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I don't understand people's fascination with bidets. I don't want to sprinkle my ass with water and have the resulting shit water splashing all over the place.

The argument I've heard people make multiple times is that "if you have mud on your shoes, do you wash them with water or with paper", but that's the wrong analogy. If I had (human) shit on my shoes, I wouldn't do either, I'd throw them away.

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>I don't want to sprinkle my ass with water and have the resulting shit water splashing all over the place.

Mechanically, I'm not sure what you are envisioning, but I believe your mental picture is deeply flawed.

I honestly can’t imagine not being willing to clean feces off a shoe, but I guess that’s just my farm upbringing showing itself :)

Your butt goes deep enough into the chasm that splash only falls into the bowl, never outside. If it does, you're doing it wrong.

But how do you achieve that with those hand-sprayers? And don't droplets of black water fall all over one's hands and the sprayer when doing so?

The whole thing just seems awful to me. I know, I know: I am the ignorant one. The rest of the world seems very happy with them. But I just can't figure out how to use one in a sanitary fashion.

When people say bidet, they don't mean hand sprayer. They mean a Toto which is setup to spray a jet with a diameter of like a couple millemeters at a fairly low pressure at just the anus. If it misses the anus you now have a slight bit of water on your butt cheek.

It's gentle enough that there's not much of a splash. If you're sitting correctly the black water won't run 'down' your body it will fall straight down into the bowl.

There really isn't a learning curve.

I know, but folks were discussing both sorts in the full discussion. I've seen the sprayers in the wild and always wondered how they can possibly be used in a sanitary manner.

You've been downvoted, but the science suggests that you're not crazy. See for instance: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21058441/

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