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I’m new to the bidet scene, and this one has me slightly confounded. Should I install a new towel rack next to the toilet? Should my wife and I share the towel? Do you wipe first? There are so many unanswered questions in the ways of bidet-ing!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

None of this explains why it's not cleaner to use toilet paper than your hand after using a bidet...?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You don't use your hand afterwards, you use your hand to wash along with the bidet, then you dry with TP or a towel. It is not demented. It is just washing like how you are supposed to wash when you shower.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I learned some time ago that some Americans just will never be ready for the bidet conversation, just let those people live in filth

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Read the comment with instructions man. Wipe with toilet paper first, as normal. Then wash with soap and water. Then dry with a towel. If you’re smearing poop all over everything you’ve got other issues to work out.

To answer your question, it is cleaner than just using toilet paper because you are wash with soap and water after you use the toilet paper. If you manage to get poop all over the towel when you’re done washing, then TP alone was never going to suffice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Because dry spreading your poop with toilet paper is not cleaner than washing your butt together with water.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Not what I said. Bidet + TP vs bidet + hand

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Ah, I see, I thought the bidet part only relates to your second option, there. I guess one reason to use your hands is that in some countries, toilet paper is not commonly provided, so it's not always an option.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

No one only uses their hands guys. You use your hands in tandem with the running water to get all the shit off. Then you wipe with TP (modern) or a towel (more common before TP).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah it would be cheaper I suppose, that's fair

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

No one only uses their hands guys. You use your hands in tandem with the running water to get all the shit off. Then you wipe with TP (modern) or a towel (more common before TP).