I have a confession. I, to a point, live with the affliction, but it's not my bum that is the streak producer, it's a certain man in my life.
I asked him one time if he looks when wipes, and he told me that he does not look at the toilet paper.
"Then, how do you know that you got it all?"
No answer. Plus, this person has an extremely strong bubble butt. We have maximum butt crack underwear-going-to-a-place-of-ill-repute potential here.

My conclusion is the following on Ass Phlegm's long overdue article on the subject:
1. It's an embarrassing topic, so the spouse probably hasn't breached it. She should have.
2. He doesn't look when he wipes.
3. He continues to do it because she has never made him stay off the furniture or wash his own clothes?
It has become my experience in life that people will continue to engage in obnoxious or non-appropriate behavior only when it is an inconvenience to anyone but themselves.

Great, great article, Ass Phlegm. It hit home here!

Yo, Ass Plegm, I know what you mean. My shortie is a great woman, but damn she can create some funky drawers. The Skidster would just as soon leave her undies in peace. Granted, the Skidster lays some serious tracks in his own, and probably shouldn't be talking shiznit 'bout his wife.

Skidster out!

This is how I thought of "Skidless", "Wipeless" & "Enlightened" Poopers. You reach a certain point in your life where you have learned enough to achieve these particular levels in life.

Di, allow the Markster to propizzle the following:

Ages of Man
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Infancy: Pooping at will...messily
Toddler: Pooping with assistance
Child: Pooping with skid marks
Enlighted young adult: Skidless pooping
Middle age: Pooping with less frequency
Elderly: Pooping with assistance
Ancient: Pooping at will...messily

Yo, that's like real deep 'n shit. It's like a circle of poop. True dat! Skidster out.

The question on the table: if your parents aren't around to teach you how to poo and how to clean yourself, would you learn how to do it on your own?

I'd say no. The idea of what is "clean" varies from culture to culture. If you're in a culture that teaches only water can cleanse the crack, the American ideal of just smearing it into a semi-invisible layer using toilet paper is horrible. To our culture, where we're satisfied only if we don't see any more brown on the paper, we're grossed out by the idea that someone might leave brown remaining. The point is that standards aren't universal or instinctual, but that they're taught.

Obviously, Wentworth could have learned the standards other ways -- particularly through the reaction of people around him. But he didn't, which means his formative years must have been pretty awful if there was no one around him providing an example of the social necessity of a clean ass.

Animals clearly have a standard of cleanliness. Dogs lick their asses clean, or scoot around on the carpet, or whatever. Which implies that in mammals there is an instinct to be clean. So humans probably do have a basic instinctual standard for ass cleanliness. The question: what is that baseline? And what is the instinctual method for cleansing?

I remember getting the best warning to wipe my butt when I was 7 or 8.
My asscrack would itch so much that I couldn't sit in one place for more than 20 seconds.
Mom then told me "Have you learned your lesson? Always wipe your butt!"

I suppose that if somebody's asscrack never gets itchy, that may explain why don't wipe. The TP is more irritating than shit in their opinion.

And, this, my friends, is why he's not only a client, but also the president.

Since you made this more clear, I think that social conformity should be important in the hygeine area, especially when these types of materials are being put where others have to deal with them.
It says alot that some people don't "upgrade" their hygeine. Why? I think, maybe, then, because they don't care about social acceptance?

I have never been more in favor of peer pressure.

My questions is wouldn't it totally uncomfortable? The itchy feeling alone would drive me crazy. I, personally, have no memories of my parents teaching how to wipe my young ass. I think it's more of a learned behavior. We, as Americans, learn that smells, such as poop, are bad and therefore must be removed. That being the case, we would cleanse ourselves to the point that we felt clean. But, clean to me might not be claen to you or vice versa. I definately think this is a learned behvior and somewhat instinctual also. Everybody out there knows they have their own technique when it comes to cleaning the back door.

Despite even the best of training or the strongest of genes, there remains inherent individual variability in every characteristic and behavior that just can’t be explained. Some cats and dogs in fact don’t clean their asses very well (I’ve owned one). There are other human behavioral anomalies that confused my just as much as shit-streaked underwear. Why, for example, don’t all drivers learn to pull over as far as they can to the left when making a left turn, so that cars behind them can still pass on the right? Why don’t people in line at the deli get their money out before hearing what the total comes to? Why do some people eat with their mouths wide open, so we can see their food tumbling around in there like laundry in a drier? There’s no explaining it, and I’m finding that the older I get, the more this type of shit gets to me.

