Is Butthole Sunning the New Biohack? (I Actually Tried It)

I have tried hundreds of health and wellness techniques and spent tens of thousands of dollars testing ways to feel better—but this one might top the list for weirdest… and it was completely free. Perineum sunning blew up online a while back, and people are still asking if there’s actually any benefit. So, here’s the breakdown: what it is, why people claim it helps, what the science says (if anything), and what actually happened when I tried it years ago.

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Do I have to click on this? It says perennium sunning, but whole sunning. I’ve been getting a lot of these videos from health and wellness trends on Tik TOK and every single day people comment and ask, I’m not so sure about these. So let’s watch them together and see what we think.

You guys, you know, you guys say that Aaron, I’m gonna start calling him Ron the video guy. You guys say that Aaron is the and then I am mean to him and I have anger issues. It’s a thing. If you’re not sure exactly what it is, let me break it down for you.

Perennium is the area of skin between your genitals and your anus. So sunning it or tanning it is the area between your genitals and your anus. And this Tik TOK says it can have all these benefits. Chair that spreads your legs and has a butthole.

And she’s not the only one with this theory. Others think getting light down there can give you a direct charge of energy big enough for going morning coffee. This is the happy baby yoga pose where she’s holding on to her toes. Shailene Woodley was an advocate for getting your genitals from vitamin D back in 2019.

She said spread your legs and get some sunshine. You guys buying that vitamin D and K2? If this is all sounding tempting to you, it’s something to think about first. We spoke to Dr.

Ed Robinson, who said it’s a practice to absolutely avoid. He said direct sun exposure increases your risk of burning, but more significantly, skin cancers. And the skin on the perineum is particularly thin and sensitive, which means it’s more vulnerable than other areas of skin on the body. So regardless if you’ve got a private garden to spread your legs or not, maybe the sun doesn’t shine there for a reason and it’s better left that way.

Perineum sunning. A private garden to spread your bum. Wow. I don’t really know what you want me to say.

All I know is you pick this out for me to, to look at. All right, so let’s get scientific. Let’s get, what are, what I seen? So I talk about compounds being stored in the adipose tissue and the perineum and areas like that are not immune to that concept.

We’ve always talked about having heaters in the bench of the sauna. If you can afford it being a good idea because it wraps the body in infrared and helps all tissues.

be able to get far infrared exposure. This has a very different intention than just shining sunlight on your butthole. Um, I can just imagine if I was in the pool and the neighbors happened to look out the window and they’re like, Oh, there’s Matt grabbing his ankles again.

Wonder what he’s up to trying to get my vitamin D. Like she says, is this going to be on the screen next to me? Oh my God. Huh?

I think somebody has good intentions by the idea of getting sun on their genital region because you never get sunlight in those areas. I’ve actually tried this once. I really have. Uh, I used to be one of the Jack Cruz platinum or whatever you call it, member things.

And one of the stuff that they would have you do is have some alternative forms of light therapy integrated into your daily schedule. And uh, you know, the sun exposure felt good, but I’m not so sure. Obviously I haven’t continued doing it. This was like six years ago.

Uh, but I wasn’t feeling good. I was willing to do anything to help myself. And would you call this proof in the pudding? I guess not doing it today.

Don’t really recommend it. I think they’re right about getting a skin cancer on your, what are you going to have me look at next?