• superkret@feddit.org
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      Current research doesn’t support that.
      Most likely, the sponge sticks were used as a toilet brush, and pieces of cloth were used to wipe.

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        Also “without privacy” is also in question, because you could use cloth partitions hanging from a rod; something known to be used in stadiums to separate class.

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          Afaik there’s an original source that makes fun of a guy who hung out on the toilet all day, hoping to strike up a conversation that’ll get him invited to dinner.
          That would imply it was a social thing.

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            It would imply that guy thought it was a social thing. Y’never know, maybe he was a weirdo even then. He could’ve been the proto-creeper whose descendants haunt public restrooms to this day.