on it?

I don't know. It's kind of an insensitive question don't you think?

"Hi. I live just down the road, and I see you have this futon out front. You're throwing that away, right? It's OK if I take it?

Oh, and do you mind if I ask, did ... um ... your partner ... um ... DIE on it?"

It was clean (very clean actually, almost new) and there were only some clothes thrown out at the same time. So it's likely, but it really doesn't matter to me.

'Cause I'd paid to sleep on the bed (I accidentally wrote dead there, first, kind of appropriate) out of morbid desire.

Unfortunately, I think whatever "death vibes" it might have had have been thoroughly obliterated by years of me sleeping happily on it.

But I have a suggestion. Buy a bed from an old-people's home. It's probably had several people die in it!

Hell, if it really appeals to you, consider a career cleaning out houses of people who have died. Executors of the will go through and take all the valuable antiques etc, but the bedclothes, hairbrush last used on the day of death, deceased's toothbrush etc ... fresh with death for you enjoyment! Hell, you could probably put on the death pyjamas, brush your teeth with the death toothbrush, and get into the death bed complete with the death sheets and death pillow!

Good times :)

Once all the cardboard tubes have been shredded.

I change ours at the latest every other week... it starts to smell, and I can't stand that.

"Ours" you say. So your partner isn't worried by the smell enough to change the sheets?

Once all the cardboard tubes have been shredded.

Rats?

"Ours" you say. So your partner isn't worried by the smell enough to change the sheets?

He's not exactly blessed with an oversensitive nose... ;)

Whenever the wife gets around to it.

Every couple of months, if I remember, maybe. This is something you're meant to do regularly?

Rats?

No, just me

My belief is that they ought to be changed every other week.
My action is that.. umm, maybe I ought to change the sheets again.

Right now, it's more like once a month. I don't sleep in my bed every night, either. And I just change them whenever I feel they smell. Or have had bodily fluids poured on them.

... which, I guess, also answers that one question. No matter how "happy" I am together with that one person, if there's been more than slight fluid spill, the sheets got to go. However, such bigger spills don't happen very often with us, so there.

I have wondered about that before, but it's the kind of question politeness usually has me avoid. However, since it's probably less rude to ask in this context: how big a problem are bodily "fluids" for a married or dating couple? Is there a lot of mess? Does this make for many trips to the washing machine? What a topic. :D

Still once a week.

Still once a week.

Yup, I change mine once a week.

Weekly. My OCD says if it's not done weekly, bad things will happen.

if there's been more than slight fluid spill, the sheets got to go. However, such bigger spills don't happen very often with us, so there.
Is it some sort of cum-phobia? 'Cause that fluid just dries up and doesn't even smell, I don't imagine how it's worse than sweat that actually smells.

Is it some sort of cum-phobia? 'Cause that fluid just dries up and doesn't even smell, I don't imagine how it's worse than sweat that actually smells.

Umm. I don't know whether it's your cum or your olfactory sense that's "different", but regular cum, including my partner's, does have a smell to it. And it leaves visible stains.

Umm. I don't know whether it's your cum or your olfactory sense that's "different", but regular cum, including my partner's, does have a smell to it. And it leaves visible stains.
I mean a dried up stain doesn't stink like, for instance, sweaty underwear does. You're obviously not going to change the sheets the same night.

Also, unless you're married with intent to have kids or on pill, where does it go that is "not spill"?

I mean a dried up stain doesn't stink like, for instance, sweaty underwear does. You're obviously not going to change the sheets the same night.

No, it doesn't, but I even change for smells less intrusive than sweaty underwear. And I actually might change the sheets the same night if they've been rather soaked and we're not too tired.

You also forget to take into account that cum is not the only thing that racks up the spill count, at least not with us.

Also, unless you're married with intent to have kids or on pill, where does it go that is "not spill"?

There's so much weird about that sentence, I don't know where to start.

a) Where the fuck does marriage come into play re: fluid spill during sex?

b) You know, when a man disposes of his load inside a woman's vagina, it will eventually come out again too, you know, so if you're the kind to stay in bed for a romantic while more after "finishing", it might still end up on the sheets.

c) There's this funky device called a condom. It looks sort of like this (http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/condom.jpg) when still rolled up and like this (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Condom_unrolled.jpg) when it's unrolled, and it goes over the man's penis, catches the cum, and is then disposed of together with the cum that's inside, so that it never gets anywhere, neither inside the woman nor the sheets.

Awesome, eh?

Once a week. And by "week," I mean 6-8 months.

And dogs. Rats, rabbits, guinea pigs ... anything furry and mammalian really. They're all good in bed.
Totally sigging this. Context be damned.

Good grief another sloooowwww news day. I'm sure if you looked up wiki they'd tell you, honestly.

The third option, "Every second of the day", sounds about right, but you forgot two words...

You also forget to take into account that cum is not the only thing that racks up the spill count, at least not with us.
Santorum? I see.


a) Where the fuck does marriage come into play re: fluid spill during sex?
Into birth control - use of condoms is common otherwise.


Awesome, eh?
Congratulations. You've just turned a fairly innocent thread into a discussion of often tabooed detail of sexual intercourse!

I generally change all the bedding in the house on the weekend. If I've been lucky enough to soil the sheets with GoG, then I'll change them more often.

I have wondered about that before, but it's the kind of question politeness usually has me avoid. However, since it's probably less rude to ask in this context: how big a problem are bodily "fluids" for a married or dating couple? Is there a lot of mess? Does this make for many trips to the washing machine? What a topic. :D

We're pretty good at not spilling much. :D

Small stains = no problem.
Big stains = washing machine.

I just throw down more straw weekly, job done.

I change the sheets at least once a week.

Santorum? I see.
Sorry, no.

Congratulations. You've just turned a fairly innocent thread into a discussion of often tabooed detail of sexual intercourse!

Says the one who introduces santorum into it all.

Also, I pity anyone who lives in a world where condoms are a "tabooed detail" of sexual intercourse.

I change my sheets every three days.....my grandmother changed them every day and my mother never did.....eww!

If I'm in a bad mood or have had a bad day I'll change them regardless, because going to sleep on clean sheets is comforting to me.

Sorry, no.
Oh ####.... There are only a few other variants, and I don't even want to voice them.


Also, I pity anyone who lives in a world where condoms are a "tabooed detail" of sexual intercourse.
Culinary, perfume and dye properties of ejaculate often are.

Sticky patch I can deal with, but funky smell crosses the line

Oh ####.... There are only a few other variants, and I don't even want to voice them.

Culinary, perfume and dye properties of ejaculate often are.

You appear to live in a very restricted world both sex-wise and talk-wise. I'm sorry to hear that and hope you'll be able to venture out of it at least for a while sometime.