Logjam, I had the same thoughts when writing this story; however, all of the things you mentioned don't have immediate consequences such as not wiping correctly (the smell, the itch, the soilage...), therefore, I question how much of a role instinct plays.

You would think, "Hey my ass is itchy." would lead to, "I should wash it." I agree with Daph's summation that Wentworth's wife's lack of acknowledgement made it worse and probably lead to the assumption that there would be no social consequence.

So, for the most part, we agree it's learned behavior with a little bit of instinct, but when does the instinct kick in? And when does it give up?!

This fascinates me so.

A shorty is a man's child...not his wife.

Ass Phlegm: So many questions to answer; so little time…. I, too, find myself drawn to trying to explain behavior such as Wentworth’s. Much of my previous comment was not meant to address the degree to which wiping behavior in humans is learned vs instinctual, but rather to offer the opinion that regardless of the relative contributions of nature and nurture, there is still a lot of individual differences in actual behavior that can't be explained. Thus there are an infinite number of reasons we could offer up for Wentworth's behavior and for why he doesn’t wake up and smell the poofee. (He doesn’t feel the itch, he likes the itch/smell, he ignores the itch/smell, he can’t figure out what causes the itch/smell…). But I love to speculate and would love even more to know. Perhaps you can get more information on him. Here’s my bet – his caked crack does itch, but he loves to get his hand back there, scratch, and pull dried shit flacks off his ass, much like some people like to pick scabs and like everyone enjoys digging out a crusty booger. He got in to this as a kid, and can’t lick it, so to speak.

Racing Stripes aka Skid Marks aka Bacon Strips

Perhaps it's not a wiping issue, but a fart with bonus issue.

Point taken, Logjam. I totally agree. When all is laid out, it is a query with endless possibilities. It is indeed fun to speculate, as you said.

AND, I love your hypothesis of having a picking fetish! That had me laughing! I guess anything is possible! Maybe his long-term goal is to pull an unbroken shit strip from his crack in one motion.

I will try to find out more info on Wentworth to see if we can't shed a little more light on this dark, dark subject.

Can't wait for your next installment. Oooh, and the way you worded that "pull an unbroken shit strip in one motion" had me actually wanting to experience that feeling myself. Maybe I'll try it first using a little Elmer's glue and move on to shit depending on how it goes.

Coming from a female member of the peanut gallery, there is NO way I'd bang someone who was that dirty. It's where I draw the line.

Criminal record? We can deal with that.
Bad breath? There's always Closys II at Walgreen's. Get back to me in a week.
Broke? Don't need money to make me happy.
Dirty fingernails? It means you work with cars, big turn on.
Smelly, stank, brown ass crack? Uh, no. Do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars, do not get to make sweet, sweet love to the daphne.

Hehehe.

daphne. There are thousands of guys in the world right this minute running their hand from their asses to their noses to see if they might have a chance with you. I hope you have a big email box.

I hope it's bigger than my other box.

Make that a 1000 and 1 guys.

this is a great mystery, indeed. it's one of those things that makes you wonder what goes through the mind of a person like that. kind of like people who have B.O., or really bad breath. how can they not tell they stink? i can smell it and i'm like 2 feet away. they're right there and they can't smell it?? you imagine they must not smell it because, otherwise, wouldn't they want to do whatever they can to stop stinking? or do they know they stink but just don't care? or perhaps enjoy it? maybe they like watching the looks on people's faces when they're struck by the stench, trying to figure out what/who it is, and then considering whether they should inform the offender of their stinkiness. i guess i'd get a hoot out of that.
what about people with mullets? what are they thinking? sure, it might be fun to say stuff like, "party on top, business in the back," and "how do you like my shlong?". but how can they think they look good? especially the ones where it's obvious that all they did was grab the uppermost section of hair, put it in a ponytail, and proceed to cut off the ponytail. then again, i don't know if that's really much worse than the people with fashion mullets, who apparently put a lot of time, effort, and money into styling the perfectly feathered shlong.
i just don't know about people sometimes.

