# Wet Wipes vs TP - Must Be a Guy Thing **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 20, 2005, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wet-wipes-vs-tp-must-be-a-guy-thing/304755 "2005-05-20T16:10:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wet-wipes-vs-tp-must-be-a-guy-thing/304755/21 "2005-05-20T18:23:22Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > That’s why you should use one of [these babies.](http://www.cumminstools.com/browse.cfm/4,537.html) Nah. I settled on one of [these](http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00062NEMI.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wet-wipes-vs-tp-must-be-a-guy-thing/304755/22 "2005-05-20T18:30:40Z")
> [@](#): > > I have no strong views re: wipes vs tp. > > but my plumbing does. > > I don’t want to buy my plumber a new Mercedes…so I’ll stick with generic tp, the only kind that this old house can handle. Although baby wipes (of the kind that we used on **MilliCal** up to about 5 years ago) aren’t flushable, the new “wet wipes” market for an adult market _are_. Even venerable old plumbing ought to be able to handle them. You know, they tried marketing flushable wet wipes _decades_ ago, but they never caught on. One brand was called “whistle”, apparently in “clean as a…”. But I suspect people more naturally associated it with flatulence. In any case, it was a poor name (perhaps) and a product Whose Time Hadn’t Yet Come. Maybe now it has. ---
**Author:** ![modernhamlet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@modernhamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/modernhamlet)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wet-wipes-vs-tp-must-be-a-guy-thing/304755/23 "2005-05-20T18:33:40Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > Nah. I settled on one of [these](http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00062NEMI.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg). Oh sweet jesus. You are a bad, bad person. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wet-wipes-vs-tp-must-be-a-guy-thing/304755/24 "2005-05-20T18:41:43Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > I have no strong views re: wipes vs tp. > > but my plumbing does. > > I don’t want to buy my plumber a new Mercedes…so I’ll stick with generic tp, the only kind that this old house can handle. I have super low water pressure and lots of plumbing issues. Now if you haven’t been to Asia or S. America, you will be totally grossed out by this - unless it has remnants of poop on it, I throw the used TP into a plastic bag instead of down the toilet. Then several times a day I take it all out to the trash can. Even if I drank 12 beers and urinated 10 times, I don’t think that the accumulated TP would cause a nasty odor or anything to worry about. My toilet flushes better now! Seriously, there’s a large part of the world that does it this way. I think I even saw it in Europe on occasion. May sound gross, but actually urine is sterile so the TP used to wipe isn’t really all that nasty. Mark and Brian, of radio “fame”, talk about this all the time. It must be a guy / asshair thing. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wet-wipes-vs-tp-must-be-a-guy-thing/304755/25 "2005-05-20T18:47:09Z")
I started using wetwipes while on camping trips. (TMI Warning! - The change in diet and exercise generally made my “deposits” less “solid” than usual, and wetwipes were the only way to deal with it.) Now I use them all the time for the final pass. I can start my day with that “clean and fresh” feeling! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wet-wipes-vs-tp-must-be-a-guy-thing/304755/26 "2005-05-20T18:47:51Z")
Evidently, some wives enjoy racing stripes on their husbands shorts!! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wet-wipes-vs-tp-must-be-a-guy-thing/304755/27 "2005-05-20T18:48:17Z")
I was afraid you were going to link to [this](http://www.epinions.com/hmgd-Shop_Tools-All-Porter_Cable_Portable_Oscillating_Spindle_Sander __Model__ 121). I’ve never used a wet wipe for this purpose, but I may try after this thread. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wet-wipes-vs-tp-must-be-a-guy-thing/304755/28 "2005-05-20T18:48:49Z")
> [@beckwall](#): > > It must be a guy / asshair thing. 😕 Pardon me, but I’m willing to bet that I’m not the only woman in the world with hair on her ass. Probably not as much as many guys, but still . . . ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wet-wipes-vs-tp-must-be-a-guy-thing/304755/29 "2005-05-20T18:56:40Z")
Believe it or not, there are some people who use cloth wipes. I’m all about my nifty cloth diapers for my kid, but that crosses my personal line. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wet-wipes-vs-tp-must-be-a-guy-thing/304755/30 "2005-05-20T19:04:45Z")
