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Going paperless is still in fashion in parts of Asia. But for me, a guy born & raised in America, it was a leap of faith about a year ago when I installed a bidet under the toilet seat and no amount of Internet videos & articles could truly prepare me for that first blast. But here I am, almost a year later and I'd never go back. Benefits I've noticed include: - Hemorrhoid Relief: Because my work keeps me mostly in a chair at a desk, I used to have some terrible pain down there. Really, really terrible. We're bloody stools that looked like a Nightmare on Elm Street special toilet edition. They took a few months to go away, but today I have no problems unless there is an extremely hard stool. - Spicy Foods, bring it on! It used to be a real pain about 12 hours after I ate hot spicy foods. Now I wash away the heat from down beneath. - Cleaned to Pristine: Toilet paper will always leave poop residue on your bunghole. Wipe all you like, it's still there. With water, I'm 100% clean every time. - Great cool down after heavy exercise: On a hot summers day when you go out and run or lift or whatever, a great way to catch your breath and cool down is to sit on a cold bidet and let it take your breath away. Yeah, this one's a little weird but it truly is a great cool down. - Diarrhea Be Dammed: On those rare occasions when I'm sick with the flu, hourly bowel movements used to really irritate the backside because of all the wiping. With my bidet I said goodbye to chapped anus. - Go Deep: For the brave, you can actually center the stream and go for a minor colon flush. - The Humor: The face my 5 year old son made the first time he decided to play with the lever while sitting on my toilet will forever be burned into my sense of humor. I never would have known just how BIG his eyes can get. Absolutely priceless. - $Money$: Every dollar you're not spending on toilet tissue is a dollar you can spend towards sitting on a beach with the beverage of your choice. - Never running out of the Important Papers. (self explanatory, you KNOW what I'm talking about) - Environmentally Friendlier: Toilet paper actually is bad for the environment. The process to make it requires massive amounts of water and chemicals. I don't think anyone is clear cutting rain forests to make toilet tissue, but it does take trees and electric energy. After the fact, toilet tissue has to be broken down at the sewage plant and a portion of it ends up as a gray matter that ends up in landfills (take a tour of your local sewage plant to see what I mean). I have found that it's healthier, cleaner and more environmental to give up toilet tissue. I've often wondered how much of an impact it would if everyone on Earth made the switch. The Bad: While there are portable 'squeeze water bottle' bidets available, I find them impractical to carry with me. So on the rare occasions I'm not 'making the morning deposit' at home and I have no choice but to paper wipe, it irritates because I'm not used to it. How it works: A device connects under your toilet seat with a small water sprayer that showers your 'down there'. A water supply line connects under the toilet's water tank using a T adapter. It's actually a pretty simple DIY project to install, but make darned sure you have all the plumbing supplies you need before you start if this is your only toilet. There are heated models available. My largest fear at the beginning was the cold water part. Heated models require wiring and are much more expensive. I decided to try the cold model first and see how it went. Glad I did, I'd never want to use heated water now. The first couple goes were a bit chilly, but it got easier every time. http://www.amazon.com/Luxe-Bidet-Neo-110-Non-Electric/dp/B009ZLRSJ6/ So there it is, my tell all deepest darkest secret. Ask me any questions, or if you're in the Bidet Brotherhood (or sisterhood) share your own experiences.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Do you still need something to dry your rear end in a top hat with after? Or do you just drip dry? From what I've read, some people 'pat dry' with paper. Personally, I give it a good twerk and call it good. No problems with water residue. I wear cotton briefs. If you go commando or wear silk boxers the water may effect you differently. It's not much water really, no more than a small amount of sweat. I will suggest getting up slowly. As your cheeks come together water drips off. If you get up rapidly, you'll need to wipe drips off the seat. stringball posted:Moist wipes own if you can't install a bidet or don't care to Great point. Have done this and agree. If people only knew how much poop they were walking around with on their butts all day long. gizmojumpjet posted:Oh look, another goon obsessed with their rear end in a top hat. I also pee in the shower, like every time.
