toothbrushes

[CiderMonkey]

Is it wrong for a couple to share a tootbrush?

[boobesque]

a bit, there is a risk of transfering germs, and is a small risk of passing HIV, but if you are in a long term secure relationship then the only thing to worry about would be cold/flu germs, coldsores etc

[jno]

if you kiss each other you can share a toothbrush.

[Englishbird]

I wouldn't share the same one all the time, but i don't think it matters at all occasionally. If you're happy to do er.. other things with your mouths, then i wouldn't worry to much about sharing a toothbrush.

[maggie01]

It may not be wrong, but I wouldn't share a toothbrush even with my nearest and dearest. Its a matter of personal hygene. No sorry not for me!

[the.dr]

sorry guys but its soooooo wrong....lets keep it clean yeh? if u want i'll send you a second toothbruth

[Morrisonker]

Hmm, nope, I think I'd ratehr go without brushing my teeth than have to use someone elses brush, the idea makes me feel a bit ill actually.

[joko]

its not like they cost a fortune - just buy another one!

[loopey]

all that bacteria ooh no!!!

[hopalong]

Of course it is

[tony1941]

I've always shared one with my other half (whoever she was at the time), for more than 30 years. It just seems completely natural if you're frequently kissing. Perhaps it started when I went away for a "naughty" weekend in the early 70s with a newish girlfriend. In those days we were supposed to be married to share a hotel room, so we duly signed in as "Mr and Mrs". Imagine the hysterical laughter when we found that we had independently packed identical, black toothbrushes!!! We still laugh about it, even though we have not been an item for 25 years (obviously still in touch, though)

[Gef]

Lovely answer tony!! I'm amazed at some of the others though. People will kiss each other (in several places sometimes), share finger food etc and yet baulk at the idea of sharing a toothbrush. Makes me laugh.

[mimififi]

I do not share my toothbrush with my hubby, in fact, he often tries to purloin my toothbrush from it's special holder when he has lost his ( please do not ask me where or how he loses his toothbrush, I ask the same question all the time...just what does he do with it???)I have, therefore, gone to extreme lengths sometimes, when I can see that his is not in the special holder, I often hide my toothbrush so that he may not use it.

It is not from a bacterial standpoint, just a personal space standpoint. I have a pink toothbrush, and it's mine. Simple. I share everything else, why should I have to share that too????

I think men wouldn't care if there were using their wife's brush, it may even hold some kind of sexual thing for them, i.e, remind them of kissing etc etc, however, I think generally, women don't like to share that sort of thing with men, what with them being all yucky and everything, and it holding some kind of sexual connotation too, like kissing (which is quite gross in the cold light of day without the passion of the moment.) I also don't like to use the loo in our bathroom if he has just been as I don't like a warm toilet seat...I prefer to walk down the hall to the children's bathroom and use theirs....

I realise this is a weird thing. I love him to bits and he is my absolute hero in EVERY way, I just prefer not to share my toothbrush. Some things must be sacred, surely. ( he has even tried to steal my deodorant if he has run out of his, as I use a fragrance free one; and I can't stand that either...all that hairy armpits on my deodorant, yucky!)

[Giddygirl]

Sharing toothbrushes means that you can gety nasties such as 'gingivitis' - gum disease - I just wouldn't do it!

[joko]

I agree gef, I meant what I said not from a squeamish point of view - I wouldn't mind sharing (though only if necessary - I just don't see why there would be a need to - toothbrushes are so cheap.

Would you wear a pair of your partners used underpants?

would you blow your nose on their used hankie?

whether you would or not...theres simply no need

i once had my ex-flatmates boyfriend using my toothbrush - as he thought it was hers...bleurgh...i only realised because my toothbrush would be wet every time i went to use it.

incidentally -

i became suspicious of his explanation, because he turned out to be an evil spiteful monster who i didn't want in my house (she was renting from me) and it was obvious my brusholder had been there a while and was in prime position - hers was just a plastic cup and one brush - and i now suspect he was doing something revolting with my brush as he became very snidey of my friendship with her and wanted us to fall out - and we did eventually fall out because of him. (i am not just paranoid - there was a long list of his spiteful games)

and the moral of the story? - i would never have noticed and mentioned it to them and have it stop if i had been sharing my toothbrush with my boyfriend.

a cautionary tale...; D

[MangoPete]

I am sure you share a lot of body fluids and bacteria with your partner anyway.
i think the only problem would be if one of you used it for servicing the opposite end to the other. But whatever floats ya boat

[Gnisy]

It's not wrong, it's just unhygienic. Kinda like sharing the same underwear only less icky-ier. But then, one man's meat is another man's poison.