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I bought a Genie Bidet at the beginning of the pandemic due to the toilet paper shortage. Never shit without one now. Doesn't save toilet paper but the idea of a dry wipe is for the savages.

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This. It’s strange to me that US culture places importance in frequently washing hair, hands, etc.

However potentially smearing faeces over part of your body and sitting with it festering there for 12 hours or until your next shower is completely acceptable.

How do such bidets work in public bathrooms? Most public bathrooms, the only thing I reasonably trust to be clean is the toilet paper. Doesn't the bidet get exposed to there people's excrement, raising the chance of passing that exposure onto the next user of the stall? Genuinely curious.

The electronic bidets will run the water at low pressure for a few seconds to wash that away, the cheap ones will raise above behind a guard and the water pressure causes it to lower which also causes it to run for a little before use

I don't use toilet paper at all any longer, haven't bought or used a single square the entire pandemic.

Then again, the RH here is usually around 25%.

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