How to Use a Squat Toilet

A 2006 World Hum travel feature that doubles as a practical guide and a small piece of cultural anthropology. The author calls travel writers Doug Lansky (editor of There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled) and Vagabonding's Rolf Potts for technique — heels-up versus heels-down, what to do with the cup of water in lieu of paper, why nobody shakes hands with the left hand in much of Asia and the Middle East. Wry, helpful, and quietly informative about how parochial Western bathroom assumptions actually are.