Gen Z-ers spend the longest time in the shower, new poll reveals.

Well, crying is time consuming.

Wow that’s really shocking considering how many of them smell

There's something pathological about wasting so much time under shower. What metaphorical stain are they trying to remove from themselves?

I guess the shower is their 'safe space' where they can cry and deal with their emotions. I also guess none of them have seen 'Psycho'.

Aren't Gen Zers into water conservation? Why are they taking such long showers and wasting so much water ?

They don’t have much else to do.

Of course young people take longer in the shower. They're not alone in there.

R7 They are with their imaginary friends to comfort them ?

Gen z are pathetic.

21+ minutes is a hell of a long shower.

Jerk’n dat thang

The boys are likely touching themselves and the girls are busy performing "self-care."

Once you pay your own utilities you tend to be less wasteful. Water's cheap in the US but heating it isn't.

Some people are so phone-addicted they interrupt showers to text. That probably happens now across age groups, but those I know who admit to it are Gen Z or the youngest Millennials.

It’s a protest against…something or another. No river, no sea untouched or blah, blah.

I am a Boomer. I love long showers.

I also know how to open a PDF.

They’re, like, literally wasting so much water. Like, literally.

Are you shur? Cuz, like, I'm not shur?

5 minutes. TOPS! Everything gets scrubbed. Twice a day. Feets, and all holes including the navel and the back of the neck/ ears.

R18 you're obviously not Gen Z. Jaedyn never scrubs his feet or hole!

R8 - Oh dear. You sound old, bitter and lonely.

Raw pole in rank hole.

They are probably taking selfies in the shower.

It's not like they have anywhere to be.

And Gen Z's pussy still stinks!

R19 he never washes his balls either!

Back in September, one of the male college students I work with (he's a senior, so he's graduating) showed me a memo which 'facilities' sent out to all the male students in the dorms. It seriously asked them to refrain from 'relieving themselves' in the shower as it's clogging the drains (and then they are called to the dorm rooms to unclog the drains). It asked them to relieve themselves outside the shower.

He admitted that he and his suite-mates always jerk off in the shower. They weren't planning on stopping because of this memo. I was a bit surprised.

^^^^ This explains their long time in the showers.

I see statistics like these and I want to scream that this is the top of a neurodivergent iceberg.

Their parents had them too old.

I shower almost every day. On Mondays when I scrub myself thoroughly with a washcloth, it takes up to 10 minutes. The rest of the week a shower takes 5 minutes or less.

I've never timed my showers. I just take a shower until I think I'm done.

[quote] It seriously asked them to refrain from 'relieving themselves' in the shower as it's clogging the drains

Is it semen or pancake batter?

How the hell does spooge clog a drain?

It doesn’t…it was an attempt at being subtle: don’t leave your cum everywhere.

I thought it meant they were shitting in the showers.

Douche bros in the form shit in the sink when they’re wasted, not in the shower …

*dorm

Well they said students relieving themselves in the showers is actually clogging the drains.

Jerking off wouldn't be clogging drains.

At that age masturbating is part of taking a shower. For males.

Maybe for you - that's gross. I never masturbated in a shower.

It may be because modern shower heads have such low pressure that it takes longer to feel clean. The boomers may live in older houses with unrestricted water pressure. I'm still using a 60s era shower head and it is absolute heaven. It's like a fire hose.

Maybe they should take baths.

How hard is it to understand metaphor? Y’all so literal…and, apparently, never made it to a college dorm.

Jake Gyllenhaal that smelly millenial can learn from them.

I lived in college dorms for two years of college. Never masturbated in the shower or saw anyone else masturbating. But that was the '70s. Maybe public masturbation became popular in a later era.

5 minutes tops for me. Soap up a washcloth, start with arms, pits, and work my way down, until I do the soles of my feet. Then, wet hair thoroughly while rinsing soap off of the rest of my body, shampoo my hair (which is very short and fine), soap up the washcloth to wash face, neck and ears, then a thorough rinse and all done. I can't imagine what people are doing (other than jerking off) in a 20 minute shower. People like me had dads who would bang on the door saying that it was time to wrap it up, or, if that didn't succeed, would flush a toilet somewhere else in the house to screw with the temperature and water pressure.

And I think it's disgusting people would jerk off in a shower someone else had to use. But that's just because I'm sane.

R44, didn't you guys just streak instead?

I piss in the shower, every time, in every place—dorm, gym, hotel, home, VRBO, bathhouse, commune, etc.

Gen X here. My showers are usually about 15 to 20 mins. I do the same as r45 except I wash the top part of my body, then rinse the wash cloth, re-soap and do my legs and feet. Rinse the shampoo out of my hair, put the conditioner on, then re-soap the cloth and wash my genitals. It's disgusting to me that anyone can't recognize that your feet are usually the dirtiest part of you body and you do NOT want to spread that shit on other parts of you, including your genitals. While the conditioner is still on, I then get a back brush, soap it up and scrub my back. Rinse it, then rinse the hair and done. Sometimes I like a few more seconds of just being under the hot water to decompress. I've never understood people who take 5 mins or people who don't shower every day. Do you not work out and get sweaty every day?

R23 There’s literally no train to catch

What's with you OCD people and your detailed shower routine descriptions? It's not rocket science. You get under the water with some soap and clean yourself.

R49 Gee, no, not everyone works out every day.

R51 Thank you for saying what I was just thinking.

The only time I jerk off in the shower is when someone else is with me - and we jerk each other off. It kind of just comes naturally.

R52, no shit. You just have to read any of the Ozempic threads to understand that.

R55 I don't even need to read threads on DL to understand that.

R26, in which city was this shower edict issued to the college boys?