In all my 2 decades plus years of upbringing, I have kept to my own ways of squat toilet usage. It’s very much like the way you were taught to hold your pencil, a very signature style of your very own performed with the most habitual of mannerisms.
As I grew up, there were of course, several schools (mom, grandmom’s, aunts and nannies had their own way) of thought to toilet etiquette and conduct (regardless if you were in the presence of others or not). I thought I always had it right… until I unintentionally flashed more than decent flesh at one point of my life of tertiary education.
How could I ever reveal so much without noticing? Let me illustrate…
Thus my question now is asides from the fact that it has no complete benefit to visual dignity to squat the way i do,…Why the heck do we squat the way we do? Hmmm..
Several debates over the mamak table have ended in ‘The dump goes straight in the hole‘. Sure…males and females take a dump the same way. But what if we pee?
Guess my way would be more feasible for the pee to get right in the hole! But wait..if a man really had to go pee in a squat toilet…which way does he actually face… *ponders*
I’ve also always had this fear of getting my foot stuck in such a gaping hole in the ground.Hanging my ass over the seemingly bottomless abyss would actually increase the chances of such, thus I prefer to have everything in front of me. We’ve got to minimise such risks you know….
I’m also a pretty lazy person. Doing it the normal way would mean I would have to perform such actions in sequence.
1) shut the door
2) TURN
3) aim and estimate for feet positioning
4) TURN
5) do my business
6) TURN
7) Flush remnants
8) TURN
9) Exit stall
My way seems to have simplified things… think of all the time you’ll save not having to turn so much and do all that topographical planning on feet placement
1) close door
2) TURN
3) Do business
4) Flush
5) TURN
6) Exit stall
So there is a reason why I was given directions to use the squat toilet as so

