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The first time I across one in a relative's house I assumed it was for washing your feet. It seemed too low to serve any other purpose.
I came across them for the first and last time when visiting Portugal in December 1995. I would love to have one but our bathroom doesn't have the space unless we took out the bathtub.
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I came across them for the first and last time when visiting Portugal in December 1995. I would love to have one but our bathroom doesn't have the space unless we took out the bathtub.
How far away is there a sink?
If close by, like right next to the toilet, you can install one like this for instance...
This is all we have in each bathroom. In Europe, we had a separate bidet...
You can buy “bidets add-ons” and basically take the bidet with you if you are renting and decide to move (or owning, though I guess moving is much less than among renters).
As a clueless American, I wonder about how bidets in Europe are... facilitated. The one we've had in our home for the last four years is a single entity, attached to the toilet. When one needs it, one doesn't have to, shall we say, relocate to another facility. It's an all-in-one package deal.
I notice in photographs of European and English bathrooms there are two facilities. Doesn't that kind of complicate things? So one does one's business then gets up to wash off in another one?
The Japanese have this down to a science. The Toto Washlet and similar brands are also an all-in-one package. Why are there two in Europe?
Thanking you in advance.
That's because the Japanese are really short on living space in the cities. Everything is designed to be compact.
Kinda awkward. Those are better, in my opinion.
No remodeling needed. Fits over existing fixture.
You might want to try simple, before deciding on something fancier.
Thing to remember: you need to adjust the water stream slowly and carefully until you remember the comfortable setting. Otherwise, full power stream can hurt your butt...
widespread in Italy.
It used to be common in France, but not so much in newer homes.
I don't think it's very common elsewhere.
Hahaha... No??
Today, bidets or variations of it, are considered a standard bathroom item in many countries in the world, including Europe, South America, the Middle East, and Asia.
It is considered standard in many European countries, particularly in Italy and Portugal, as well as in South American countries like Argentina and Venezuela. They also are commonly found in Middle Eastern countries and throughout East Asia, especially in Japan. According to estimates, bidets are present in about 80% of bathrooms in these areas.
In fact, in Italy, Portugal and Spain the fitting of bidets in household bathrooms has been mandatory since 1975. It's possibly due to this mandatory fitting policy that Bidets are now widely seen as a European thing.
I think that after the toilet paper shortage in the US, many people started considering other alternatives and bidet inserts were sold out on Amazon for a long time.
I would say so: according to attitudes towards bidets, there are four main groups of people in the country where I live - this country is my advanced Estonia:
1. People who know what a bidet is.
2. People who know what a bidet is and who despise people who do not know what a bidet is. (Because of the dog eat dog culture of the Estonians. (So to speak, in the sense of 'historical tradition', bidet is a fairly new thing here because it was rare in the Soviet period and thus, having a bidet in this laissez-faire "society" may be one of the signs that the person who owns it belongs to the desirable upper middle class)).
3. People who do not know what a bidet is but know what a toilet bowl is and use a toilet bowl.
4. People who, whether or not they know the existence of bidets, do not use the toilet bowl and urinate (and may be even doing something else) on the street, in parks, in public by the roadside and so on. The reasons why they do so are unknown to me - may be anger, cynicism, carelessness, crudity. Estonian genes. (Yes, oh I am sometimes a bit too fragile, I know.)
We probably don't have people who don't know what a toilet bowl is. All the more so because Estonians had a fairly high level of literacy already centuries ago, even though in terms of hygiene the things were like they were (Estonians themselves like to emphasize the first part of this statement. But do not like to emphasize the second part of this statement).
What group do I belong to? I only exclude belonging to the second and fourth group. There is no bidet in my own home. But there was a bidet in my parents' house during the commie era. However, at some point, the bidet was removed and replaced with a regular sink. (But that was just when the freedom and capitalism had arrived in - then, having a bidet would have been important! What a mistake! Une erreur fatale! (It should be French. I started learning French this winter despite being quite lazy and quite old. I'm a complete beginner and try to use new words and phrases)
*I hope neither op nor other cd forum members take my post that death seriously. Sometimes it's good to make a clean breast of it lol
Anyone who has used one regularly, understands those who don't walk around with dirty buttholes all day.
And it's true those people who don't used bidets do in fact walk around with dirty buttholes.
If you got a bunch of poop on your hand would you uses only TP to clean it off? Of course not. Wonder why.
I also find using a bidet with cold water on my butthole feels refreshing in the morning. Like a cool breeze on a summer day.
Even the Romans used a wet sponge.
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What a mistake! Une erreur fatale! (It should be French. I started learning French this winter despite being quite lazy and quite old. I'm a complete beginner and try to use new words and phrases) 
