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.

@CardiganAddict I think your experience is very narrow though. I live in the North and haven’t experienced this.

I vividly remember the Cleanest Arsehole Contest back at Maplins holiday camp. Knobbly Knees went first, then Miss Wet T-shirt, followed by Cleanest Arsehole.

These days I follow Mrs Hinch’s advice, quick spray with Zoflora and wipe around with a Minky. For stubborn shit, I find Pink Stuff works quite well, followed by a spritz of Zoflora “clean arse” fragrance is all
you need*

• do not do this.

You only have to look at how many people on here 'feel' dirty with perfectly natural amounts of body hair.

I really hope people stop using wet wipes for this - putting them in the bathroom bin instead of down the toilet doesn't make them environmentally friendly!

As previously mentioned bowel issues (which can be caused by medications sometimes) can change things. Piles, sensitive skin etc can mean dry toilet tissue is a bit rough for the purpose. But I recommend adding a suitable lotion or gel to some tissue rather than wipes.

@hotmeatymilk

You can get ones designed to be ok for flushing. Yikes, no. You can get ones that lie on the packet to make you feel better about lazily flushing them instead of considering your impact on the planet – “I flushed it, it’s gone off to magic elsewhere!” – but you can’t actually get wipes that are OK to flush. Wipes should be fucking banned.

Wipes with the 'Fine to Flush' symbol are ok to Flush but we bin them as we have rubbish eco toilets with a crappy Flush

As long as you wash frequently I’m sure not many people have a pooy bum.

www.water.org.uk/policy-topics/managing-sewage-and-drainage/fine-to-flush/

The showering method is good for men but has been shown to increase infections "downstairs" (to use the OP's terminology) in women. So it might be cleaner outside but it's not necessarily better for you.

Could someone answer the water and no soap question please as I'm genuinely curious. How can just swooshing water make it clean without soap? Also do you have to get completely naked to do it or doesn't it spray on your clothes ?

I agree with short days. Just a jug of water isn’t actually going to get it much cleaner than a wipe.

I use a handheld hoover , quite expensive , I have to buy a new one every day.

@Takingtigermountain

We use the family arse brush like our Roman rulers before us ! There's always a bit of a rush before Mr T.T.M as he is a messy type!

They had sponges on sticks! And they probably had a slave whose job was to wash the used sponges. They also had communal latrines, I've seen them at a Roman fort up near Hadrian's Wall.

You're not spraying your bum clean if you're only using water. You need soap to remove germs. So if it's important to you to walk around with a squeaky clean bum, then you need to use some shower gel or something. I agree that wiping alone doesn't do the job. I go first thing in the morning and have a shower not long after, so my arse is only ''unclean' for a little while each day. And I can live with that. If anybody's face is going to be up close to my bum, I'll give it a special wash😀

Bidet used to be used for this purpose. I only see the abroad now but I always use them when I can. Love them.

Water is a lot better than plain, dry tissue.
So I think a lot of the responsive and passive aggressive as the OP has made people feel inferior and tgey are trying to reflect it back.

Pour a jug of water and then drying with tissue will definitely clean better than dry tissue.

Skin effectively has a removable layer on the top! As you wipe you exfoliate dead skin cells too. The floor doesn't have that.

People say they'd never use just tissue on their hands, but their hands are vectors delivering bacteria to everything they touch. Bottoms don't touch anything so are very low risk should there be a slightly inadequate wipe.

Mine was very much a practical question and yes I agree water plus tissue will be better but Without soap it wouldn't be that much cleaner re: bacteria - so we are talking about making sure the residue has all gone rather than actually clean of germs. Understand now and I suppose the answer is, it's a personal preference.

Wipes! Ugh. So unbelievably bad for the environment.

I have a set of drawers beside the loo, in one drawer I have a tonne of little fabric cloths I got in packs of 5 from Poundland. I think they are marketed as baby cloths. Each one is the size of a toilet roll sheet. First I clean with toilet roll (which goes in the toilet to be flushed) and when the toilet roll is coming away clean I then run the hot bath tap which is next to the loo and I soak my cloth, clean myself then rinse the cloth. Cloth then goes into the wash basket.

Apparently some men don't really wipe their bums as they don't want to touch it.

I lived with people using the water method. Some would use empty soda bottles with water and others like a watering can thing.

There is no way you're getting clean with just a trickle of water from a soda bottle on your arse. Pretty sure they were using their hand and since our toilets here are usually their own cubicle, you'll have to walk with your shit hands to the bathroom to wash your hands.

There was always water either from the can or possible shit water on the floor.

Still, nobody has explained how you dry off or if you are using your bare hand?

I can't imagine walking into the loo and stepping in other's arse water while trying to get my own pants down enough and not getting the bottoms drenched in arse water.

The other question is what the hell are you eating if you always have shit smeared all over your arse?

Most of the time, there is nothing after I wipe as the turds plopped themselves out whole.

Arse water🤣🤣

Be careful - this may be the poo troll

I use FreshX spray on my standard loo paper rather than use wipes, as these block the sewers and contribute to “fat-bergs”. Would love to have a Japanese loo, but the cost is prohibitive.

As long as you A. wipe properly until the paper is clean, B. Shower/bathe daily and C. always wear clean underwear daily, I don’t think it’s unhygienic (and you should also always shower before and after getting into a swimming pool or jacuzzi, too).

There's a lot of English habits that would be considered unclean in many other countries

I can tell you there are a lot of habits in other countries that I would consider unclean.

@sashh

Urine is sterile so wiping / washing is just for comfort.

As for No 2, if your bowel is healthy there shouldn't be much to wipe.

If you are splashing water then there is a danger you are spreading fecal matter outside the toilet.

This. Plus wet wipes kill the planet.

I understand how it may feel cleaner, but I don’t understand the justification of “well you wouldn’t just use toilet paper if you got poo on your hands”.
No, I wouldn’t. But nor would I just sort of splash my hand with water, or use a wet wipe. That wouldn’t clean my hand properly either.

People who said they use a bottle of water when out and about - do you always carry a specific bum washing bottle with you?

People who said they use a bottle of water when out and about - do you always carry a specific bum washing bottle with you?

I dread to think there are people splashing poopy water around public toilets.