Turns out I’ve been showering wrong my entire life.

This meme uses a vintage black and white line art illustration marked as step 3, showing a person lying on their back on a shower floor with their legs raised high over their head so their pelvic/rear area is positioned directly under the shower stream. Text below the illustration gives highly specific, unusual showering instructions targeting private and lower body areas, which deviates drastically from standard common showering practices. The humor comes from the absurdity of this old hygiene guidance, playing on the joke that average people are showering incorrectly if measured against this bizarre standard.

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Shower lower abdomen and thighs, pelvic region for a long time. Turn over and shower all of back from neck to heels thoroughly, also sides, then raise legs and let shower strike over rectum, lower back, groins and inside the legs.

Overview

This meme uses a vintage black and white line art illustration marked as step 3, showing a person lying on their back on a shower floor with their legs raised high over their head so their pelvic/rear area is positioned directly under the shower stream. Text below the illustration gives highly specific, unusual showering instructions targeting private and lower body areas, which deviates drastically from standard common showering practices. The humor comes from the absurdity of this old hygiene guidance, playing on the joke that average people are showering incorrectly if measured against this bizarre standard.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of the Reddit r/Meme subreddit. It repurposes a scan of a page from an unidentified early/mid 20th century printed personal hygiene or public health guide, shared for comedic effect due to its absurdly specific, unexpected showering instructions.

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