In Reply to: you are such a laugh, thanks for all you posted by inmyblood on Wednesday, 12. July 2006 at 19:12 Bali Time:
afterwards. I know when I lived in the middle east there would be a bottle of water in the men's loos for them to pour water over their bits after a pee. Lots of those rituals are linked to certain beliefs, like when something leaves the body that part must be washed etc (that is in middle east - not so much balinese as far as I know). Don't worry about the left hand being 'dirty' - that sort of dates back culturally to the past - people do wash their hands, but the tradition still remains of not using that hand.