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!

  • MudMan@fedia.io
    101·
    4 months ago

    Is it?

    Are we in one of these social media posts where we rediscover that a bunch of people have not been washing their bums in the shower for their entire lives and we have to carry on living with that knowledge?

    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
      53·
      4 months ago

      Yes. Wash your hands, wash your ass isn’t as common as you might expect in North America. It also isn’t just a “Muslim thing” as you point towards. That invalidates Muslim beliefs and customs as well as reducing the pervasive and varying global cultural etiquettes around cleaning one’s self after bodily functions. A wide swath of north americans are only taught the toilet paper wipe bit.

      • MudMan@fedia.io
        1·
        4 months ago

        Hey, I do get that bidets aren’t culturally well established everywhere, and even in bidet areas they don’t often come with detailed instructions, so usage habits are kinda random.

        But that’s why I went to the shower bit instead. I would hope cleaning your nethers when you shower is a universal habit, or at least as much of one as washing your hands after a trip to the toilet.

        But hey, maybe permanently sweaty, poopy undercarriages are just… you know, “an American thing”? I don’t know.

        • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
          1·
          4 months ago

          Showers, bidets, ass rags, tp, hands, whatever combination follows the wash your hands, wash your ass ethos to get the job done. Your skin will thank you.

    • Ephera@lemmy.ml
      2·
      4 months ago

      This is not about the shower. There’s different kinds of bidets. Some just sprinkle your nether regions. Others are a full-blown sink for you to scrub yourself. And yet others are the so-called “bum guns”, where you’ve got a hose next to your toilet to sploosh it away.

      • MudMan@fedia.io
        1·
        4 months ago

        Water on your bum is water on your bum. If the caveat is that magical built-in bidets don’t need a scrub (as much), why is your reply to my post and not the “muslim thing” guy? Wouldn’t it apply equally to both?

        • Ephera@lemmy.ml
          3·
          4 months ago

          I just thought, you got confused, because you mentioned the shower. I figured, maybe you’re not aware of the bidets where one can reasonably wash their whole bums. If you weren’t confused, then carry on. 🙃