Why YSK: Itβs cleaner, cheaper and more convenient than toilet paper
My favorite pro-bidet argument from chainsawsuit.com
Thatβs exactly the comparison that the comic strip is making. People are okay with just using tissue in one situation but not in others.
I think the other comparison weβre overlooking is how many people would be ok with βjust a quick rinseβ if they were washing shit off their hands.
β¦ you donβt wash your butt?
Your point is also the point of the comic: saying that youβve rubbed dry paper on your butthole and that makes it βcleanβ is analagous to getting poop on your hands and doing the same.
You wash your hands; you should also wash your butt: so get a bidet.
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. Iβd 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, Iβm just terrified itβll get my underwear and clothes wet while being cold and unpleasant.
Iβm 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 doesnβt have a bidet.
Q - Doesnβt it feel weird? A - No. Some people are worried that it may feel sexual. It doesnβt. Itβs just a localized shower on your ass, which is something you hopefully do regularly.
Q - Wonβt 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 - Doesnβt 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 should clarify that I live in a remote area where a lot of people are homophobes. Anything directed towards oneβs ass is, as the kids would say, sus af to these folks.
The I donβt wipe or wash my ass because thatβs gay crowd. What a special bunch.
These people have serious issues. So, cleaning your butt makes you gay? Is toothbrushing OK, though?
I did some travels in places where bidets are common, hereβs 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 toiletβs water intake - just cold water, but itβs fine, thatβs 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 donβt touch the tip.
Also South East Asia - bucket of water with a plastic cup next to the hole in the floor. I donβt have a problem dribbling water down my buttcrack with my right hand while scrubbing my clacker valve with my left han, but squatting over a hole in thefloor is hell on the knees when you are nearly 2m tall.
Iβll never understand how people live without a bidet.
Iβve never used a bidet, are you wet in your ass after leaving the toilet, or do you whipe the water off with toilet paper?
A lot of it too if you donβt have the air dryer ones. I must have used like 10 pieces per wipe like 3 times because of how wet it gets me.
I like to use toilet paper to get the bulk of it, then use wet wipes after.
Shouldnβt flush those either.
Get a bidet, at worst you waste like $30, at best you will know true comfort.
As someone who born to a country where a bidet is the norm and migrated to a country which doesnβt 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 canβt use any other toilet except that one.
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
