1000 years ago? Hmm... I know Rome used a spung on a stick soaked in salt water. It was communal. But that was further back than asked.
Well if I remember my toilet history I. Europe the rich used cloth unspun wool or their left hand. The peasants tried to crap in a river or stream and use the water to wash, but if not available they commonly used rocks, shells, leaves, snow, or their left hand. Yes they sold shells to clean up down there with and they reused it.
Food was cooked and eaten with the right for the left was considered unclean. Thus its use as TP. They did try to wash it after. Funny thing they thought lefties was more prone to sin like visiting ladies of the evening. I wonder how many lefties hang hear?
I hope I am remembering my TP history right. It has been a while since I looked it up.
Anyway every woman I know thinks TP is a necessary item. This the hunt for it is a great excuse to be gone a while. Personally I have used leaves when TP wasn't available and I was not near a toilet. If I ran out, personally I would just shower. But I will not likely run out before normal sources of the coveted bum paper are restored.
And in China a 1000 years ago, the rich used toilet paper. Just so you know. They were 1000s of years ahead of us in the toiletry sciences. We didn't start to use dedicated toilet paper in the US until the mid 1800s sometime. Before that it was corn cobs, leaves, and publications like the good old farmers almanac and news papers in this nation.
Now how did we get on the history of bathroom sanitation?
Hope you all enjoyed this post. It was answered in fun but I believe it to be historically accurate. Now can we get back to talking about paying for sex? That subject is usually much less gross. Well there was this one post a lady posted with pictures of the shit stains a client left on her sheets. That was very gross. I think that guy could have used one some TP or a shell or something.