How to wash your bum with a bucket!

Milamber

My apologies amyl.

It was a pressing issue! Literally

pundabee

It seems like a lot of people suffer from splatter poo here ("on the skin"). Seriously, you shouldn't touch the exit area; it is unclean, and considering that washing facilities in most Indian toilets are insufficient, this is the exact reason that diseases are spread.

Since there seem to be some useful links, I'll add The health benefits from squatting.

noflylist

Next time, I carry squirt gun and air dryer!

Milamber

I agree that western toilets affect how well poo is passed, as put forward in that link.

Perhaps with proper technique position, aka squatting, there will be less inner cheek skin contact due to increased parting of said area. I don't personally suffer from regular splatter poo, but things do happen and poo consistency and release does change with diet(unnatural, unhealthy processed foods etc) and general variations in the organism.

My main concern from earlier was just that cupping water in the hand and throwing it on the general area would not always seem to do the job whether it be splatter poo, come-out-perfectly-poo or super sticky cement poo or whatever type you can think of. When you wash all parts of your body you don't just apply water you tend to rub and scrub and wipe or whatever, same with most cleaning actions for any surface, not just your arse.

People and animals have been pooing relatively hygenicaly for hundreds of thousands - millions of years. I wonder how much of this confusion and dilemma arises from over-population and excessive development and lack of infrastructure to cope with it. What happened to my hole in the ground I used to be able to dig and defecate and clean my arse at the river in peace in. Where'd all these people come from? The earth will take care of that soon enough.

What's a man or woman got to do to poo and get a clean bum around here with minimum effort. Suddenly I'm wishing I was a water based animal. :P

Sorry for my extreme tangent and window into my semi-deranged psyche.

Jon

machadinha

I was wondering about that, hope OP doesn't think the question isn't being taken seriously... more than a little so you'd think!

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kpnuts

Have you ever wondered how Indians deal with this situation when they are in western loo?
I once opened a door to a "Desi" doing his business in western toilet (he failed to lock it- or he couldn't get his head to rest on the door), I saw him sitting with both his feet on the toilet seat in the squatting position!
I still wonder what he did to get water
every time i see a broken seat now i know that desi has been there!
By the way i dont refer to desi in any prejudicial way.
after all we are all desi, if we are on Indiamike! you know what i mean

04274108

Guys, don't forget...when you're finished with the bucket, flip it upside down. It is the Indian equivalent of leaving the seat down.

machadinha

Don't they still have those wonderful crossover contraptions -- a western toilet with foot supports provided on the rim?

capt_mahajan

I once opened an unlocked door on a flight and found and Indian lady like that.

Kinda spoilt the inflight meal service for me.

Prashant.M

Nopes, not required, at least where I come from.

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girlone

A practical question: if you use the spray thingy, how do you stop your clothes from getting saturated? Kinda embarrassing when you exit said loo with sopping jeans.

Methinks this is where a sari comes in handy - whip it up and tuck it over your shoulder!!

Auntyji, I will never forget my first experience with high tech loos. It was my first time ever out of my country and I had a stop over in Seoul. I checked into my hotel room and was dying for the loo. There was a panel of about 12 buttons with rather strange symbols on the side of the seat. All I wanted to do was flush!!
I press a few buttons tentatively. Nothing happens. I get off the loo seat and squat down, hoping to get a better view of the symbols and start pressing random buttons. All of a sudden, a tube shoots out from under the rim and sprays a high pressure jet of water into the air. I kid you not, it was like a Hyde Park fountain!!
I ran out of the loo to avoid getting soaked. After about 4 minutes I realised it wasn't going to stop by itself, and the bathroom floor was rapidly flooding. Nothing for it, I stripped completely, ran into the fountain and punched all the buttons I could! Finally got the right one and it stopped.

Unfortunately, I also turned the seat heat on - almost burnt my bum when I got up in the middle of the night!

Seasoned traveller? Me? Oh yes!!

G1

capt_mahajan

Indojingai

Having spent a long time in Japan and some months in Seoul I know it can be daunting but they usually put kawaii symbols on everything, auto toilets included.
Had you just used a bit of imagination (then that UU was a bottom, it has two buttons next to it... temp +/- and a range or force tuner.

Not being preachy... just sharing thought.

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machadinha

When similar public loos were introduced in France it prompted urban legends about kids trapping themselves in there and being turned upside down & inside out...

Nick-H

Brilliant, Girlone

On the practical question, you spray youself, not your clothes! Some drops will run down your leg, but they quickly get absorbed by your clothes and dry up in the sun. I guess a skirt is more discrete in this respect than jeans...

At home, I keep a small hand towel by the loo and just wipe those drops off my legs.

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