They Use Their Hand To Wipe?
I have recently been educated on how people in Iraq wipe their butts! I know what your thinking. What are you talking about DJL and how did you even get into this conversation! Recently a Soldier came back home from a long stay in Iraq and we got to talking. Yes the conversation took a downward spin. I believe someone was drinking out a water bottle and he said the people from Iraq would love that bottle. So of course I say “why”? Well I was told that they hate toilet paper. They say it is smearing! That is unclean! So instead they “USE THEIR LEFT HAND TO WIPE THE WASTE AWAY and use the water bottle to sprinkle the water on the just wiped area.
So let’s talk about this for a second. I had to look this crap (no pun intended) up on the Internet. There is actually people who live in a Western society that say they do what the locals do when visiting their country! We need to analyze this. “What the hell is wrong with you people”! I can see you need to squat down over a hole they call a toilet since your in a foreign country but you don’t need use your left hand to scrap the crap off your butt! You can’t use your right hand because you can’t! That is right you shake hands and eat with your right hand. I have so much to say about this I am rambling!!!! Think of the process in which your done doing your duty and you stick your left hand down there and scoop up any remaining KLINGONS. What do you do next you say? You grab a water bottle or a hose or even a jug and spray water on your butt. OK, I am cool with that. But then what do you do with that left hand? THEY HAVE NO SOAP! What do you do with your wet butt? THEY HAVE NO PAPER!
OK you have just spilled water on your nasty left hand and you go to eat. Of course they use no utensils so you need to use your right hand to eat. THEY STILL HAVE NO SOAP, REMEMBER! What if you have only one hand? THEY HAVE NO SOAP! The thoughts going through my head just made me throw up into the back of my throat! How do they shower? Think of the bacteria and disease on everyone’s left hand. No wonder the life expectancy in Afghanistan is only 44 years old! Think about all the other hygiene issues I can get into! They need a serious dose of science. I have to go to the bathroom now…
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I would say it is better than toilet paper if they use Soap and other stuffs for cleaning it properly. It can wipe out all the Bacteria and all others. But, think about your butt without washing, just a wipe using toilet paper and left just like that for a long day.
What to say about the Bacterias living there? It may cause more harm, right ?
when making a deal, always ‘shake on it’ with the right to close…
I have also heard that women are for procreation, men are for recreation! I wonder what their right hands are doing during recreation.
And of course they think Pork is unclean! Hypocritical and archaic!
people, you all need to get a life !!
Its pretty normal in some countries, is this such a revelation?
If you’re smearing your ass with shit when you wipe, then you need to learn to properly wipe your ass w/toilet paper. And if you still feel a bit dirty, do like I do and wet a little bit paper at the end of your major wipes, wipe with that, and again with some dry paper.
Omg, I can’t believe I’ve actually entered myself into this topic and actually commented. lol
Yea, its only shit. Oh, your not doing this right? So who cares if someone else is, its really not your concern. Sorry to break it to you like that. ttyl
A French Canadian intern was confused as to why Indians used water rather than toilet paper to cleanse their cheeks and the chasm between. An intern of Punjabi descent recounted his father’s explanation for this cultural phenomenon. When someone drops some food on a table, wiping it with a paper towel is a quick fix. But to really clean the mess, washing it with water is a much more effective solution.
Be an adult and get over your immature self. There are many cultures, if you are so concerned don’t shake hands.
I can be liberal too. But disgusting is disgusting. I cringe if my hand accidentaly slips through the paper. Some of you people are nasty.
I never clean myself with just toiler paper. I don’t think it’s really clean. I always first wipe with toilet paper, then have a shower and clean my ass with soap + hand.
That’s creepy. I never knew that.
