Do you wipe your bottom standing up or sitting down?

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Well, I thought this was an entirely uncontroversial topic, but my DH has discovered (through a conversation) that I stand up to wipe my bottom after going to to the loo.

Do you, for whatever reason, do the same? Or are you a sitter and you lean either forwards or to the side?

I feel as though there are multiple reasons to stand, perhaps you have mobility issues, a larger body, or it is simply your preference (like me).

Please tell me that at least some of you do this and I am not entirely abnormal!!

Sitting down and use a bidet bottle (helps prevent UTIs)

How is this different from a standard bidet? Will Google. I am very intrigued

cant believe I’m even commenting on this thread but I also do this. How can you even do it sat down?

I am sorry to learn that you have been so unwell. I hope that you find comfort wherever and however you can 💐

I stand and honestly thought this was normal until I realised my OH sits. I figure I have quite short arms as I really can’t reach properly sitting down and feel like I can’t clean properly. I don’t think I was taught this potty training as I recall sitting when I was a child and I always ended up with skid marks so I think I learned that standing was better to get cleaner.

I think this is the case for a lot of us standing-wipers. Either arms are too short and cannot quite reach or it is simply uncomfortable / painful to have to contort yourself whilst sitting!

Gillian McKeith (if you remember who she was?!) always said if you’re diet was healthy then there should be no poo left to wipe!
It varies here!

Stand, always have, genuinely only found out a few weeks ago that some people sit. I honestly don't understand how sitting down to do it would even work, how can you get your hand into position?

Some American prison/army films (eg Full Metal Jacket, the toilet where Private Pile suffers his final breakdown) make a bit more sense knowing that some people sit down. I'd sometimes wondered how it worked, having a bunch of toilets out in the open with no cubicles. Fine (well, not "fine") when actually taking a shit, but surely it is awkward when you stand up to wipe. Maybe sitting down to wipe is common in American prisons. And public toilets there generally didn't have doors until the 1960s.

Toilet habits are one of those things I guess you just develop yourself. I can picture how the Asian style "squat and shit into a hole in the ground" toilets work, in those "facilities" i can even picture how wiping your arse might work. But sitting down? Makes no sense to me.

Sit, lean to the right, reach back and wipe. (im left handed)
I had no idea that people actually stood to wipe. This is complete news.

What I don't get is why some people find their bum is further away (or arms shorter) when sitting, but if you stand your bum gets closer??

I think the next question is do you wipe by going through from the front or do you reach over around the side. I can't reach around the side without discomfort so go through the middle being careful not to cross contaminate the 2 regions.

Yes - a good diet and good fluid intake, plus, a tapered stool!!

Isn't it pretty much the same as standing up but you're sitting down?
Or are standers going in between their legs?

Yes I remember GM! She was great

Think it could be the angle

I think it's maybe the twisting movement while seated v standing rather than length of arms which is key here.
Maybe a less flexible core/middle age spread etc is a contributing factor.

Oh no! - not between the legs.
Impossible methinks, to wipe front to back between legs while standing.
You'd end up rolled up in a ball like a traumatised hedgehog😉

A traumatised hedgehog - what an image!

For those who use wet wipes (which are not flushable - whatever they say on the packet), there is a useful gel called WYPE, which is flushable, used with ordinary tp and very effective. Comes in handbag size too. Order online. I am not associated with the company, but have used it for quite a while and recommend it.

I wouldn't pay a blind bit of attention to anything she said/says. She is a pseudoscientific peddler of snake oil.

In Asia, they have a bum gun in every toilet. As my arse is so big, I needed to have a bum cannon installed. Stand, point, cannon that bottom clean.

What happened to Gillian McKeith? She was all the rage once and I even had her cookbook,then she seemed to fade into nonexistence.

Same here. Always done it standing up, although not fully standing - more squatting over toilet.

Never knew sitting down was a thing until about a year ago when a whatsapp group I'm on started discussing it.

Also blows my mind that sitting down is a thing - I can't even work out how that works.

I find a handstand in the shower is the most hygienic method.

I’m with you OP, I always stand up. Have not given it much thought before, I can’t even remember what I taught my children to do!