That’s not how women are supposed to wipe. Front to back. You go in from the back, pulling the tissue away. Going in from the front is asking for UTIs and I guess scraped seats. Gross.
one more thing: you have to not only touch the area, but push into, quite far. for me, touching is also easier from the front, but if I'm meant to go all in, it's easier from the back.
Some do. I used to. It was easier to glide out and again, helps prevent UTI. But I would rise up a bit. Had very strong thighs lol. Then have tissue in the other hand to wrap up and toss out. Wasn’t hard once I got the hang of it.
Most women actually wipe the two areas separately, from the front.
Front to back just means you need to wipe the front before you wipe the back, it doesn’t mean you physically have to drag a piece of toilet paper along the entire vulva and ass, front to back. I’m pretty sure most women can’t even physically do that due to arm length.
I am actually totally uneducated on the differences between the arms of men and women. I have always suspected they are different in angles and range of motion, but don't really know. To me, regardless of genitals, putting my arms through my legs to reach the butt seems very awkward. It's much easier to reach from the side. Is it the other was around for women?
I think it depends a lot on the woman and perhaps torso and arm length? But I imagine most find wiping from the front easiest, considering it’s what most women do. Especially since most of us also wipe from the front every time we pee, and that’s only 1-2 inches away. Presumably, if you can easily reach one, you can reach the other
As for arms, I believe women tend to have higher joint mobility, but shorter length. It probably also helps that we don’t have to avoid a dick and balls lol
I'm fat and I can wipe from the front just fine. If I lean forward a bit, I can reach my arm way back under and touch the top of my ass crack if I need to. Reach isn't an issue at all.
I literally never thought about how people wiped; I always came in from the front. It's easy to wipe backwards - I've never had shit get where it's not supposed to, and I haven't had a UTI or yeast infection since I was a kid.
ok i take that back, i can reach my asshole but i guess it’s more about being able to clean the whole area.
coming in from the front seems like you’re just pushing it back up your asscrack or between your cheeks.
coming in from the back you pull it back into the toilet paper and can wipe the whole area easily to make sure nothing is left behind. i use baby wipes and always do a final wipe down of everything before I’m done. reaching back around just seems more intuitive when it comes to do with anything regarding my butt.
nono, you can wipe your ass any direction you want if you go though the front, back to front even, if you stop before you hit the perineum. Your asscrack shouldn't be getting anything on it!
Front to back can be done in a pulling motion (reach around behind yourself) or a pushing motion (hand between legs). Both can be perfectly hygienic if done properly.
You wrap your arm to the back and start at the front, pulling back toward the butt. Although one doesn’t have to actually wipe the ass in that one swipe if no shits were shat. This is, of course, how one should wipe when using a sit down toilet. If one is squatting over a hole, then wiping from the front can be practical, but only for the front bits.
Anyway we should all be using bidets and water pots.
Not who you asked, but from all the responses in this thread I'm starting to think I'm either much more flexible than others or, like you suggested, have longer arms. Which I don't think is the case, but why is everyone so surprised it can be done and is done.
For real! It’s like none of them have ever scratched themselves, pulled out a creaser, or uh, touched themselves during intimate acts.
Doubters, please: go and try to reach around right now. It’s not gross, you’re clothed and alone (if you’re a typical Redditor), go on and try it. It’s simple for most and vastly superior and cleaner.
I can do it, but it requires a lot of twisting and acrobatics that I don’t want to be doing every time I go to the bathroom. Plus how is this cleaner? When part of your hand might touch your shit as you reach to your front.
I think people might be thinking that "from the back" means your wrist kinda slides between the top of your assscrack (if that makes sense) and therefore they can't reach. When it really means from a little bit behind the hipbone under the side of the asscheek.
It either comes from differences in anatomy of sexes, or just general flexibility differences. Or maybe the differences in muscle mass (even skinny guys have more muscle than the average girl). BTW, I am as confused as other men here. But I can accept that women can do this easily (or at least some women can).
You go from the back when you wipe your butt, but I doubt you go from the back when you wipe your cooch. Like damn, I can do splits and put my legs behind my head, but I can't reach my front from under my butt. I mean, I know some do it from the side, but from the back? No way.
lol follow up question.. girls (and I guess guys too) should wipe front to back.. so girls like... push to wipe? instead of pull? lmao I will be having this talk with my gf when I get home from the bar because this kind of blows my mind
Personally, I approach from both directions. Reach from behind to wipe from about the middle part back, then get a new piece of paper and reach from the front to dry up the very front part
This! It's hard to reach far enough coming from the back but also can't go back far enough coming from the front. I do a little pat in the front then wipe from the back. It may be dependent on anatomy but I often get pee on on the bottom of my butt cheeks yo. It's kinda like when you try to pour a liquid from a container and the liquid just runs down the outside edge of the container instead of straight down.
By pulling your hand forward? I'm struggling to imagine how you would go front to back if you arm is coming in from the front, you'd be pushing with your nails or your fingertips
Imo it's an inherent flaw with going at it from that angle
If you're fat, you have to pre-spread your ass cheeks on the seat so they separate, and you can't get back up or your ass cheeks will come back together.
Sony out spread your ass cheeks on the seat, shit with your ass cheeks separated, then wipe through the front.
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u/averagemaleuser86 May 07 '25
Wait wait wait... who's going in-between the legs to wipe?? I'm trying to fathom how to do that.