Why YSK: It’s cleaner, cheaper and more convenient than toilet paper
As someone from outside the West, the idea of just wiping with a tissue paper, and not using a bidet or its equivalent grosses me out tbh.
I use both toilet paper and bidet, cannot imagine taking a dump using only toilet paper
My favorite pro-bidet argument from chainsawsuit.com
…you dont wash your hands?
… 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.
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.
I don’t grab everything I touch with my ass crack either.
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.
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.
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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 one’s ass is, as the kids would say, sus af to these folks.
These people have serious issues. So, cleaning your butt makes you gay? Is toothbrushing OK, though?
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.
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.
I’m sticking with my baby wipes + waste basket method until I need to replace the toilet entirely. My space is kind of small so storing all of these accessories is a pain.
Once I need to upgrade, I will upgrade to one of those Japanese toilets with the built in bidet system
I never thought I’d see someone planning their toilet upgrade plan
Doesn’t wiping your butt and then putting the poopy wipe in the bin make your dunny smell like shit though?
Scented bags and a waste basket with a lid traps the odors
I installed one shortly before the pandemic started and ended up looking like Nostradamus.
You don’t realize you want one until you have it.
I think you mean Quasimodo… Notre Dame
That doesn’t make sense. Nostradamus does
Quasimodo predicted all of this dude
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!
After going to Japan, I ordered a genuine Toto washlet (warm water, heated, drying, all sort of goodies) and gave it to my wife for Christmas.
It’s her favourite Christmas gift ever, even after almost a decade. The only gift that still gets daily use :). We had a problem with it a few years back and sent to the North American service centre. Flat rate for a complete refurbish. Awesome!
hold up ! Do they all have drying on them?
I think all of the Toto washlets do?
And also saves trees
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.
I thought the cold shot to the hole was going to be horrible, but it’s actually a little refreshing.
Huh…OK more intrigued. I can’t say I’ve had that experience. FOMO is building.
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. $100. It only does cold water, but it’s not as bad as you expect. You get used to it quick.
Cool…do you have a model number to share?
This is the one I have, just rebranded
Thanks. Targeted campaign of influence has started… Wife isn’t convinced, hehe
Imagine you get your hands covered in sticky filth. Do you wash them at a sink or just wipe them off with some paper and call it good?
Why do any different for your ass?
Because your ass does literally nothing else all day, but your hands touch things like food etc. I’d say it was more like getting shit on your leg. Do you wipe it off or just wait until you next have a shower?
That said I love the idea of bidets, I’m just terrified it’ll get my underwear and clothes wet while being cold and unpleasant.
I’m just terrified it’ll get my underwear and clothes wet while being cold and unpleasant.
The beam is way more focused than you might imagine. It can’t reach your clothes, there’s a fat-ass human in the way ;)
It’s a focused stream of water so you just have to aim a little. And the cold water is actually surprisingly refreshing even in the winter for me.
I keep seeing bidets recommended. Ive thought about getting one, but I’m not sure.
Are there any vagina owners here that can testify to them? I’m worried it will just spray poop up into my bits.
possessors of the vagina
My girlfriend loves the bidet. You will not spray poop up into your bits but I get your concern. We also have a dial, on ours, to change the angle to vagina-mode. Great for periods, allegedly, but it blasts me in the balls if I don’t notice.
occasional ball-blasting from frigid intake water is a small price to pay for a squeaky-clean b-hole
I’ve never had it spray poop into my bits, so you should be good.
Have been using bidet my entire life. It’s a must! This post should be more of a PSA rather than YSK.
40$ attachment and no more swamp ass. Say goodbye to foul balls. And no more tainted taint.
Honestly, I thought I was pretty clean before getting a bidet, but since getting one I can never go back without feeling gross. It’s weird what we can get used to, when that’s just how you’ve done things your whole life.