Wow! This generated a lot on comments in a short period of time.

And, I've wondered that myself, from the guy with BO on the bus, to this guy who won't wipe his ass. "What are they thinking?," one must ask oneself. I sure know when I smell from not showering and when I didn't do a good enough job wiping out my asscrack.

Having lived in "the third world," I've seen some nasty toilet habits, or lack thereof.... Cleanliness is purely a learned thing, mammals may know how to clean their asses, but us human mammals clearly need to be taught. And, I sure don't remember who taught ME, but, trust me, my asshole is as clean as I can make it.

Fascinating story and topic.

forgot to answer the nature vs. nurture question.
i think the best way to answer this question would be to observe the personal cleansing habits of people in tribal-type cultures, where they don't use things like toilets and TP and the like. do they still find a way to clean up their booty after they poop, or do they just leave it to dry and eventually fall off (their poop, not their booty) from beneath their loin cloths? do they wear loin cloths? and if they do clean up, what do they use and how thorough are they? do they bury their poop? or do they use it in rituals and/or art? do they poop at all?
what we need is a poopreport cultural anthropologist who can do some sort of field study.

On an unrelated note:

Did you ever notice that toilet paper is the only, the ONLY, consumer product we buy that has NO directions written on the package?

You buy a bottle of aspirin, or an enema bag, or a bottle of shampoo, for Godssakes, there're directions...."Take three times daily, by mouth, for relief of cold symptoms..." "If symptons persist, consult your doctor or pharmacist," etc.

Nothing on toilet paper, though, such as, "wipe asscrack as needed, in a direction opposite of your genitals, until paper appears clean. Women, in particular, are at risk of urinary tract infections when wiping forward, towards their genitals. Note: Flush used product when complete."

Oh, and I must include, "Using this product in a manner inconsistent with its labelling is a violation of federal law."

Just a thought....

Nice article, AP! And what a great thread underneath from many different poopers! Considering that potty training is a major part of our young lives and that our parents make a big to-do of our doo-doo, I don't see much instinctual behavior in our modern Western/industrial culture. Standards of cleanliness have risen over the centuries as our bathroom facilities have become more sophisticated.

wonderpance may have a salient point in suggesting that the bodily function cleansing rituals of primitive tribes be observed for a more definitive answer to this. It sounds like a major anthropological/expeditional assignment to me.

Meanwhile, ontheshitter made me laugh at his observation that toilet paper is the only consumer product we buy that has no directions on the package.

How about these conditional directions, folks:

1) For solid logs and chunks--wipe once; see nothing brown; congratulate yourself.

2) For pudding--wipe once; repeat; repeat; repeat.

3) For the runs--wipe once; repeat; repeat; repeat; repeat; repeat; repeat; repeat; repeat; repeat; repeat; use curse words.

And, yes, by all means, don't forget to flush!

Excellent observation, ontheshitter. I do think that Kleenex or facial tissue falls under this catagory as do cotton swabs and probably any other product that may have more than one purpose.

It is thought provoking, though. I'd love to see instructions on how to use ass wipe with a generic diagram like you see on the side of a Fleet enema. That pic always makes me laugh!

ontheshitter, I have seen some say TP packages say things about whether or not it is safe for certain kinds of waste systems. In Greece, sewer pipes are so small that TP screws up the whole thing.

A friend and I were both discussing just the other day that sometimes you can clean your ass with toilet paper, cottonelles, and a soapy washcloth beyond the point of any "evidence" and then clean it some more for good measure until it is red and raw. Go to work start working up a sweat, come home ten hours later feeling itchy, drop your drawers and voila! magical skids have appeared. Anybody else have this happen to them? Maybe this is what Wentworth had. Creeping, seeping, fudge trails. wtf?

Shit Volcano, you are so funny.
And, I too love hearing from GRas.

