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"Also, interestingly enough, most people who grew up with bidets believe the toilet paper only method to be unsanitary whereas those brought up on TP only believe bidets to be inferior."

If bidets are inferior to TP, then why should we wash our hands after using the toilet? Surely a wipe over of our hands with a piece of TP would be better.

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How about you can't compare a bidet to washing your hands. When you wash your hands you use soap and purposefully rinse a way from your body. A bidet just sprays some water with no anti microbial properties, and it makes no attempt to wash germs away from your body. Tp might not be great at going antimicrobial but at least it is intelligently applied to keep germs contained instead of washing them all over your backside.

Intelligently applied to keep germs contained? The intelligence left the building with that statement. Water is 10X more hygienic than toilet paper. Next time you want to wash your hands try wiping them with dry toilet paper.

Your hands touch your eyes, nose, mouth and food. The possibility of transferring germs is high unless you carefully wash your hands.

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