Actually I suspect a decent amount of the whole "argh touch yourself and you'll get diseases" thing doesn't have a great deal of basis in fact so much as prudish panic on the part of doctors a while back. In like the same way that you don't wanna eat food with dirty hands but most people when offered a biscuit don't say "oh dear, let me find a bathroom and wash my hands first" unless they've been doing something unusually grubby. Vaginas have reasonably decent protection systems, I think the average amount of bacterium only becomes a problem when you're dealing with something like tampons which a) stay in for hours b) irritate the walls of the vagina c) stop the flow of stuff downwards (this happens all the time, and helps keep things clean) and blocks clots and things up there. And even then hardly anyone gets TSS.
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panic on the part of doctors a while back. In like the same way that you don't wanna eat food with dirty hands but most people when offered a biscuit don't say "oh dear, let me find a bathroom and wash my hands first" unless they've been doing something unusually grubby. Vaginas have reasonably decent protection systems, I think the average amount of bacterium only becomes a problem when you're dealing with something like tampons which a) stay in for hours b) irritate the walls of the vagina c) stop the flow of stuff downwards (this happens all the time, and helps keep things clean) and blocks clots and things up there. And even then hardly anyone gets TSS.
Not a doctor though.
/TMI