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.

[quote NMC2022]@CounsellorTroi it's actually advised for cystitis, know as bottle washing. You wash from the front back so the water drops down

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Well I never get cystitis so I wouldn’t know. Always wipe front to back like I was taught until the paper comes away clean. And yes I am very regular.

@Trixiefirecracker

I just squirt a bit of Johnson’s baby lotion on some loo paper and give it an extra wipe. However, if your diet is good then your bowl movements will be good and exit easily. Washing and showering daily will also help. 😉

But unfortunately we've all seen the competitive 'I only wash once a month threads'.

@OhPeeQueue

Urine is sterile so wiping / washing is just for comfort It may be sterile, but urine stinks? Dried urine stinks even worse. It’s not about comfort, it’s about avoiding smell.

I agree OP. I always wonder about this. I’ve always washed my rear and so do my children. If I’m out, I wet tissue and use that, but then have a proper wash once I’m home.

Dry wiping poo and wee makes me feel sick. Due to diet in this day and age, poo doesn’t just fall out of bums for a majority of people. It will sometimes smear. You need more than dry tissue to get rid off it.

Unfortunately I’ve smelled a lot of smelly butts at yoga classes and other sports. I can only think it’s because people don’t wash their bum.

What the fuck sports are you doing? Unless you’re a border collie at agility training you shouldn’t be sniffing other people’s butts.

@Heepers

Aren't people overthinking this?? I've used both ways and tbh haven't notice a major difference (except unpleasantly wet knickers after the shower). It's your bumhole, 99% of the time it'll be clean enough for whatever you've got planned for it 😂

🤣🤣

I have managed to get to the rope old age of 46 3/4 wiping both my vulva and Anya with dry tissue. I have suffered no ill effects. you're all batshit

But clearly can't type.....!!

Ripe old age....

Vulva and Anus.

I’ve been looking for a large enough beaker to leave on my bedside table for this, but couldn’t find one. Using my massive salad bowl instead.

Personally, I have my arse sandblasted after a bowel movement. I'm not saying you're all filthy for not doing that but... I mean steam sterilised at the very least, surely???

Have you not heard of the clean snap

I've been to some of these apparently clean and hygienic countries where people are saying bum washing is the norm, and saw an awful lot of very unclean, unhygienic things!
Not all the time, or in all places obviously.
I can't think that impeccable bum hygiene is outweighing those things!
We're pretty hygienic here in the UK, let's be honest.

No one's eating their dinner out of my arsecrack!

Some people pay good money for that 😂😂

@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

Not true

Overjoyed that 'Crapslattern' is now in my lexicon!

@ImprobablePuffin You're welcome ☺️

This thread is utterly batshit!

@Trixiefirecracker

It is wild! The woman who posted saying she could smell the ‘unwiped ’ bum holes of her fellow participants in the yoga class was my favourite bonkers post of the year.

Like the ones who claim to be able to smell period blood. To be fair, when I was pregnant, I found the smell of urine in the ladies loos overpowering but I think that was just the enhanced sense of smell you get when pregnant. I was cursing my work colleagues for not drinking enough and having smelly wee (privately, not to their faces!)

I am glad I am not a cat who has to lick my own bottom to clean it.

I tend to need quite a lot of paper because I eat a lot of fruit and veg and it makes everything a wee bit soft. Paradoxically, being slightly constipated is cleaner!

This thread is absolutely hilarious though, I've been sitting here giggling.

@WiddlinDiddlin
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This is the sort of thing I have installed in my bathroom. If you don’t always have personal assistance, you can find one with a longer hose which may make things a bit easier for you. Hope this helps . I don’t know of any portable ones though!

@OhMyCrump

I've been to some of these apparently clean and hygienic countries where people are saying bum washing is the norm, and saw an awful lot of very unclean, unhygienic things! Not all the time, or in all places obviously. I can't think that impeccable bum hygiene is outweighing those things! We're pretty hygienic here in the UK, let's be honest.

I agree! The posts about how often we all bathe and wash our bras and change our bed sheets and rotate our bath towels and hoover is testament to that.

I agree! The posts about how often we all bathe and wash our bras and change our bed sheets and rotate our bath towels and hoover is testament to that.

I read that three times thinking “I never rotate my hoover, do some people have two that they rotate between to give the other a proper clean??”

Until discovering MN I've never given a second thought to how other people keep their bum clean! As long as they aren't asking me to look/smell or wash it, they can crack on as far as I'm concerned.

But (reluctantly) thinking about it, agree with pp if there was a lot of "matter" that was impossible to remove with wiping, wouldn't using a shower or spray spread it around further...?

What the fuck sports are you doing? Unless you’re a border collie at agility training you shouldn’t be sniffing other people’s butts.

🤣🤣🤣

I'm not even convinced its essential at the agility class but I'm not a border collie, neither do I have a dog, so maybe it is?

I use Astonish Mould and Mildew Blaster.

Or a stick of dynamite.

What the fuck sports are you doing? Unless you’re a border collie at agility training you shouldn’t be sniffing other people’s butts.

I really need answers to this 😂

😭…I’ve unfortunately smelled whiffs of stinky arse in cricket too. Yoga is worse. It was a lady infront of me and she put me off going back. Sweat and unwashed bum smell is a killer.

And those who are saying they don’t smell of urine or have a smelly bum: You’re probably desensitised to the smell by now 🤣.

I previously had a colleague once who told me she could smell sweat cheese in a woman who smelled like she never washed her folds. Honestly, just because you can’t smell yourself, doesn’t mean you don’t smell.

You need to wash your bums and feel the difference.