Why YSK: It’s cleaner, cheaper and more convenient than toilet paper
My favorite pro-bidet argument from chainsawsuit.com
…you dont wash your hands?
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 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.
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.
I don’t grab everything I touch with my ass crack either.
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.
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 ;)
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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.
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.
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
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
Ok first thank you for your insight. Second, your name made me lol.
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.
I’ll never understand how people live without a bidet.
Have been using bidet my entire life. It’s a must! This post should be more of a PSA rather than YSK.
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!
And also saves trees
I use both toilet paper and bidet, cannot imagine taking a dump using only toilet paper
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.
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.
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 $300 and up. Is the seat integration worthwhile? What about water temp? Is it basically a cold-shot to the butthole? That’ll wake me up, no doubt.
I thought the cold shot to the hole was going to be horrible, but it’s actually a little refreshing.
Huh…OK more intrigued. I can’t say I’ve had that experience. FOMO is building.
I’ve tried them before and have never had a good experience. It either is too high pressure and hurts, or it’s too low pressure and doesn’t clean.
And I’m not particularly a fan of how wet everything gets down there after using one.
Is there a particular trick to them or, am I missing something?
You can get ones where the valve is metered so you can open it a little for low power or sightly more for more water. I always wipe once after using it mine, which keeps things dry, but I ain’t never had to wipe twice.
Yeah, that’s the kind that my parents got at their house. Like I said it’s either too much, or it doesn’t seem to clean, to me it felt like there was no inbetween.
I keep seeing bidets recommended. Ive thought about getting one, but I’m not sure.
Are there any vagina owners here that can testify to them? I’m worried it will just spray poop up into my bits.
The water is not pulled from the bowl, it’s fed from the same pipe your tank pulls from. They’re great, but if your water is cold, well you have to brace yourself.
possessors of the vagina
My girlfriend loves the bidet. You will not spray poop up into your bits but I get your concern. We also have a dial, on ours, to change the angle to vagina-mode. Great for periods, allegedly, but it blasts me in the balls if I don’t notice.
occasional ball-blasting from frigid intake water is a small price to pay for a squeaky-clean b-hole
I’ve never had it spray poop into my bits, so you should be good.
40$ 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.