So are there really men out there who carry pocketfuls of wetwipes around with them?? Ladies have those handy-dandy purse inventions but what are the 4 out of 4 husbands using? ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wet-wipes-vs-tp-must-be-a-guy-thing/304755/31 "2005-05-20T19:15:33Z")
> [@beckwall](#): > > I have super low water pressure and lots of plumbing issues. Now if you haven’t been to Asia or S. America, you will be totally grossed out by this - unless it has remnants of poop on it, I throw the used TP into a plastic bag instead of down the toilet. No, not gross (although I hope you wash your hands. In fact, I hope all of you are washing your hands whether you use wipes or tp…) We cannot flush tampons down our plumbing, ever. We have very old clay tile under the front lawn, and alot of trees. So, we, too, bag our bodily fluids. this is just a-ahem- (deviant) thought, but I would be willing to bet that women, who have been known to be moist/wet at any old time at all, would be less likely to want to apply a cold, wet wipe to their nether regions. Me likes dry, warm (as compared to wipes) tp. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wet-wipes-vs-tp-must-be-a-guy-thing/304755/32 "2005-05-20T19:27:17Z")
> [@fessie](#): > > Four of us were discussing our husbands last night and - lo and behold - we discovered that 4 out of 4 husbands surveyed use those wet wipes. This is the part that got me. I’m picturing Carol Brady, Shirley Partridge, Samantha Stevens and Lisa Douglas sitting around having tea and finger sandwiches. Shirley: “Tell me, Carol, what does Mike use to wipe his ass with?” ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wet-wipes-vs-tp-must-be-a-guy-thing/304755/33 "2005-05-20T19:39:45Z")
> [@modernhamlet](#): > > Oh sweet jesus. You are a bad, bad person. Well, if you think that’s bad, I guess I shouldn’t tell you that I _LITERALLY_ settled on it. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wet-wipes-vs-tp-must-be-a-guy-thing/304755/34 "2005-05-20T19:49:13Z")
> [@beckwall](#): > > you will be totally grossed out by this - unless it has remnants of poop on it, I throw the used TP into a plastic bag instead of down the toilet Other than for nose-blowing, how do you have poop-free TP? ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wet-wipes-vs-tp-must-be-a-guy-thing/304755/35 "2005-05-20T19:50:52Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > “Tell me, Carol, what does Mike use to wipe his ass with?” You’re soaking in it! ---
**Author:** ![flood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@flood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flood)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wet-wipes-vs-tp-must-be-a-guy-thing/304755/36 "2005-05-20T19:59:49Z")
> [@The Weird One](#): > > 😕 Pardon me, but I’m willing to bet that I’m not the only woman in the world with hair on her ass. Probably not as much as many guys, but still . . . Actually, I saw this girl on the Style channel getting her ass crack waxed and an anal hair bleach (I don’t know if that’s how you say it, but they bleached the strays that were left from the waxing). It’s not all that uncommon and as a matter of fact (I’d definitely get my ass kicked if my she knew I said this) my gf has asshair. No big deal. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wet-wipes-vs-tp-must-be-a-guy-thing/304755/37 "2005-05-20T20:08:32Z")
OK - here is WAY too much TMI— I have Irritable Bowel Syndrome. When you have to poop sometimes upwards of 8 times a day, first constipated followed by diarrhea, a nice cold wet wipe feels _gooood._ ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wet-wipes-vs-tp-must-be-a-guy-thing/304755/38 "2005-05-20T20:21:38Z")
Ok, **Eve** , you finally got me! I’ve seen your wit celebrated many, many times, but that one sent me to the floor. Bravo! ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wet-wipes-vs-tp-must-be-a-guy-thing/304755/39 "2005-05-20T20:29:21Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > So are there really men out there who carry pocketfuls of wetwipes around with them?? > Ladies have those handy-dandy purse inventions but what are the 4 out of 4 husbands using? I use them. I keep one travel pack in my laptop bag and another in my glove box. This handles about 98% of the situations I’m likely to need them outside of the home. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wet-wipes-vs-tp-must-be-a-guy-thing/304755/40 "2005-05-20T20:59:34Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Shirley: “Tell me, Carol, what does Mike use to wipe his ass with?” Curse you, **Eve**!!! I was _literally_ taking a swig of cola when I read that. Do you know how much it hurts to not spew cola all over the keyboard? Owww!!! Hurts so good … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wet-wipes-vs-tp-must-be-a-guy-thing/304755.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wet-wipes-vs-tp-must-be-a-guy-thing/304755.md?page=3)