I have never understood how someone can run around knowing that their ass is filthy. The bright red, itchy, raised welt that results from poor bathroom habits is enough (it would seem) to make anyone want to keep their crevice as clean as possible. My poor sister has been cleaning my brother in laws shit coated drawers for over 30 years now and can't seem to confront this dumb bastard about his problem. She would rather suffer in silence as if that will make the problem go away. How she managed to have six kids is a mystery to me .... If I found myself in bed with a chick that had what in reality is a load of shit in her panties, I would throw her off the balcony. The nerve of crawling into bed with a box reeking of dung is unpardonable and is worthy of the death sentence.... IMO

We had this discussion awhile ago on the forum..... see my post: http://www.poopreport.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=941

and find out why I am overly sensitive to this subject.

Piece
G Ras

I think this issue really depends on the one being taught (or not being taught, as the case may be) how to clean his/her ass. My parents didn't do much in the ass wiping department except tell me to wipe from front to back. I learned to perform a skidless wipe when I realized that I didn't want to be sticky and itchy all the time. Of course, it doesn't matter with me because I am also obsessive-compulsive and clean is important!

So let me give you another example that is more reliable. My grandfather grew up in poverty in eastern Europe. His father was a drunk and his mother was a beaten wife. No one bothered to teach him how to wipe his ass. I took care of the man for the last few weeks of his life and never did I see a skid in ANY of his underwear. He was a clean freak...

Okay, so maybe my only point is obsessive-compulsive disorder is hereditary...

Uh, never mind. I lost my point altogether.

It sucks when the comments are far more interesting than the story. Anything that brings out G-Ras is ok with me though.

Wah! Pll Pll Pll! Ffffffffttttttt!

Translation: Please people! Wipe your ass. I hate tasting poop all day.

Glad to see Gras comment. Always a pleasure. Too bad it also brought out THS. Never a pleasure.

this is slightly off-topic, but something just occurred to me that may explain how stinky people don't know they stink. so, i was sitting here itching my nose and noticed my fingers smelled like cigarettes. not surprising since i just got done smoking. but it struck me that i was not offended by the odor, whereas i typically don't like the smell of smoke on other people's hands. or you know how sometimes when someone goes outside to smoke, you can smell it on them when they come back and it doesn't smell nice? well i never notice that smell on myself, either. so maybe it works that way with B.O. or butt stench. like, i may be alone here, but the smell of my own poop and farts doesn't bother me. if that's the case with everyone else, then perhaps stinky people can smell themselves, but since the smell doesn't bother them, it doesn't occur to them that it would bother anyone else.
does that make any sense?

Who needs toilet paper when you have Holy Shitter ready, willing, and available to tongue your ass clean?

Go Crack Hound!

I occasionally get the skid mark after a gas attack. I like to use a wet paper towel to keep my arse nice and clean. It's like the bulls in the rodeo, some of them are covered in shit and some are not. It just depends on how their day was and so forth. The ones with guacamole on their ass seem a little more pissed off, I would be too.

Holy Shitter is a skid mark, too.

I like this story AP, because I would often notice this type thing amongst a FEW of my class mates when we were changing at the gym in ELEMENTARY school only. Once I got to 7th grade & beyond, it was rare to see something like that indeed.

This leads me to believe that while "taught" habits are likely to play a part, I also feel that maturity also plays a role.

I can't see how anyone could go around their daily life with all that poo all over their back side & be able to stand it..even if one had not had good parental training, it would seem to me that by the time one reached adulthood, that someone would be able to "teach themselves".

Good point, Will.

Will, my son has just joined the 7th grade wrestling team. He has been introduced to the "optional shower". I've given him the downlow on the entire deal.
Your post hit home because I am sure that he will come across the same type of problem you mentioned.

yo, you all don't know sh*t about clean asses-wiping up with some dry paper, warm soapy water is the only way.

if you crapped into your hands would you be satisfied wiping it off with a napkin?

i would just like to say that i cannot stand an unclean butt. that is why i tend to wipe at least ten times

"if you crapped into your hands would you be satisfied wiping it off with a napkin?"

I usually don't crap in my hands, I use the toilet. But, I promise the next time I do, I'll use soap and water!

Hey, do you have one of those portable bidets?

Let's not forget the importance of butt hair. I keep a pretty clean crack, but every now and then a chunk gets caught in the web, only to be discovered at a later wipe - by which time it has streaked my pants, and then solidified so that I have to rip out a tuft of hair removing the bugger.

not to mention - you just can't clean the hairs by wiping. They'll paint your pants like a horsehair brush, if you've got enough poking out the crack. Maybe this fool just had an incredibly hairy ass, and he just couldn't get it clean without showering.

