Over the top, but, Lib, your comment was almost as funny as thinking of a guest who would actually have the temerity to turn someone else’s toilet paper in another direction! Did you get fingerprints and track the deeddoer down??? Inquiring minds need to know!
“Cheat is TEACH, backwards!” Doodlebug’ Up the Down Stair Case
Yes, but do I wipe my butt from the side or through the legs?
Whenever I use someone else’s bathroom, I make a point of always changing the orientation, just to be perverse and annoying. 
He’s the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armor, shouting ‘All Gods are Bastards!’
My dad has this hair-brained Freud-inspired theory about toilet paper orientation.
He says more men prefer their toilet paper to unroll over-the-top, and more women prefer their toilet paper to unroll from underneath. His reason? Because men usually like to have sex from on top and women usually like to have sex from underneath. I don’t think he has any ideas about how men or women who like to have sex doggie-style would prefer their toilet paper.
Is there any data to back up this theory of his? Most male dopers in this thread to seem to prefer their toilet paper over-the-top, but that may be because people of both sexes prefer their toilet paper over-the-top and most of the posters in this thread have happened to be male…
AntiPro:
Now, now. No one has rights with respect to your toilet paper but you.
In Spain, it’s over the top. General standard rule.
And as far as how you wipe your butt, exactly, please keep us in suspense.
To respond to tracer, my own observation, among my group of friends, is that the females in the crowd are the ones more likely to prefer the “under” approach. Maybe that’s just because women are more likely than men to own cats. (Note to self: Start separate thread on Freudian implications of gender differences in pet preference.)
Anti Pro-
Yes I did confront (good-naturedly) the perpetrator who switched my roll around. Perhaps I should have used SuperNerd’s disciplinary method on her!
One other observation: Public restroooms (and hotel restrooms) seem to uniformly use the over-the-top configuration. So someone somewhere must have decided that over-the-top is the appropriate norm. (I am imagining now an orientation session for hotel maids where any newly-hired maid with “under” tendencies is de-programmed.)
What’s this? I totally disagree to this! I am a woman and I have always had the Toilet Paper OVER, and the top is my place in sex… so HA! there is a mutant according to Freud
You bet there is, Bunky - it’s over the top, and over the top ONLY.
StoryTyler
“Not everybody does it, but everybody should.”
Wow, am I the only one who prefers it on the counter (sink, vanity, whatever) next to the toilet?
If I do have to put it on a roller, I make a point of having it over.
Ok, I confess. While there actually is a right way to put the paper on the roller, mine sits atop the counter (Kirby the Shredder lives at my house… )
StoryTyler
“Not everybody does it, but everybody should.”
Toilet paper?
Toilet paper?
The voices in my head need to stop talking.
people pay attention to this kind of thing? wow…
“I’ve been expecting you,” said Marx,“What took you so long?”