The Indian Toilet How-To
April 18, 2008 - 829 views
You need to be prepared if you’re going to travel in countries they don’t have the modern facilities we are accustomed to. The indian toilet has been around for ages. However, some might still not know how to use it. There is a solution for everything: lack of water, lack of toilet paper and even a little trick to set the mood. Better safe than sorry!
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“Modern” my ass. The squat toilets are much better than Western style toilets once you get used to them. I prefer toilet paper to the water personally, but I’ve seen arguments both ways. Squatting, on the other hand, is better. It makes it easier to take a dump. You expel more. Constipation is less of an issue. It’s more hygienic.
Indeed, you see squat toilets in very modern parts of India. You can go into a skyscraper or a high-tech Western company, and they’ll provide toilets of both kinds — Western and Eastern. China, on the other hand, is trying to force out Eastern-style toilets.
True true! Love the squat! It lines everything up and makes the whole process much easier and complete.
they have these in italy too! a joy to use I say!
Yikes! I have back pain so this would be quite painful! The drawing is kinda funny - hum a tune indeed
I second “modern my ass”
These toilets are found all over the world, and are in fact much better once you get used to it. The toilets we use in the US of A are referred to as “french” style, not “modern” or more “sophisticated” but simply different, and more wasteful all around.
These are present in 50% of the countryside. At least in Eastern Europe anyways. I’m afraid to use them cause something might splash around.
“Empty it forcefully towards your bottom”. Is a few splashes of water supposed to clean it up? I don’t think so, and I don’t think this is good hygiene. However, I might agree that the squatting position is better for ‘getting the job done’.
When I was 5, I tried taking a crap squatting down, and I crapped down the back of my shoes.
Ever since I was young I crapped using a squatting style, even on the Eastern style toilets, but then I got older and bigger and I couldnt stand on the Eastern style toilets anymore for fear of breaking them. But it is easier to poop that way, and it is also more hygenic as your cheeks are spread wide apart as opposed to when you are sitting. Your cheeks tend to get squished closed more often then not when sitting. As for “Kon” not thinking its not good hygene to clean by forcefully emptying towards your bottom, I agree. Using your hand on the other hand (pun not intended) with water, should clean you much more efficiently then toilet paper, also this gives you extra reason to wash your hands after going to the bathroom. This style of cleaning has the same principle as a Bidet but without all the fancy water pressure. I prefer the water cleaning as it does clean your ass a whole lot better then toilet paper, and for people with the shits you dont have to worry about wiping ur ass raw with toilet paper, as your hand and water is a lot softer then toilet paper but some people have a problem touching their dirty butts and also with wet butts “swamp ass” as my friend calls it.
Well, it is better for our anatomy, but u have to bear with the stench, and no way u can read anything coz u have to keep a hand free to hose down the occasional dangler…
then your knees start paining and u need the occasional stand up..
and when i come across ‘western’ commodes in third-world countries I dont dare sit on them…I stand over it and take aim when I get the feelin’
Is that a Honda Logo on the back there?
What if you can’t squat like 99.9% of Americans?
What do you do with your pants?
Remember. Everybody poops!
Water is always better than washing your anus than a paper smear. Eastern hygiene rules. Any of you guys ever use a bidet? Strange to see a French word for so eastern a contraption.
Look. it ain’t indian, neither italian, neither turkish. It is the way people used to shit before they decided that sitting instead of squatting was more comfortable.
I grew up with this style until we upgraded in the 90’s. Anyways, this method is a very efficient way to ***, because you can’t read in that position!
Luckily Indian foods waste product is usually in a liquid type consistency.
This is similar to the Turkish toilet, look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squat_toilet
Just 2 and a half years ago I travelled around Belgium and France - to my horror I found these toilets that went out of fashion 30 plus years ago in South Africa!
If you have a bad back or rubbisg knees - man you have a problem!
And as one wrote above - mind the back of your pants and or shoes!
It may be good for the “system” - but(t) for me I’m a lot happier with a “cistern”!
(You can still hum a tune on our modern loos too!!).
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Soo… I guess you would have to completely remove your pants for this contraption? Or you would probably shit your pants in a very deliberate way?
And also throwing water at my arsehole in that position… Not sure that all that water with shit in it would end up in the whole…
And oh - while you’re down there, don’t loose your balance! That would be messy.
I guess these are all beginners problems, but i recomend you try out the western version with a magazine, and you’ll quickly get used to that as well