Why Do Igbo Girls Use Paper?

I don't rash on girls,i only get at boys,only bitch niggas argue with girls,girls are quick to cry

Which is better here,using paper and not "Tissue paper" and using water??
waiting for ur response,only then can i be part of this post,If not get a life if u don't have better thing to say dummy.

Ths is true. I once spent 6 months in Owerri (Imo State) on one of our ASU imposed hollidays and I observed that what you described was prevalent there. I actualy formed a habit of always carrying a roll of tissue in my napsack when ever I had to go visiting people.  It still strikes me as currious.

it seems our friend the poster has an irrepressible urge to discuss the female genitalia in a degrading manner. i always advise people - if u want to be stupid, be stupid inside your house; don't display it outside. he still hasn't learnt.

if you talk about households being your case studies, why make the topic about women in particular? or didn't the men participate in the paper study?

if you did want to be objective, y pick on igbos alone? as someone rightly observed, perhaps you should explain y yorubas like to use water? only the good Lord knows what hausas use, and i wont even venture there.

try to show us that that you are capable of mentally stimulating topics. even if you did 'graduate' with a degree in toilet habit studies.

sheesh.

At least the Igbos use paper, what about the yoruba people that use those rubber bowls to sh^t in, or you think we don't know. The worst thing is that the use the same nasty bowl to eat from. Everybody knows that Yoruba are very dirty people especially their women.

lmfao u people are killing me especially d last reply lol

@Kalmebad freedom to life is exactly what is happening here. Freedom to live, learn, question your environment and soroundings, seek answers to things you find puzzling and so on. Freedom.
If I asked you about the peculiar ruling system of the Igbo's you will probably educate me on it with a beautiful thesis. But a simple question as to a peculiar observed toilet habit among your people throws you all off center and all that has emenated from you people so far on this thread is insults and counter acussation. I'll bet that most of what you know about the behaviour of other tribes are based on the questions that people asked and got answers to. Misinformation comes about when people are either ill informed or prefer to guess the motives of others or where the  people in position to give cogent answers prefer to hedge. Stop hedging and give a simple and educative answer if you have one.

I have actualy come across people whe use leaves to wipe up. They explained that it was because of a lack of alternative (scarcity of water and tissues in their rural setting). One can see why they do that and they will probably accept any better alternatives presented to them.

Yorubas might use water but one can easily see that water is a universal cleanser. I'm not youruba but I had a discussion with my yoruba room mate back in the university and after listening to him I gave it a try. It was nice. Now I always use wate and soap even after using tissue.

I fail to see how a simple polite and educative answer will hurt anyone so why get so defensive when people try to get know your tribe better (yet you guys complain about being misunderstood). Information doesn't have to be limited to the savoury foods and wonderful dance steps of your tribe. It is all encompassing.

Focus on this thread has been on the Igbo because some one asked. If you are curious about other tribes please open a thread and ask.

Tissue paper is soft and absorbent enogh to do some thorough cleaning with. The coarse kind of paper you rip off a note book will not do the same. It might evenn cause injury. As a little experiment. Take two saucers and smear them with palm oil. Use a tissue to wipe one then try to wipe the other with ordinay paper and see if you get the same result.

I disagree with you. It's always better to wash with soap and water than to just wipe. If you are afraid of getting doody on your hands (quite understandable) then wipe first and wash afterwards with toilet soap and water. It's a lot more hygenic.

I am an Igbo, but how come I never observed this paper thing in all my years on earth?

@tomX

Am not trying to sound antagonistic based on the poster's quest nor am i trying to be defensive here for d fact that the refrence is made to the Ibo girls.All the poster is trying to do here is to slight the Ibo girls,his question is baseless,u kwn y? did his reserch or observation only made on d girls alone,  or the entire Ibo's, or on a particular community.If his findings was only on d girls,that means he wasnt doing anything useful with his life rather than going about sniffing their "Yashi" When i say freedom of life" there are things that shld not be seen as a question,rather as a choice to life,and do not forget here that that could only be prevelent to the villagers, it is on this vein that i keep asking,"what happens to the Yoruba's and water"lets even use Lagos here  as a case study and not the Village where he may have carried out his youth service. Now which is better here?

@atomx, u speak about soap and water,how many of u in an office enviroment will go looking for soap,u are trying to make it suit ur own reasons.what happens when tissue paper is there and yet Yoruba's (some of course) still use water,cus the poster's seems to be particular about Ibo girls using paper instead of Tissue paper, "IF ALL MUST,THEN LETS ALL GO FOR TISSUE PAPER AND RULE OUT BOTH PAPER  AND WATER" if not the topic is irrelevant

@kalmebad,
You may verywell have a good point. The mere fact that the poster resurected this thread several times in the last few months might well be a pointer to that. Mischief aside however the points he raised is something I had observed in my solourn in Owerri and no one gave any cogent answer to it there.

You do not have to look for soap dear, most half decent offices will provide toiletries for their staff and clients.

Well I cannot hold brief for any tribe or group here. I am simply on the side of good toilet habits. Now when we clean up (either with tissue or other means) we still get to wash our hand right (basic hygine)? This is the hand that only made contact with the tissue. This in itself will show that the tissue by itself is not an excellent cleaning agent. You still need to use soap and water. Wiping with tissue alone can not entirely clean every trace of the feaces from around the anal opening. If you can help it, wash afterwards.