Ok i cant help but comment they are stupid its simple water does not clean germs loo roll doent clean germs so why do we use loo roll? why do you think so we dont get shit on our hands whish caries gems which passes gems to everything that hand touches so when they touch somthing that there shitty hand had touched they now got germs on there which is now a shity right hand why am i conserned you may say its up to them well that may be an till i got shit on my hands from somthing they touched i mean do you realy wana eat food they have mad i know i dont i wana live for years ty vm an as for they whole your ass still got shit on it when you use loo roll yes it has an prob does have for a good 6 hrs but its around the a hole not the cheeks! not sure how u guys wipe dont wana know now as i was saying u aint gona get germs from that for 6 hrs aness you making food with you ass hole not sure if thats poss tbh but anyway to my point what do you thing bath shawers an washings for its to keep you germ free you wash you ass with soup an water then putting any germs down the plug hole and way from food areas cant believe i have to say stuff so obvius oh an p.s soz about the spellings i got a crap memory an cant spell hard for my to lean an retain spelling soz an im tired so cba to spell check soz hope you can still uderstand what i wrote if not well er tuff!
just to add if any1 wana retype what i put an add spelling an grammer correcly ill ty now
ty , also as for any future comments saying im rasist er well if its theire race that do it , an i’m against spreading germs an against anybody an anyrase that do it, i think they are stupid for believing in somthing that is clearly wrong so if u wana call me rasist u can do an also u can say all english ppl are dirty an use loo roll yes most of us do so yes be a rasist as u like from what i see ppl that call rasist must feal thretond in some way from what ppl say which leads me to believe that they don’t believe in what they do themselves an are not happy with themselves either! I am happy with my clean self, so call me what u like! (parden the line) I couldnt give 2 shits! xD
Actually they wipe while pouring water down their crack. Indians and Pakistanis (my dad is Pakistani) do the same thing.
Of course, one washes one’s hands with soap and water afterwards, and it’s way cleaner than leaving “Klingons” in your crack like toilet paper does.
So get over yourself Hypocrite John.
Come on, is soap really used or not?
It kinda makes you cringe when you go to a restaurant and you know that it is a possibility that the same hand holding your plate and beverage glass has been washing his butt since childhood and the smell residue has to be there from so many washings! Personally, I always dry wipe with tissue a few times to eliminate the smear factor, wet wipe until it is clear and then dry wipe last. No Klingons here!
Lord. OK, shit is disgusting. Why would ANYONE want to touch it willingly. And as far as the Pakistanis using soap, if you have spent a life time thinking a little shit on your hand is no biggie, I bet they just do a quick swish and get on with their day. What if you have long nails? That shit stays under the nails. Ugh. And the smell factor. If you touch shit every day of your life, your hand is bound to smell like shit. I went to Morocco, another land of no TP and I starved for five days. Everyones left hand was unusually dark in the crevices. SHIT. I’m tellin’ ya, it was shit! There was no way I was eating any goat and couscous made by shit hands. It’s vile and filthy. And TP does not smear shit. OK, maybe if you are 5 and just learning to wipe, but lets talk about what the bathroom door is for: to hide the fact THAT WE ALL WET THE TP and wipe our asses with it. Admit it or not. And bidets, some of us use bidets. The bottom line is that the countries who wipe without TP are poor countries whose practices are often rooted in archaic thinking and lack of resources. I guarantee, hand a Paki a roll of Charmin, he’ll be smuggling that shit into his household by the end of the day. LONG LIVE CHARMIN, AND OUT WITH THE LEFT HAND!!!
Okay WTF is this idiot talking abut? We do have soaps and we use them, and most of us use BIDETS instead of hoses.
As we all know, Bidets are much more hygienic and even hoses are cleaner than toilet papers. And we do use soaps after using hoses AND bidets. So stop being total retards and don’t believe everything you read on the internet. For more information on this contact me at Terrorrulestheworld@yahoo.com
Have a bad day.
Dribbling water down your ass crack does not get the poop off! You would need a high pressure spout like a shower head to effectively clean the area. Then what? There’s no paper in these rest rooms so they walk around with a wet squishy ass all day? That creates a musty genital area that stinks worse than the shit itself. And for women that can’t be good. The butt juice will just work its way into the vagina causing infections. If you are smearing shit when you wipe you are doing it wrong. You are supposed to wipe until the paper is completely clean, no matter how many balls of paper you have to make. If there is still streaks on the paper you are not done wiping. Water on shit will just make it slimy-not clean it completely off. And to walk around with one hand covered in feces is just fucking disgusting. I don’t care if they eat with it or not, they are still touching everything around you therefore defeating the purpose of not eating with it.
