How to wipe your butt the right way
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Well, that's the PSA for the day, right?
By the way...
"If a person has a vulva, meaning they have an opening to the vagina as well as an opening for the urethra, wiping back to front can easily transmit bacteria from the anus to the urethra or vaginal opening, " Dr. Sonpal says. "Bacteria entering either of these holes can lead to urinary tract infections, yeast infections, as well as other forms of infectious bacterial vaginitis."
That's why people with a vulva should always wipe front to back. That rule is less important for people who have a penis.
"Those with a penis can wipe however they please since their anus is much further away from their urethra, so the spread of bacteria into the body is rare," he says.
Note that the doctor doesn't use the two common words....
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“If a person has a vulva, meaning they have an opening to the vagina as well as an opening for the urethra, …”
If only there were a single word in English to concisely express this idea…
They’ll end up, after a lot of drama, with the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta: take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.
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“If a person has a vulva, meaning they have an opening to the vagina as well as an opening for the urethra, …”
If only there were a single word in English to concisely express this idea…
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A more concise and operationally comprehensive way of saying it is "if you have another bodily orifice near the anus, wipe away from the other orifice."
For those who have learnt object-oriented programming, it's simply knowing the difference between the "is a" relationship and the "has a" relationship.
It's quite unnecessary to pass the whole object or implicate the whole class when all you need operationally is to check one attribute of an instance -- whether there is another bodily orifice near the anus -- to determine the recommended wipe direction.
Minimal dependency on extraneous information, lower risk of complications and easier maintenance down the line.
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An even more concise way is ‘women should wipe front to back’.
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@jon-nyc said in How to wipe your butt the right way:
An even more concise way is ‘women should wipe front to back’.
That would not include eunuchs (depends on how the castration was done) and boys with severe hypospadias and undescended testicles, or other congenital abnormalities, injuries, physiological and medical conditions not captured by the term “women.” Functionally, it really is about whether there is another bodily orifice near the anus, and to wipe away from it if there is.
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@jon-nyc said in How to wipe your butt the right way:
An even more concise way is ‘women should wipe front to back’.
That would not include eunuchs (depends on how the castration was done) and boys with severe hypospadias and undescended testicles, or other congenital abnormalities, injuries, physiological and medical conditions not captured by the term “women.” Functionally, it really is about whether there is another bodily orifice near the anus, and to wipe away from it if there is.
@Axtremus said in How to wipe your butt the right way:
severe hypospadias
Never heard of a hypospadias being posterior to the scrotum. At the scrotum, perhaps, but never posterior to it.
and undescended testicles
That has nothing to do with orifices.
By the way...what's the EKG sign of a hypospadia?
***the answer.***
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@jon-nyc said in How to wipe your butt the right way:
An even more concise way is ‘women should wipe front to back’.
That would not include eunuchs (depends on how the castration was done) and boys with severe hypospadias and undescended testicles, or other congenital abnormalities, injuries, physiological and medical conditions not captured by the term “women.” Functionally, it really is about whether there is another bodily orifice near the anus, and to wipe away from it if there is.
@Axtremus said in How to wipe your butt the right way:
@jon-nyc said in How to wipe your butt the right way:
An even more concise way is ‘women should wipe front to back’.
That would not include eunuchs (depends on how the castration was done) and boys with severe hypospadias and undescended testicles, or other congenital abnormalities, injuries, physiological and medical conditions not captured by the term “women.” Functionally, it really is about whether there is another bodily orifice near the anus, and to wipe away from it if there is.
On the highly unlikely chance that there’s any overlap between the set of people with such conditions and the set of people who will read this article, when they read the reasoning behind the advice given to women they will be able to figure out if it applies to them.
At any rate this deconstruction of women into parts and functions is misogynistic and should be discouraged.
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@Axtremus said in How to wipe your butt the right way:
severe hypospadias
Never heard of a hypospadias being posterior to the scrotum. At the scrotum, perhaps, but never posterior to it.
and undescended testicles
That has nothing to do with orifices.
By the way...what's the EKG sign of a hypospadia?
***the answer.***
click to show@George-K said in How to wipe your butt the right way:
@Axtremus said in How to wipe your butt the right way:
severe hypospadias
Never heard of a hypospadias being posterior to the scrotum. At the scrotum, perhaps, but never posterior to it.
and undescended testicles
That has nothing to do with orifices.
By the way...what's the EKG sign of a hypospadia?
***the answer.***
click to showYou understand that I’m the only one here besides you who has ever heard of a p wave.
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@George-K said in How to wipe your butt the right way:
@Axtremus said in How to wipe your butt the right way:
severe hypospadias
Never heard of a hypospadias being posterior to the scrotum. At the scrotum, perhaps, but never posterior to it.
and undescended testicles
That has nothing to do with orifices.
By the way...what's the EKG sign of a hypospadia?
***the answer.***
click to showYou understand that I’m the only one here besides you who has ever heard of a p wave.
@bachophile said in How to wipe your butt the right way:
You understand that I’m the only one here besides you who has ever heard of a p wave.
Of course.
However, I always make a point of telling that joke whenever someone mentions "hypospadia."
Even if the anticipated audience is only one.
