Some days in my reading of fanfic I have a very distinct moment of "I'm going to pretend very hard that between those two activities you two got up and took a shower."
As both a reader and a writer, I don't really care if the realistic details are there. I just write (and want to read) the fantasy, which doesn't involve when people go to the bathroom, wash their hands, bathe (unless it is to have sex in the tub), or do any of the other minutia of adulting that isn't part of the plot. If someone doesn't, say, rinse off before they hop in a swimming pool: Fine with me. If someone doesn't have sex and then take a shower after: Okay. NBD. They are not a dirty, filthy beast of a human being.
See, I generally agree with you both about whether people really need to be clean and about whether the writer needs to tell me they're clean ... but when you get an ass involved, sometimes I need to believe there's been a break for a wash.
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