Folks with vaginas, I’m conducting some family comparative analysis and I’d like to know how many standard pieces of toilet paper do you use when wiping after a pee. I posted some comments with options to upvote if you like.

  • Chrissie
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    32 hours ago

    Usually, 2-3 double/folded sheets (so 4-6 in total). Possibly more at messier times.

    • Avid AmoebaOP
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      32 hours ago

      Oh this is smart, you’re getting the required thickness by folding instead of using more pieces. When using an unfolded stack of squares you could end up utilizing just a small spot while the rest remains dry.

  • @Head
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    114 hours ago

    Is anyone else infuriated by the number of ‘I don’t have a vagina BUT’ posts?

    Like let me speak for the woman in my life. Let me provide my opinion. I know I wasn’t asked BUT…

    Jesus just go die in a hole. Let women speak for themselves.

    • @lud@lemm.ee
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      446 minutes ago

      Personally I don’t see anything wrong with that at all. Commenting even if you don’t have a vagina is absolutely not the same as speaking for everyone that does have one. In fact I haven’t found a single comment that speaks for anyone but themselves.

      If it’s absolutely critical that only people with a vagina comments, OP should probably have put the question on a gendered ask community instead of the main one.

      Some people just like to engage in the conversation about something they think is interesting even if it wasn’t explicitly asked for. It’s also interesting to compare delta-TP between genders.

      Telling people to die seems a bit extreme for such a non issue.

  • @93maddie94@lemm.ee
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    98 hours ago

    At home: 3 squares, folded. At other places with different paper: 4-5, depending on quality. Out and about with the tissue paper that exists in public bathrooms? Maybe the length of my arm.

  • @Alice@beehaw.org
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    98 hours ago

    It really depends. Both on how much I peed, and also how decent the TP is. Basically however many it takes not to saturate the TP, and not get urine/blood/mucus on my hands. Could be three, could be a ton.

    I’ll use a TON more during my period, as even with a cup in, blood finds it’s way onto my skin and then the flow of the urine helps spread it to every nook and cranny.

    Another thing to take into account is discharge. That definitely takes extra TP, it’s thicker and a few squares won’t hold up.

    TL;DR whoever gives a consistent amount of squares is either lying or has a much nicer vagina than I do

  • PatchworkHorse
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    47 hours ago

    Penis owner here. Occasionally I’ll use 1-2, or part of a paper towel (or whatever else I can find first).

    In 30+ years of peeing, I still can’t figure out why it sometimes stays under my foreskin, then makes a wet spot on my pants two minutes later. Guess I’m just bad at peeing.

    • Heydo
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      65 hours ago

      Gotta pump the gooch my dude.

      There’s a bit of a u-bend in the urethra right about where the scrotum meets the taint. Use a finger to push up and slightly forward to pump that last bit of pee out.

  • @TisI@reddthat.com
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    68 hours ago

    I obviously wash, but when I’m home I use washcloths to dry my vagina, and they’re just the best. If I can’t use washcloths to dry, I use those interfold tissues. They’re amazing, they don’t rip and you don’t find tiny rolled pieces all over the place.

    If I’m not in the house, in public places I use the interfold tissues if they have them, otherwise, depending on the quality of the tp, a minimum of 3 up to 6 or 7.

    • Avid AmoebaOP
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      13 hours ago

      What do you do with the washcloth after use? Hang to dry and reuse, throw in a basket for laundry?

      • @Bilbo_Haggins@lemm.ee
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        13 minutes ago

        Not OP, but we have a bidet and a basket of cut up t-shirt cloths next to the toilet that are single-use and then go in the wash every week. I wouldn’t personally reuse washcloths for wiping out of fear of UTIs, but I’m extra paranoid.

  • bizarroland
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    2914 hours ago

    I do not have a vagina, but I have noticed that by myself 1 roll of tp will last 2-4 weeks, but when I have feminine company it becomes more like 1+ roll a week.

    It’s mind boggling how you need so much more tp than us guys do, not that I blame you cos it’s different down there.

    Maybe I’m more concerned that in 10,000 years of civilization no one has developed a better way. We have “spray with water” and “copious amounts of absorbent material”.

    Where’s the 3 shells at, people?

    • Todd Bonzalez
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      3014 hours ago

      Also vaginaless, but I’ll throw in one square as an answer. All the jiggling in the world won’t get rid of that last drop. It’s either TP, or my undies.

        • mub
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          59 hours ago

          What an image. But explains the penis level dents I see in toilet door frames sometimes.

          • @Today@lemmy.world
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            26 hours ago

            Wow! Congrats on the door frame denter. You could probably make some money with tae kwon do style board breaking videos.

        • @DNOS@lemmy.ml
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          19 hours ago

          I used tooo … Now I have discovered that I can just shove it in the blow drier works better 😉

      • @PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1410 hours ago

        You gotta press that spot behind ur balls, kinda moving back to front, and it comes out. This secret arcane knowledge was lost for millenia in my lineage, no longer passed down man to man. A kind stranger on the internet shared it with me.

    • Avid AmoebaOP
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      314 hours ago

      Some sort of perineal drier? There’s probably bidets with something like that built-in.

      • They exist. I think primarily a Japan thing (no surprise…). I havent seen one in person, but seen them for sale or some weird bidet article about all the options you can get. Hot/cold water, his/her’s, blow dry, lights, music, multiple user pre-sets, etc. usually it’s sold as the entire toilet, not an “add-on” option.

        • @Iunnrais@lemm.ee
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          111 hours ago

          I will say that the blow dry option doesn’t really help sufficiently after using the bidet to avoid me wanting to use TP to dry off, but it might be sufficient for lady parts after peeing. Don’t have a vagina personally, so can’t say for sure.

          • That’s about how i figured it would be…seems like it would be kinda weird to get right, and even then you kinda need that reassurance of a good pat 😆

  • @Mothra@mander.xyz
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    1212 hours ago

    2 or 3 squares, often folded. If the paper is cheap single ply it might be two or three times the amount.