A Canadian:
And I have even done the "lotion" idea a few times.
You're only culturing bacteria and feeding them with shitty epithelial cells.
The anus should be dry at all times.
Jeezus Christ, I'm posting about wiping methods.
This is often said, but its not the best method. Wipping towards the anus leaves a significantly cleaner result than away from it. This means wiping towards the hole from both dirctions, rather than wiping stuff away from hole. Its cleaner and reduces bacterial count, and is healthier for girls ans guys alike, but especially girls.
The best method is a sitz bath, usually reserved for pregnant women.
But you can carry lipstick and tampons in your purse, but not a hose.
Pause.
In my idiocy, just though of a spray bottle filled iwth water- a portable sitz bath.
We girls can spray our anus with water in place of dry toilet paper, which tends to leave smears.
And so, skit marks..
For those stupid enough to wear underwear, of course.
Anyway, trite info: be grateful. Romans, in literal communal bathrooms, would share a bucket of brine with a stick in it. On the end of the stick was a sponge everyone took turns in cleaning themselves with.
Puritan settlers would use corn cobs and Assyrians, Egpytptians, Babylonians, the whole gamut would use papyrus leaves- which are good for writing on, not wiping with.
Imagine sitting with a dozen other people, in public, on the shitter and
knowing the bucket of sludge in the middle filled with shit from these other people is what you will be using to wipe yourself.
In other words, all hail toilet paper.
