How many pieces of toilet paper do you use to wipe after peeing?

Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 124 points –

Folks with vaginas, I'm conducting some family comparative analysis and I'd like to know how many standard pieces of toilet paper do you use when wiping after a pee. I posted some comments with options to upvote if you like.

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I do not have a vagina, but I have noticed that by myself 1 roll of tp will last 2-4 weeks, but when I have feminine company it becomes more like 1+ roll a week.

It's mind boggling how you need so much more tp than us guys do, not that I blame you cos it's different down there.

Maybe I'm more concerned that in 10,000 years of civilization no one has developed a better way. We have "spray with water" and "copious amounts of absorbent material".

Where's the 3 shells at, people?

Also vaginaless, but I'll throw in one square as an answer. All the jiggling in the world won't get rid of that last drop. It's either TP, or my undies.

I slap it against the door frame as I leave the bathroom.

What an image. But explains the penis level dents I see in toilet door frames sometimes.

Wow! Congrats on the door frame denter. You could probably make some money with tae kwon do style board breaking videos.

It's been a long day and I may be a little punchy, but I have tears in my eyes laughing at I write this reply.

I used tooo ... Now I have discovered that I can just shove it in the blow drier works better šŸ˜‰

You gotta press that spot behind ur balls, kinda moving back to front, and it comes out. This secret arcane knowledge was lost for millenia in my lineage, no longer passed down man to man. A kind stranger on the internet shared it with me.

Some sort of perineal drier? There's probably bidets with something like that built-in.

Yeah, the Toto C2 or whatever micro revision it is this year. Same toilet lid, about $330 ish dollars. Lifechanging for men and women, especially once you realize it has an oscillating mode for washing.

I don't use TP at all anymore, it's just there for guests who feel uncomfortable.

They exist. I think primarily a Japan thing (no surpriseā€¦). I havent seen one in person, but seen them for sale or some weird bidet article about all the options you can get. Hot/cold water, his/herā€™s, blow dry, lights, music, multiple user pre-sets, etc. usually itā€™s sold as the entire toilet, not an ā€œadd-onā€ option.

I will say that the blow dry option doesnā€™t really help sufficiently after using the bidet to avoid me wanting to use TP to dry off, but it might be sufficient for lady parts after peeing. Donā€™t have a vagina personally, so canā€™t say for sure.

Thatā€™s about how i figured it would beā€¦seems like it would be kinda weird to get right, and even then you kinda need that reassurance of a good pat šŸ˜†

I can answer for my wife! She said three folded, when it's our normal tp, Charmin. Two extra for other brands.

That's all it takes with her configuration to be dry. I'll vote on the comments, but since she gave more than a number, and it was variable, figured that might help too.

Fwiw, I make sure to give things an extra squeeze with a few pieces myself. Not a fan of late drips in my drawers. Pee, shake, paper & gentle squeeze. Then wash hands.

Cottonelle is really good, too. In my opinion, better and more absorbent, but personal preference will play a part.

2 or 3 squares, often folded. If the paper is cheap single ply it might be two or three times the amount.

It really depends. Both on how much I peed, and also how decent the TP is. Basically however many it takes not to saturate the TP, and not get urine/blood/mucus on my hands. Could be three, could be a ton.

I'll use a TON more during my period, as even with a cup in, blood finds it's way onto my skin and then the flow of the urine helps spread it to every nook and cranny.

Another thing to take into account is discharge. That definitely takes extra TP, it's thicker and a few squares won't hold up.

TL;DR whoever gives a consistent amount of squares is either lying or has a much nicer vagina than I do

+1 to this answer. If you donā€™t have a vagina, itā€™s probably difficult to understand how much various liquids play a part in every bathroom trip. And having a series of liquidy folds to clean instead of a hose.

Three shares, folded in half, then in half again. Maybe two squares if it's quilted.

