Why YSK: It’s cleaner, cheaper and more convenient than toilet paper
I’m from the US. While I have travelled to locales where they are commonplace, I never actually tried one. When lockdown and the tp crisis started, however, I purchased one online. I now hate having to use any lavatory that doesn’t have a bidet.
Q - Doesn’t it feel weird? A - No. Some people are worried that it may feel sexual. It doesn’t. It’s just a localized shower on your ass, which is something you hopefully do regularly.
Q - Won’t it just push detritus away from the epicenter and make a mess? A - It can, if the bidet has narrow spray. Mine does this. Just do a quick shimmy that makes the jet draw a decreasing radius spiral.
Q - Doesn’t everything get wet? A - Some bidets have air dryers, but in the absence of, yes. Keep tp in the lav to address this. The quick wipe to address this still saves a ton of tp.
Some people are worried that it may feel sexual.
I… did not know this was a concern? lol
I have to say I do LIKE the feeling of the jet hitting my sphincter. I mean it’s not full hunnnrrrr but it is …pleasent
I should clarify that I live in a remote area where a lot of people are homophobes. Anything directed towards one’s ass is, as the kids would say, sus af to these folks.
The I don’t wipe or wash my ass because that’s gay crowd. What a special bunch.
The “let me be hyperfocused on sexualizing other men’s anuses to show how straight and manly I am” crowd.
These people have serious issues. So, cleaning your butt makes you gay? Is toothbrushing OK, though?
Don’t have to brush your teeth if meth made them all fall out lol
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All well and good until a guest uses your bathroom and then comments on the thoughtfulness of you setting up that container of damp facecloths for them to freshen up with.
Nice, when I was writing my original comment I was wondering about doing it that way
Ok first thank you for your insight. Second, your name made me lol.
I have this visual of a hip wiggle in a spiral now. 🤣
Imagine you get your hands covered in sticky filth. Do you wash them at a sink or just wipe them off with some paper and call it good?
Why do any different for your ass?
Because your ass does literally nothing else all day, but your hands touch things like food etc. I’d say it was more like getting shit on your leg. Do you wipe it off or just wait until you next have a shower?
That said I love the idea of bidets, I’m just terrified it’ll get my underwear and clothes wet while being cold and unpleasant.
" I’m just terrified it’ll get my underwear and clothes wet while being cold and unpleasant." I’ve never had this issue.
I’m just terrified it’ll get my underwear and clothes wet while being cold and unpleasant.
The beam is way more focused than you might imagine. It can’t reach your clothes, there’s a fat-ass human in the way ;)
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I’m terrified of bears. A little excess moisture? A low level fear at most.
it’s more like having shit smeared on your face. you wouldn’t use a tissue to wipe it off and smear it around, you’d use soap and water.
Wash them with soap and water and scrub them then dry them with a towel.
I did some travels in places where bidets are common, here’s my take:
- Egypt - basically a brass pipe targeted at your hole, everyone shitting oh it - no for me
- Italy - standalone, you have to jump over - impractical, takes too much space
- Japan/Korea - toilets from space, heated seat warm, water and dryer - comfy, but you need electricity, and if it fails, expensive
- Finland - a shower attached to the toilet’s water intake - just cold water, but it’s fine, that’s the easiest to install and use
South-East Asia - Hose attached to the tank or a tap in the wall. Best of all the worlds, just make sure you don’t touch the tip.
Also South East Asia - bucket of water with a plastic cup next to the hole in the floor. I don’t have a problem dribbling water down my buttcrack with my right hand while scrubbing my clacker valve with my left hand, but squatting over a hole in the floor is hell on the knees when you are nearly 2m tall.
You should also know that if you do this, when you go on vacation you are going to have one seriously sore butthole until you get home again.
seriously. I should look into a travel bidet… it’s hard going back to tp now that I have bidets installed at home. feels nasty
I mean at least in Europe when you use a bidet you use soap and then still dry a few times with tp. These contraptions are good to soften the ass crud but you’ll still need to wipe it off with tp.
I fear shitting outside of my house now lol there is no going back!!
I’ll never understand how people live without a bidet.
I’ve never used a bidet, are you wet in your ass after leaving the toilet, or do you whipe the water off with toilet paper?
We have little towels for drying off. They have a bin under the sink for when they are used and they get washed before reuse.
You dry off with toilet paper.
Sounds like a shredded mess, wouldn’t paper towels be better?
Just pat it dry. Also, you shouldn’t flush paper towels.
I think I’m just over exaggerating how much water the bidet uses in my head. Don’t worry I’m not that dumb lol I was thinking of putting the paper towels in the trash can. Maybe they make toilet paper different in countries that use bidets? If I use american toilet paper to dry myself, I’d have shredded wet toilet paper all over me. They rip at even the sight of water.
