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What did people do before toilet paper (or other avialable wipe)?

Every once in a while I'll have what I consider to be the perfect poop, from an evolutionary perspective.  I think if you go back far enough, it's obvious that we never wiped after doing our doodie, and that there was probably an evolutionary advantage to having the poop come out nice and clean, without a lot of residue left over.  However, those days are long gone, and most of our poops require a pretty significant cleanup operation after they're done.  When did we slide from this presumed state of grace?

Currently, pretty much everyone one in first world countries use toilet paper, and we view with disgust the practice in third world countries of using their hands to wipe.  Also, 'my' culture has a tradition of using leaves to wipe, if toilet paper isn't available.  I say this because this is what I was told to use when out camping when I was a kid, and also because of jokes about using cactus when in the desert, or accidentally using poison ivy.  Because of this, I'm assuming that historically that may be what our ancestors used.

However, in all of these other alternative methods, I've never heard anyone suggest that it's okay to just leave it there till it dries and let if fall off naturally.  Everyone just assumes that the wipe is necessary.

So my whole purpose here is really to gather information.  Are there any cultures around today that just let it sit, or does everyone wipe?  What about our closest relatives in the animal kingdom?  Obviously animals without hands can't really wipe (although dogs often wipe their butts on the ground, but this is usually long after pooping, so really they just let it sit, and then only wipe the dry crusty stuff off).

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Oh no. Neanderthals were fucking manly men.

No toilet paper to wipe your ass with?

No problem.

Just use one of your ten wives. No, she's not wiping it.

Use her as a wipe.

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You've seen certain musicians, the kind that are into heavy music, swinging their hair around, their long hair? Now you know why.

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And if you were by the ocean you could to the 2 sea shells or experiment with the different sea shells. A high percentages of all people lived by water, especially ancient human history.

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