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Regular toilet paper seems absolutely barbaric after one has become accustomed to wet wipes. Try them and you will understand.

debaserab2 12y ago
Wait until you try a bidet. Any form of wiping will seem like savagery afterwards.
- burnte 12y ago
  I had my gallbladder removed at the end of 06. TP became less effective. I switched to wetwipes in 09, and got a bidet two years ago. Dear lord my life is genuinely SO much better now. It was an inexpensive $100 stainless steel addon for a regular toilet, and so incredibly worth it.
- yawaramin 12y ago
  I've lived in three different countries in Asia. Have always had a mini-shower or at least a piped jet of water beside the toilet to help clean up. North America has the most bass-ackwards wiping convention I've ever seen.
- tzs 12y ago
  This is the 21st century. We should be able to do a lot better. We should be able to have our sphinctors replaced with an artificial valve. This should be a standard size (or one of several standard sizes if one size does not fit all) and standard mechanism. When you have to go, you sit down at a waste collection station, and a computer guided arm would connect a hose to your valve and open it. This can be designed so that at no time in this process is anything on the outside of the valve, the hose, or your body exposed to feces. All the feces goes into the hose. When you have been emptied, the valve is closed, the hose retracts, and its interior is cleaned. That is how civilized people would take a crap (until we reach Star Trek levels of technology...then we'd just beam our feces out).
- bidetsprayerman 12y ago
  Better than a Bidet = the Hand Bidet Sprayer. It requires no new plumbing and can go in any bathroom including a rental. See www.bathroomsprayers.com.
001sky 12y ago
Wet wipes are terrible for the environment. There are plenty of other alternatives. Please look into them. The real luxury is clear, warm running water. Wet wipes do not biodegrade, no matter what the package says.
cgag 12y ago
A bidet attachment for your toilet is only ~40 dollars and will make wet wipes seem barbaric as well.
- HelloMcFly 12y ago
  And if that sounds like too much, Amazon has super well-rated bidets for around $25-$30 that have served me well.
philwelch 12y ago
I'd rather remain in ignorance, then. Lots of things are hard to go without once you've tried them, like heroin or scraping the inside of your ear canal with q-tips, but that doesn't mean those things enhance your life any.
codinghorror 12y ago
You know you can put a bit of water on toilet paper to make it wet, right?
- CodeMage 12y ago
  Unless you're at work, where you usually don't get the luxury of having a sink inside the stall.
- inyourtenement 12y ago
  I never understood this suggestion. I've tried it, the toilet paper shreds and gets stuck everywhere, including my hands. It's a huge mess.

debaserab2 12y ago

Wait until you try a bidet. Any form of wiping will seem like savagery afterwards.

burnte 12y ago
I had my gallbladder removed at the end of 06. TP became less effective. I switched to wetwipes in 09, and got a bidet two years ago. Dear lord my life is genuinely SO much better now. It was an inexpensive $100 stainless steel addon for a regular toilet, and so incredibly worth it.
yawaramin 12y ago
I've lived in three different countries in Asia. Have always had a mini-shower or at least a piped jet of water beside the toilet to help clean up. North America has the most bass-ackwards wiping convention I've ever seen.
tzs 12y ago
This is the 21st century. We should be able to do a lot better. We should be able to have our sphinctors replaced with an artificial valve. This should be a standard size (or one of several standard sizes if one size does not fit all) and standard mechanism. When you have to go, you sit down at a waste collection station, and a computer guided arm would connect a hose to your valve and open it. This can be designed so that at no time in this process is anything on the outside of the valve, the hose, or your body exposed to feces. All the feces goes into the hose. When you have been emptied, the valve is closed, the hose retracts, and its interior is cleaned. That is how civilized people would take a crap (until we reach Star Trek levels of technology...then we'd just beam our feces out).
bidetsprayerman 12y ago
Better than a Bidet = the Hand Bidet Sprayer. It requires no new plumbing and can go in any bathroom including a rental. See www.bathroomsprayers.com.

001sky 12y ago

Wet wipes are terrible for the environment. There are plenty of other alternatives. Please look into them. The real luxury is clear, warm running water. Wet wipes do not biodegrade, no matter what the package says.

cgag 12y ago

A bidet attachment for your toilet is only ~40 dollars and will make wet wipes seem barbaric as well.

HelloMcFly 12y ago
And if that sounds like too much, Amazon has super well-rated bidets for around $25-$30 that have served me well.

philwelch 12y ago

I'd rather remain in ignorance, then. Lots of things are hard to go without once you've tried them, like heroin or scraping the inside of your ear canal with q-tips, but that doesn't mean those things enhance your life any.

codinghorror 12y ago

You know you can put a bit of water on toilet paper to make it wet, right?

CodeMage 12y ago
Unless you're at work, where you usually don't get the luxury of having a sink inside the stall.
inyourtenement 12y ago
I never understood this suggestion. I've tried it, the toilet paper shreds and gets stuck everywhere, including my hands. It's a huge mess.