Anyone scrolling down. Here's an alternative if you can't install a bidet. This disc top container works, especially convenient if you have used shampoo containers with it. Just fill it up with water and wash yer ass with it.
this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2025
72 points (100.0% liked)
askchapo
23024 readers
247 users here now
Ask Hexbear is the place to ask and answer ~~thought-provoking~~ questions.
Rules:
-
Posts must ask a question.
-
If the question asked is serious, answer seriously.
-
Questions where you want to learn more about socialism are allowed, but questions in bad faith are not.
-
Try !feedback@hexbear.net if you're having questions about regarding moderation, site policy, the site itself, development, volunteering or the mod team.
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
Generally hygiene is taught by your mom/dad or primary caretaker and somewhat by your primary school. So if no one ever mentions that to you, you're probably not going to think about it, and even hearing about it is going to seem somewhat alien.
load more comments
(2 replies)
i really want one but my partner has no gall bladder and blah blah gross stuff basically i'm afraid it will get really dirty and poopy from backsplash. i have to clean and bleach our toliet down every 2 days.
will that add complicated nooks and tubing to clean basically?
load more comments
(5 replies)
Enjoy your arse hose, francophile.
Idk i can clean my butt with toilet paper. I agree with the other reasons but i don't smell like shit all the time.
Honestly getting a bidet never entered my mind as an option until the yks guys were talking about them. Never got around to it
Idk i can clean my butt with toilet paper.
Yeah me too but I always have to waste what feels like a lot of toilet paper. Washing your ass is objectively superior, I just can't be fucked to install a hose into my toilet and it's almost never an option to me anywhere I go.
load more comments
(3 replies)
Even if you can clean a bidet is still better cause you wouldn't have to pay a premium just to avoid the single-ply ones that fall apart instantly. I haven't run the numbers but imagine all the beanis you can buy with all that TP money saved over your lifetime.
Yeah i know the bidet is better, maybe when I'm back from out of town work I'll buy one for the family shitter.
A bidet, until very recently, had only been presented as a japanese novelty toilet gadget in any media i consumed anyway. This is my guess as to why Westerners don't use them
load more comments
(1 replies)
After I learned to wash my ass I realised it didn't itch almost ever and then had the horrifying realization
load more comments
(1 replies)
If we're talking about "inventing TP", I'm pretty sure we wiped with leaves and stuff before we invented the hose. Maybe even nice thick leaves like cabbage leaves.
I don't like getting only my butt wet instead of the whole body. If I wanted my butt wet I might as well take a shower.
Also, composting toilets are superior. Flush toilets emerged along with the capitalist class and the liberal idea of private bathroom ownership. Putting water pipes into every dwelling unit is a wasteful luxury that speeds up the decay of buildings. If we're talking about plumbing and commodity shortages we need to have a holistic approach instead of a hyperspecific bandaid approach.
I’m pretty sure the ultimate invention of paper for cleaning anuses happened, at least in the US, in 1791 when the Bill of Rights was ratified.
load more comments
(10 replies)
Bidet gang.
ego and homophobia/sexual propriety. those are the kneejwrk reactions I've heard from non adopters.
they "know" their asses are clean because they've smeared shit into their balloon knot for decades and it was "fine". got some peanut butter in a keyhole...? just use some tissue paper. totally hygienic. to consider otherwise is to consider one has been living with low standards for personal cleanliness despite full access to all the necessary technology and infrastructure of empire.
when they finally consider that maybe dry paper doesn't really clean feces off of skin effectively, they lash out about how the desire for a clean anus is some kind of sexual perversion they are "above".
when they finally consider that maybe dry paper doesn't really clean feces off of skin effectively, they lash out about how the desire for a clean anus is some kind of sexual perversion they are "above".
This sounds like exaggeration, but I've actually had someone say he doesn't use wet wipes because it's gay. "Why does my asshole need to be clean? For my boyfriend??"
Absolutely deranged puritanical culture.
load more comments
(1 replies)
smear fudgy chocolate on the anti-bidet crew and then when they ask to wash up just give them a rough paper towel
load more comments
(1 replies)
Id install one if i ever owned a place
$30 bidet from Amazon can attach just fine to pretty much any toilet and easy removal
Does it really require permission from your landlord? It's just a piece of plastic that goes between your toilet seat and the toilet bowl. It takes like 5 minutes to install.
load more comments
(1 replies)