Why YSK: It’s cleaner, cheaper and more convenient than toilet paper

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    2 years ago

    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?

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      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.

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        " I’m just terrified it’ll get my underwear and clothes wet while being cold and unpleasant." I’ve never had this issue.

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        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.

      • Atemu@lemmy.ml
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        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 ;)

  • ThiccSemperTyrannis@lemmy.world
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    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.

      • Mallard@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        That’s exactly the comparison that the comic strip is making. People are okay with just using tissue in one situation but not in others.

        • Grabthar@lemmy.world
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          I think the other comparison we’re overlooking is how many people would be ok with “just a quick rinse” if they were washing shit off their hands.

          • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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            Well it’s a quick rinse with or without some TP to dry versus just smearing it around your butt with dry paper.

      • … you don’t wash your butt?

        Your point is also the point of the comic: saying that you’ve rubbed dry paper on your butthole and that makes it “clean” 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.

        • jimrob4
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          I don’t grab everything I touch with my ass crack either.

        • heili@lemmy.world
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          Except that I don’t touch literally everything else including my food with my butthole, though. And it’s not as if I never wash my butthole. So if I happen to be in a public shitter and I drop a deuce, I will simply apply shit tickets and not freak out about it.

        • Anonymous0573@lemmy.world
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          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

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            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

      • crilen@kbin.social
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        Shouldn’t flush those either.

        Get a bidet, at worst you waste like $30, at best you will know true comfort.

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          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.

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        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.

    • PumpedSardines@lemmy.world
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      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?

  • BradleyUffner@lemmy.world
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    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.

    • hihusio@kbin.social
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      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

    • Ataraxia@lemmy.world
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      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.

  • ReaderTunesOctopus@lemmy.world
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    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
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      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.

      • Roadkill 🇦🇺 @lemmy.world
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        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.

  • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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    Do they make any that don’t take up the rear 3/4 of the seat? I’m interested in getting one but with the standard round toilet you lose a lot of real estate. I don’t want my poops to look like they’ve been squeezed through a playdough extruder or worry about missing my target in an emergency situation.

    • bibbleskit@lemmy.world
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      Not true at all. Look into the brand Tushy. I have one of their bidets and you don’t even notice it.

  • shufflerofrocks@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • MilchBitte@lemmy.world
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    What the fuck bidets are not common in the West? Scared that it will spray poop bits in vagina??? What’s going on over there.

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      Nobody has it, so people don’t see/experience them to to change their minds.

      Having said that, I tried it once on holiday. It only got rid of half the ‘residue’, so I’m not really convinced enough to spend money on one. Another issue is that the reservoir and pipes are hidden behind a tiled wall. Installing one isn’t going to be a 5 minute job.

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      Am american:

      Many People here are very hesitant to try one out.

      They have some weird thing about butts & water. And shooting water onto ones butt. Its like they consider it overtly sexual and therefore weird and european.

      Once people try it out they usually like it.

      But the honest truth is: most americans walk around all day with dirty butts.

      There is said it.

  • CocktailPlasma@lemmy.world
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    I honestly have no idea why bidets haven’t taken off in the US. After travelling to other countries though, had to buy one for my home toilet. And now I hate having to poop elsewhere where there’s no bidet.

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    There are about a million people here all saying the same thing. It’s amazing, it’s better than you think, and once you use one, you will never ever go back.

    It’s all true. When you poop in a public restroom or at a friends house without one, you will feel tainted.

    In the winter if you’re worried about cold water, you should know the anus is not very temperature sensitive. I suppose because in our evolutionary past we did not use our anus much to sense the temperature of objects.

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    ok…I’m intrigued. I’ve actually been using my kid’s baby wipes because really, anything is better than dry TP. Looking at some options on Costco, seems the cheapy is just a hand-held thing for $80, then the seat-integrated ones are around $300 and up. Is the seat integration worthwhile? What about water temp? Is it basically a cold-shot to the butthole? That’ll wake me up, no doubt.

        • The more expensive bidets heat the water, and you can control the temperature.

          We splurged on our’s, and it’s the most comfortable seats in the house. The seat itself is heated, and we can control the water pressure and temperature, and it even blows warm are after to help dry (although TBH, if that’s the only drying then you’re sitting there a long time).

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      I got mine on Amazon, it’s integrated into the seat, as in it is a toilet seat with a built-in bidet. It has two settings, for b-holes and lady bits. $100. It only does cold water, but it’s not as bad as you expect. You get used to it quick.

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    I’ve tried them before and have never had a good experience. It either is too high pressure and hurts, or it’s too low pressure and doesn’t clean.

    And I’m not particularly a fan of how wet everything gets down there after using one.

    Is there a particular trick to them or, am I missing something?

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      The one I have has a dial to adjust how fast the water comes out. Sometimes I need a gentle whisper of water, othertimes I need my butthole power washed.

    • gibmiser@lemmy.world
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      Sounds like your asshole is just a tad sensitive. Maybe you can get the toilet to buy you dinner first and see if that helps?

      • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world
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        Maybe you can get the toilet to buy you dinner first and see if that helps?

        Normally it is my girlfriend that does that, so I am doubtful it is a sensitivity issue lmao.

    • Liz
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      You can get ones where the valve is metered so you can open it a little for low power or sightly more for more water. I always wipe once after using it mine, which keeps things dry, but I ain’t never had to wipe twice.