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

[crazykoo124]

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.

Urgh yeah, and this

Plus I couldn't help thinking of the previous user's poo-spray and wondering how clean the nozzle was

Never realised competitive arse wiping was a sport until now. Best thread in ages. Pass me the zoflora

This is the craziest thread ever

I've not wiped my bum since August 2015, that hole is well and truly sewn shut. 😂

I've always thought cricket looked a ridiculously complicated sport. And now I find out you also have sniff the opposition's rectums?

I've always thought cricket looked a ridiculously complicated sport. And now I find out you also have sniff the opposition's rectums?

😂

On a serious note, why does topic bring out so many people so vigorously defending dry wiping. It’s like they’re insecure about their hygiene habits but won’t change, just to prove a point. Some bizarre arguments here, people comparing themselves to animals, saying it’s ok to not wash because no one can see it. Why not just accept that washing cleans way better but you are happy to continue as you are. At least own it, rather than continuing with the protest.

@sst1234

On a serious note, why does topic bring out so many people so vigorously defending dry wiping. It’s like they’re insecure about their hygiene habits but won’t change, just to prove a point. Some bizarre arguments here, people comparing themselves to animals, saying it’s ok to not wash because no one can see it. Why not just accept that washing cleans way better but you are happy to continue as you are. At least own it, rather than continuing with the protest.

I guess on the opposite side, if you’re so comfortable with washing your bum why start a thread about how superior it is? Why not just get on with washing your bum comfortable in the knowledge that you like doing it?

It’s like they’re insecure about their hygiene habits but won’t change, just to prove a point.

It's not insecurity

I work in marketing. I know how marketeers in hygiene sectors prey on this idea that you might smell without knowing it. It's a shitty thing to do IMO (excuse the pun).

Competitive hygiene is a ridiculous purity spiral, with a fundamental aim to others feel bad. I'm keen to call out when enough us enough. As others have pointed out, arses are mostly used for sitting on. Dry wiping (and regular showering) is plenty sufficient for the hygiene requirements there.

On a serious note, why does topic bring out so many people so vigorously defending dry wiping. It’s like they’re insecure about their hygiene habits but won’t change, just to prove a point.

Using your 'logic' the people vigorously defending wet wiping are also insecure.

Ugh sorry lots of typos

I agree oP, I have a bath or shower every time I have a number 2 unless I'm out and about.

Even then would always have one when I get home!

I agree. I shower after i poo.

On a serious note, why does topic bring out so many people so vigorously defending dry wiping

And yet there’s the same amount declaring and defending their love of all manner of wet bum cleaning methods.

@PieMistee

I have a spray now and love it. Much cleaner. Not sure I would ever want to go back.

Where is the spray from?

@TheKeatingFive

It’s like they’re insecure about their hygiene habits but won’t change, just to prove a point.

It's not insecurity

I work in marketing. I know how marketeers in hygiene sectors prey on this idea that you might smell without knowing it. It's a shitty thing to do IMO (excuse the pun).

Competitive hygiene is a ridiculous purity spiral, with a fundamental aim to others feel bad. I'm keen to call out when enough us enough. As others have pointed out, arses are mostly used for sitting on. Dry wiping (and regular showering) is plenty sufficient for the hygiene requirements there.

Now it’s the marketeers, is it? The reasons to oppose OPs point of view are getting weirder and weirder. Oh well, like she said, each to their own. If some people don’t care about their personal hygiene, it’s up to them.

@tara66

'Wipes' of any sort are absolutely polluting to the planet and big NO NOs!! They do not degrade and bloke the sewage systems!

No longer true. Andrex ones now break down like toilet roll and are certified as biodegradable in water and safe to flush to European and UK water industry standards. So, OP, many of us use those after dry paper.

If some people don’t care about their personal hygiene, it’s up to them.

You're getting yourself in such a flap.

Try to obsess a little less about other people's bathroom habits. It might calm you down.

If some people don’t care about their personal hygiene, it’s up to them.

This is exactly why I referenced the 'purity spiral'

What's the problem with someone's personal hygiene if they are never ill, suffer no ill effects and (despite everyone's best efforts to sniff their arses in cricket games) don't smell?

I'm sure i could start shaming your hygiene if I felt like it. You don't use zoflora on your bum crack? Think of the bacteria 🤢

I care about my personal hygiene so shower daily. I deem that to be sufficient.

But the scatologically obsessed are annoyed that others aren't as obsessed as they are. That is odd.

Why not just accept that washing cleans way better but you are happy to continue as you are.

I don’t really accept that some of the methods here clean better, mainly the out and about ones. Squirting some water from a sports bottle and then drying yourself with flimsy public toilet toilet paper that must disintegrate and leave bits if you’ve managed to get any decent amount of water on yourself? And then putting the bottle back in your handbag? As a whole, is that significantly more sanitary?

Obviously I agree that a shower clearly cleans you better than toilet roll. And I’m happy to acknowledge that despite that, I don’t think it justifies the time or the water given that I already shower daily, wear clean clothes, and don’t need the same level of cleanliness for my bum that I need for my hands.

I use the new fine to flush wipes or bit of hand soap on wet tissue if home
Water alone won't make it germ free either so not much different than. Just loo roll really

If some people don’t care about their personal hygiene, it’s up to them.

This statement is exactly why people are ‘defensive’ - it’s smug, superior and judgemental.

As I said upthread, this is very reminiscent of those showering and laundry threads (and the ridiculous knickers-to-bed-or-not threads) where the more extreme posters start calling other people dirty. It also comes across as naive - there are properly filthy people everywhere. If you can smell shit on someone, the chances are they’ve had an accident or they haven’t bothered to try and clean themselves at all. Same as those posters who claim to be able to smell someone who hasn’t had a shower that morning. Guess what? If you can smell them, they’re probably an awful lot dirtier than that...

@sst1234 washing with just water won't be germ free or much cleaned either , it may look it but you can't see bacteria

@coatilove

I agree oP, I have a bath or shower every time I have a number 2 unless I'm out and about.

Even then would always have one when I get home!

Really? I go about 3 tines a day, so you'd have a bath or a shower that many times every day?

You sound a bit obsessed with cleanliness tbh why do u wonder about other people's bottoms? Do u have a fetish in getting people to talk about this? odd