I have a hairy ass and I keep it spotless. The only problem I ever have with it is the occasional toilet paper dingleberry.

My sister's husband has an ass like a forest and I have never seen skids in his boxers. So I guess there is a method to clean the super hairy ass somewhere.

SV: Pray tell us more about the exact details of how come you routinely inspect your brother-in-law's boxers?!?

I just ran across your website today and you're comments are totally "cracking" me up! LOL. I love all the opinions,and it's interesting, cuz i never thought about how some people might not be taught to wipe.Like someobdy said, i personally don't have any memories of being taught(or not taught) to wipe either,i guess i always just thot it was a basic instinct; dirty ass=wipe til clean.
Except my mom saying to wipe in the opposite direction(me being female).I keep my ass clean as a whistle,ans i agree about the cottonelle wipes, i love 'em. I usually use those or baby wipes cuz rough TP JUST DOESN'T CUT IT!!! :)Not only does it leave poo in your crack,it leaves your crack red n raw. Can't stand it.So i rarely have the skidmarks.As far as the old man goes, i would think he has weak bowl control and that's why he streaks the bed and his undies.O,and i esp like the theory about other countries, that would interesting to do some research on. O, and at some points, iv'e had an itchy butt hole even tho it was 100% clean (or so i thought) Go figure.
And i agree, how can most ppl not wipe til they're clean? I can't stand anything but for myself...
Your website is great, keep it up and thx for the laffs!!!! ;)

Actually, no, I have never routinely inspected my brother-in-law's boxers. However, my sister's house is cluttered any they are always laying around when I come over.

Holy shit! This story is crazy! What she NEEDS to do is MAKE this man wash his own underwear hand to cloth until he gets it ALL out and so that he will see how disgusting it is and won't do it again!

Does anybody have any scientific knowledge about at what age we realize poop stinks?

Thanks.

Several of you have stated that you can't understand how someone could walk around with shit in their butt and not notice it. Well, for 47 years, I have never used toilet paper. I usually do my business in the morning before my shower and just clean up then. If however, I have to go during the day, I just leave it and clean up the next time I shower (which is usually that night before going to bed, but not always). I have never had skid marks in my underwear. I have never left marks on my bed sheets (I sleep nude). And no one (including my wife) has ever commented about me smelling like shit. My crotch doesn't get all itchy. I don't get red welts. What more can I say.

the only way to get rid of tobacco stains in your underwear is to quit spitting in them.

i lived with a mate and his girlfriend a few years ago and she use to complain about the skidmarks in his undies and swore that his mother never taught him to wipe his arse. she use to use windex, a window cleaner to get rid of his skiddies. she also use to say that she never got skidmarks, but every time she got home half pissed, she'd leave her panties on the bathroom floor and they were full of skidmarks

I have a really furry ass,I'm talking like wolfman furry. I wipe till no brown appears, and go for the old fashioned soap and cloth technique, and still end up with skid marks! Honestly, I can scrub my ass till it hurts, and still have shit streaks! Perhaps some people just are fated to go through life with brown lined boxers! Don't get me wrong, I hate it, it's embarrasing as hell, and really does a number on my obsessive compusion to be clean,(I shower 3 times daily, and wash my hands no less than 50 times a day not counting hand sanitizer!)but what can be done when all options have failed? I continue to hope that perhaps I can find out why this happens, so I can rectify the situation.

Dear FOE:

You could always buy a 6-count pack of the "tiger print" underwear--the colors and print would hide any of your issues.. A Friend

_______
"Odor in the court! The judge is eating beans--his wife is in the bathtub counting submarines." Author Unknown

In his two+ months as a member of this site, Dumpster has had occasion to read a lot of the threads, but I will have to say this one has the highest percentage of "great comments" of any I've seen! It is like "all the stars came out" in one place.

I don't know if this is coincidental to the return of Ass Phlegm to PR or not, but it sure is a good sign, and shows the site at its best!

