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.

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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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, so, I actually did this a few months ago!

But, in my opinion, it is not a 100% replacement for toilet paper. First, everything gets wet after using-and if you’re hairy like me you really do want to dry it, and I use TP to do that. Also, I’ve noticed that it doesn’t always get everything-and using some TP to dry off is also a good way to make sure everything is clean.

And it also has a good bit of spray that will land on the seat and the bidet itself. You need to clean that off, I tend to do it with toilet paper when I stand up.

You won’t stop using TP, but you’ll certainly use less of it, I think I use about half as much now as before.

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

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 installed one shortly before the pandemic started and ended up looking like Nostradamus.

You don’t realize you want one until you have it.

Have been using bidet my entire life. It’s a must! This post should be more of a PSA rather than YSK.

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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And also saves trees

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.

I’ve thought of getting at least a portable Bidet for a while (I rent, so can’t really install a proper bidet). How easy are they to install?

I’ll never understand how people live without a bidet.