To think there’s no way you can wipe your bum clean?

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Born in a mixed race family with a Middle Eastern mother, I was always taught to wash my downstairs with water after no 1s and 2s. We have a built in mini shower head thing to just spray our bums clean, and before that we used to have a jug sort of thing.

I’ve always wondered, do you genuinely think your bum is clean if you only wipe?

The way I see it, if someone dropped a few drops of urine or fecal matter on my flooring at home, I’d scrub it clean and atleast use some water. No way would I give it a wipe clean with a dry wad of tissue! So how can your skin be clean….

Am I missing something? Do you wet the tissue before use?

Sorry for the silly question! Have always wondered.

There's no such thing as flushable wipes whatever it says on the packet

Use moistened toilet roll instead, if you need to @WiddlinDiddlin

@TheVampiresWife

There's no such thing as flushable wipes whatever it says on the packet

Use moistened toilet roll instead, if you need to @WiddlinDiddlin

That was back in 2018. There are wipes that do now pass the flushability tests. They are marked with the Fine to Flush logo

No, wiping gets you clean. Simple as. There are wipes that you don't flush too.

If you have got visitors dropping fecal matter out their own arses and urinary tracts then that's your family problem. That's not normal by the way. And your family members who are incontinent need help, support from you and medical advise!

WTF...is this thread?!

@SallyWD

By the way, every home I've been to in southern Europe (where my in laws live) DOES have a communal towel for drying your bum after using the bidet. So they all share it. I did question this but they said it's not a problem as the towel dries clean bums only! My MIL said it was good for general health to have a clean bum...

Now that really is horrific 🤮🤢🤮🤢

Is this why public labs are so often a swamp because people are sploshing about in there with their portable arse showers? (I’d naively assumed the wet floor was just wee). Presumably this is why the same people take their shoes off on arrival indoors because they know they been wading in the communal poop soup?

I don’t understand how people think wiping with dry toilet paper is sufficient. Would you change a baby’s nappy and just wipe off with toilet paper? Or wipe poo off your hand after a nappy change with just dry toilet paper?

It may not be the norm to wash here but is most certainly cleaner and more hygienic to use water to ensure you are properly clean.

If you didn’t think it was gross you would be mentioning showering after?

As someone else mentioned, urine stinks too. At a bare minimum needs a wipe that is moist.

So you’re okay with stepping in pee bit water is offensive?

People are not using their arse showers to wet the floor, I’ve never had this happen in public or at home. If you see any drops on the floor from someone who cares enough to wash their arse, it will be water.

@aurynne

Unless you're planning a sexual session with bum sex on the carts (in which case you just wash it beforehand), there is no need to have a sterile bumhole. There will always be a number of fecal bacteria around the anus regardless what we do. it does not harm us. It is normal. Humans were never meant to be sterile. No animal is. All other mammals walk around with a bit of poo around their anus. it is normal.

And people wonder why I refuse to go in houses with dogs.

So I've been wiping my arse the wrong way for 40+ years

Of course people are being defensive - there are the usual ‘Eww! Rank! Grim!’ comments on here. Fine if you have your own preferences and habits, but unless someone is objectively dirty (smelly, leaving skid marks, etc.) it’s pretty rude to say as a statement of fact they’re unclean. This is no different to all the washing and laundry threads where some posters confuse their own preferences with an objective minimum standard of cleanliness.

It may not be the norm to wash here but is most certainly cleaner and more hygienic to use water to ensure you are properly clean.

But what difference does it actually make? Are people dropping with disease in the U.K. compared to elsewhere? I don't think so.

@Coffeepants - I don’t understand how people think wiping with dry toilet paper is sufficient. Would you change a baby’s nappy and just wipe off with toilet paper? Or wipe poo off your hand after a nappy change with just dry toilet paper?

But my bottom doesn't get into a mess like a baby's bum does.

And i my anus doesn't touch things around the house like my hands do.

What do you think is the upshot of us only using dry paper? Filthy houses, stained underwear and lots of diseases? And yet that's not happening.

I don’t understand how people think wiping with dry toilet paper is sufficient. Would you change a baby’s nappy and just wipe off with toilet paper? Or wipe poo off your hand after a nappy change with just dry toilet paper?

Babies don’t have solid stools so they do need wiping with more than just dry paper.

Poo on the hands is a completely different matter. You use your hands for eating, preaparing food, opening doors etc. You don’t do any of that with your bum. I can’t understand why people think a bum is the same as a hand in terms of the necessity for cleanliness.

@TheVampiresWife

There's no such thing as flushable wipes whatever it says on the packet

Use moistened toilet roll instead, if you need to @WiddlinDiddlin

I tried that, i then end up with lots of shredded bits of wet bog roll stuck between me botty clackers, water running down my legs.. it isn't fun.

As I require personal care assistance, i don't really want someone pissing about picking loo roll out of my arse.

I would reallllllllly appreciate it if someone using a handheld bidet sprayer could advise on these things as theres so many, im baffled by the options! (Or better yet where can i get an illegal fountain bidet!)

@StrychnineInTheSandwiches

I would love to try one of those Japanese toilets that mists and sprays your bum. Probably powders it too and gives it a pep talk. So civilized.

But - does your bum speak Japanese though?

I mean carry on as you are, this is the norm to me and as mentioned earlier in the thread, cleanliness is seen as half of faith in Islam. You couldn’t pray 5 times a day without washing properly.

It makes a difference if you want want to walk around with poo bits on your bum all day

It’s a Matter of preference, culture and I guess acceptable levels of cleanliness. I’d not be walking around all day having wiped with dry tissue after a poo. But each to their own.

It makes a difference if you want want to walk around with poo bits on your bum all day

None that I'm aware of. Am I supposed to be concerned about poo I can't see or feel?

I’d not be walking around all day having wiped with dry tissue after a poo. But each to their own.

You do you and all that.

I shower daily and am never ill. So 🤷‍♀️

Bidets are mandatory in Italian bathrooms and they are used, can't imagine not having one now after 20 years in Italy.

No one is asking you to be worries, it’s just a discussion on what people consider normal. Obviously there will be a wide range from people using detail to those that shower once a month.

As someone else mentioned, urine stinks too. At a bare minimum needs a wipe that is moist.

Is the country full of people walking around smelling of urine? Are we all nose blind but foreign visitors walk around wondering why we all smell like wee?
I’ve never had a whiff of wee from a generally clean adult with no problems with incontinence.

@Coffeepants

It makes a difference if you want want to walk around with poo bits on your bum all day

Unclench and stop fretting and complaining about other people.

(unclench seems appropriate on a thread about sphincters)

@SickAndTiredAgain

As someone else mentioned, urine stinks too. At a bare minimum needs a wipe that is moist.

Is the country full of people walking around smelling of urine? Are we all nose blind but foreign visitors walk around wondering why we all smell like wee?
I’ve never had a whiff of wee from a generally clean adult with no problems with incontinence.

Apparently so.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, toilet paper on its own is totally adequate.