Why aren't bidets more popular in America? (Would you just paper if "it" was on your hands?)

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[central_va]

Wipe until its white.

[central_va]

You’d think bidets would be popular in San FranStinkhole.

[Oatka]

While I’m at it, this from the TV sitcom “Alf”:

Alf asks some human, “What’s the difference between a shower curtain and toilet paper?”
“I don’t know, what?”
“So, YOU’RE the one!”.

[Albion Wilde]

Available from Dollar Tree and Home Depot for $1

These come with hair color kits, and can be washed out and reused. It's "green"!

And there's always these, available in any grocery store unfilled.

All cheaper than new plumbing.

[Marie]

As I said, you don’t have to use the towel every time.

Next thought... after you shower and dry yourself, does your towel go straight into the hamper or do you hang it up to dry and reuse it the next day? (You do dry your crotch after you shower, right? You do realize that you’re using a ‘crotch towel’ to dry your face the next day, right?)

My experience with the bidet is this: hubby and I are ‘squeaky clean’ every day. There are no more issues with the occasional PSS (”post shower sh*t”). There are no more hemorrhoids, itching, irritation that we ALL live with (and we don’t even realize how much irritation there is until it’s all gone.)

So there is no need - in this house - for Preparation H, baby wipes, or Tucks. No more Monkey Butt powder in the summer. No more jock itch or yeast infections. As a matter of fact, the plunger hasn’t been touched once since we bought the bidet.

How hard is it to understand? Wash your crappy butt with water. Spend a little more to get the clear iodine to add to the spray and you’re actually germ-free.

If someone refused to wash their hands with water and insisted that ‘just wiping with a paper towel until it LOOKS clean’ is good enough, you’d think they were nutz.

But someone suggests the same thing with a butt and Americans lose their minds.

And yes, I keep a bottle of soap by the toilet and wash myself correctly every night before bed, rinsing with the bidet. It’s easy, fast and uses much less water than the shower.

How hard is it?

You sit your butt on the heated seat.
You poop.
You push a button to start the wash.
You push another button to adjust the flow.
You chill out for thirty seconds and think about fluffy ducks or something else that you may find pleasant.
You wipe once to dry yourself and to make sure that everything went according to plan.
You pull up your pants and walk away.

If you want to freshen up, you push a button to wet things down, turn it off, soap things up with the *smallest* amount of soap, then let the machine rinse it all off, dry your butt with a small towel and then the whole traumatic experience of getting your butt clean is over and you live to fight another day.

It is not that big of a deal.

I’m sorry, but now that I’ve lived for a year and a half *actually*really*clean*, I’m spoiled and I’m not going back to wadded up handfuls of paper. I’ll keep my ‘three seashells’ thank you.

Anyone with back problems or chronic butt problems (such as hemorrhoids or fissures) should have one of these wonderful machines.

[IYAS9YAS]

I loved the part where he flushed, and they showed the water pressure in the fountain dropping.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

The Kohler Company has carried several different designs of bidet (?plural) for years. I don't know why people don't avail themselves of the "facilities" more but it isn't for lack of availability.

Perhaps it's a lack of floor space in the typical bathroom. Just replacing a commode isn't going to open up enough room so that leaves the "dual mode" unit your only choice. That means re-plumbing for a hot water line unless your up for an ice water douche.

If upgrading your commode I would suggest changing from a 15" rim height (which seems to be standard) to a 19" unit. As you get older your knees will thank you.

Regards,
GtG

PS I grew up in Kohler Village, we had our HS football games in the "toilet bowl".

[jjotto]

“Not just a toilet... a Ferguson, King of Bowls!”

[cynwoody]

[EEGator]

LOL, that’s nasty.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

largely indistinguishable in capabilities from an advance bathroom of the late 1800s, and they also need urinals.

I thought that's what the shower stall was for...

G

[CodeToad]

Coming from no doubt a fat, manless and hairy-legged French twit.

[Secret Agent Man]

I don’t begrudge it. I just think, as many have explained here in how they use it, in terms of being less wasteful than just toilet paper, it really isn’t, you’re just shifting from using 2-3 wipes with tp to more water, less tp, and more laundry if you use cloth towels to wipe.

I already stated it probably has benefits for people with medical issues. I also think most could probably get near same relief with personal wet wipes.

Also, your hemmorhoid comment - how hard did you wipe and did you using the roughest tp possible? I’ve never gotten hemmorhoids from wiping. I’ve gotten them from pushing too hard. Not from wiping.

[Ace the Biker]

I’ve had one for about five years now and am almost at a loss when I have to travel.

No more hemorrhoids, no more crotch rot, can’t imagine life without it.

All those out there with all their wisecracks have no idea what they are missing.

[James C. Bennett]

True. Washing the butt after using the toilet is a mark of civilisation.

TP cannot even come close to the cleaning abilities of a bidet, and using TP alone means your underwears have faeces in them, and they are going into your washing machine. Blech!

[wardaddy]

Freepers often like being mean

You just weed thru them

Usually either crotchety old men or unrequited young ones

[wardaddy]

There is no scent on earth more rewarding to me than that of my woman delighted to see me

As God intended and I thank him for it

[Marie]

I think that we are so used to being irritated that we are used to it. Until that irritation is gone, we have no idea how miserable we’ve been for our whole lives.

My whole family is addicted to being clean.