The bidet’s revival

Lack of bidets, like insistence on using fixed-head showers (and only fixed head) or putting light switch of a table lamp in the bulb holder, the most inconvenient location, is one of those things that I can never understand about Americans and that makes me think that may be there is something particularly brain-damaging in the water here. (insert sarcasm tags appropriately)

If you had poop on your hands, you wouldn't just wipe it off, why do you only wipe/smear it if it's on your butt?

I live in SEA where we use the 'toilet hose' mentioned in the article. If there is -one- thing I will bring back from living here, that's it.

I notice the article fails to mention that the bidet is extremely diffused in Italy, where nearly every household has one

People often ask, "But don't you end up with a wet butt?" The answer is, you use toilet paper (and less of it). Or if you're wealthy, your bidet includes a dryer.