Will someone think of the children!
I had to jump in here.
I have this attached on my toilet at home. It converts your toilet into a bidet too. I have serious issues when I travel and I am stuck with TP. TP alone makes my butt burn.
You mean that’s not a face towel? 
I fully intend to install a bidet once I settle down. I use flushable wet wipes now but they’re a luxury.
I do kind of want to try it, just because the converts are so enthusiastic.
But at this time, I still consider bidets as one of those solutions in search of a problem.
Maybe if I pooped peanut butter, I would need this more, but I don’t. Apparently my diet keeps me on the dryer/less sticky side. I do not have skid marks.
I don’t have problems. Why do I need this again?
Then it would have to have a mixer valve, like faucets and showers do, and get water from both hot and cold lines. It would be easier just to have an electric heater with adjustable temperature like the Toto Washlet.
Your responses seem a little strange to me. You say you want to find out why more people don’t have these things. My first answer is I never saw or heard of anything like that in your first link before this thread. You say you want information, but you belittle every reason given, and just say “try it a few times, you’ll like it.” In the meantime you have no idea how plumbing actually works. How can one “try it a few times” without actually installing one? What is really going on here?
Roddy
In Japan the toilets in many fancy hotels have this. And the spray arm isn’t next to the toilet; it’s built into the toilet bowl itself.
It took some getting used to, but I liked it. As for the temperature, that wasn’t an issue. I’m not sure how it was done, but the temperature of the spray responded instantly to any adjustment I made on the control. It was a super-fancy, high-tech, electronic toilet, with many other features beyond the spray wash.
Hmmm… if it is a dishwasher too …!
It was probably a Toto Washlet or something similar (they have a lot of different brands and models to choose from). They are de rigeur in hotels, and most homes have them as well.
Roddy
That’s the first thing I thought of. No way I’d touch the thing.
And the communal towel to wipe your butt next to the toilet??? :eek:
I’ve kind of wondered this myself. I just installed one last year after spending some time in India and getting quite used to them. They really cut down on my toilet paper usage and I feel a lot cleaner. They are great.
They do make fancy paper towels for bathrooms … do what my mom tended to do and salt the trash bin with one that was obviously used to dry hands [or butt in this case] with a little note that the paper towels were to be disposed of in the trash can.
Wait a minute, you people wash your own asses!?
What do you pay your servants for? Sheesh!
What’s going on is the reason sounds like a weak rationalisation rather than any actual analysis of the product. Look at all the responses from people who’ve tried it, including your own, and compare them with those who haven’t.
This thread has unfortunately turned into something quite different from what I was hoping for, and perhaps I’m to blame. I think I was actually hoping that someone with a good understanding of both the product and the culture would offer insight. Perhaps I framed things wrongly in the OP and the rest of the thread has devolved into a little bit of the usual “Your method is stupid” “No it aint” back and forth.
Where do you live(roughly, if you don’t mind me asking). What do you do about the cold water problem?
Yeah, and I don’t have some special warm water/cold water thing. It just runs into the same waterline that goes to the tank. Never been an issue. Temp’s fine.
(My last post was actually before your question, even though it coincidentally addresses it.)
I’m in Chicago. The cold water does not affect me at all as in, I don’t notice it at all. Maybe I just don’t have a sensitive arsehole.
Heh. It doesn’t bother me at all either. Since you’ve wondered at the question yourself, what are your thoughts on the matter? You are, presumably, a cultural native, brought up TP only before switching. It’d be nice to hear your thoughts on why these things aren’t more popular. As evidenced by responses in this thread, everyone who has actually tried both systems prefers one to the other, but there’s clearly some sort of cultural inertia at work, but also a potentially large untapped market. How come there’s no company out there aggressively marketing these things? One reason I figured was it’s too much of a commodity. You’d spend a lot in trying to convince people that this was a worthwhile switch, and then they’d just buy whatever was convenient/cheap.
I don’t know. My guess, and looking through this thread, is that people find it “squicky.”
Well, I don’t, but it’s because I haven’t figured out the three seashells yet.