Wow! What a discussion! Definitely strikes me close to home. I have been plagued with embarrasing skids as long since I can remember. It is why I will never become a shameless shitter. I have learned a few things over the years in my attempt to clean up my ass. Like a couple other folks here, I don't remember my formal potty training. I had already become sexually active before I learned a very important lesson from a Redd Foxx comedy routine: don't just wash your whole ass, wash your ass hole. After all, when you're doing 69 your nose is only two inches from your partner's asshole, and the same goes for your partner,too! What quicker way to turn the girls off than to have them become intimate with any leftover stale smelly shit? Because I had worms as a kid and water burned my butt, I grew up thinking that nothing should touch that "bad place" on my behind except to scrub with TP until nothing was on the paper. Which usually hurt my inflamed anus. Even after I learned that soap and water would actually make the itchies and swelling go away, I still had tracks in my briefs. I later learned that my rear had folds inside the hole for whatever reason, and along with a profusion of sweat glands and a hairy ass too, I was a real mess in every sense. When I would start to sweat, bits of poop would be flushed outta my rectum to leave ugly marks on my tidy whities. So I have to go to a toilet to wipe several times a day, even if I've had a shower with a real good soap and water scrub since my last BM. And I like to feel clean, you never know when the opportunity to engage in sexual activity will arise. You've got to be ready!

I can distinctly remember my mother's voice telling me a)Don't smear poop forward, and b)Keep wiping until you see clean paper.

I also remember having a hatred of baths. Mom hated to wrestle me, so she only insisted on Sunday night and Wednesday night. I have a very clear memory of my butt itching uncontrollably, and asking my mom, "Can I take a bath?" Her jaw dropped, and she leaped to her feet and said, "Sure!" So in my case cleanliness was both learned and taught.

My toddler son has said "Eww! Poop!" since he was about 15 months old. For a few months before that, even, if he was stinky and we hadn't caught it, yet, he'd come over and tap us on the arm and tug at the back of his waistband. So a kid about a year old can understand and desire cleanliness.

In the course of my 64 year lifespan I have made some terrible mistakes in ass wiping. I was home on leave from the Air Force back in the 60's and was helping my plumber brother-in-law install water heaters in an apartment complex when the urge to pinch a loaf struck. In my search for a suitable material to use in cleaning the old asshole I came across a pink material that looked like cotton. This looks absorbent and soft and should do the job, I thought, so I took a piece with me into a nearby wooded area. On that fateful day I learned the hard way that you should never wipe your ass with fiberglass insulation. You who have never done this have absolutely no idea what the definition of "itchy asshole" really is.
It was worse than the time, when I was much younger, and was out in the great outdoors on a rabbit hunt when the urge hit. Being a country boy I had taken many a shit in the great outdoors and was no novice at finding suitable leaves to use in wiping. On this occasion I found a plant that had leaves of a very large size that were covered with a downy fuzz that I thought would make for a tidy and comfortable wipe. Never! never! never! wipe you ass with burdock leaves. A few minutes after wiping the itch will start and eventually your ass will resemble the ass of one of those monkeys that is famous for the disgusting red color of their posteriors.
I had a friend when I was a teen who lived on a dairy farm where his father worked. Late one afternoon he was out behind the barn when the urge to take a dump hit. It was a long walk to the outhouse so he decided to squat and let it go right where he was. He was almost finished when a chicken, which had come up behind him unseen, spyed a corn kernel hanging from his ass and pecked away at it.
Thinking he was being bitten on the asshole by a snake he said that he jumped far enough from a squating position that he was sure he had broken some kind of olympic record.

*mental image of the chicken pecking the corn kernel out of the guy's butt*

*snorting coffee out nose*

dude how could you possibly have wipe your ass with fiberglass insulation? that's monumentally stupid. as far as the crack wiping, sigh it's just like the bo thing, some people it bothers others not so much. it's disgusting any way you look at it. i had a ffemale friemnd of mine sit on m jacket for some reson and when i got it back it stank of shit so bad i has to wash it three times, i guess she didn't wipe well, in any case, it killed the attraction. and i beleive that's simply a survival of the fittest hygene issue.

