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With weird smelling crotch odor having gone dormant, I'm glad Body Consciousness is keeping it real.

I don't have that problem, but I shave the hairs off my ass, it looks better and it's frankly, a lot cleaner. It's the closest one's ass can get to being circumcised.

Jon.

What has changed in your diet? Drinking a lot (esp. beer) can make you nasty, so can an extreme low carb diet or spicy food.

Shaving the hair back there once a month is a good idea, kinda tricky to do it (and prickly for a few days) but you'll get used to it.

Yeah I think you need fiber. When i eat crap, my body shits out well, crap. But when you eat well, stuff just comes out. No fuss.

i didn't think that i was going to have to write a serious post about this, but here goes. there are many factors, one of the biggest, if not the biggest is diet. the way to see if diet is affecting your bowel movements is to eat a clean diet and gradually add possibly aggravating factors. alcohol can have an effect, so remove alcohol from your diet for a week. also, many people become lactose intolerant as they get older. try removing dairy from your diet for a week. if you don't see an improvement, after removing alcohol and dairy products, you might have a bacterial or parasitic problem. you can give a stool sample to your doctor to analyze. but more often than not, it's going to be diet.

maybe try switching to baby wipes...I've heard once you use em you cant go back to plain paper

So Europeans don't do it?

Consider consulting your doctor. Sudden changes that aren't explained by diet changes can be cause for concern.

Kalra is back? how did I miss that?

But it gets all scratchy and itchy

A tablespoon of Metamucil in your juice / water / whatever you drink every morning. My doctor recommended it and it's wonderful...

Often, on StyleForum, I feel that I might not have an expert enough opinion to comment. On questions of shoe construction and pressing matters such as morning coat length, I am useless. But now here is a topic on which I can provide some truly meaningful insight.

Being part Asian, lactose intolerant, constantly under stress, and having numerous family members with IBS, I am someone who, at least once a week, looks to the bathroom ceiling and prays for divine intervention from the agonies of a particular bowel movement. I can count on one hand the number of clean, simple, minimal-wipe in-and-outers I have in an average year.

The answer, my friend, is wet wipes. These things are the greatest. While they can be difficult to discreetly transport to and from the office bathroom (sneaking 3 or 4 from the plastic box in your desk drawer in a clandestine manner and then stuffing them into your Canali trouser pocket for the walk to the office john is indignity defined... you'll feel like a coke addict sneaking a snort), they are truly one of life's little life savers. Wipe with standard-issue paper until very nearly the end, then finish up with a few passes of wet wipes. Exit the bathroom feeling refreshed, clean, and confident.

DO NOT follow up the wet treatment with a drying wipe of stock paper. Not only do you risk the dry paper pilling and leaving little white rolled dingleberries for you to have to deal with later, and the potential sting of a plucked hair, but worst of all, you introduce the possibility of the dreaded finger-through-paper breach. In this event, you will have to waddle, pants-around-ankles, to the sink (provided you're not in a multiple-toilet-stall bathroom) to wash your hands before you dare to touch said Canali (or Brioni or RLPL or Incotex) trousers again.

After a while, you'll almost welcome the cleansing, sterilizing sting that comes with a slightly bloody final pass.

I recommend the re-sealable Ziploc-type "refill" bags they sell at most supermarkets in the toilet paper section. Don't get the full-on baby wipes, they reek. I think Cottonelle sells some - they are packaged for children, with puppies embossed in relief on the papers, but there's something soothing about puppies when you're at your most vulnerable.

If I ever, under circumstances that do not include a direct request to do so from Jessica Alba, shave the hairs of my ass-crack, please shoot me.

Wet wipes in the individual foil wrapper for work. You can slip one unnoticed into your shirt pocket before leaving your desk.

These can be located at many stores near the plastic forks and other picnic items.

I started using wipes a few years ago and can't believe more folks don't. How clean can a person really be using only dry paper?

that was really well written.

wet wipes in ziploc bags has been my solution. I have a very hairy crack and shaving there is really not an option, you don't want to get razor bumps there. Two wipes max and some regular TP and you are as clean as you can be.