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Shouldn’t we more worried about using toilet paper than IKEA catalog if we want to save trees ? Using a bidet is very easy and clean.

https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2010/04/16/toilet-paper-...

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It's true, and a bidet proper isn't necessarily needed.

I haven't used an actual bidet in a while, but I honestly find it hard to fathom not washing my butt after pooping now that I've started doing it.

TP is just smearing it around...

Can you explain how you wash your butt afterwards? Do you take a shower? Sit in the sink and rinse with soap?

It depends on the circumstances. I may get into the shower or I may hang my butt over the tub or sink.

The basic method is to keep washing it and rinsing it off and then washing off my hand, until I no longer feel poop or anything resembling it on my butt. Be gentle. No soap on the butt, that will dry it out. (As I mentioned in other posts, I don't use soap anywhere besides my hands.)

I then keep washing it, occasionally washing off my hand. When I can rub my butt with my hand it comes back not smelling like poop at all, I consider my butt to be clean.

If you look at animals, they do something similar, though they have to lick it clean. I consider myself very fortunate and blessed to not have to do that. :)

Afterwards, I wash my hands, get dressed, and then wash my hands again.

Thanks. Definitely food for thought!

If you are just smearing it around then I think you have both a diet and a method problem.

Here is a challenge for you:

After you're done wiping as thoroughly as you will, run your hand or another piece of toilet paper through your butt and smell it.

Here is a challenge for you, get some dog crap on your hand and spray it with a garden house then sniff your hand. Unless you are soaping and scrubbing your ass deep, it isn't going to be 100% sanitary regardless of using paper or a bidet. They are nice, but in the end it doesn't matter.

If you try the dog crap experiment and actually make a good effort with the hose and scrub it, you will find that it does not smell anymore.

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