“In general you don't want to eat foods that give you the runs, so fatty, spicy and greasy foods are typically a no-go,” says Zane. Entire articles have been written about the “bottoming diet” – this one is especially helpful – but the basics are straightforward. Your body is a brilliant thing and there's no shame in the fact it produces waste matter. “I don’t know if it's become a mental association, but when I douche it's like my body knows what's coming next,” he says. It empowers them.”īradley, a 38-year-old gay man from Durham who asked us to withhold his surname when discussing “intimate details” of his sex life, has been bottoming his “entire sexual life”. “Then there are some bottoms who douche every time because they want to know, definitively, that they're clean and ready to go. “Some bottoms never douche because they don't have to, but that's not me and it's not most folks,” says Zane. It all comes down to making a personal and informed choice. Excessive use of enemas, for example, can lengthen your colon and lead to constipation in later life (fun!). At the same time, medical professionals have said that douching before anal sex is definitely not necessary and should be done carefully and sparingly. There’s no need to get squeamish about douching it's just rinsing out your anus with water to clean it.
