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If you're on the fence about using one due to the expense/lack of hot water option, I'd recommend trying one of the cheap ($30-50) inline cold water bidets with customizable pressure. People have a misconception that the cold water is shocking or uncomfortable, but in my experience it's actually quite soothing, and you can modify the pressure down to just a trickle to reduce that cold feeling.

I've gotten so used to it that I find myself reaching for it when I'm out in the world, even installing them in (willing) friends houses! It really does feel barbaric to use TP alone nowadays.

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During covid, I was staying with a friend and they refused to let me install one cause they were afraid their kid would flood the house. Fair point that I couldn't really argue with given how they were putting me up at a time when I needed a place.

Children will be startled, entertained, and then never do it again (in my experience).

In general, not having useful objects around the house because kids might misuse them deprives the tiny scientist of critical self-educational opportunities.

I offered to help clean up.

I got a cheap one with hot and cold water hookups. I decided to try it with just the cold water before bothering to connect the hot. It's been years now, and I still haven't connected the hot water.

These are great. Hot water is nice but your bum + the rate of water hitting it works fine.

Is it soothing even in winter, when you can get hit with 40 to 50 degree F water?

It really isn't that bad.

I am up in chilly canada and its nice even at minus 40 out. I got my inlaws in the yukon to install them and its even nice up there at christmas. None of us have any desire to buy the heated ones. The cheap cold water only is lovely.

I guess you have warm water trapped in your pipes. In some places, even washing your hands with cold tap water is painful in the winter, and that must have something to do with how houses are built.

Things actually freeze here so we bury those lines deep enough that that is unlikely. It's definitely warmer than my 3 degrees celsius cold plunge tank, but it's still cold. The relatives in the yukon pull water from a frozen lake all year long and it's probably as cold as the plunge tank if you run it long enough, but that's also still fine. Most people's buttholes aren't as sensitive to cold as you think they are.

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