I dont think i could ever use a bidet or even have one in my house. I had never even seen one until about a year a go when i was on a service call at these peoples house changing out the bathroom light.. they had one. i had a visual of the people using it. ever since then Ive been scarred for life. No bidets for me.

I'd be down as long as the water isn't ice cold.

I would love a bidet. Bye, Bye Toilet Paper!

I totally dig the bidet concept. If you are going to use one, I recommened you go high-tech. One time I was staying in this Japanese owned hotel in NYC and they had DIGITAL BIDETS. It was soooo fucking cool. All you have to do is press a button and BAM! a cool refreshing drink for your ass. It almost felt like the bathroom of the future, today.

Trust me, the bidet is the most under-rated thing in the bathroom. (Exept for the fart-sucker maybe.) Anyway, you can kiss itchy TP goodbye, and say hello to crisp, refreshing, ass-broth.

How do you keep the juices from running down your legs? Does it just drip off your nads or something? Also do they have any that double as a water fountain?

Hey, you dumb s--t! Youre doing it backwards (Photo 5)
Where do you think the expression 'straddle' the pony came from!

Bidets are gross! Why would anybody wan't poop water spray into your butt. That water is not clean because the metal spray jet-thing probably has dirty poop germs on it and its the gross, dirty poop water that will contaminate your butt all day long after you use it.

People like me can NEVER use one because of my mild OCD. The whole idea of useing one is disgusting to me.

I stumbled upon your site. I wish I had a Bidet, because I wet my pants laughing so hard while checking out this site. Very funny!

I wish I had a bidet, but I don't think I'd want to share it with anyone else. I mean sheesh, that's gross. I just think they'd be too expensive too. And when people visit, what would they think? I saw that part of Crocodile Dundee, it was funny. He yelled outta the window, "now I see, it's for washing your ass with".

Tell Rick, "the anonymous coward", that the bidet style toilet seats have a self-cleaning mechanism that sprays the poop of the little extending spray arm as it returns to battery position.(For the non-military types, that means its original position.)

dear sirs---Thank you so much for your information on how to use a bidet, I am currently taking a course in plumbing tech., and the textbook used in class failed to discuss the proper useage, again many thanks!!!!!

Believe me, ye of little faith, a bidet, or whatever name you would give to an anal cleansing pistol/device, is a fucking godsend. I lived in SE Asia for a bit, and once you get used to one of these things (mine was the handheld version, a stand-alone anal water pistol which hung on the wall next to the toilet), there's no going back. Westerners use toilet paper to smear shit all over their arses, and consider themselves "clean" when the paper comes back more-or-less unbrowned. Horseshit! Use one of these and a quick check using TP will tell you that bungblasting is the only way to truly clean your nether regions.

last night my friends bliindfolded me and stuffed me in the bidet.
they thought that i crapped myself and needed a good warsh
though i was afraid initially, it was one of the most exciting
experiences of my life. my netherregion stlll tingles when i
think of it. thank you, bidet.

I don't know, the idea of using one of these things that someone else has used just grosses me out! So what if the spout is cleaned, the rest of the bowl has to have remnants. Also, I still can't figure out, do you face the wall or do you squat over the thing? I guess before I get one of these I'll stick to the Cottonell personal hygeine wipes when I'm away from home and a quick jump in the shower when I am home.

I met a friend who had one of those buttsinks in a fancy hotel. In the can, he called the front desk and asked for real TP. If any real guy needs the bidet treatment, he uses the shower.

look here, I think the idea of a mini ass shower is great, but still, as it states in the journal of ass production, water goes down the legs. Where is the demo photograph for how you dry your ass? I'd like to know, because I like to see and imagine these things in my head.

I think bidets are a good idea. Sex is much more fun when the person's brown starfish isn't smelly.

That is true Vatfryer, but anybody can take a shower.

:rolls eyes: Water does not go down your leg. You think the hundreds of millions of people who use the various different incarnations of thesethings would do so if that happened? A few pats with a bit of TP and
you're nice n' dry.

I have a gobidet myself
, so i don't know about the dedicated ones like Mr. Bowell has, but it's clean, hygienic, and sanitary. The bidet is going to have the same amount of germs as the toilet bowl.

Sure anyone can take a shower, but who has time to do so after every shit, eh?

I can understand bidets not being right for everyone, but with all due respect, those of you who are shooting it down because of how gross, unsanitary, disgusting, etc it is are working yourselves into an unnecessary and unfounded snit. Fear not the unknown, my friends.

they tickle

i am currently doing a school report on bidet vs toilet paper and i was wonder if anyone could think of any similarities between the two

monkey man: they're both used for removing shit.

And you can buy them in different colors.

To the idiot who thinks having a shower is cleaner: so you like washing your poop onto the floor you stand on? Lovely, I hope I don't have to share a bathroom with you. The bidet is designed for this, the shower isn't.

Baby wipes in lunch bags are great to carry around, but if you find one of these, do the dew. Its a treat!

I am installing one for a home reno and I'd really like to know which way you are supposed to stand! anyone?

Oh, CRAP....
After a long poop,I get thirsty. I've been drinking from that thing....wonderful.

I prefer brillo pads, nothing like a good steel wool to really clean the crack. Pat down with a little Gold Bond medicated and I'm ready for the day!

Well, you have sold me on the bidet, for real. The pictures of every step really answered a lot of questions. Just reassure me one thing, will my panties get wet.....from the bidet? My questions: Do they all have the middle spray or do some come out of a faucet? Which is better? Do you wipe after using the bidet or do you slide back over to the toilet and then pat down with tp? I'm wondering if I will need to have 2 toilet paper rolls? I know you might think my questions are silly but I'm serious. I've never tried one and I'm afraid I won't like it after spending a ton of money. We just remodelled the bathroom so it will fit. Thanks!