Oh this is smart, you're getting the required thickness by folding instead of using more pieces. When using an unfolded stack of squares you could end up utilizing just a small spot while the rest remains dry.

I donā€™t know the physics behind it, or if itā€™s even true (could just be a placebo effect), but if you scrunch the paper there is less streaking on the clean up.

At home: 3 squares, folded. At other places with different paper: 4-5, depending on quality. Out and about with the tissue paper that exists in public bathrooms? Maybe the length of my arm.

I obviously wash, but when I'm home I use washcloths to dry my vagina, and they're just the best. If I can't use washcloths to dry, I use those interfold tissues. They're amazing, they don't rip and you don't find tiny rolled pieces all over the place.

If I'm not in the house, in public places I use the interfold tissues if they have them, otherwise, depending on the quality of the tp, a minimum of 3 up to 6 or 7.

What do you do with the washcloth after use? Hang to dry and reuse, throw in a basket for laundry?

Not OP, but we have a bidet and a basket of cut up t-shirt cloths next to the toilet that are single-use and then go in the wash every week. I wouldn't personally reuse washcloths for wiping out of fear of UTIs, but I'm extra paranoid.

Feeling wasteful in the between 4 and 6 category. That is, if I am away from home and there is no bidet. That is just what I feel adequately safe/dry with

Well, before I had terrible digestive problems, I would typically use four. Three for the initial wipe, and one to make sure everything is dry. Sometimes two to make sure everything is dry.

Now that I have terrible digestive problems, I think it's more like 10. I should buy stock in Cottonelle.

I'm guessing you misread the post. If not, how do digestive problems affect peeing?

My digestive problems are so bad that, these days, almost every single time I pee, I also have to poop at least a little bit. It's just super.

When I was young with tighter labia that didn't flap or stick to the side and had a firmer bladder, 3, every time. Now 4.

Usually, 2-3 double/folded sheets (so 4-6 in total). Possibly more at messier times.

Penis owner here, I used to do 1just to dab the tip cuz that's what my dad did but learned later that nobody else does it and stopped.

Last drop belong to undies, that's the law

Nan fuck that I always do the dab, I don't want my dick to be pp flavored

Please listen to this dude

Piss flavored dick is disgusting, as I learned from experience with an ex šŸ¤®

1, sometimes 2.

Does anyone else have the problem where sometimes a bit of TP sticks to your labia? especially the 1-ply

Penis owner here. Occasionally I'll use 1-2, or part of a paper towel (or whatever else I can find first).

In 30+ years of peeing, I still can't figure out why it sometimes stays under my foreskin, then makes a wet spot on my pants two minutes later. Guess I'm just bad at peeing.

Gotta pump the gooch my dude.

There's a bit of a u-bend in the urethra right about where the scrotum meets the taint. Use a finger to push up and slightly forward to pump that last bit of pee out.

Gotta pump the gooch my dude.

I have nothing to add. I just like this as a saying.

7+

It's stupid if you edit the amount.

Edit: this used to be 5+. So view the other amounts OP edited with this thought in mind

I edited it at the very beginning before there was any activity because I realized it's less ambiguous to have non overlapping intervals. Started with 1-3, 3-5, 5+. Settled on 1-3, 4-6, 7+. Of course it's stupid to change if there's any significant voting already. I'm asking because I'd like to know what people do. I wouldn't want to render useless what precious few responses I get.

Do some dudes use TP when they pee?

Yes, particularly as I get older the equipment doesn't drain fully and needs a little help.

There's a rhyme about it "no matter how much you shake and dance, the last few drops go down your pants", well I choose to wipe instead of relying on the absorbance of my pants or trousers (the original saying is American so means trousers really).