When ever I have a crap I always wash my bottom thoroughly afterwards with hot water and hand gel, usually anti-bacterial wash gel. I am always nice and clean in that area and feel fresh all day
Good heavens…how old are you people? 10?!
You need to get out and learn, and lose the ignorance (that is how you’ll know you’ve actually learned).
“Where there is love and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.”
—– Saint Francis
Ok, I was having this argument with my Canadian flat mate this morning, and I can’t help but comment on this forum. Whatever I post here is not intended to hurt any of you who support using tissue.
First of all, if you say that tissue is more hygienic than water, get a life. If you think tissue is better, why not wipe your body with tissue instead of water and soap, why not clean all your utensils with tissue instead of water and soap, why wash your cars with water instead of tissue? My flat mate argued that is different. How is it different? Any normal person with common sense knows that water is better at removing bacteria and germs than tissue. Washing with water removes germs more effectively than tissue. Secondly, as one of the persons above said, tissue is a quick fix whereas water is better for long term hygiene. Thirdly, we Indians or generally South Asians (I don’t know about other cultures) believe that ‘body is the temple’, and as any doctor would say, a healthy mind in a healthy body (prove them wrong). Why be partial towards all other external body parts while washing and against your butts? If you want to have your entire body clean, why not wash your body and arse with water? I understand that many of you will argue that you still take a shower (that’s what my flat mate argued). Tell me frankly, how often do you take a shower immediately after your crap? And are you taking a shower every time you take a crap?
Now someone above told that it is disgusting to eat from a hand which has touched crap. My question: How many times have you eaten any food cooked by an Asian? When you ordered something the last time online, did you know who cooked it? And how do you know whether the hand is clean or unclean? Did you go ask him/her or smelled it (if you smelled it, you definitely are a psycho)? And how many times have you seen any dirt/crap on any utensils? I personally have equal number of Indian and western friends. I have cooked many times for my house mates (guess what? all of them are westerners, no joke). None of them ever complained anything about my cleanliness.
And for others who feel it’s disgusting, imagine you have germs multiplying on your ass and your stinking ass. Which is better? A second of crap on your hands, or a long term smell and germs on your ass?
Lastly, I understand that in many places, people after washing their asses with water don’t wash their hands properly. I definitely agree that it is bad for health and hygiene. But I assume people are more educated nowadays, and they know that they should use soap and water to clean their hands. I also agree it is a cultural difference. You westerners use tissue, we use water. If we can’t learn and understand the cultural difference and just argue for the sake of argument, I am sorry but I don’t respect that. If we can understand, think logically, if need be then research and then apply what is best for health or anything, I think that would be something which can be appreciated.
Friends keep in mind that besides only enforcing points back and forth, be able to educate yourself too. Out of all statements made in this blog, none made sense as to exactly why tissue is better than water. I have had the opportunity to try both the options. And honestly I felt much cleaner with water. Wiping left a disgusting smell plus shit along the skin!
I understand the typical cliché is feces coming in contact with your hand when you wipe. Please think beyond that, don’t you think there is still more that you just smeared against your bum cheeks? Over that imagine wearing boxers or panties that run in between “the wiped area”. All that remains are now on your underwear. I am sure that a lot of people sometimes take their underwear off and just throw them in their closets. Now they have bacteria in their closet floor or clothing or what ever there is around
In comparison after cleaning yourself with water all you have to do is use an antibacterial soap to simply clean your hand, be sure to keep the soap for at least 15 seconds. Then just dry yourself dry with tissues.
There are 6.8 billion people in world out of which 4 billion people prefer water. Water by far is the universal way of cleansing anything. I guess the technique seems a little “outdated” but it sure makes me feel cleaner than a feces wipe.
I am living and working in Iraq as a government contractor. I’m going to throw a little of my perspective in and take this off on a bit of tangent. Using water and one of your hands is not just about cultural or religious differences and preferences. We learn and form habits and behaviors based upon economic factors, social class, religious influences, cultural background, and so on. Of course there are also aspects of our individual personalities that influence choices and options for behaviors and habits. After reading some of this blog and other comments on the net, and after all the conversations I have shared about this topic, I want to talk about what seems to b the main concern. Using water versus toilet is not the main issue; for many it’s not really an issue at all. Everyone I talk with is concerned about touching feces with a bare hand and, more importantly, what is done to properly clean that hand after coming in contact with feces.