Check out http://www.bidet-loo.co.uk

I'm still unsure what happens to the water in one of these things...

So it sprays out and into your body hole... but then it goes right back into the bowl it came from? So what's to stop it from going back down onto the spray nozzle? Is it like a drinking fountain in that it is a curved sort of spray (not in that you drink from it)? I�m just concerned that this device is little better than making a big turd and splashing myself with it.

I first used one by accident in France in 1970-thought it was a toilet! The drain hole is small and won't allow a turd to go down-found out the hard way-they are nice for a quick cleaning' women love the douche effect-clean up before going home to the old man!They are strickly for peeing or rinsing' no solids-worth the money!

Great tutorial. Never mind that you're sitting on the bidet backwards. (You're supposed to face the "controls"). At least you're not washing your boots in it.

How could you possibly think that sharing a bidet is gross? That's like saying using the sink someone else has used is gross. Not to mention you just got off the toilet someone else -crapped- in. No part of your body even needs to come in contact with the bidet. And the models I've seen in Europe have a horizontal spray that arches over the water and is caught in the bowl, so no worries of recycled rinsewater. When you think about it, toilet paper is pretty unsanitary. You wouldn't just wipe off your hands with a paper towel and call them clean.

Bidets are cleaner then the shit on your ass so anyone worried about the WATER being dirty is a moron. Next if you want to try you can get a add on one to your toilet from these guys: http://www.juscuzz.com . I tend to wipe with TP then I wet some TP in the sink and give it a second round.

I hate to be a stick-in-the-(brown)mud, but aren't these things a blatant waste of our precious water, all for the sake of a little anal comfort? And those of you who use TP and water? A little thinking about the consequences of our (bowel) actions never hurt. Try the 'humanure' book.

bidets rock. there is really no mystery on how to use it:
1.its just a sink jsut for the lower half of your body: wet, soap up (yes with your hands) and rinse off.
2. then you ...get this...dry it with a towel.

efinitely better with a squeeky clean brown eye.

I've never tried one but I want one. I think they'd be great. No more tracks in the drawers.

wet TP wipe? What do you do about the dingleberries? (you know,the little bits of wadded up TP that are now stuck to your ass hairs..) AND.. soaping up and drying off.. that's fine for at home.. but.. stay away from MY guest towels.. i think bidets are just an excuse for the french to not bathe the rest of their bodies..

I'm from Argentina,

Bidets are installed on 100% of the houses around here, and even though not everyone uses it, it's far more hygienic than just using toilet paper...

FAR MORE

I make it a point to clean myself thoroughly after a crap. Modern cuisine being what it is, I get the shits about once a week. That brings me to repeated visits to the throne. After about the third time of cleaning myslef thoroughly I pray that I do not have to make a return engagement. And the fuzzy toliet paper forms the dreaded dingle berrys I try desperately to avoid. I think a bidet would be the ideal remedy to prevent the chaffing of one of my more delicate pieces of realestate.
I am in the trucking business. All of you have seen the picture of the 400 pound trucker with the Tee shirt that says "I Beat Bulimia". Well this fella needs to grow some longer arms so he can reach around his butt cheeks and clean himself after each dump. After a week in the truck and stopping only when the truck needs fuel this fella comes into the shop carrying an odor you will not soon forget. A bidet at the truckstop and a door that would not unlock till he uses it would greatly reduce unwanted odiferous eminations from some of our harder working members of our society.
Nothing like the smell of a 400 pound ass to convince you of the merits of a bidet.

The bidet is the best thing since sliced bread. First saw one in England- had no clue what it was- and thought it was weird and a little intimidating. Then I tried it, and was an instant convert. Loved it so much, in fact, that we had one installed in our new master suite, and now my husband uses it, too. An interesting side note- I used to get the occasional bladder infection, but haven't had a single one since I started using the bidet.

That's why the bloody French lost the war - they didn't know how to wipe their arses when they were fighting in the trenches!

I was a child when I first used one and I used it backwards. However, I have been fascinated with them ever since. With OCD, it actually makes me feel better not worse. The water will rinse through the dirty stuff kind of like a shower. I clean my shower often, but usually I just rinse the shower after. I would do the same with a bidet. I used one of the shower spray types. Let me tell you! They are great! I think simple swabs/ cultures under the microscope would easily prove the merits of these washing machines! I would love one! Now to only convince my husband of their merits! I think those who have never used one would naturally be afraid- it requires some contact that normally wouldn't be made... but I vote YES!

Like nach, I'm from Argentina too, where everybody has a bidet at home. I spent two years in Germany without using one and it was a terrible experience... only with TP i feel my ass was dirty all the time. Another thing, here we use first some TP, and then we use the bidet... and always backwards like in photo 5 (you don't need to face the controls, they are easy to use)

The bidet...It really is an antiquated system. I recommend the toto neorest 600. Heated seats that automatically closes and opens,heated deodorized 3 stream massaging hygeine system(no more getting up and switching to the bidet) self cleaning, air drying, among other things...http://www.totoneorest.com/features.html
Went to japan for a business trip and fell in love with it! They have washlets in public restrooms too.

btw...I was a TP and shower person before, this thing was worth the buck, saved me hundreds in water/TP bills this past year.

I don't like direct hand contact like they have in Asia (dirty hands) and I don't like dried shit in my ass like in the US (dirty ass)--bidet is an awesome thing that gives you clean hands ANd a clean ass!!!

