Submitted 19 hours ago by Darth_Lemmy@lemmy.zip to [deleted]
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I remember talking to two Japanese young lads about 20 years ago, and they thought the idea of toilet paper was disgusting. Smearing your own shit allover your inner ass cheeks.
That opened my eyes wide. I was a couple of years younger, but they spoke frankly and didn’t hide anything 😁
I-is Japan okay… simultaneously being grossed out by toilet paper and it’s a coin-flip whether they use the bidet T_T
Previously, we conducted a survey of electric bidet use among Japanese community-dwelling residents and found that 55% (2,724/4,952) of the respondents washed the anus either before or after defecation[10]. […]
In a survey of bidet use in 575 outpatients conducted by Yano et al.[11], 349 (61%) washed the anus at every defecation and 75 (13%) did so occasionally. […]
In a survey of college students, 34% (47/139) of the female students and 44% (43/98) of their male counterparts reported using the washing function of bidet toilets[12].
Overall, approximately half of the population washed the anus before or after defecation.
Tsunoda, Akira. 2021. “Bidet Toilet Use May Cause Anal Symptoms and Nosocomial Infection.” Journal of the Anus, Rectum and Colon 5(4), p. 336. Tokyo: The Japan Society of Coloproctology. doi.org/10.23922/jarc.2021-027
Brother eww.
Also, why would I wash it before? What purpose does that even have when I’m shitting all over it literally 2 seconds later?
…That’s worse, gimme a country where everyone wipes with toilet paper, rather than a country where roughly half the population are walking around with shit in their trousers.
Bruh what the FUCK
I lived in West Africa where there was no TP at all. People used pieces of millet stalks to scrape the big bits, then wash anything else away with your left hand and water. It actually does a good job.
TP is objectively weird and inherently the least good job of any way other than doing nothing at all. You just grew up like that and don’t know what the alternatives are and how many of them are much better.
And bidets splatter you feces all over your butt cheeks. Nothing wrong with either from a hygene standpoint.
You just don’t know how to use a bidet.
TP is objectively disgusting. would you use it to clean shit off any other part of your body?
What? No 3 sea shell reference???
Turns out it was just a bidet and we’re all idiots.
Oh look, a meme created by a man, who promptly ignored the more frequent use for toilet paper employed by 50% of the population 🙄
Oh look, someone that has to make a /meme/ on the internet about sexism.
Get a life, find some happiness.
Yes, because using toilet paper as a condome so you dont infect yourself while scooping urine with your hands is much different.
Also, if we take it very seriously, toilet paper just replaces the tongue of someone else in both Cases.
Skip the toilet paper, use water.
Good thing all toilets everywhere have bidets
If you’re at home, it’s pretty easy to hang your butt into the shower and point the stream of the shower head at your anus. Don’t even have to undress, just turn the water up low enough to not splash everywhere.
I have a spare empty water bottle and a travel-sized container of liquid soap in my bag so I can wash when there’s no bidet.
if you don't have a bidet, do it in the sink
Bolt-on bare minimum ones are 40-50€, and they work with any toilet.
Well, on a good day it is.
even bad times are still pretty good
Only the sticky kind.
is there any other kind?
LodeMike@lemmy.today 19 hours ago
Do y’all have gaping assholes or something? You’re removing fecal matter on the outside of your body.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Don’t judge me
Darth_Lemmy@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
i don’t make the rules I just enjoy them