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Yes, A Bidet Will Change Your Life
Toilet tech in the U.S. needs to embrace the bidet.
My wife and I have been wanting a bidet for a long time. I can’t even recall the first time it came up in conversation and we were in immediate agreement that we would be getting one at some point. We finally bought one and I installed it last weekend. I certainly won’t be going back to just using toilet paper.
Simply put, a bidet is a shower for your butthole. Really, I can’t put it any more plainly. It’s a popular hygienic tool elsewhere in the world except in the United States. The story goes that American soldiers were first exposed to the bidet while serving in the European theater of WW2, and while impressed by the hygiene technology, they couldn’t go home and tell their wives and girlfriends about it because most of them saw the bidet while visiting a brothel. The association of the bidet with brothels put it in a bad light so we were stuck with wiping our butts with toilet paper while much of the rest of the world began to embrace the bidet for routine cleaning of the nether region.
You probably wouldn’t consider wiping your body off with a dry paper towel to be the same level of clean as taking a shower yet when it comes to cleaning the butt after a bowel movement that’s exactly what we do. Moreover, we accept the use of toilet tissue for that purpose as the normal way of…