Hallo everybody ! Your conversation about bidet is very interesting to me ! I am from Italy and I have to say I find it hihgly higenic. After living in England for some years, I realised that the rate of female genitalia diseases due to less igenic conditions (like cystit ) is much higer that in Italy.
I think you have too many prejudices about it. It is just a mental condition. If you could have grown up with it, you would have just appreciate the advantages of having a bidet,...and clean it as much as you clean your shower, i.e. every time (I hope so) you use it.
Regards, Rose

Your all fucking nuts!!!

I would appreciate hearing if bidets jets of water are powerful enough to wash away all poop? So the only reason for using toilet paper is to dry the skin,to remove clean water? Which bidets can do that? Thanks

You face the controls and sit down on the bidet rim. Adjust the temp before turning on the water jet. Note: You do not poop in the bidet and you don't close the drain so the water jet never has poop on it. The gentle jets of warm water will easily remove and wash away all traces of poop if you give it a minute. (You might need a putty knife if you are a neanderthal with 5lb two week old dingleberrys) When you are done, there will be a few drops of clean water on each butt cheek. If you have a bidet at home, you dry those drops of water like you do the hundreds on your body after a shower or bath. You simply use your own personal towel.
If you keep some liquid soap close by, you can really be squeeky clean.
Use one for a while and and you will be a convert.

Whoever said the bidget is as clean as taking a shower is (forgive the pun) full of crap.....The shower nozzle is high and elevated, and doesn't get splashed by dirty water (if it does, it's water from your head or face).

The bidet nozzle is inches from your anus, and it gets back-blasted by all the nasty poop water. That water may even have blood if you have bleeding hemmoroids.

To the guy who says the bidet "cleans itself" - well thats full of shit too....it cleans itself with plain water...if it used alcohol, bleach or some other industrial disinfectant then it'd safer to use, but water does little do destory the billions of bacteria and viruses covering that nozzle.

Anyone who is so damn confident that the bidet water is "clean" - then I want to see you drink it. Thats right, drink it like a fountain. And if you say it doesn't have to be clean because it's just your ass, well, what if you have a cut on your butt or bleeding hemmoroids and this dirty bidet blasts someone's HIV-positive menstration or crap into your bloodstream. Then what?????

If anything, the bidet is a disease-spreading gift from some sadistic plumbing engineer who is having a good laugh right now at all the dummies who use it and enjoy it's pleasurable massage effect.

MORALE OF THE STORY: AVOID THE BIDET like the plague!!!!!!!!!!

Oh yeah, one last thing I forgot to say--the bidet will never work in America because they would constantly be pooped in. (By the way, I'm American so don't bash me thinking I'm from another country)

There is a number of reasons the bidet absolutely cannot work in America....many Americans are lazy, & the idea of crapping in a toilet & moving over to the bidet is too much effort. It'd be so easy to crap in the bidet, and just leave it for someone else to deal with. I worked security in a shopping center before, and the maintenance crew was constantly having to deal with cleaning large piles of crap out of the urinals in the men's room. These were those large, long stuck-out urinals with a large pool of water (like a mini toilet). Shows that people will craps where-ever, whenever and however.

Also, even if signs were posted "don't crap in the bidet" most people don't read signs and will just poop away. They'd probably even kick and curse the bidet saying "stupid crappy toilet can't even flush!"

Finally, there will be tons of opportunity to flood bathrooms with the bidet. There was more than one post about "hitting the ceiling" with the water blast. Well, this is a teenage vandal's dream come true. 5 minutes and an entire bathroom, ceiling to floor will be flooded with nasty, dirty poop water.

Anyway, beware of the nasty germ-spreader called the "bidet".

Your friend,

Biddo the Bidet-Hater :)

Biddo the ex-security guard is obviously one of the neanderthals that MrPhixit mentioned.
I don't think a public bidet would work where Biddo works or even where he lives but I would recommend having a bidet installed in your next home.

I had a dream about a bidet last night, and just had to research them on the net today...I really want one now! Could the reason be that I was not allowed to use the bidet in my dream? Possibly, but I think also, after reading this article, I just think it would be great to have! And I really have to wonder, are there any sexual (stimulation) benefits for women that use bidets?! If so, what an added bonus! :)

Bidets are great.I live in Australia. In our part of this country we have constant water restrictions. I cannot understand why the water supply authorities do not recommend and educate people about the personal hygiene benefits and water saving features of bidets. Further, I cannot understand why the big plumbing showrooms do not promote their use. Many Australians don't know how to use a bidet, and when I have shown photos of recently remodelled bathroom with bidet I am asked "what's that?". One young woman working in a plumbing hardware store told me she thought they were "gross", meaning disgusting. The first bidet I ever used was in 1963 (0ver 40 years ago) at a remote holiday resort on the north east coast of New Caledonia.

I'm American and I never used a bidet before I started travelling to Italy. I didn't think much of it at first but now I can't do without it. Whenever I come back to the US I beg my mom to get one but she won't because its expensive.

NikiinCincy:

A bidet made in Japan sometimes has two settings: one for anus, another for vagina. Fix yourself up with one of those.

Some toilets come with a bidet and blow dryer combo. Most of these a Japanese. This solves the water question posed earlier, and is much more enjoyable, not to mention more economical and absurdly space-efficient. I personally expect these to take over within forty years.

Leave it to Japan to come up with a superior way to take a crap.

i hav a bidet and its the best thing in the world. it always leaves u feelin very clean, and if you get constipated it can always double as an enema device (very effective). Loved the demonstration pics tto.

The bidet will be in most houses one day and I can't wait to get one. Recently had the chance to use a bidet on holidays and missed it when back home. Should have stole it instead of the towels.

