I'm always scared to touch something girls with 6"+ long fingernails have touched because of this. I also am scared to touch anything in a public restroom. This is why you should thoroughly wash your hands, using a paper towel to turn off the water, and a paper towel to open the door, and not touch anything after washing your hands.

Bidet.

I like to look and make sure business is taken care of, and wash my hands afterwards. I just don't like risking being unclean. What's the harm in making sure? The ladies appreciate it.

Adam Corrolla says wiping his ass is "like getting peanut butter out of shag carpeting".

i generally don't move my feet too much, i just stand up. i tried it sitting once and it just felt wrong.

the reason for standing is to look at your poo right? how do you feel when you look at it?

like a proud father!

I stand to wipe, and I guess the reason I do it is cuz its the way ive always done it. *Shrug* Altho, since I look at the paper it seems much easier to do when standing than when sitting. looking at the TP while sitting seems fraught with danger, either you gotta pull it back out and risk smearage, or you gotta do some weird lean thing. I'll just stick with standing, its worked for me this long, dont see why one is any better than the other.

lean ftw although last year i broke our toilet seat while leaning

Fun thread.
LFS - Ummm, wow.

I'm a stander fwiw. I'm honestly not even sure how I would do this still sitting. I guess I knew that people did this while sitting somehow. Seems the reach would be kind of awkward around the seat or whatever. I'm sure it's mechanically a lot easier than I'm making it out to be but since I've always been a stander and probabl will continue to be I don't really need or care to know.


Interesting about the dudes shaving their butt. Hmmm. I'm definitely a bit hairier than average.
I think I would be kind of scared to shave though.


Also have to assume that one's diet has a lot to do with average number of wipes.
I almost always think 'by feel' that I'm done but the visual evidence tells me otherwise and that it's not quite there yet.
It usually ends up being 1 or 2 more necessary.

Note to the non-lookers: That's why everyone is making fun of you. Because to those who actually do look it's becomes obvious pretty quickly that going by 'feel' alone isn't the most accurate method much of the time.


Also - didn't we have this convo in OOT before like 2+ yrs ago or so perhaps?
I remember being amazed at the number of non-lookers in the universe. However, this does at least partly explain why other people can be so stinky I guess.
Every play live-poker? Willing to bet that some of them are non-lookers when it comes to this particular issue.

yeah the sitting thing never made sense to me. so you reach your hand into the bowl? yeah that's much better.

I really don't get the standers. It seems like that would just smear it around and make the process much more difficult.

Yeah Daryn, you reach right between your legs and wipe. It's not like your hand comes anywhere close to the toilet water/excrement.

lol@pokerbob picturing people reaching to the back while sitting, that seems impossible.

it's not like you stand completely erect (lololololol), you just stand up and lean forward. sometimes i turn around and face the bowl but maybe that's only because i'm left handed and the tp roll is usually on the right if you face the bowl, which is better for a lefty.

also, some older toilets don't even have that much space in front that you can reach through. not to mention my legs are enormous, that makes it even harder. i can't even imagine it being done to be honest.

I thought I was going crazy because I was virtually certain that this thread had been done before. I was surprised that it was started by andyfox, though.

wait you spread your legs and reach between them from the front, how the f does that work?

How would standing lead to smearing? That makes no sense.

I feel like I get better leverage standing.

I thought only women sat to wipe and only for wiping their cootchy. How do you wipe both directions sitting? If you don't wipe both ways, you're missing some.

just stop now. you're about to open a very large can of worms.

How do you enjoy your skid marks?

the more i think about it the more blown away i am by the people who say "i just know" or "i go by feel".. like the guy in this thread suggested. try an experiment for a week. every time you "just know" that you're all set, wipe again and take a look.

Reach between your legs and wipe?
Seems like I would come a lot closer to the water or bowl than I would like.
FWIW, I'm not a super-fatty or anything and it's not like I'm trying to jam myself as deep into the bowl as I can. But doing it that way just seems really awkward.

daryn - completely agree.
Especially in regard to the "3 wipes and I'm done" guy.
WTF?

This is roughly the equivilent to saying, "45 seconds of peeing and I know I'm done. I just count to 45. I don't need to look to see if any more pee is coming out. I just zip-up and leave."

I also don't understand people who DON'T look. What are you afraid of? Why not check to be sure?
I think that perhaps this could have something to do with those who remain sitting while they are doing this because perhaps it is more awkward to pull it back out for inspection or something.
Yet another reason why standing is likely superior.

How do you think I learned I did not have to look and could go by feel. I am beginning to think some of the posters here didn't learn to correctly wipe there ass. I'm done, never thought I could go on life tilt trying to tell people how wipe there ass.

Weird i was allowed to vote in the poll. Looking at the responses in that thread i thought the results were going to be much different. Good to know that most of OOT keeps a clean ass.

the point lookers are trying to make is sometimes it takes 2 wipes, sometimes it takes 6, etc. and i really don't believe there is a tactile difference between that 5th wipe and that (when necessary) 6th wipe. the logical conclusion is that sometimes you are leaving **** on your ass. sorry dude.

not to mention that your charge that some of the posters here didn't learn to wipe correctly is ridiculous. how can you say i don't know how to wipe correctly when 100 PERCENT OF THE TIME I LEAVE NO **** ON MY ASS HOLE???

Yeah, non-looking and sitting are both ridiculous. I think the non-looking's been covered, but the sitting honestly baffles me even more. Do you go back to front instead of front to back? How do you get that part of your ass behind/above the hole that you'd be sitting on? Do you ever accidentally smear sh*t on your balls? Standing up and reaching around instead of going between the legs is 100x more practical. I knew that women sometimes wiped sitting down, but I didn't think that men did it ever. If you asked me to ballpark a number of men from 1st-world countries that wiped sitting down before reading this thread, I would have guessed <1%.

Actually, maybe that's the problem. This might be a cultural thing. Are any of you men who wipe sitting down white Americans? I could see it if you live in Japan with magic toilets or maybe even for Asians in general that might have less ass hair and generally end up with a cleaner bunghole.

i was shocked to learn there are tons of guys who sit to pee too! conclusion: some people are just straight up ****ing weirdos, but they'll never admit it, since to them it seems so normal. kind of like people who say "on accident" instead of "by accident", and "on line" instead of "in line".

I can see how it could be different for some people though.
Some people have better touch down there or something.
And I think having hair might make it more difficult to tell when you aren't done either.

So maybe for some individuals they really can tell by feel and really don't need to look. But this is me trying to be open-minded and generous to the opposing view. My hunch is that a vast majority of the "I go by feel" type non-lookers aren't quite as clean as they could/should be.