Re: Pronouns & sexual

Sai wrote:
> <markjreed@...> wrote:
> > No.  Rather, the left hand is dedicated to it.  And
> is therefore
> > regarded as unclean and not used for much of anything
> else...
>
> Given that traditionally they had (and AFAIK rurally still
> have) water
> rather than paper (to clean your hand afterwards), this is
> not all
> that symbolic a taboo...
>
Not to get too graphic, but (at least in Indonesia) one cleans oneself off with
water, applied with the left hand; then presumably wash the left hand. Been
there, done that, eeeeew :-((

But I don't know what they do in the deserts of Arabia etc. where there isn't a
whole lotta water...........

I read somewhere recently (in a discussion of modern Japanese toilets IIRC,
which spray), that water, however applied, cleans the bottom much better than
paper.