Let me start by talking about the Iraqi men that I work every single day. I watch the Iraqi men come out of the portable toilets and I can tell you that the rural men RARELY wash their hands with the soap and water that is available and is located just a few steps away from the portable toilet. They usually just pour water on their hands. Some do use the hand sanitizer that hangs off the portable toilet. If the hand sanitizer is empty, many just use water and do NOT wash their hands. However, from what I have seen, it is rare that an urban Iraqi man not wash their hands with soap and water immediately after defecating. The few that do not have migrated from rural areas to the big city.
…I also noticed that other hygiene practices were drastically different between urban and rural people. In the smaller cities, many people are still farmers and live rural lives. The rural people simply don’t tend to personal hygiene the way that urban people do. The rural people do not bathe regularly or even just wash important areas, because the bad body odor is ghastly at times. Now here is something to consider that seems to contrast this overall lack of concern with cleanliness. The Iraqi men groom each other of facial hair. They use string to trim beard/mustache hair and eyebrows. I find it curious that the very same person with offensive body odor has eyebrows more shapely than many western women. We all value different things, obviously.
Still off on a tangent…I’ll share some other observations about rural versus urban Iraqi men. The rural men think nothing of scratching, pulling, and adjusting their groin area in front of each other or anyone else for that matter. I recently spoke with one of them about this. He is from a small rural town, but there is something different about him. He said he tells the other guys not to adjust themselves like that out in the open, because as he puts it “the Americans don’t like that.” Interesting that he thinks that is an American thing. In Baghdad, the Iraqi men almost never did such a thing in the open. The few that did were not from the big city. …The rural men will also not just pick their noses, but dig around inside their noses (left or right hand, by the way) while speaking with you as if it was the most normal thing in the world. I have never seen one person wash his hands after sticking one of more fingers inside his nose.
Ok, back from my tangent to the main topic. Using water and your hand to wipe/clean after defecating is about as basic as it gets. As people become more educated and have greater resources, aspects of behaviors and habits tend to change. This is not always true, because the men I work with have the resource of washing with soap and water, but MANY do not. They seem genuinely confused about concerns that are raised.
I guess in the end either you get yourself clean or you don’t. Surely not everyone that uses water does a good job. Some people are just sloppy, lazy, in a hurry, etc.
After what I have personally witnessed for nearly two years, in cities all over Iraq, I share in the concerns of hygiene. Sometimes people are on better behavior when someone sees some aspects of their behavior. I find myself wondering if they do less when no one is around to see any part of their behavior. If so, the whole scene just sinks further away from decent hygiene.
Bathrooms in the US are sometimes without soap and alot of people don’t wash neway, u expect me to believe that in a land where an ass is wiped with the left hand and TP doesn’t exist except in fairy tales that these people have soap available and wash? GTFO Some of these places don’t have properly running water and shit in a hole….Even before Americans had running water they had corn cobs and the sears catalogue…….
what’s wrong with you DJL? I’m a journalist .you silly man , must know that all people in the region you’re concocting your story about are bound to wipe their asses if they are to practice their religion.
The only thing is that you’ve never ever live among these people! there are literally so many poor district in each city where people do not practice hygiene at all. That’s not a good excuse for you to brain wash people of the world by the B.S you’ve provided in your web article
peole from india and sub contentinal wash their asses properly..
we can always lick and do ######## anytime without any hesitate becaue we know down there is clean and fresh 
… can someone explain me how to wipe the ass when you are in a loose motion situation? LOL disgusting..
and then wash their hands.. i dont know about iraq.. can you people lick ur girl friends ass? i dont hink so..
what about swiming pools???? yaaaaaaak.. it is sooooo unhygenic to jump in to swimming pool without washing wiped ass
im happy to jump on to an indian swimming pool rather than a western countries swimminh pool.. yaaaaa shit water.. 
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