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.

I think the paper route has the potential for you to have almost no contact with faecal germs/matter on your hands. If you take some care.

If you clean with your hand/fingers using water, you will come away dirty. And are then likely to touch other surfaces and spread germs if you are not careful with that approach.

Cold/hot water, soap and your hands is not enough to clean that area.

Try it, and smell your fingers! That's why presenting your left hand is rather insulting in some cultures.

You can use wipes or whatever but it's pretty much superficial. You just want to avoid placing those germs in areas where you can then present them to your face, food or other inlets.

I'm sure your body can cope with some germs.

Personally I just jump in the shower 90% of the time. Because it's simply the easiest and quickest way for me to get clean. Wash cloths are cleaned and rotated frequently. I never dry that area with a towel.

But then again, I was brought up proper.

@Fizbosshoes

I thought i had a really good sense of smell but I've never detected all the "only washed instead of showered" people, people who don't wash their clothes each wear, scented pantyliners, unwashed fannies and stinky bums that a percentage of MN seem to sniff out! I've often suspected i might live in MN-ville, though so perhaps I'm lucky that most people I come into contact with shower 4 times a day (including after a poo) and wash their clothes and bedding twice a day, and thus don't smell!

@Fizbosshoes

Hmm. But do you play cricket? That’s apparently where all the bum sniffing happens?

@Kanaloa
Ahh no I don't .🤣
When DD used to do gymnastics, the places she had classes or went to parties, used to absolutely stink of cheesy feet in hot weather... at least I thought it was stinky feet...

Eew this is disgusting 🤢

Picturing all these people in a public toilet, touching all the surroundings in the toilet cubicle, then reaching into their handbag, where they take out their drinking water bottle and squirt it down their arsecrack, thus spreading filthy water around the loo seat, the floor, their trousers, then popping the bottle, possibly now with poo smears on back in their handbag 🤮

Or having a bin in their bathroom with poo covered wipes sitting there.

I would bet that most places where the norm is for washing over with water started this in the first place because of a lack of convenient wipes (toilet roll) or the fact that their drainage doesn't cope with toilet paper .

I recently read that when your fart in your sleep (which everyone does several times a night) tens of thousands of poo particles are sprayed all over your sheets (or your nightwear if you don't sleep naked).

Not adding anything to this thread, but I don't actually know anyone in real life that has a shower attachment or bidet in their bathroom. Mumsnet is a strange place.

Fortunately my bum cheeks are so humongous that they trap any poo particles or unpleasantness.

Fuck that I want wadded up paper between my hand and my poo thank you. I'd rather a slightly shitty smelling crack than a shitty hand. Even the thought of washing a shitty left hand makes me want to boak 🤢

@VitalsStable

Fuck that I want wadded up paper between my hand and my poo thank you. I'd rather a slightly shitty smelling crack than a shitty hand. Even the thought of washing a shitty left hand makes me want to boak 🤢

You wipe the shit off first with tissue then wash. You are not wiping hanging shit.

How do you wash yourself in the bath if you cannot comprehend people wanting to wash themselves after using the toilet?

Oh right I thought you minging lot were wiping your poo off with bare hands!!

Oh I don't have a bath, hate sitting in dirty water 😂 and have a low boredom threshold.

Always thought my bum was clean enough from wiping not to be scared to get near it in the shower.

This is bloody mind blowing!

DBIL is married to a Muslim lady and they spend ages in the loo so now I know they're having a bum wash!

Yeah but you clean your bum in the shower don't you? That would involve using your hand or at least a flannel.

@Jobseeker19

Yeah but you clean your bum in the shower don't you? That would involve using your hand or at least a flannel.

And soap

Anyway pp have said that the practice comes from places where they don't use any toilet tissue and that's why they use water. So that means poop on hand washed with water and no tissue first? A lot different to a shower with hot water, soap and flannel after wiping with dry tissue.

I use baby wipes. Absolutely wouldn't feel clean with just dry paper.

From my experience I generally have a number 2 before my evening shower.. or morning shower. So I wipe with toilet roll then get in the shower.

In the odd time I have had TO GO and no time for shower, I wipe, pour water down. Wipe again, more water. (It's very civilised lmao) then baby wipe away!

But I've just finished my dump and shower and I just wanted to say.. because my diet is good. There was nothing when I wiped lol because it comes out in a normal manner and you know...

@Classica

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?

🤣🤣🤣
What about Rugby? That also seems quite complicated...and they seem to get quite up close and personal in a scrum?

The great unwashed. From the sublime to the ridiculous. Baby wipes every time you take a dump. Poor old planet. I get the guilts with two squares of TP.

@Jobseeker19

Yeah but you clean your bum in the shower don't you? That would involve using your hand or at least a flannel.

Yes but I would have wiped it thoroughly first.

@georgarina

I use baby wipes. Absolutely wouldn't feel clean with just dry paper.

Posters get shamed to hell and back on here for admitting using them on here, but I believe that in reality loads of people do this.

Really, none of us are clean. We are completely covered in germs, all the time.

I don't think there is any good evidence that wiping with paper is worse particularly than a sprayer. I can see reasons to think it might be better - having wipes lots of poopy child butts over the years, when you use a wet towel it spreads around a lot more. Among other things.

On the other hand, for people who suffer with things like piles I think those sprayers would be brilliant.

I wipe until the loo paper looks clean. Fresh pants every morning, shower every two days. I would love a bidet!

If you research it says that using soap to wash your bits actually disturbs the natural PH. So water is fine and actually preferred.

This thread has been going for 2 days now. Two days of discussion about wiping your bum...

@Sparklingbrook

This thread has been going for 2 days now. Two days of discussion about wiping your bum...

What a time to be alive .