I love to rinse my ass and penis with cold water -- it's healthier and safer than hot water!

I'm also from Argentina, where almost every household has a bidet (most public toilets don't, however). I can't understand how some people say they can be unsanitary. Imagine that for some reason you have shit all over your hand. Would you feel it's clean if you wipe it with paper? Hell no! It would still stink and have traces of crap. You'd want to give a good wash with soap and water, wouldn't you? Well, that's the way I like my ass: completely clean, and smelling of either soap or nothing at all, not shit.

Bidets? They should've called it colon cleaners or something.

I really don't see the importance of a bidet, it just seems like something only rich people could be proud of. True some people (mostly randy teens) could get off with a jet of water spraying up their backside, but taking a shower cleans the anus just as easily. Unless you're some diarrhea-suffering hippo who browns your pants every 5 seconds, or a worm-infested kid who likes touching their ass all day long, a bidet isn't necessary, and I'd hope that most people are able to use asswipe proficiently enough to clear their ass of poop stains.

I'd like a bidet. They don't seem unsanitary at all. The nozzle is raised from the bottom so that it doesn't spray up the dirty water, and some have the water spray from the back of it, not from directly below.

As for the people who are too lazy to get up from the toilet and go to the bidet, that's what bidets that are built into the toilet are for. I want one of the japanese bidet toilet combo thingies that you go to the bathroom in, then it washes your butt and your genitals, and then it dries them. That'd be nice.

Holy Shit. Had we not had this new posting system, I'd have never seen this story or that we have a dude's bare ass on poopreport.
I can't believe that I missed this. Usually, I'm a cheek detective......hugging bunnies since 1969

I can't believe on the year 2005 there's still people who don't EVEN KNOW what a bidet is and who are... SCARED of it! I read once that American people think they are the world's cleanest (not to mention, the world's most civilized)... well they're so clean and civilized, that they keep the most delicate parts of their body (not only the anus ok?) dirty!! Wow it's terrible! I don't even want to think about sex among dirty persons like them!

Francesco, you are so right. The only reason we don't own a bidet is because the husband doesn't want a bidet. Goodness knows he should use one. Streaks are a horrible, horrible thing.

my wife and i installed a vertical spray bidet about a year ago. it's great to come home from work and wash your arse in 2 minutes, without having to take a full shower and change of dress for 30 minutes.
i only face the controls when i'm washing both front and back but usually i just sit on it facing away from the controls washing my puckered starfish after dropping a deuce. there is no dirty water- if there is it is all gone after the first few seconds, down the drain- then you use soap and warm water.
if you want a clean ass- you really need a bidet. our biggest gripe about traveling in the US and visiting friends and relatives here is that "you can't wash your arse after dropping a deuce." once you have one- you'll realise how barbaric you lived before having one.

Back in the fifties, in Havana, Cuba, I made the mistake of drinking the water chaser in a waterfront bar. The result was three days of dysentery, continuous run-runs, when I could not leave the hotel bathroom. The bidet was a life saver. I'd like to have one now. P.S. Apart from the germs, Havana was a great place to visit, pre-Castro.

We just bought a house that has bidets in every bathroom. I'm kinda interrested but my wife thinks the kids will get confused and oops crap in the bidet. She also is concerned that friends and family will look at them, imagine us using them, and disown us from the family. But I think, hey if millions of people use them there must be some merit. I ready to give it a go but I think the idea of bending over this thing and spreading my butt apart is a fairly non-masculine act that I would never want anyone else to see! But thanks for the laughs and the insight. CLEAN BUTTS FOR THE MASSES!

Hmmm. Good stuff all around. The problem is, in Italy, there only seems to be these spray from behind the behind variants. I presume one would have to scrub or something with one's hand or something while the water squirts at, on and over, the target. If this is so, how does one avoid flinging bits of dung along with water all over the wall?

I had never heard of bidets until two days ago, where someone linked to it! I found this thing pretty interresting, and found this :P!

This thread and article really explains many things! I am 90% sure I am gonna buy one, once I move out of this bidet-needing-hole! But I am still unsure at some points:
1: Will the nozzle be covered with crap-water, or what?
2: How is the most used way to sit? Front controls or the other way?
3: I have my own warm water, which is produced from a heatingsystem (which burns wood), an electric heatingsystem (I only use in an emergency, since it costs too much) and at last
a sunlightcollecter, which also warms the water.. but the question is: Will the bidet warm its own water, or will it take from the hotwater "reserve"? Cause I will be pretty sad, if the "reserve" only is like 20..

But I am really gonna get one anyway! Maybe my new home, will have "normal" warm water reserve! Anyways, I will see once that comes..

The TOTO washlet bidet/seat warms it's own water. You can control the temp, the pressure, the position of cleaning. It's very cool. I feel so much cleaner all the time.

To Dood--please see my posting above for your first question. I beleive it's common sense that plain water swish cleaning that these bidets have can't possibly clean all the poop-borne germs that nozzle is harboring. And like I said before, to anyone who wants to contest this, then turn your damn bidet on and take a drink of the water from that nozzle. If it's really so damn clean, then a drink couldn't hurt, right??

The truth is, that damn water can be contaminated by HIV or other blood-borne pathogens, and can easily enter your bloodstream via a small cut on your buttocks or through bleeding hemmroids. If the water spray is powerful enough, I'm sure it can blast water into the rectum where bloodstream entry is also emminent.

For the poor naive females who use the disease-spreading bidet, the vagina has millions of micro blood vessels which can allow disease entry from the poop-water spray.

My first posting above water much more in detail for this disease debate, please don't miss it.

Your friend,
Biddo the Bidet Hater :)

you people are all fucked up

A simpler alternative is called a "Health Faucet".