OmiGod!...I've never laughed so hard in all my life!! I actually found this page when I was doing a search on how to clean fiberglass insulation off of furniture...and of all things one of the posts was about a guy wiping his ass with fiberglass...TOO FUNNY!!! I love a good laugh and I got plenty of them...even your names are HILARIOUS!! I didn't even know about this page but I'm saving it to my favorites!! Thanks for the GRINS! :)))))))

Dear snarty mcfly,
I would not attribute my fiberglass wipe to stupidity but rather to ignorance, there is a diference you know. Stupidity is genetic and is not cureable. Ignorance can be attributed to lack of knowledge about a particular subject. While I was in Southeast Asia protecting your way of life I learned little about fiberglass insulation. I posess great intelligence and now know the difference.

Very informative article. Helped me alot with my sex life after knowing how to clean up. Highly recommend more articles to elaborate on this matter.

Yours,
Shitzu

Several of you commented on the itch and the smell. I am 52 years old and have NEVER wiped my ass. My wife of 31 years NEVER wipes either. We clean our asses in the shower each morning and that is it. I work in an office and have never had anyone comment on odor. I never feel itchy and I have only had skidmarks on a few occassions. My wife works part time in a department store. She also has never had a problem with itching or odor. I do not understand why this is such a big deal. A lot of people do not wear underwear. A lot of women do not wear bras. This is their business and only theirs. My wife and I CHOOSE not to wipe our ass. This is our business and only ours. Unless you have tried not wiping and realize it is no big deal, you should not comment. If you have tried not wiping, I am sure you would would agree it is not a big deal.

All I have to say is WOW. I think the people who don't wipe are taking it for granted that their poop is apparently the perfect shape, size, and consistency to fall perfectly out of their asses without touching their cheeks or without ever sending up a wayward "aftersplash". Unfortunately there are a few of us out there who aren't so lucky. I wish I could poop with such confidence!

Interesting habit pattern re not wiping one's ass and using the shower for anal cleansing. I suppose if such a person never takes a dump more than once a day prior to showering, that would work.

Me, I need to use the potty about an hour after mealtime and since I eat lunch while at my place of business and we have no shower facilities (nor the available time for such personal cleansing) I use the asswipe provided in the dispenser within the appropriate cubicle.

To each their own shit, I suppose.

Another guy who smells like unwashed ass obviously. I mean dogs at least clean their asses with their tongues. Most animals probably do. But we humans have a distinct advantage over animals in that we have TOILET PAPER and WET WIPES. We can also be CREATIVE because we have better intelligence also allegedly. But when you read a story about a person who does NOT wipe at ALL and doesnt get it obviously then I am puzzled. He doesnt even seem to get the equation that UNWASHED ASS = NO ASS IN THE BEDROOM where his wife is concerned. Just because you grow up poor does NOT an excuse make here. If it were me I would be doing everything in my power to make sure my ass was clean. Its just the way society is. Did anyone ever think to ask this guy if the reason was that he could never get ahead was because of his unwashed ass?
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The Thunderous Crapper 63 Enjoying home toilet advantage since 2004!

I'm amazed that this basic bodily function can create so much attention. Humans down to single celled amoebas all "poop" somehow.If dogs or bears etc.could actually talk to each other, do you think they'ed waste their time as we humans do so regularly on such triviality as "to wipe or not to wipe"? May I state some points of obviousness?

1:Everyone is different, even within common cultural upbringing, each individual has sepparate experiences.

2:The particular degree of cleanliness or filth one prefers within ones scope of personal hygine is generally up to the individual only to the point where it becomes a factor in their social interactions.

3:Regardless of degree or method of cleansing ones anus, short of doing a complete antibacterial enema, there will always be bacteria (germs) near the anus.

4:To engage in any form of consentual anal sex is up to the individuals involved (with obvious age restrictions employed).

5: If you are going to cock-fuck, finger-fuck, kiss, lick, tongue, rub your nose or nipples, tickle with your toes, or otherwise, in any way touch your own or anyone elses asshole, do yourself and everyone else in the world a favour, nay, fullfill your personal and societal obligations, wash (with soap, preferably antibacterial soap) that part of you (or your "toys") that came in contact with your own or anyone elses asshole.

6: If you are into "scat" and like to play with or eat your own or anyone elses shit, that's your business, providing of course you follow the precepts outlined in number 5, and don't forget, brush your teeth (many times) and gargle with antibacterial mouthwash, oh yah, and keep the Fuck away from me you sick filthy shit eating lowlife piece of ditrious!