# Bidet toilet seat or shower toilet

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidet-toilet-seat-or-shower-toilet/494087>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 23, 2009, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidet-toilet-seat-or-shower-toilet/494087 "2009-04-23T12:08:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidet-toilet-seat-or-shower-toilet/494087/21 "2016-03-07T03:03:15Z")

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> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#):
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> There’s been a few bidet threads, and the thing they have in common is the one poster who just can’t be convinced that they work.

Those of us who have actually used them, on the other hand, love them.

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**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2016, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidet-toilet-seat-or-shower-toilet/494087/22 "2016-03-08T11:57:00Z")

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Since I’d never used a bidet before the zombie awoke, but have one now, I will say, “yuck! All you people who don’t use TP first are disgusting!”

Really. If I move from the toilet to the bidet (it’s a real bidet, a separate device), whatever’s still hanging there just kind of get squashed between the cheeks. And whatever solid residue is left doesn’t conveniently go down the drain. TP is required!

In Thailand they have bum guns, kind of like a bidet. Even there, I tend to use paper first. The pressure is higher, and the drain is the entire bowl, so maybe it’s not necessary to use TP first, but I do anyway.

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**Author:** ![Caractacus\_Pott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@Caractacus\_Pott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caractacus_Pott)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bidet-toilet-seat-or-shower-toilet/494087/23 "2016-03-09T05:22:51Z")

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**Orwell** per point 7: The high heat setting is not for sitting. It’s for heating up the bathroom. In Japan, houses aren’t well insulated. Heat is supplied in the form of kerosene heaters located inside the major rooms. Sometimes there’s a small one in the bathroom, sometimes not. Regardless, you can heat up the typically small bathroom fairly quickly with the Washlet on high seat heat.

**Balthisar** , we’re not talking bidets. We’re talking about toilet seats with water jets on them that fit on your existing toilet. No moving from fixture to fixture. See **Machine Elf** ’s post above for a link to one.

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