Advantages:

1) Saves you the trouble of getting off the WC and moving to the bidet.

2) You can spray exactly where you want to, without having to move your ass around to get the spray in the right place.

3) Concerns about the remnants of shit stuck in your ass falling back onto/splashing on the spray outlet of the bidet are no longer relevant, as the faucet is in your hand and you can keep it as far away as you want to from your ass, thereby guaranteeing no splashing.

4) Your hands remain clean, so does your ass.

Disadvantages:

1) Takes a little practice getting it right.

2) Wastes water (compared to TP)

Happy cleaning!

Biddo (posted above) is the only guy on this whole website with any intelligence. Read his post--he speaks the truth!

I'm glad to have this article bumped back up. In three months or so, I'll be using the bidet I'm having installed in my Ultimate Spa/Bathroom in my new house. Reading all the pointers here is very helpful.

hi guys ,
I am from srilanka , here we are used to wash ass afer a crap .since this
"Health Faucet" was introduced we enjoy more cleanliness than before and it's really very very popular here.any toilet with WC have "Health Fauce" and some have both "Health Faucet and Bidet ( you will see if you visit). the Bidet is not that dangerous as this Biddo thinks.so far no reports of infections caused by bidets. USE IT .

Here's the drill: Approach your bidet immediately after a bowel movement, bringing paper with you. I personally keep a roll of paper towels in the bathroom, as toilet paper disintegrates if used to dry your wet anus. Sit on the bidet FACING the controls, with your anus as low as possible in the bidet and just over the jets (you'll get the exact angle after a few tries, and no, at this angle used water does not wash down your legs--your anus is lower than your legs). A good bidet has cold and hot water faucets and a separate handle to activate the jet spray, just like a shower (like turning on the tub and then switching to the shower). If it matters to you, you can wait for the water to get warm before turning on the jet spray.
Feel the jet spray hit your anus--it's very refreshing and some will use even more explicit adjectives of pleasure. I suggest assisting the cleaning process by reaching between your legs with your hand and using it to help clean (you'd do this in the shower, hopefully, so what's the difference, and you can wash your hands at the edge of the bidet after you turn off the spray). A little water splashed on your genitals AFTER cleaning your anus, is optional. After a vigorous cleaning use the paper towel to dry your anus (which should be so clean there's only water on the towel), discard the towel in the trash and wash your hands.
You're fresh and clean, feel good, and have saved the water of a shower.
Your bidet will be installed in your bathroom; you won't find one anywhere else in America, so sanitation isn't really a problem (I assume you don't put a paper protector on your own toilet seat everytime you sit on it at home, or wear shower shoes in your shower!!).
Give it a try; you'll never go back to the practice of smearing your anus with toilet paper.

more cost effective,simple bidet attachments are showen in http://www.cleanaday.biz

Bidets are safe to use (avoid public bidets if you can)... just use your common sense! Have been using them for over 5 years now. More and more people will start to use them in the US... the bidet industry in the US is getting big this year. Once you convert, you won't go back :)

I found my toilet seat bidet at Bed, Bath, and Beyond in San Francisco. After an hour of installation onto my normal toilet bowl, I tried it out. It really feels so fresh. I used to get brown streaks from not getting clean enough wipes from toilet paper. Now, I can feel fresh anytime of the day...just like stepping out of a hot shower! For more info on the bidet that I got, check out www.brondell.com

After 32 years of using a traditional American toilet, I'm now converted to being a bidet user! If you don't have one, you're missing out.

We got ours at www.bidetdirect.com and are very happy with our choice.

Highly recommended:- The Bidet-Loo http://www.bidet-loo.co.uk

Which type of bidet is better for a woman to use-- fountain centered in the bottom of the bowl, or sprayer coming from the back rim of the bidet? If the latter is used when the woman is squatting and facing forward, won't germy fecal bits hit her vulva and give her a UTI?

I've been using the butt washer for quite some time now. It's a bidet attachment that goes onto the back of my toilet. If it is aimed correctly, it only hits my asshole. I never have problems with the shit water getting near my vagina. Of course, there may be a problem if it is improperly aimed; that's why you test it out and get the aim right before using it.

A bidet supplements, not replaces, TP. If you use it to dislodge chunks of crap from your butt than you are justifying all the concerns people have expressed here. You wipe first, bringing your butt to a level of (un)cleanliness equal to that at which we grotty non-Europeans would normally hoist up our dacks and walk away. THEN you shuffle over to the bidet and splash yourself properly clean, with the aid of the special soap formulated for intimate parts (that you can't buy outside of Europe because we're all grotty) and wipe dry with a small towel. In bathrooms with a bidet there is usually one of these towels for each user, plus extras for visitors. And you sit on it in whichever way takes your fancy - most girls I've asked face the wall and most guys face the door so they don't have to navigate the stream around their ballsack. I seriously miss the bidet since I stopped living in Italy and will definately be getting one in my own house when I have one.

Anyone who doesn't recognise the benefits of a bidet must be deluding themselves. Male or female the advantages and benefits are obvious - cleanliness and comfort. Have you ever suffered from piles? Have you ever suffered from an infection in the nether regions? After giving birth might you not benefit from a soothing water flow in that area?

It doesn't matter how you sit on the bidet. You choose. Face the wall or face out. What is better for you is what matters.

More innovative users also find uses for bidets. Wash your feet easily. Wash the baby. Keep the kids entertained with the fountain.

Deluded individuals who like to walk about with unclean bottom areas claim that the spray from bidets can 'push' infection up into the body or cause all kinds of unmentionable problems. Do you really believe that?

