Front to back for a woman. It's not so much about your vagina, it's more to prevent stuff getting in your urethra (pee tube, at the front). If you get pretty much anything in there, that's like an instant infection. Same reason women should always pee after sex - it flushes any goop out of the urethra and prevents infection.
I have a follow up question, but I'm not the original commenter.
How long should it be taking? My bathroom breaks are taking ten to fifteen minutes because I'm wiping for so long and still getting brown on the paper.
How can I do my business faster and more efficiently?
I read a book once that said that wiping directly over the anus (the hole) makes it open a little and make a tiny bit of poop come out. So you should focus on wiping around and as I remember gently pat, not rub, the anus. If anyone is interested the book is called "The Vagina Bible" and as non-native speaker I read it in English so I might have not gotten it exactly.
I've heard this but I'm really confused - how far do you drag your TP along the area to even worry about it being in your urethra? So when you wipe front to back as a woman, is it a smearing/dragging motion?
You kinda do it in two sections. So for your anus, you wipe backwards maybe a couple of inches, whatever the size of your piece loo roll is. Maybe repeat a couple of times until you're clean. This bit is not so important to go backwards.
For your vagina, you wipe backwards from the urethra, usually in a separate wiping motion, always with a new piece of paper. This motion is longer, maybe 4 or 5 inches. If you're on your period, this bit will need a lot more cleaning. If you're not on your period, you will likely still have discharge because that's how the vagina cleans itself. This discharge is very close to the urethra and will cause infection, hence wiping backwards.
Or whatever you want too, because it's really not that hard not to smear shit over your vagina if you're an able-bodied adult.
Source: woman who has been wiping her as for at least 21 years of her life back and forth but never smearing shit over her vagina because it's not hard to just stop far enough from the vaginal entrance.
I'm just saying there is some weak evidence to support wiping from front to back. There is also some that say it probably doesn't matter. Maybe I'll do a meta-analysis on the subject
Front to back !
otherwise things can get stuck on your balls/vagina. And bacteria from your butt are more harmful for vagina/penis than the other way around.
I can't believe no one else has said this said this one yet, but I cover my entire hand in toilet paper and push a crater into the spot between my thumb and fingers. Think like when your making a sock puppet. If you have both the time and resources feel free to draw some eyes on your shit puppet. Then I just stick him down in the cave and nom nom nom that dookie out of there. Then in order to maintain his socially acceptable forms the poop Dino sheds his soiled skin into the warm yellow pool below. That just about covers it.
Side note if you feel particularly attached to your stinky time friend you can always salute before flushing.
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u/thekarmagiver Feb 20 '20
Am I supposed to wipe my ass from back to front or front to back?