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I have a bidet, when I don’t have one, I like to shower, if I don’t shower, I’m potentially walking around with poop and paper caked in my butt crack all day. It’s disgusting, what’s wrong with society ? Why doesn’t everywhere have a bidet or similar ?

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The only answer I can really offer is that in those parts of the (developed) world where bidets are not common, society functions just fine and doesn't seem to be negatively impacted in any way by their absence. I don't have a bidet and I don't always shower immediately after doing my business. Am I "potentially walking around with poop and paper caked in my butt crack all day"? I guess, technically, yes. But it's not something I've ever noticed and it's certainly not something anyone else has ever noticed.

I never noticed it until I bought a bidet. Now I do.

It's amazing to what one can get used to. My washlet has a heated seat, now regular seats feel very cold.

> I’m potentially walking around with poop and paper caked in my butt crack all day.

Do you simply not know how to wipe your bum properly? My two-year-old has the basics of it, even if he hasn't quite got his technique down yet.

It might depend on your digestion and amount of hair on your bum, but there are sometimes when using even dozens of paper wipes does not seem to fully clean the bum and additional wipes still come away dirty (to the point where they also come away with blood due to the skin having been irritated by repeated wiping with dry paper). A bidet solves this neatly, of course so would a shower or using wet wipes.

Same experience for me.

It’s also worse if you spend significant time using a bidet, then find yourself without one.

Ouch.

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