How to Use a Bidet

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No, that is not a sink or a toilet without a seat. It’s a bidet and it’s even better than wet wipes.

Step 1: Wipe your rear
Wipe your rear end before approaching the bidet to prevent excess waste from washing into the bidet.

Step 2: Turn on the water
Turn on the water, starting with the hot tap if it has one, and gradually adjusting the cold tap to a comfortable temperature.

Tip
Test the water temperature with your hand to ensure it is not too warm for your more sensitive areas. Burns on your nether regions can really put a damper on your day.

Step 3: Adjust the spray
Adjust the valves slowly until the spray reaches between 6 and 10 inches.

Step 4: Face the water valves
Face the water valves and approach the bidet.

Tip
If you are wearing pants or shorts, you may need to squat over the bidet, facing away from the valves.

Step 5: Sit on the bidet
Straddle the bidet and sit down. Adjust your bum so the water spray hits where you need it, and use soap to cleanse your hind end or genitals.

Step 6: Dry off
Turn off the water and use toilet paper or paper towels to dry off. Throw the paper into a trash can, not the bidet.

Step 7: Wash your hands
Pull your clothing back up, wash your hands, and enjoy that fresh, just-out-of-the-shower feeling.

Did You Know?
Did you know? In 1596, Sir John Harrington invented the first flush toilet for Queen Elizabeth.

[zisisstip]

There are 5 types of bidets. 1. Standalone : non-hygienic 2. Hand held: needs to be versatile 3. Turkish: Hand involvement 4.With more or less OBLIQUE stream add-ons: push filthy water to uro- genitalia 5 . Add-ons with VERTICAL STREAM.. Which one would you prefer??

[hatrick]

Throwing the used paper in a trash can is gross.

[gugola]

In Italy we have towels for bidet, not paper

[bchan]

The ones used by the French in the aristocrats mansions were simple bowls with water...not proper bidets. The bidet (as the name suggests it's not French originated) came from an Italian colony in Africa. The Italians of the Reign of the two sicilies started to install it everywhere, but the French didn't know what it actually was... when the French Savoia in fact, came across a bidet while collecting the items in the mansions of the Reign of the Two sicilies, when Italy was unified by the Savoia, they tagged at the bidet as "an item with a guitar shape of an unknown use". The results are evident by noticing that in france you cannot find bidet, other than in the hotels :) while in every Italian house there is at least one.

[RAINEY]

Your comment made me laugh out loud. Thank You !!! Love that story. Not in a disgusting way.

[Firewizard]

Wait...how is this useful then? Aren't you using more paper product and water?

[RichardLeslieWhereat]

How does this save tp when you need to use it twice.

[victorhelin]

Anybody watching this from their hotel room?

[ChrisJones-fntw]

Meanwhile you're now using 10x the amount of water for bathroom activities. Brilliant!

[yanni]

doesn't the water run into your shoes after it travels down the back of your loeg?

[Mailboxloser]

Funny how people think this is nasty, because when you JUST wipe, you still leave a lot of sh*t behind.

Though, I'd still never use one

[goliathprime]

Why not just take a dump and then go into the shower and wash off in there? Why go to all this trouble of inventing a third bathroom appliance? You don't even need to use paper towels to wipe before and after if you just shower it all away.

[iknusa]

ok do you plan to shit only when you have all the time to take a shower? lucky guy :)

[creepshowandgore]

I used it as a drinking fountain... now I feel sick

[houndoom]

I have one in my house, and I didnt know what it was until now

[kizzck]

what happens if howcast runs out of ideas?

[BrassStacks]

@iknowheis Squat and go. I understand that there isn't TP very often so I quote a childhood song " Stranded on the toilet bowl, with no paper on the roll, so to prove you're a man you must wipe it with your hand, when your Stranded, Stranded on the toilet bowl!"

[JazyGirl]

lol some people say if you don't shower everyday, it washes the "important parts"

[captainpanic]

@infamous741 What's disgusting about washing?

[zisisstip]

The long going dispute between wiping and washing fans is totally needless. As the hygienic aspect of this issue is the crucial factor for or against each of these two methods for anus cleaning, an independent lab could solve easily the dispute for good. I don’t understand why this simple act had not already taken place.