It's so curious I bet thers one in each language we have a similar one in Italy it says

"puoi scrollarlo dalle alpi alle ande ma l ultima goccia va sempre nelle mutande"

It means you can shake it from the Alps to the Andes but the last drop always goes into the underwear

Thank you for sharing this. I'm going to try it out on my Italian friends :)

Also in Argentina and others Spanish speaking countries we say "Como SalomĆ³n la Ćŗltima gota va al pantalĆ³n" it means "Like Solomon the last drop good in the pants".

Very serious follow up: How much do you make in a year if your answer is "yes"?

Yes. One piece. Pull back Foreskin, wrap and "load". Holds the piece in place, voids "the drop" and is removed after standing up.

Based on my pissing pattern, I would say around 600 pieces a year. So 2-3 rolls?

I favor BD's so cleaning up the rear is really clean too. I theoretically could wear my underpants/boxers for more than a day, they don't smell after a normal day.

Intimate Hygiene is key to avoid yeast infections or bladder inflammation for partners of the opposite sex. Don't know about same sex relationships, but no one likes a stinky dick (no kink shaming).

Edit: Get an ass shower if you don't have space for a BD. Game changer in well-being, albeit a little awkward when having guests who don't care for stinky butts.

Is anyone else infuriated by the number of 'I don't have a vagina BUT' posts?

Like let me speak for the woman in my life. Let me provide my opinion. I know I wasn't asked BUT...

Jesus just go die in a hole. Let women speak for themselves.

Personally I don't see anything wrong with that at all. Commenting even if you don't have a vagina is absolutely not the same as speaking for everyone that does have one. In fact I haven't found a single comment that speaks for anyone but themselves.

If it's absolutely critical that only people with a vagina comments, OP should probably have put the question on a gendered ask community instead of the main one.

Some people just like to engage in the conversation about something they think is interesting even if it wasn't explicitly asked for. It's also interesting to compare delta-TP between genders.

Telling people to die seems a bit extreme for such a non issue.

1000 people dead in Alaska because they replied to a post about wiping piss

I don't have a vagina yet BUT...

I'd like to learn from current owners by interacting with this post.

Tip: ā€œā€“ā€, en dash, is used for ranges like 2ā€“3ā€”not ā€œ-ā€, hyphen

How on earth did English typography get so weird with mdash, ndash, dash, hyphen, etcetera while most of the readers have no clue about the the differences. IMHO, just use dash.

Can you explain me how the different lengths of dash add to the understanding of the text, when I usually don't even see the difference on my mobile phone screen?

They have different meanings where the lengths help at a glance such as using en dash for a compound adjective or em dash for a longer pause for a clause. This aides in reading even if you only pick up on it subconsciously.

How was this handled in the age of typewriters?

Using multiple consecutive hyphens. Some schools used -- for em-dash, others --- (still used today in latex), and then -- for en-dash.

Where on a standard keyboard is this

Just google the character and copy paste it as needed. /s

How ridiculous. I'll just use the one on the keyboard.

I had some doubts people would get the joke. I should go add an /s

To answer your question it depends on the keyboard but i donā€™t actually care, the difference between - and ā€“ is just semantics to me.

What is a ā€œstandardā€ keyboard? No such thing as every region has different keyboards & variants inside those regions. I can use AltGr on my desktop keyboard & holding the hyphen key on mobile allows easy selection of em dash & en dash.

I work for a multi-national IT department. I just happen to have a UK, FR and DE laptop on the workbench. I don't see the em-dash on any of them. AltGr + hyphen does nothing on Windows (Google search says Mac supports this). None of these laptops have a numpad, but Google search says maybe CTRL+MINUS(numpad) may give an em-dash. Can't test though.

In any case, it seems the world has left behind em-dash, so correcting users on a public forum seems pointless.

I don't think this is possible without alt codes on standard Windows configurations. MacOS has shortcuts for them and Linux has them too (if you have compose enabled, which is disabled by default).

Works on phones through the special character input. Sometimes. Depends on your language, location, and keyboard of choice.

Seems rather unnecessary and pedantic to tell others to use it, though. This is a forum, not a thesis.