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Well said. Whenever I bring this up to friends, they seem weirded out by bidets, sometimes even grossed out. How can it be grosser than trying to smear poop off
by news_to_me 9y ago
Well said. Whenever I bring this up to friends, they seem weirded out by bidets, sometimes even grossed out. How can it be grosser than trying to smear poop off with a paper towel!?
- Baeocystin 9y agoI was (surprisingly, to me) mocked by friends/family when I purchased a bidet seat a few years ago. Over the period of a few months, most went from teasing to shy curiosity to buying one for their own home. A victory for cleanliness!
- sneak 9y agoPeople who mock you for having a cleaner butthole than them are strange people indeed.
- Baeocystin 9y ago::shrug:: Can't say I disagree. People have surprisingly strong feelings about getting their butts splashed with water.
- DonHopkins 9y agoThey're afraid they'll enjoy it, and it will undermine their fragile macho manhood.
- Baeocystin 9y agoPerhaps unexpectedly, it was the women who were most put off it, not the men. FWIW. I realize this was hardly a scientific sample.
- derefr 9y agoSurgeons used to mock other surgeons for washing their hands. A centuries-old insult about the French is that they insist upon bathing every day. People seem to generally associate cleanliness with a sort of hysterical fussiness.
- awl130 9y agoThis is not about cleanliness; any type of virtue is resisted by others before it becomes the norm, because of course people tend towards less effort than more.
- dmichulke 9y ago> [..] insult about the French is that they insist upon bathing every day. That's funny, I think the Brazilians have exactly the opposite insult - i.e., the French rarely take a bath.
- eadmund 9y ago> How can it be grosser than trying to smear poop off with a paper towel!? I understand that with a bidet one must use one's naked fingers to clean the area. That seems substantially grosser than using toilet paper. Then there's the risk of spray going the wrong direction, and of getting one's trousers wet. A bidet sounds awesome, but terribly impractical. I wonder how people are able to use one so often.
- la6470 9y agoNo u use bidet and then TP ..best of both worlds
- kragen 9y agoYou have a couple of options: · Just spray your anus with high-pressure water, let it drain, then put your pants back on, dampening them with the few drops remaining. This leaves you cleaner than toilet paper, while keeping your fingers away from your anus and any poop that might be hanging around. · Spray your anus with high-pressure water, then use your naked fingers and soap to wash. This does indeed potentially contaminate your hands with the film of fecal bacteria left behind, but then you wash your naked fingers with soap and hot water, which is usually considered adequate.