I have this feeling that while washing the bum with water after toileting may be good and most preferred method by some people/tribe, it may not be safe and can even serve as an avenue for the spread of diseases like cholera and others. The reason why i say this is because feacal matter can be trapped under the fingernail and, lodge there for several days unless the person washes his/her hand thoroughly with soap and water. Sadly its from here that the person if suffering from any ailment that can be transmitted via faecal - oral route spreads such disease.
Personally, i love the good old tissue paper method.

If you are at home or where there's a bathroom and you can afford to shower, there's nothing wrong with smelling fresh and nice after easing yourself. Germs can't hide in your nails and stuffs if you showered thoroughly and washed yourself clean.
While at work/ outside the home using Tissue is good, a wet wipe is perfect or wetting the tissue before cleaning up with it. Women should be wet wiping, it feels clean to wet wipe even after urinating, that way you are left with no unclean smell.

I think I understand what you mean, you are referring to people that watch themselves with cups of water after using the rest room. I think I agree with you, messing around that area with a little quantity of water without taking time to wash the hand very clean is not the best.

@iv, its the wet wipe you are referring to same thing as baby wipe. If its the same, then you have a point. Its much better to clean with a wet wipe which will remove all traces of waste than dried tissue paper.

Yeah, stuffs like that. I had a colleague that was using that baby wipe as her wet wipe. There are ones that adult use like Cottonelle and Swipes etc though some people use them for different purposes that are not just toiletries and if you don't want to spend on it you can easily make a wet wipe by rolling a ball of tissue paper and wetting it under the restroom sink tap and viola you are fresh and nice.

It has been advised that one avoid wet wipes and baby wipes that contain methylchloroisothiazolinone (MCI) as some skins react to that.

I think I understand what you mean, you are referring to people that watch themselves with cups of water after using the rest room. I think I agree with you, messing around that area with a little quantity of water without taking time to wash the hand very clean is not the best.[img]http://www.dubaa.info/good.gif[/img]

@ivy, thanks for that tip. We learn new things everyday.

@eyu, yes we are talking about the same thing.