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If we're talking about "inventing TP", I'm pretty sure we wiped with leaves and stuff before we invented the hose. Maybe even nice thick leaves like cabbage leaves.
I don't like getting only my butt wet instead of the whole body. If I wanted my butt wet I might as well take a shower.
Also, composting toilets are superior. Flush toilets emerged along with the capitalist class and the liberal idea of private bathroom ownership. Putting water pipes into every dwelling unit is a wasteful luxury that speeds up the decay of buildings. If we're talking about plumbing and commodity shortages we need to have a holistic approach instead of a hyperspecific bandaid approach.
And rocks too, people still do when in nature without access to clean water. Of course people also used to (and still do) have pitchers and use that water to wash themselves. Still if im saying it's the better way it really doesn't matter that people used to wipe more than wash (this is a pro-washing post rather than anti-TP).
Valid but also I feel like comparing washing your asshole to dipping your bottom in water or taking a shower is a little bit excessive.
We're not we're talking about having poopy butts I just threw that stuff in last minute.
When you said "bum gun" you had me sold. I am now going to buy a water gun, mostly for giving myself silly bathroom pranks