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Jan 8, 2016 01:31
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P-Mack posted:If my toilet wasn't set up in a way that made this impossible I'd be all over it. The hose braid can't bend enough to fit a tee in and the threads on the connection are pretty messed up. Learned this when some one gave us one of those diaper washer things. If we ever redo the whole bathroom for dumb property value reasons I'm going to put in some kind of wonder shitter. You could replace the hose with one more flexible. Any hardware store or even big box/home depot type store should have a large selection. You just screw on and tighten, hard to mess that up. Take a walk through the plumbing aisle next time your out, there are new bathroom plumbing gadgets coming out all the time to make projects like this easy. example: http://www.amazon.com/LASCO-10-1083-Braided-Stainless-Ballcock/dp/B00N2H2LUK
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Jan 8, 2016 01:36
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Enfys posted:Won't you spend more money on water than you will save on buying TP? While people's bathroom habits and paper usage vary widely, I've average usage statistics between 20,000 and 49,000 sheets per year per person. If a roll of 1000 sheets costs around $1 and it lasts a person a week, that's $52 per year in TP. About half of Americans are on municipal water, the rest of us have wells (well water being generally much cheaper). Municipal water costs average $1.50 per 1,000 gallons in the USA. A single usage of a bidet uses less than half a quart of water. Even if a person really 'sat on the water' for a good long time they could maybe use a quart of water (that's 1/4th of a gallon). If a person uses an entire quart of water per day, that's 91 gallons per year, almost 15¢. Toilet paper per year: $52 Bidet water per year: 15¢ That's a 99.7% savings by using a bidet. Perhaps this could be used to reduce military spending.
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Jan 10, 2016 15:03
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Ausmund posted:Having toilet water spayed on you and being dripping wet seems gross. The water is from a clean supply line, not out of the bowl. It's the same water you cook, bathe and brush your teeth with.
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Jan 11, 2016 04:24
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ashgromnies posted:Yes. I have experience with bidets and they don't leave your rear end as clean as their fanboys say they do. Use a bidet, and then wipe your rear end with toilet paper: you will notice poo poo residue still. It's fair to assume that not all bidets are made equal. Some of them have a side to side action, some have heated water or even a dryer. Mine is a single solid narrow stream with an adjustable flow. Cranked up all the way can even be slightly painful if it hits just right. I was an honest skeptic from the beginning and did several 'wipe tests' after using the bidet. No residue found. But if squeaky clean assurance is what you require, you could adapt to the methods of certain Muslim cultures and some parts of Nepal where they use a Left-Hand-Rub in addition to water. I'm open minded but I'd have a hard time going this extra step.
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Jan 11, 2016 18:05
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ZoneManagement posted:Is this normal? Prior to the bidet I was once a day. With bidet it's now 2-3. It's just more fun to go now. Don't judge me.
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Jan 15, 2016 04:28
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Lowen SoDium posted:Every time you are in the shower or every time you have to pee? Every shower has a little gold in it, but not all gold goes in the shower. Did you really want to know that?
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Jan 15, 2016 04:30
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Cuckoo posted:I posted this in a previous bidet thread but this is a really, really bad idea if you are a female. You can spray water on your rear end all you want but the shitwater runoff will likely run downwards and back into your vagina due to gravity, causing infections like yeast, UTIs or BV So what are the clean girls doing differently? How do we know that this study was not influenced by the rich toilet paper magnates of the world trying to protect their profits through deception?
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Jan 21, 2016 04:24
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hectik posted:I've always hoped that bidet people used soap when cleaning up, because while water gets you cleaner than paper, there's still poop there. You never hear them mention it, though. I mean, if you're wetting your butt, why not take the extra step? Sounds like a guy who only washes his hands with a dry napkin is telling us how to be clean?
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Jan 31, 2016 18:20
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