If you instal a bidet and if you use it you will quickly be aware of the benefits. Spread the message! It isn't crap!

If you face the controls, don't you have to remove your pants first, or am I missing something?

If you face the wall, don't you have to remove your pants?? That sure seems like a lot of work.

I am a 39 year old male and live in the United States, and would like to see a bidet in every public rest room. Until then, I will have to use my old method. When I'm home, and I take a crap, I jump right in the tub and clean my anus with soap and water. When I am in public and have to take a crap ( which is very rare, but happens ) I use another method, while still sitting on the toilet, I flush it about 3 or 4 times to make sure water in bowl is clean, reach hand into the water, scoop some up and repeatedly scrub my anus, and flushing every couple times. After anus feels squeaky clean, I dry off with a wad of tp, pull up pants, and go over to sink and wash hands thoroughly. I don't like to have to resort to that, but I absolutely have to feel clean about myself, and that's the only way I can do it in public restrooms. Wiping off with a wet paper towell isn't good enough for me. Nothing worse to me than the feeling of walking around with shit stuck to my ass, N O C A N D O ! !

Wow, Clean Ass Man, you're a brave soul. No amount of flushing will ever convince me to scoop water out of a public toilet and scrub my ass with it. That's just... ballsy.

FP, I'm in total agreeance with you. That guy is one brave soul to use toilet water from the bowl (yes, I know the water comes from the tank reservoir or pipes) but think of all the doodie that was in the bowl before he goes to scoopin'....

Hey, I'm looking for someone with firsthand information on the new Toto Neorest units. I have a wonderful Kohler vertical spray unit right now, but will be restricted to a toilet/ bidet combo in my new condo, because of space limitations. I'm just worried that the Neorest may not have the volume or flow I am used to with my separate vertical spray unit. I love to clean out the lower rectum with a surge of water from the vertical spray. That way, you don't have the feeling you haven't quite finished the pooping business because of small flecks of fecal material remaining in the sphincter area. Any info out there. I know the Toto Neorest is expensive, but hey, I love my ass!

Chasnchge-- Check out the story "The Most Bidet For The Buck" by poo poo poodio. It's under Consumer Reports.

The problem i had with paper was that
no matter how careful one is, u tend to sometimes stain ur thong when u pull it up after a wiping. Even if one wipes with care, this tends to happen as the back of the thong is close to the anus all day long.
I used to take off my thong at the end of the day and find stains on it. We do the washing once a week so i had to hide the underwear at the bottom of the hamper in the bathroom to avoid anyone seeing it.. Quite embarassing for a 37 yr woman.
Now that v have a bidet i dont need to worry.

WoW! I'm a 16-year-old teenager living in Greece.

I can't say that bidet use is widely spread here. I even thought that bidet's main use is wahsing your legs... Well at least my mother told me so. She prefers shower to bidet as I see now. I learnt the real use of bidet about 20 minutes ago. There's a serious lack of hygiene education!

I can say I'm excited. I'll definitely use it from now on. I don't like smelling as well.

Thanks Internet for once more!

Tx for the hilarity and common sense. How can the waste get shot back to your bod? The machines i've seen exhaust the used water below the water outlet.

Wonderfull. I first heard of these things when i was online with my overseas friend.
Just you watch, I'll go over to his house and scream from the freaking bathroom "How the heck do you sit on this thing!" and waddle out with a wet bum because I stumbled backwards. Oi Vey. This is just to ammusing. Benificial maybe, but I don't think I could use it without laughing myself to death.

Ever since the Ganges started flowing, we in India have been using water to 'cleanse' ourselves after relieving ourselves!
Very few Indian Indians, as a result, have diseases caused by dry, 'peeling' anuses.
Besides, in case of a special 'sudden' occasion, during spontaneous action, all that may stink will be your fart-wind and not the tunnel it came from! Isn't that in itself a great reason to go bidet?
It's time for the United States of America to go wet and 'squeeky clean'!

A nice cool stream of water definitely works better than toilet paper. However, I don't have access to a bidet, so I have no choice but to smear it on myself.

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Practicing the ancient Chinese art of double flushing... because sometimes, a single flush just isn't enough.

Wish I'd seen this site before going on my first vacation to Italy several weeks ago. Blew my chance to try out the bidet because I was clueless as to how to use one!

I really do like the idea of bidets and would use them but as a bloke with a very hairy ass you just know its gonna be kinda annoying drying yourself afterwards.
still i think they are a good thing, especially the japanese water jet ones, its like a fighter jet for the butt!

I first saw one on HGTV.

It would be nice after #2, #1, and intercourse.

I like the idea of bidets, sure beats the hell out of skitters in your drawers (especially for you men, that shit never comes off no matter how much Clorox you use). Whatever you use, please, please people, SCRUB YOUR HANDS!!

Apart from washing your ass after taking a poop, some Bidets also dry your ass with a blast of warm air. What could be better than that, a clean FRECKLE with two easy steps.

I come from Argentina, where the bidet is an essential part of the typical home bathroom. It is REALLY great. It cleans and soothes your anus, and is specially fit in cases of "big business".
The germ-related comments are unfounded, since besides the vertical stream, there is a self-cleaning water function (bidets in Argentina have small holes in the rim pointing down and to the centre, delivering powerful streams of water on the basin surface in a way similar to a toilet flush).
Before sitting on the vertical stream, you make water run strongly in the self-cleaning mode over the entires surface of the bidet basin and the nozzle, while setting the correct temperature. You then slowly turn the mode-changing faucet to vertical stream (if you do it too quickly water will spread all over), then sit on the bidet, adjust your anus to the correct angle and position, and turn the mode fully into vertical water stream... Voilà! A unique combination of cleanliness and anal massage.
After you finish washing your bottom, you turn the bidet back into self-cleaning mode, you turn it off after you think it is properly clean, you take some TP and dry the clean water from your underparts, put your clothes back on, and off you go!
About the sitting direction, I sit just like on the toilet, my back to the wall. I don't know of anyone sitting facing the wall, but I'm open-minded!
As regards public restroom, Argentine ones also lack bidets, and it is probably a good idea (Bidet Hater's mischief-related concerns do seem important).
That's all for now. Enjoy your bidets!

