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If you got poop on any other part of your body, would wiping it with some dry paper convince you that you were clean?
by mlyle 5y ago
If you got poop on any other part of your body, would wiping it with some dry paper convince you that you were clean?
- esalman 5y agoThis is my question as well.
- phonypc 5y agoYou'd also use soap elsewhere. Absent soap, I'd rather use paper than just water. I'd bet it's strictly more hygienic too. Moving water spreads stuff everywhere.
- taberiand 5y agoMaybe, but it seems in practice that either option is fine hygiene-wise - there surely would be definitive proof one way or the other by now, given widespread use, of there were issues?
- falcolas 5y agoThere's a paper about parachutes and problems with proving they prevent death that seems applicable here.
- mlyle 5y agoNot really relevant, given that a huge fraction of the world uses bidets. Unless you're implying that a huge portion of the world is eschewing parachutes and apparently doin' OK.
- JasonFruit 5y agoThat is... an unexpectedly good argument.
- tshaddox 5y agoNot a great argument for people who wash other parts of their body with soap, hot water, and scrubbing with a cloth.
- falcolas 5y agoYeah, water alone does not a clean surface make. Mythbusters showed this in their "air dryer vs. paper towls" myth. Water plus soap = clean hands no matter the drying method. Water alone, and the paper towels did better than an air dry.
- latchkey 5y agoThis was my realization as well.
- tshaddox 5y agoWait, would you only squirt it with water?
- mbg721 5y agoIf you ask a typical parent with an infant, dry paper isn't quite enough, but wet-wipes are; they're just more expensive and not flushable.