Bidets - why are they not used more?
Hi - I've just been on holiday and in the hotel was a bidet and at the airport toilet was a bidet sprayer. I felt so clean to wash yourself after a number 2! A mini-shower for your privates! ;) I'm told people even use them to wash after a number 1!
How come they aren't used more in the world? Surely this 3 step method is more hygienic than the 1 step method of "wiping with dry tissue paper until clean (?)"? 1. Wipe with tissue paper to get the excess off; 2. Wash with water; 3. Dry with tissue paper and check tissue has no color - then you are done! Thanks! |
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A few weeks ago we spent a week in Sicily (vacation). All the hotel rooms there had bidets. It was awesome! Three years ago we moved into a new house, and we installed bidet showers in the toilets attached to the bedrooms (perhaps we should have installed one in the guest toilets). |
Well, traditionally, bidets were separate, and took up more room.
Also, I think they were used more in Europe because they didn't necessarily take daily showers as in the U.S. And I'm not so sure most people really care about hygiene. |
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After I moved to the Philippines some 20 years ago, I learned of the tabo. A small scoop that you fill with water from a bucket, using soap and water to wash your back end.
Now. No toilet paper in our CR (comfort room), we still have a tabo, mostly used for taking a hot bath, poor hot water in to a bucket of cold water, scoop the warm water over your body. We have a "bidet", a hose with a spray thing to power wash your puwet, sort of like the kind you see in American kitchen sinks. I was first introduced to fancy toilets when I lived in Japan, the manual is a half inch thick, it's more fun to just push things willy nilly as long as you are not standing in front of it. :) Toilet with bidets were installed in out local American Legion Post. They provide wash and blow dry. They broke in a few months. They are being replace with standard ones. These day I will avoid having to use toilet paper if I can, nothing beats a nice clean wash. |
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1. Wipe with tissue paper to get the excess off; you can tell if you will need more or less water for step 2 by what's on the tissue. 2. WHILE tissue has color THEN
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Bidets are not necessarily more hygienic. Lots of germs can be spread around. https://www.healthline.com/health/ar...earch-findings
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https://www.brondell.com/healthy-liv...-about-bidets/ |
That link is a sales pitch, not a look at the actual health issues like the one I previously sent. Your own poop is not really a health hazard to yourself, assuming you are healthy. Many of us are too clean these days, causing all sorts of health issues.
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They are indeed very useful!!!
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Hmmm. If it's routine to wash your hands after the toilet is it not more logical to wash one's privates / bottom? Think about this: If you got poo / mud / dirt / etc on your hand / arm / face do you: Wipe off with tissue; Then WAIT until your next shower to wash off or Wash immediately then and there (and optionally wipe before) ??? |
Why is it that babies get their butts cleaned with "baby wipes" but the parent doing the cleaning uses "dry tissue paper" on his/her own butt :confused:?
So for the first few years of a person's life baby wipes are used but when they start cleaning themselves they use dry tissue paper. Does it make sense? |
No the wet stuff works better!!
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Eat a bowl of soup. Now "clean" it with dry kitchen tissue paper. Is it clean? Now compare when you dry wipe your butt. :confused: The person who told the world to "dry wipe your butt" needs to be corrected!!! |
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