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ANY PERSON FROM ARGENTINA VISITING THE USA , CAN'T BELIEVE THAT THE COUNTRY THAT SENT MEN TO THE MOON , SENT THEM WITH A DIRTY ASS, BECAUSE THERE IS NO WAY ( UNLESS YOU USE A BIDET AFTER THE TOILET ) THAT YOU CAN HAVE A CLEAN ASS WITH TP. AMERICA , WAKE UP ! THE DIRTY AND DUSTY FAR WEST MENTALITY WILL KEEP YOU IN THE DARK AGES FOREVER...

I wish I had a bidet but I live in an apartment. When I traveled in Europe I kept waiting to see and use one, but never did... Maybe someday. Who likes there private parts dirty???

Although I am a regular asswasher....I found bidets really difficult to use..so like the rest of the billion people in India...i use my hand and a tumbler of water!! Don't gimme the ewwwwss!! Its just a mini wash right there at the throne....and then use good ol toilet paper to wipe. Whats the big deal!! Bidets may be expensive to get n yada yada...that still doesnt give you'll the excuse to not wash urself!! And no it doesnt require extensive potty training.

I have gone through and read all the comments on here. Being from the US I have heard of bidets but never fully understood them. I so want one at home. I am not worried about it being germ infested water. After all the water that first hits your arse when you are in the shower is germ infested. As long as you dont injest the e-coli bacteria then you should be ok. I definately dont suggest drinking out of the bidet. And what is going on with all these pictures I find on the internet of bathing kids in bidets? Thats gross. I am curious as to how well the bidet works for pleasure on a female. I might have to check out one of those attach on bidets. Pleasure and cleanliness. What a perfect combo. Im sold!

Oh and this site is cool Never thought I would find a web site about shit!

Correspondents are failing to distinguish between the types of equipment they are discussing. There is the traditional French bidet. I've read that the name means “little horse” and was originally intended for men to use after a long day in the saddle. This is an elongated bowl that is separate from the familiar ”water closet”. Then there is the modern bidet toilet seat that is fitted to the toilet bowl (Toto et al) and comes with a variety of features: water spray – the water etc falls into the bowl- , heated seat – very nice in a cold bathroom-, warm water-also very nice-, and hot air drying. Costs for these last units can run into four figures; usually three or four hundred dollars. I think they were invented by the Japanese in the nineteen fifties. I've read that they consist of about seventy percent of bathroom installations in Japan. Next there are many devices that I'll call “cold water installations”. Some are fitted to toilet seats and some are hand held sprayers. There is also a variety of gadgets for use by travelers.

As to cleanliness. Opinions by knowledgeable people would be appropriate. What is the transmission between rectum and vagina? Gynecologists? Any MD? (No fair including ascarids) No one can use toilet paper without getting feces on their hands! It is well known that most disease transmission involves the hands. After a doctor sees a patient he always washes his hands. A visit to the toilet with gas and loose bowels splatters everywhere! In public restrooms multitudes of men avoid the urinals, go to the stalls, and urinate, standing, without raising the seat! When departing a restroom, after washing my hands, I use a paper towel to avoid touching any surfaces (watch out for the light switch). You can observe that many leave without any washing. It is my opinion that all of the various bidet apparatus vastly improves cleanliness.

We have used the USABidet (usabidet.com) for years now. It works well, inexpensive and mounts to any toilet seat. With the low cost and simpe install it is an easy way to try it. This is not an ad for them, just a testimonial to a good product. Using paper when the bidet is not available points out why one would have one or two of these in the house. Scratchy, smelly, uncomfortable and not clean with paper. USABidet is so powerfull you can blow it out your ears. Not really, but it really cleans. And the cold water makes things tight and takes care of hemorrhoid potential.

I just don't understand how the hell you do this. I went to a house tour and in the bathroom they had a bidet, and opposite it on the other wall was the toliet, not next to, opposite wall, mounted on the side of the bidet was a soap dish with soap, then next to that on the wall was a hand towel in a towel ring. So you take a crap, tip toe over to the bidet with your pants down around your ankles, take the soap from soap dish, wet hands in bidet water? stand and wash butt? or sit and wash butt then use soap? then dry with hand towel? Question is, who cleans up the floor between toliet and bidet??? Do you actually wet your butt, then grap the soap, soap up and rinse then dry? Please don't hang that towel back on the towel ring. Sounds like a lot of work and time involved, I'll just keep using the toilet paper thank you. Boy what a job, just to wipe your butt!!!!!! Someone please answer I am serious. I am thinking of opening a Bidet, Bath and Body store, where you could buy cute little bidet soaps for the bidet soap dish, maybe some with holes in the middle for other parts. What do you think good idea, might be worth millions.

my 9 year old grand daughter and I saw one on a house tour. It's they only place in the back woods where you can see this sort of thing. We thought we would die laughing at how you switch from the toliet to the bidet without dripping all over the floor, and how do you wipe? with a towel? I have never laughed so hard in my laugh. My granddaughter and I still laugh about it, we just have to say the word "bidet" and we go nuts with laughter. It doesn't take much to make us happy with laughter here in the back woods. Am still laughing. Thank you who ever invented this, I have had so much happy time just discussing it.

