Office Life Is Destroying Your Butt
Toilet paper might also be causing hemorrhoids.<p>Consider that our bodies were not evolved to use toilet paper, and that hemorrhoids are virtually unheard of in third-world countries that lack TP.<p>(I haven't confirmed that latter claim. It's just something I read once, somewhere.)<p>Anyone who's been sick and had to go to the loo multiple times in a row will notice how painful it becomes. I'm not sure it would be painful if washing was used rather than rubbing.<p>My comment here is full of assumptions and wildly unsupported by evidence. But I thought it might be best to post it so that it can swiftly be disproven or shown to have a grain of truth.<p>The topic is gross, but it's a serious issue that you don't think much about until suddenly you have to.