At home I just step into the tub and wash my butthole with soap and water. Dry with a towel no different than having taken a shower, then get on with my life all nice and fresh down there. No need for TP or more consumer garbage to maintain and wear out that doesn't even clean as effectively as proper bathing w/soap and hands.
But is it really necessary to act like everyone else are the weird ones for not giving their anus a sponge-bath in the bath tub every time they shit?
Who said anything about using a sponge?
My comment wasn't directed at "everyone else", only those using bidets at home.
Elsewhere in this thread there are numerous comments from people debating ways to dry after using the bidet, complexities surrounding dirty towels or useless wet TP which then leaves pulpy clumps on your butthole and hair. I know the problems, I've used bidets, it's kind of awful.
Why on earth would you subject yourself to this at your own home where you're in control?
At the office or in a guest bathroom, ok, I get it. I've used the Japense style bidet seat attachments at the Googleplex, and think that's a neat thing for an employer to do for employees and makes sense as an improvement in that circumstance, but it's an unnecessary compromise at home.
You presumably have proper bathing facilities. Instead of tapping into your toilet water line for some inferior fixed soap-less water splashy splash onto your butthole awkwardly sitting over the toilet, just get a handheld sprayer for your tub/shower and do it well.
It's way better, and you can properly dry off with a bath towel leaving it clean enough for reuse. Nobody should ever have to exit their own damn bathroom with a dirty bottom.
Also: foaming hand soap is a game changer of this technique.
We did cloth diapering with our three kids.
Poop is really not that scary after you get over the initial ick factor.
What do you bathe using?
It doesn't matter when you have running water and soap on the ready. Obviously after your ass is clean you ensure your hands are washed too before shutting off the water.
The water spray knocks off the bulk before hands get involved anyways.
1. How often do you shit? If I'm shitting more than once in a day, I'm sick, so, exceptional.
2. I just remove my pants and underwear. There's a hand-held sprayer in the tub. My shoes are already removed if I'm indoors, and I don't usually wear socks indoors. It's a trivial matter to step out of my lower half and into the tub, spray my bottom without getting my shirt wet.
3. When I'm at home I'm generally just wearing boxer shorts anyways, pants are for work.
I'm surprised this needs further clarification.
#3 however had me laughing, and "at home = pants off" is a strange assumption to me. Do you have guests often? Need to answer the door? Visible to your neighbors from any of your windows?
What's peculiar about 1&2? No shoes is normal for clean homes, and I'm in a warm climate so socks aren't really needed. It's not unusual for a tub+shower to have a handheld sprayer for spot rinsing, it's very useful for washing the facilities too.
> Do you have guests often? Need to answer the door? Visible to your neighbors from any of your windows?
I still wear a t-shirt most of the time unless it's hot. When guests are around I just throw on swim trunks over the boxers out of respect, that doesn't complicate dropping trou in any way; they come down and go back on together as a unit. Same for answering the door, throw on swim trunks beforehand...
I'm on acres of land, the nearest neighbors neither matter nor care about what's going on in my home.
Well, I know that everybody's digestive system is different, but I have read that only one #2 per day is unusual for a lot of people and may be a sign of constipation. I think a lot of people go after most major meals.
No shoes is fine but no socks is a little stranger to me, I grew up in a place with hot summers and I currently live in California but I still wear socks all the time. But again it's not extremely weird, just not what I am used to.
On the other hand removing pants as soon as I get home would be pretty unusual.
My impression is that most people with normal, regular digestion, ideally go #2 once in the morning after their laxative^Wcoffee and before bathing.
In the distant past I had digestive problems which generally required a #2 shortly after any substantial meal. That was not what I'd consider ideal nor healthy. It was a nuisance and often resulted in an urgent need to use toilets away from home in restaurants and such, unhygienic to say the least.
Learning how to eat the right things to keep regular with a #2 per morning, even without stimulants like coffee, for me was a major part of becoming an adult. I don't think this is that unusual based on convos I've had with close enough friends to speak freely on the subject.