If you can't stand the thought of using a Bidet, how about jumping in the shower and washing yourself off to refresh your body. It's rather intresting that when we were babies, we got a good washing off when we messed our diapers, but when we grew up, we rely on TP...
Talking about how to not be "grossed out" by the bidet, you would have your own bidet, and keep it clean yourself, so that it wouldn't be dirty. You keep the towels and wash clothes, soap etc near by and not worry about any one else using it. Nothing so good as keeping fresh and clean!

dear di... wipe your back-side then wash with the bidet you and your grand daughter will be the talk of the back woods.

2007.....time to wash your ass, we stop live in the jungles ages ago....and u?

Spend the extra $2.50 and get some flushable baby wipes. Being a guy, I dont need to wipe after i leak so the wipes last for months. No more nasty TP, no streaky underwear, fresh and clean all the time! btw, cottonelle is my choice.

There is no reason why the bidet should be more dirty than a bathtub. I don't understand how all you OCD people don't understand that and yet you are all easy going enough to walk around with dingle berries and skid marks.

No, no. OCD people would have to have a shower. Perhaps two. Then change their clothes. Then scrub out the tub. Then change their clothes again. Then change the shower liner. Then wash the clothes they were wearing before they pooped and while they scrubbed the tub. Then do the laundry. Then scrub out the washer. Then call the pharmacy for a refill on their Paxil.

I found a really nice new bidet on the side of the road the other day. I plan on installing it in my new bathroom at Northfort. I used on in the carib.islands before and it makes you feel so clean all day.

I really love our bidet. Me and my gal use it all the time, sometimes together!!!

I just found out today what a bidet was, I have never used one though. The concept is interesting and after reading a few posts, I could see owning one. But one question I have is why dont they have one that automatically gives you a shot of some liquid soap then maybe a couple of rinses and then a shot of air to dry your ass off. So then you could do away with needing the soap and towel..

I grew up in South America and every house had a bidet. It was great and sanitary. Now that I live in the states I always have to feel dirty because you can't find any bidets around. I'm gonna have to buy one. Once you use them, you can't live without them. TP is just not clean.

I just spent all day researching bidets (including 3 hours reading all 5.5 years of posts on this website), but it was worth it. I've decided that I'll purchase a bidet. My main reason initially is due to plumbing problems & not wanting to put down anymore paper; however, now I would say my main reason is due to the extra hygiene & cleanliness. I can't believe I've lived with a dirty asshole my whole life, but here in the United a States, toilet paper is considered standard procedure (like using the confusing english system instead of the metric system which the rest of the world uses). TP alone can't get the area as clean as a high-pressure stream of water since a small amount of poop will smear onto the skin. For example, if birdshit landed on your hand, you would probably want to wash with water & soap instead of simply using paper towel or a rag. I'm thinking of getting the bidet unit that's used with an existing toilet from BidetDirect. It's only $64. I also saw one for $30 on eBay & Hyundai sells one (HDB-100) for $60 on Amazon. BTW: Copper sulfate should be used twice a year to prevent problems with roots in the sewer line. I know this website is more about poop than plumbing; however, if you're on a tight budget, it's less expensive to maintain a clear sewer line than to wait for it to become a serious problem. A sewer line could be almost completely blocked (90%, for example) until it becomes noticeable unless you periodically put down 50 gallons or so & watch what the water does through the cleanout. Aspirin.

Just one try in hot summer day and...

this one with warm air! :o)

Krikeys! Is that what the low boy is for? First, I thought it might be a dedicated baby bath. So I washed my infant son in it for awhile but he outgrew it after a year or two.

Then I thought it was a training toilet, the seat area was too large and so LDP kept falling in. Besides, at that point, he was so used to taking a bath in it that the wanted to get naked and jump in.

After that, I just gave up trying to figure out what it was about so I filled mine with potting soil, planted an Azalea and arranged some landscape rock around the nozzle. Now, I've got a fountain in my bathroom.
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Deja Poo - Because this shit's so strange, it couldn't ever have happened before.

I'm a male with the normal hairy anus. All males still have fecal matter on their buts unless they use wet toilet waper to wash. That is a far grosser feeling to walk around with albeit a tiny amount of shit stuck to my ass crack hairs!

I just don't understand the confusion about moving from the toilet to the bidet?
Some of you were saying that the floor would be a mess,,yada,yada,,
Give it some thought,,,you wipe your but, and after you think you are clean enough,,then you move to the bidet. Very simple.
But for the U.S. market,,, I think the retrofit models are a great idea. For under 150.00 you can't beet it.

I don't have an actual bidet, but I have to say that since switching to a hand-held personal cleansing device, my tush has never been happier.

I recently bought the Bidet Ole, but have since renamed it the "ButtBlaster 3000" for its ceiling-shooting capabilities! The best price I found online is here: http://www.momscatalog.com/itemdetail.asp?id=1686

The ButtBlaster 3000 shoots pipe-temperature water, but that hasn't been a problem, even when the pipes were almost frozen! OK, maybe that week was a tad chilly on my cheeks, but normally the cool water feels just fine.

If you want the cleanest backside in town, the ButtBlaster 3000 is exactly what you need!

**I am merely a satisfied customer - not a salesperson or manufacturer.

Great comments! My wife and I have had a bidet for ten years and we both love it. The warm water splashing on the bum is very pleasurable and it lends itself to better health! So what's holding most guys back? Just fear! But look at the benefits: health, pleasure, cleanliness, AND the chance to see your wife enjoying herself on it occasionally as well. It's a "win-win" situation.

I want a bidet!!!
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