Pooping may be universal, but the way we clean our bottoms isn't quite so uniform around the globe. A study found out that nearly 30% people on the earth use toilet paper while the rest of them use water in some or the other way.
Using water to clean your buttock after number two isn't similar everywhere. Bidets are often referred widely used pots with a flush spray. However, other methods such as bamboo stick method and cow dung way in India are of the alterations on it.
There is also some disparity the use of toilet papers. In some parts people flush it and in some they deposit it in the bin. Read this guide to know where you can & can’t flush toilet paper around the world.
But the main question isn't how we clean. But what's the best environment friendly and most hygienic method of cleaning our asses after defecation.
A 2022 study found out that the hands of people who use bidets have profoundly fewer microbes than those who wipe. So, using the bidets or using water after we are done number two is better? It could have been if the studies have not pointed out that excessive bidet use potentially causes anal pruritus and anal incontinence.
If thinking completely on the basis of environment friendliness, bidets are much better. Approximately 27,000 trees are harvested daily for use in toilet paper manufacturing. This equates to approximately 15 million trees per year. And we know it very well how devastating it can be.
So again, are bidets better? I don't know. But I wonder if bidets waste water. If they do, they also become not so environment friendly. Personally, I use a bidet and I think splashing or spraying of water on your butts is more suitable than wiping it with toilet paper.
What do you think is a better option between a bidet and toilet paper, and why?
Are you ready to make a shift from toilet paper to bidet or vice versa?
TMI warning!!!!!
My wife pushed for a bidet in our bedroom for a few years. I resisted. I relented about a year ago. It has changed my life. I cannot believe I used dry toilet paper on my tender ass for so many years. I'm never going back!!!
I am aware of my hypocrisy. I expose my toilet habits here, but wish to keep my SN wallet stats private.
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Haha! Your wife's a genius and she did know from the starting that you would have to relent. No choice, mate.
Don't call yourself a hypocrite for just exposing your toilet habits. I value your privacy of hiding sats on SN wallet. You need to hide your sats, not your habits. 😜
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I WILL LITERALLY SEE BLOOD SPOTS NOW IF FORCED TO USE DRY TISSUE. LONG LIVE THE BIDET
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Poop is cool. wallet stats, never. I get it.
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Having moved from the UK to Thailand 3 years ago, I now can't believe that in the UK we "cleaned" our bumholes by simply wiping them with toilet paper. "Bumguns" are the norm here, and this is probably the main reason that I'll never move back to the UK.
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Don't make it a reason. You can take one bidet from Thailand, or you can always order on online. Install it, use it in the U.K. as well.
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AS AN AMERICAN THAT MOVED TO INDONESIA, A BIDET IS 10000000X BETTER THAN USING A DRY PIECE OF PAPER TO WIPE YOUR ASS. IMAGINE SMEARING PEANUT BUTTER ON YOUR HAND, WOULD YOU WANT TO WASH WITH WATER OR WIPE WITH A DRY CRUMBLY FALLING APART SHEET OF 1-PLY. I FEEL VERY STRONGLY ABOUT THIS! WHEN MY WIFE AND I VISIT THE STATES WE HAVE TO BRING A PORTABLE BIDET. IT'S LIKE A WATER BOTTLE WITH A LOOPED SPOUT. IT GETS THE JOB DONE.
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I imagine quite a bit of water is used in manufacturing toilet paper. I’m going with the bidet here
It wasn’t so fancy as to have a bidet, but I’ve stayed at a home with a composting toilet and a hose running to it. The wash water drained down to a very happy looking tree. It takes a lot to make that transition, but now flush toilets seem so wasteful to me
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YES!! BIDET IS KING.
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My dogs always seem to lick themselves clean. This seems like the most environmentally friendly option. But I am unable to reach and I got a ways to go.
So I kind of use both. Paper when its a quick and easy job. And i get a bit of water involved with wiping to clean up a messier situation more quickly. Minimal paper and minimal water. Cleaner Butt.
I have never once used a bidet, I bet it is nice. But in terms of cleaning anything efficiently, some kind of friction seems to help.
Thanks for the super interesting post. We all need to talk about pooping more.
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USE A BIDET. ORDER ONE, INSTALL IT. THANK ME. I MOVED TO A SCHOOL IN CHINA (PREVIOUSLY IN INDONESIA WHERE BIDET IS COMMON), AND INSISTED WE GET A BIDET IN CHINA. HAD THE GENERAL SERVICES OF MY APARTMENT ON CAMPUS INSTALL IT.
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Thanks mate! Undoubtedly, you have the most innovative of the ways for cleaning your butt. Cool.
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i got a bidet on a whim after the "japanese toilet" south park episode. after having used one, i could never go back to just using toilet paper, it feels gross and honestly a little barbaric.
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THEY ARE AMAZING!!
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Gross and barbaric! Yea, that's what I thought whenever I used toilet paper. Also, I am like thinking after the poop 'Did it really clean?"
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Really interesting, the question is which one let your butt cleaner lol I think the water one
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It should be noted, when papering houses, bidets are generally useless.
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SPRAY THAT BISH WITH WATER!!!
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And we must never forget.
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