Wiping -- sit or stand?

In My Humble Opinion
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The other day, my fiancee and I had the following conversation:

Her: Why were you at the toilet for so long? (our bathroom has a small sideroom with just a toilet inside)

Me: I was taking a dump. I’ve been known to do that, you know.

Her: But you were standing up. (the door to the WC has a small frosted window in it)

Me: I was wiping.

Her: You wipe standing up? :eek:

It seems that she only wipes sitting down, and can’t imagine anyone being able to wipe while standing without somehow getting shit all over the walls (never mind the fact that we’ve been living together for over 18 months with feces-free wallpaper). She is willing to accept my barbarian ways, however, if I can show that there are other people out there who also wipe standing up.

So, distasteful though the question may be, it is one I must ask if there is ever to be peace in the Sublight household again:

After defecating, do you wipe standing up or sitting down? Any additional information (is this a male/female thing?) or speculation as to why we do what we do would also be welcome.

Thanks in advance,

–sublight.

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You insignifcat barbarian how dare you wipe standing up! Ahhh poopy (how apropriate?) I’ve done it both ways I find sitting to just be easier. I don’t know about others but I don’t have very good balance so sitting is just easier. Anyways nothing wrong with doing it either way I reckon. FTR I am a male.

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Sitting down. male

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I am a female and with that comes two different areas to wipe.

I usually wipe sitting but on occasion after a number 1, I will wipe while standing…mostly when in public cause its easier to stand then hover much longer :smiley:
Damn you men have it good!

Hope I helped!

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You’re supposed to wipe?!?!?! :o

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How on god’s earth couldyou do it sitting down?

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I have vague childhood memories of wiping sitting down…but I always do it standing up now.

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Sometimes a bit of both. But usually standing.

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I was wondering how on earth one does it standing up!?

Female. Sitting down.

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Dear god, I am trying to get any image of standing and wiping out of my head.

Sitting, male.

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Okay…standing folks…how exactly do you do that? Are you standing up and leaning foward a little for access? Legs spread? Seriously, how’s that work?

Cause I’m a sitter and that means leaning forward a bit to wipe from the back (women have to make sure they don’t wipe from the front after defecating because it can transfer bacteria from feces to the vagina or urethra, causing urinary tract infections).

Also, I still don’t get why men don’t have to wipe at least a LITTLE after peeing. I really don’t believe that a few drops are dangling on the end and you put it away wet. Know that you can’t really help (so I’ve heard) a few drops (no matter how you shake and dance, the last few drops go down your pants) but I think a little wiping is in order.

Tibs.

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I need a person who does it standing to explain how this is done. When I stand up, my ass cheeks close & it would take a lot more effort to get the TP where it needs to go. When I’m sitting on the toilet, it’s much more convenient.

Is this because I have a big ass? Maybe people with smaller butts don’t have this problem. Not that I’ve ever regarded it as a problem.

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We just wring them out really good when we’re done. Like a dishtowel. :smiley:

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I, too, am boggled at the concept of Standing While Wiping. The very thought had never occured to me.

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In my 35 years on this planet it has never, ever occurred to me there could be people who would stand up to wipe. Even goat felching sounds more credible to me. I sit, and I’m male, but I can’t see how gender has anything to do with it. And I have a small ass, Stella*Fantasia, so don’t worry.

  1. As Stella*Fantasia pointed out, your cheeks are spread when sitting, so you have easier access for the wiping.

  2. Say there’s a bit of doo-doo on only one of your cheeks. You stand up, your cheeks close…voila! Now you’ve got two dirty cheeks (and a primitive Rorschach test), and twice as much to wipe.

  3. Standing up, with your cheeks closed, you’d have to wipe with the paper covering your pinched-up hand like a cone, and whatever gets on it could be accidentally rubbed against your fingers or back, the underside of the seat, etc. Sitting down the paper can be held as a flat plane. It’s a control issue.

  4. Sometimes the digital stimulation of wiping makes my plumbing realize it’s not quite finished. In which case, I’m still sitting down.

  5. Hi Opal!

Tiburon, it’s exactly because we “can’t really help (so I’ve heard) a few drops” that we do indeed put it away wet. Wiping wouldn’t prevent those last few drops. Complain to the manufacturer if that bothers you.

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OUCH! Is that anything like choking the chicken? :smiley:

As to the OP, I am male, and wipe sitting or standing. When standing, I am crouched forward with my butt sticking out, to facilitate the widening of the crack, FWIW.

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Let me take the OPs question even one step further. Of the sitters, how many are reach behind-ers and how many are through the leg-ers?

Male, sitting, through the legs.
I seems to me that standing up before wiping would cause a mess by itself.

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five:

Thats what I was trying to say. This is be the funniest post I have seen in quite a while.

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When sitting, it has to be reach-behind. I am afraid that through the legs puts my hand and the precious moon-floss precariously close to the water in the bowl. Do you ever get your TP wet when you do reach through the legs? Now standing and reaching through might work…

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My god…people wipe sitting? I didn’t know such perverts existed. I’m honestly quite shocked by the concept of a sitting wipe.