Most women dry themselves with toilet paper, even if they don’t use a bidet. Maybe it’s just the brand you use?
A lot of it too if you don’t have the air dryer ones. I must have used like 10 pieces per wipe like 3 times because of how wet it gets me.
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pfp makes this better
I just drip dry. it’s not like your whole ass gets wet
I like to use toilet paper to get the bulk of it, then use wet wipes after.
As someone who born to a country where a bidet is the norm and migrated to a country which doesn’t have it. We start to use wet wipes and believe me when I say it a bidet is way way way better. So I bought an attachment. Now I can’t use any other toilet except that one.
Shouldn’t flush those either.
Get a bidet, at worst you waste like $30, at best you will know true comfort.
You convinced me, I will try it one day when I have $30 to use. (Probably be a while lol) My method works well, but it takes a while. I’d rather use a bidet if it saves time.
How dare you! Jajajaja. I guess everyone can do it as pleased
Lol at least I made progress. I was taught to just use toilet paper when I was a kid. Now if I have to do that, I feel so dirty
I feel quite the opposite. Hear me, if you stick your finger in penut butter and just clean it with paper, you can still taste it if you suck it. But of you wash it with water your truly clean. But didn’t want to sound like I was criticizing. Cheers
I agree, I don’t feel right if I don’t use wipes now.
This is the kind of quality content that will get people to move away from reddit.
Alternatively, installing a faucet near the toilet and placing bucket and dipper (locally it’s tabo) is great. Common in the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabo_(hygiene))
How do you actually use it, though? Wikipedia was strangely coy about what actually happens with the little pan of water.
Please God, I beg you all to do this. I mean no disrespect to y’all at all.
I have been using a bidet/health faucet/Jet spray all my life. I was so shocked and disgusted when I found out people in the west used toilet paper 🤢🤢
I’ve used toilet paper a few times in emergencies and I’ve regretted it everytime. The difference between water and paper in cleaning your butt is so vast.
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I’ve thought of getting at least a portable Bidet for a while (I rent, so can’t really install a proper bidet). How easy are they to install?
it’s an easy install and easy uninstall.
It’s a 10 minute job for a non plumber and I tell you it’s SO much better than wiping. A quick gentle wipe to dry, and it only takes one or two, and very little TP. Once you get used to it that is. I hate going anywhere else now, as I find it so comfortable.
For a bidet attachment like tushy it’s just shut off the water, flush to drain toilet, remove seat, attach bidet and use the hose splitter for the water, and put seat back on over the bidet attachment.
Not sure I understand all of what you’re saying, but sounds like I could fill in the blanks with a video tutorial. I’ll have to take a look, thanks
Imagine you got poop on your arm and decided to wipe it away with toilet paper. You know there’s still poop on it. The same thing goes for your butt. Clean your butt!
I got a Tushy classic bidet a year ago. It is amazing! For anyone out there that uses more toilet paper than you think you should, gets a raw bum from wiping, or wants to get three times cleaner, a bidet is for you. I’m a dude, but also my wife loves it. Honestly, one of the best purchases per dollar I have ever made and one that reminds me daily.
If you got poop on your hands, what do you think will get you cleaner? Couple of wipes with toilet paper or rinsing in the sink with water.
Last paragraph is the perfect analogy for bidets XD
Being fairly hairy, a bidet is absolutely one of the top 5 things I miss whenever I come home to the UK from Finland. My dad did some work in Abu Dhabi last year and has also been converted to team bidet, so hoping he installs one before I move up to his, it makes a huge difference.
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OK, so, I actually did this a few months ago!
But, in my opinion, it is not a 100% replacement for toilet paper. First, everything gets wet after using-and if you’re hairy like me you really do want to dry it, and I use TP to do that. Also, I’ve noticed that it doesn’t always get everything-and using some TP to dry off is also a good way to make sure everything is clean.
And it also has a good bit of spray that will land on the seat and the bidet itself. You need to clean that off, I tend to do it with toilet paper when I stand up.
You won’t stop using TP, but you’ll certainly use less of it, I think I use about half as much now as before.
You should be able to get everything with technique, adjusting it, or simply running it longer. I had the same issue initially but it’s since been resolved. I fold a few squares of TP to clean up any water on back of seat and pat myself dry but that could easily be replaced with towels. I use way less TP too.
To be clear I’m definitely using less TP, but my point is that I still have to use it- and a lot of times when posts about bidets come up, they’re talked about as a 100% replacement to TP, which they aren’t.
Usually if it hasn’t gotten everything I just run it longer and with a bit stronger flow.
And also saves trees
