Would you share your SO's toothbrush?
Perhaps you lost yours? Or it fell down the toilet. Would you use your significant others toothbrush? If not why not?
Would you share a razor? In fact how much would you share in terms of personal items, for one reason or another.
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Reluctantly (toothbrush). If there really was absolutely no other option. I wouldn’t use his razor. Only because he’d get shitty with me though.
We share bodily fluids regularly. Meh… what am I going to catch?
A former SO liked to share my toothbrush from time to time. I went along with it but I wasn’t crazy about the arrangement. Just didn’t seem sanitary to me.
Never. I’d get in the car and go get supplies at the dollar store if I had to. Lol. I do not share personal items. Sorry.
No. The thought of it grosses me out. I’d rather take me and my morning breath to the store and get a cheap toothbrush. Hell, I rather brush with my finger or rely on minty gum than use his toothbrush.
I don’t even like drinking after him (or anyone), though I will do it. I wouldn’t want to use his razor either. In fact, we have two of the same exact razor instead of sharing one.
No. That is nasty. Toothbrushes are for personal use only. No exceptions, no excuses.
Same here no way it’s unsanitary.
I don’t have an SO right now but times I did, I would rather not brush my teeth if I had to, even though that’s gross, but to me it’s grosser to use someone else’s toothbrush.
I’ve brushed my teeth with my index finger before, and at times with a twisted (clean) washrag. It’s effective, even if a bit messy. I see no reason to use another’s toothbrush.
Yes. I’d have no problem, in a pinch, using the tooth brush of someone I’d French-kissed.
My ex used to shave my legs with his electric razor. We both enjoyed the experience.
Bleh…no!
I don’t care how intimate I am with someone, toothbrushes are off limits. Ick!
I just have this feeling like if it’s ok to people to use a community toothbrush, if you are on the last peice of tp why not keep reusing that over and over then? :s
@nofurbelowsbatgirl: wait a sec, how did we get from SOs to “community toothbrushes”?
I admit, I’m really not a germaphobe, so maybe that disqualifies me somehow… But this seems illogical. French kissing and other intimacies are perfectly sanitary, but the item they stick in their mouth and then rinse off (which you surely aren’t doing with you tongue) isn’t sanitary in a pinch? OK, got it.
No, that is my toothbrush. If you want to perform any stomach churning dirty sex act at all I’m here, but my toothbrush is mine.
LOL. @RandomGirl well to me it’s all the same. I think a toothbrush has more germs than kissing. There’s like food particles and stuff. I don’t know I’m very particular about certain things and the toothbrush is one of the things I think is probably about as clean as the toilet brush. Sorry, personal preference. I buy a new toothbrush once a month. lol.
We have not shared toothbrushes and do not have plans to do so. If my toothbrush were incapacitated for whatever reason (which seems unlikely since I usually have backup and carry Wisps in my work bag), I would either buy a new one or Macguyver one with my index finger. Besides, I would still have floss and mouthwash to use, so I wouldn’t feel completely gross.
Yes, I would and have used his toothbrush. I figure that if we swap spit on a regular basis how much different is it from using his toothbrush? We do not share a razor mostly because shaving my legs makes the blade too dull to shave his face – he cuts himself.
No big deal sharing a toothbrush with my wife. It has happened on rare occasion when one of us forgot theirs on an overnighter. What’s the problem?
Somehow, using someone else’s toothbrush is simply a no-no. I’d rather wait until I get my own toothbrush. I suppose there are people who share their tooth brush with their pet dogs too, but I wouldn’t.
I really find this fascinating. Some people have no problem giving their partner a blowjob, but borrowing a toothbrush from the same person is gross? this makes me giggle :)
My SO’s toothbrush isn’t really mine to share with you, so if you want to borrow it, I’ll have ask her for you. ;-)
When I was married my husband and I shared a toothbrush the whole time, not the same toothbrush all those years mind you.
Didn’t they make fun of this concept on How I Met Your Mother? And no, I would not share his toothbrush. Maybe I’d use it once if it were a dire situation (my toothbrush falls in the toilet, there’s no other toothbrush besides his, we were about to go to a fancy gathering…okay, in that case, yes). But otherwise, no. :)
Who has only one personal tooth brush? They’re cheap so there should be an extra somewhere. And you don’t need to worry about anyone accusing you of being some kind of prepper when you have a back up.
Sure just wash it with soap and water.
If it falls in the pot it’s going in the trash. Your fingers can be used to clean your teeth in a pinch
Her nipples are also very good if my nose itches during humpytime, quite a snug fit, but just the ticket.
