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Why aren't baby wipers our default?

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

I'd argue, majority of places don't have those. Also I'm talking about the wiping process.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You can order one online for like $35 and install it yourself, it's a real game changer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I can recommend HappyPo, a portable bidet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I must be using it wrong. It just makes my butt wet, not really easier to wipe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hard to say. I like to lean forward and to the side, lifting one butt cheek off the seat and then I do sploosh with relatively much pressure.

One mistake I've made at first, is to be a bit overzealous with the wiping. In order to be clean, you only need the outside of the sphincter to be clean. Trying to clean beyond there is rather pointless, as that's the inside of your rectum, where your body literally stores shit.
But with toilet paper, you can obviously reach beyond that, which will return a stained toilet paper and make it look like you weren't clean yet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Guess that's the reason.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Use a bidet and never wipe again.

[–] twistypencil 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't get this, I've used bidets, it results in a wet ass that I need to dry off with toilet paper which sometimes still shows poop

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I guess keep wiping then. About a month since I installed our bidet and the only time I used paper after about the first week of checking, is at work. And yeah, my asshole is wet after I spray, but it is not like there is water pouring out of it or anything.