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[–] _number8_ 150 points 5 months ago (53 children)

sorry this is gross:

i do not understand american's aversion to the bidet. why would i want to wipe my ass with dry fucking paper rather than water? why why why. like it's somehow 'gross' to use water. but scraping at wet shit with fucking tissue paper is hygienic and normal?

[–] blazeknave 66 points 5 months ago (18 children)

American with bidet for 2.5 yrs. I hate shitting anywhere else now. Need a shower to get a new ass. Day is ruined.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

pro tip: get a mobile one. Its basically just a plastic bottle with a nozzle screwed on. Some even come with little travel bags.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Pro tip: Those are called douches, pretty sweet huh?

[–] afraid_of_zombies 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I am not carrying around a tube for my asshole

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[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 3 points 5 months ago

Same.

My ass is squeaky clean at home.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Somebody once said it to me like this: "If you faceplant into a pile of shit, would you rather wipe your face with a dry paper, or use water for cleaning"

[–] Snapz 5 points 5 months ago

I think you're shitting wrong...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Bath tub. With soap. My SO washes his dick every time he pees and his ass every time he shits. After he wipes.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

they're afraid they'll enjoy it...

[–] SendMePhotos 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] thezeesystem 17 points 5 months ago (14 children)

This is also gross. There's a lot of men in the US that thinks touching there ass is gay so they never clean them.

[–] Mediocre_Bard 7 points 5 months ago

I have heard this so many times, but I absolutely refuse to believe that it is real.

[–] cosmicrookie 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)
[–] SendMePhotos 3 points 5 months ago
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[–] banneryear1868 14 points 5 months ago

I don't understand this either, toilets already require running water and have plenty of room to integrate bidet function. It's not fancy tech or anything... in North America that's sort of how they're marketed though, with an emphasis on the settings, like its something you have to learn to use.

[–] spittingimage 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Pretty much every thread we have in this community, someone comes along to say "you should pressure-wash your asshole". I'm mildly bemused that this is what Lemmy obsesses over.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

It's not just Lemmy, the sentiment is on Reddit and such as well.

[–] dustyData 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I've always heard it explained like this (which I wholeheartedly agree with). Imagine you're hiking a trail in the forest, and you trip on a rock and fall. By chance, you land on turd of excrement, luckily it only smears part of your arm and elbow with shit. Would you be fine just taking a piece of toilet paper and scraping it off? Or, would you feel compelled to wash it off with water, perhaps also soap?

Why wouldn't you just use paper, if you scrape hard enough it wouldn't even smell and be just as clean, arguably?

If you would at least use water, why do you extend to your elbow a courtesy that you don't extend to your anus?

The point is that there's a lot of people who walk through life with a dirty asshole, but then try to act morally superior regarding personal hygiene, and I think that that's not right.

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[–] afraid_of_zombies 5 points 5 months ago

I was in Asia and got pretty horrible food poisoning. My wife suggested we head over to this Japanese mall. Spent the day there. Use the toilet, walk around, buy something, use the toilet. That was the ideal toilet to have in that situation.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

I live in Japan. My wife and I recently went to visit my family in the US and I hated every minute of the toilet situation.

[–] RavenFellBlade 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I own a BioBidet 2000. My friend Brian has one at his house and he convinced me to just try it. I did. And then I ordered one for myself before I left the bathroom.

[–] SendMePhotos 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What makes it better than my luxe bidet that I got for $20

[–] RavenFellBlade 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've never used your $20 Luxe bidet to know the difference, but I'm going to assume it doesn't have a heated seat, heated water, variable pressure settings, massage settings, and an enema setting. If those features don't interest you, then nothing at all makes it better. Use what you like. My wife just really loves the heated seat in the winter time.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Fear of the Koch bros?!

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