Nope. I’m not even weird about other people’s bodies or icked out by germy stuff, but something about sharing toothbrushes makes my gut say no way.
I have to ask, for those who wouldn’t use their SO’s toothbrush, what makes this specific thing so awful? I read the whole “food chunks” comment, but if you kiss after a meal and before brushing teeth there are food chunks around then. What about @jonsblond‘s point about performing oral? So what makes sharing a toothbrush so bad? I am not judging or trying to change minds, I am just trying to understand the popular opinion here.
@SuperMouse I can see why it makes no logical sense. Well, it doesn’t. It’s just different for me, I don’t know why.
Yes of course. Wouldn’t even think twice.
Same as @tups. I don’t know what it is, something about it just grosses me out. I’m a little anal about my teeth.
My husband is also being treated for periodontal disease, so that’s an extra “nope” for me. I wouldn’t judge other people for it, something about it just doesn’t agree with me and I’m not even entirely sure why.
Flulther and it’s ‘logical’ answers, I swear it’s wearing me out——-
Just because you kiss a partner, sleep with them or occasionally taste
the pudding on their spoon are not reasonable justifications for using
their toothbrush. To do so is no different that putting a used Q-tips
in your ears or sharing their toilet paper. If you find yourself in a
rare position where you must use someone else?s toothbrush, you should
boil it first, or at the very least clean it first with a strong
antiseptic such as Listerine or Dr. Tichenor’s.
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/743769.html
I have shared his toothbrush in the past if we were staying away and I had forgotten mine, that’s not even an issue for me. Same with using his razor (although he doesn’t use a razor but for the sake of the question.
@DigitalBlue ok the periodontal disease would probably do it for me. Since you mentioned that and I know it would keep me from using his toothbrush and I have no idea why, it is easier for me to understand the mindset. Thanks!
@KNOWITALL feces is full of things that will make one very sick so comparing a toothbrush and toilet paper is a non-starter IMO.
@SuperMouse There’s also bacteria in a toothbrush that has the potential of making you sick.
Note the doc’s advice. Simply wash w. soap and water. It is riskier drinking milk these days.
@tups but you kiss the mouth containing said bacteria all the time, that’s what makes no sense to me. It seems the the conditions in the mouth are a perfect Petrie dish for these bacteria whereas on a toothbrush they have been exposed to rinsing, air, etc. to create a more hostile environment.
@SuperMouse I don’t make out with my GF. Neither one of us are into it. Also, she has had a few molars pulled and has other dental issues that I’d rather my toothbrush wasn’t exposed to.
Eyes are germy, too, you’re not supposed to share eye make-up, brushes, eyeliner’s, nada. I won’t let anyone use mine because I don’t want their tiny microbes messing with my tiny microbes…lol
@KNOWITALL fortunately my husband doesn’t wear eyeliner or mascara! @flip86 I guess if you don’t make our you aren’t swapping spit at all. I would probably less likely to share a toothbrush with someone I don’t open mouth kiss on a regular basis.
If I rubbed eye balls with my SO, I’d treat sharing eye make-up as a possibility. Eye make-up itself needs to be tossed routinely (as does other make-up) due to contamination from the user.
I would rather buy a second toothbrush or shaver or whatever but in a pinch I would share.
Sure, why not. We’ve been together for 46+ years and I’m pretty sure that we have the same germs. The only reason I wouldn’t use it is when she has a soft brush. My teeth don’t feel clean unless I feel the harder bristles going between my teeth.
Mouths are full of bacteria we all know this. Some firm bristle tooth brushes will break the surface of gums in the user and then that schmoots inside the brush gets transferred to another mouth where the brush again breaks the surface of the second users gums and there starts the Andromeda strain and we all die miserable gut bursting deaths. I don’t like it.
@woodcutter I just threw up a little bit, that was nasty Woody!
Thanks, @woodcutter I threw up a little too. Thanks for the visuals.
@Ron_C Knowing that guy, he probably did that on purpose and is now holding his sides laughing in glee!!
@woodcutter thats exactly what I was thinking. Woodys bring life, toothbrush brings Andromeda death. :) I have one extra toothbrush.
I don’t really understand the whole “food particles” argument. Genuine question here Surely, if toothbrushes have lingering food particles that don’t budge after you’ve rinsed it and cause health problems etc, even using your own toothbrush more than once is a bad idea. Food particles are food particles whether they are on your brush or someone else’s right?!
And supermarket chopped meat consists of a million teeny surfaces designed to attract bacteria. I’d rather use Milo’s tooth brush instead of eating a hamburger.
If you properly cook that meat the bad stuff should be done away with. Right?
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