Toilet paper
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Toilet paper is a tissue paper product primarily used to clean the anus and surrounding region of feces, and to clean the external genitalia and perineal area of urine.
A full roll of toilet paper.
Toilet paper and a toilet paper holder; the cardboard core of an empty roll is visible on the holder.
Anal cleansing instruments known as chūgi from the Nara period (710 to 784) in Japan (The modern rolls in the background are for size comparison.)
A 1792 French Revolutionary caricature, depicting the French population using the Monarchist Brunswick Manifesto as toilet paper
Anal hygiene
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Anal hygiene refers to practices that are performed on the anus to maintain personal hygiene, usually immediately or shortly after defecation. Anal cleansing may also occur while showering or bathing.
Toilet paper
…During the later Tang dynasty (618–907 AD), an Arab traveller to China in the year 851 AD remarked: ... they [the Chinese] do not wash themselves with water when they have done their necessities; but they only wipe themselves with paper. During the early 14th century, it was recorded that in what is now…
Top view of a bidet
A bidet shower or "health faucet". It is commonly used in the Arab world and Asia.
A Japanese toilet with integrated bidet spraying water for cleaning. The water jet is used to wash the anus and buttocks after defecation.