To be shocked that some people stand up to wipe their bum after going to the loo?

[apenny4]

So I perhaps naively assumed that like me the world and his uncle wipe their bum while sitting down after going to the loo. I can't remember how long ago it was that I discovered a good friend stands up to wipe and has done ever since she was a child. I still find it hard to get my head round - obviously I'm not talking about a wee here.

She was equally that I wipe sitting down.

It occasionally pops into my head and I wonder all over again, is it her or is it me, is standing or sitting more usual, or are there just a whole lot of standers and sitters out there, all oblivious to each others habits?

Nope, a stander I remain. I must either not be very bendy, or have v short arms and long body, I felt like a contortionist trying to wipe seated.

PS - I'm a folder and wet wipe user (as the occasion demands).

Pps - anyone who wipes back to front and has never had a urinary tract infection has been v lucky.

I stand.

Also stand to remove and put in mooncup.

Folder and a sitter. Why would anyone wipe standing? And of course front to back! And I never touch the loo - eww. And of course I check the paper. Seriously standers, try it!

PS, if you try it, your arm goes down the back, not through your legs. Top tip.

We all sit in this house. I have horrid visions of poo flying everywhere when standing! Especially if one has had a dicky tummy. Surely you don't stand then? There'd be drippage.
That's WHY you sit. It keeps everything in the toilet bowl. When you wipe lots of non visible particles of poo are swept about. If standing they are going to get swept about onto walls, floor and your clothes. Remaining seated keeps it all in the toilet. It's also far easier to get at everything.

Also agree about moist toilet paper. When you wipe with just loo roll and it comes away clean just for a trial grab a wet wipe and wipe with that. You will be appalled at how not clean the wipe comes away. Always always use it in this house, there's a pack in every bathroom.

I'm normal-sized, and I stand.
My pet hate is automatic flushing toilets, which flush when you stand up, because I haven't wiped or put the tissue down the loo, so have to flush twice.
I thought because of this design 'flaw', it was less-usual to be a standing wiper..!

i don't even know what I do !!! I'm desperately trying to visualise, but I think I might need to go to the loo to try it. I think I raise a bit of the seat, but don't stand fully straight.

I love my bidet!

re. automatic flush, I don't mind that, I often flush twice anyway. Have you not heard of a courtesy flush? Gets rid of the smell before you get into the wiping. I can't honestly believe I am discussing this. ffing poo trolls.

I would be appalled?

No I wouldn't. And I have better things to spend my hard earned cash on than "moist toilet paper".

How do you get your arm into the loo if the loo seat is covered by your arse?

And all these wet wipe users, I hope you're not flushing them down the loo?

I buy wet wipes for ds2, t seems to be the only way he gets properly clean, short of using half a toilet roll at a time. And he flushes them, they say flushable on them.

Having reported last night that I am a stander, I have now ahem, checked the method and actually I am a sitter. Can't believe I didn't know how I wipe my own arse.

I stand, always have done, always will.

IneedaYoni you're only supposed to flush one at a time as they clog and don't disintegrate.

It's what you have staff for.

As far as I know he only uses one wet wipe. That's certainly what I told him to do!

As regards dripping. I wipe my fanjo sitting down then stand up to wipe behind. If diarrhoea then a quick initial wipe half standing over loo then resume normal service standing up.

Standing to wipe one's arse is very fucking weird.

You must all have filthy arse holes. Ugh.

bloody hell, what a subject!!!

This is hilarious!

I'm a sitter and also never knew people stood to wipe until I found out that my DH does. I don't understand people who say "how on earth can you reach?" How short are your arms?? Or did I not realise that I have unusually long arms?? How can you not reach??

After a wee, I go from the front and under to wipe front to back; after a poo, I lean to the side very slightly and go from behind and wipe front to back.

I thought it was so strange seeing my DH standing up to wipe...I thought there was something endearingly childlike about it, I don't know why. I thought the vast majoirty of adults were sitters. Clearly, I am wrong!

You shouldn't flush moist paper /wipes one at a time. You shouldn't flush them at all! (v long thread on this very subject recently)

I sit for a quick wipe and then stand for a polish. Wipe perineum to front/perineum to back. Can't contort myself to do the whole lot in one swipe.

I feel a tiny bit sick! I lean forward very slightly while sitting. No to standing...think of all that poo debris escaping!

I too don't understand all the 'how do you reach' questions from standers. Exactly the same as how you reach if you're standing I presume. My arm to body ratio remains the same whether I sit or stand, in fact, I slouch more if I sit so my arms are presumably nearer the goal iyswim.

I suppose stander uppers just carried on how they did it as small children. Children stand up because their feet don't tend to touch the floor and wiping upsets their balance and they feel like they're falling in. I always assumed most people managed it sitting down once their feet touched the floor at about age 7. Clearly some people are still leaping up and prancing round the bathroom aged 37. I genuinely can't see why you would stand up to wipe when you don't have to.

But I suppose it's habit. It's like the difference between fastening your bra at the front and twisting or putting it on and fastening it at the back. You just get used to the way you do it.