It seems like the only logical option. If someone paid me to come up with a solution to having poopy butt I couldn't come up with a better one than a hose or a bidet. You know what I wouldn't do? I WOULDN'T INVENT PAPER YOU COULD RUB ON YOUR BUTT.
Like every person that has tried a bidet on the internet describes their experience as being reborn. Anyone that tries it instantly becomes a shill for big bidet. I have not seen a single negative review for a bidet aside from maybe water shooting up your back which is more of a skill issue with aiming.
There is some debate to be had between using a bidet versus using a hose. With bidet there's no hand contact but you can't control where the water goes. Im personally more in favor of hose since you still gotta flush and handle the bathroom door so there's gonna be contact either way, but using water is CLEARLY superior to toilet paper.
Water is cheaper and guess what? IT USES LESS CLEAN WATER THAN MAKING TOILET PAPER. That's right making a single tissue of TP uses more water than just simply washing your butt. You can also shower less frequently because you don't constantly smell like shit. We are deforesting jungles just to turn them into butt napkins that do not even clean us properly, they just smear the shit all over the crack and make us smell like poop.
Also without TP there's no longer an issue with assholes flushing their used TP down the toilet and clogging the pipes, houses will no longer get TP'ed, the pandemic scalping situation wouldn't have happened etc etc. So why are people still hellbent on using this inferior method?
All the toilets where I am from have a bidet and we do wash our bits with them. At least all who I have done bidet discourse with do.
Even public toilets have them and it would be incredible miserable to exist in the world with periods if they didn't.
But I still need TP as a person without a personal hose for peeing. It's also nice to dry things up with after the washing and then there's the period stuff. This post seems to ignore that not everyone has similar plumbing.
A dumb sideline- question from a country where shower heads are always hand held.
I visited AmeriKKKa once and the one thing that was different was the showers and tubs. The places I went had showers you can't detach from above and only shallow tubs. I assume one is to sit around in the dirty water and that supposedly is "showering" and I thought it to be odd. I could not properly wash my nether regions or even armpits that way because am used to pointing the water upwards with the shower in my hand.
Tubs have disappeared from around here long ago due to how much water they consume and when we did bathing, we would always shower and wash first and then do the bath as a form of relaxation/pampering.
The undetachable showerhead made especially rinsing properly somehow impossible for me. Always felt like there at least might be some soap left in my bits. Tried to bend over and stuff to get the clean water into all places, but felt a bit icky still. The water pressure also seemed to be very low which made it worse.
I really don't think you can get your ass properly washed like this either. Are the showers in the US still like this or was this a regional thing?
idk if this is a dumb question but are there any worries about getting a uti or other issues if the bidet water accidentally pushes bacteria forward or is that something that doesn't really happen if your aim is good? i've been thinking about getting a bidet shower but i'm pretty prone to utis so i've been putting it off cause i wasn't sure.
I don't really understand the use of it that people are describing here, but the way I for example use a bidet would not do that. There is no aiming, I use it like a hand shower because that is what it essentially is.
I use it from the front to the back always and wash with soap as well with my other hand. First water, soap, then a good rinse. Then dry everything up well. I don't understand how just shooting water up my butt crack would really wash anything well.
that makes so much more sense to me thank you for explaining!
Yeah that's bad on my part this post is more about wiping after shitting than TP itself but your point is valid.