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Thread: Squatting pan or toilet bowl? Perhaps, it's a cultural difference!
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[quote=WANHU,510853]Squatting toilet is based from cultural as well as historical background, especially in Asia and the far east. Earlier, people use dug-out toilet which later was replaced by bucket where the night soil would be collected once in every two nights or so. These kind of toilets are suitable for squatting than sitting. When people started to improve their toilets, they prefer the squatting toilets because by squatting the left thigh would be pressing the left stomach for better and easier excretion of faeces. Thus in Thailand, both personal and public toilets remain the squatting type minus the cisterns. The users would need to use the water manually. Gradually, older people, due to health reasons and perhaps obesity, they can no longer squat, where squatting toilets are replaced with the sitting ones, as we can find in hotels, etc. In my house, we have both, squatting and sitting. For my bedroom I'd prefer toilet with seat as old age is catching up. Wan[/quote]
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