Water+soap trumps paper ALWAYS
Very interesting article in Salon today about sanitation habits around the world. About damn time somebody went on record as to how disgusting this Western practice is of just wiping after number twoing. Yugh. I don't know how they can go about their business after simply wiping. I'd prolly start crying after two minutes.
Over here, readers weighed in on their own experiences with sanitation outside the US. rudd.peter talks about a contraption he found in middle class homes in India: a hose and spray valve attached to the wall near the toilet. Oh, child. I wonder if that was a EUREKA! moment for him.
I wonder why God didn't make this a more or less general practice with all humans. You know how incest is taboo in most cultures? Why couldn't we have been born thinking water+saop+a bit of isopropyl alcohol follows pooping? So we don't have to contend with a civilization that has sent man to the moon but can't be bothered to wash-as-you-go. Again, YUGH.
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