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In Spartacus, the TV series, Batiatus stop at a public toilet and the vendor hands him a stick with a cloth wrapped around it, which he gives a one-two wipe with. Is this scene accurate?
What about Louis and Clark? People on the frontier?
On the TV series, Band of Brothers, one of the final episodes, one of the veteran soldiers tells a new guy that this is the first time he's wiped with toilet paper in months. What were they using?
I've been to war, and I've used cardboard, t-shirt sleeves, and MRE napkins. I've never been away from toilet paper longer than a week though, and if I'd been out longer than that, stuff would probably run out.
An interesting fact about toilet paper was that visitors to China, where toilet paper was first invented, regarded it as less civilized than the traditional method of using just your hands and water. An Arab traveler in China said that "they [the Chinese] are not careful about cleanliness, and they do not wash themselves with water when they have done their necessities; but they only wipe themselves with paper."
The first recorded reference to toilet paper appears in a Chinese text from the 5th century. It's a ghost story about a person, Mr. Yu, who enters an outhouse without bringing anything in to wipe himself. To his relief, a mysterious arm reaches in to offer him toilet paper, which he graciously accepts. Later on, he enters the outhouse a second time, again without anything to wipe himself. He waits patiently for the mysterious arm to appear again with toilet paper. Instead, he hears an argument outside. When he looks outside the outhouse, he realizes that the arm belonged to the ghost of deceased slave, who was outside arguing with another ghost. Mr. Yu shouts at the ghosts and they disappear, never to return.
Prior to toilet paper, the Chinese used sticks to wipe themselves. This is attested by Zen koan from the Tang dynasty, which states "the Buddha is nothing more than a dung-wiping stick."
All of this comes from page 117 of Charles D. Benn's Daily Life in Traditional China: Tang Dynasty, which is one of the books recommended on the AskHistorians book list.
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