When I was a child in New Zealand many children lived outside of the town where there was sewerage from the houses...
instead we have “countries dubbies” or septic tanks ( though not many as the home owner had to put it in themselves and it wasn’t cheap)
However when my older sisters and I started school at age 5 we had no trouble using the regular toilets in the bathrooms..
we may have already been exposed to them at our church which was in town or friends and familys houses in town..
but I don’t remember the town children ever laughing at us country hicks..
when I was 10 Dad built a new barn and as our house was too low to include a toilet, he put one in that barn...
he built a double part septic tank in the garden and just had to have a plumber buddy to come and check it for him..saved a packet doing it himself..
Years later I watched the men put in my septic tank when I built a new house and they did much the same as my Dad did 30 years before..
over the area where the old outside dubbie had been Dad extended the chicken run and nobody was the wiser..My snobby big sister was releived about that the first time she brought her city slicker fiancé home for a weekend LOL
as for paper, Honey that’s what the newspaper was for !!!
everyone had a thick wire hook in the side of the dubbie with squares of newspaper neatly pieced and waiting..
and we knew where they went after usage..
:)
Toilets in many third world countries are apparently not capable of handling paper and clog easily. When I first bought a rental house I had Mexican tenants who used a trash can for toilet paper, until I let them know that unless you stuff the toilet with large quantities it would not clog.
One of the reasons they do this is because if you have a indoor plumbing in those countries they usually are hooked up to septic systems that can easily overflow. My wife's family house in Guatemala you throw the paper into a bin for that reason.
Several years ago, I worked in a multi-cultural medical laboratory. There was not one toilet seat, in either of the multi-stall Women’s Rooms that had an intact seat. The women would repeatedly stand on top of the seat and break the plastic seats. No number of complaints would get the management to address the problem. And yes, they threw out their soiled toilet paper in the trash bin. I tried not to use the restrooms in that laboratory, preferring to use one when out to lunch. So happy when I could leave that place of work.......
Or maybe it’s just to piss everyone off.