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I'm pretty sure that you would also wet it before use and if the job was demanding, during use. It would be more or less the same as using wet wipes, which is a contemporary practice for some.
In South America, specifically Argentina almost all households have a Bidet. It baffles me that a country like the US doesn’t have them as a standard device (at least in homes), considering the amount of food in the average American diet.
My uncle was an engineer for a toilet paper manufacturing plant, that took logs in one end and put TP rolls out the other end. The path was over a mile long. He worked on variable speed electronic drives for the 1000 horsepower motors that turned the machinery. TP illustrates the triumph of civilization: 1000s of people all doing specialized jobs so billions of people can each avoid a daily unpleasantness.
Except TP is not the solution. If a bird pooped on your arm, would you rather use a dry paper towel to clean it off or water?
Would you put your face in your shoes for hours at a time, or rub it on the ground when you walked? Probably not, but thats no problem for the feet, because they're a different body part with different strengths and requirements.
I am from the UK, typically visit the US once or twice per year, have visited every country in the EU and am currently spending 12 months traveling the world (3 months in at the moment, having visited India, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand). I have a website/blog about this for those that are interested: http://ourbigplanet.com In various parts of the world, previous to this trip, I encountered trash…
Thanks. I will be referring to bidets as "bum guns" from now on (because it's funny).
Well you don't have to go far back in history to read how people solved it. Sweden during 1920, in Swedish https://www.faltbiologerna.se/faltbiologen/innan-toapapperet...
I'm American (with no kids, so my hands don't touch feces often). The idea of using a bidet seems strange because the toilet paper protects my fingers. Do bidet users just accept that their fingers will get all mucky and then they will follow up with a thorough hand washing? (Is this a strange question, even to other Americans? Googling doesn't find the answer.)
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The high end ones take maybe 20s to dry your hands off. Properly drying your hands with paper towels takes at least as long and it wastes paper. What is your problem with an air dryer?
Paper towels are much more sanitary. Big part of washing hands is wiping the bacteria and viruses along with water into something. Drying just gets the water, leaves everything else.
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If I have taken only one thing away from living in Japan for near-on a decade, it is that the washlet (aka the cyber-bidet) is, quite possibly, mankind's greatest invention. The predecessor to the above were small squeeze bottles full of water, and you can still buy various versions of these today, which are heaven-on-earth as a wilderness backpacker. I picked up a travel bidet[1] for backpacking, and it has proven t…
Hooooly shit I never thought of this for backpacking. You're a life saver. Accidentally pulling out my shit wipe Ziploc is my least favorite part of backpacking.