Comment on Does anyone *not* love using their bidet?

charlytune@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• rowinxavier@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I can provide you the answer my partner gave me to the same question. The bidet provides water with a direction to it. You wash front to back, so all the material is lifted and pushed further away from the vulva and only fresh clean water arrives at the vulva itself. Also, as in chemistry, dilution is the solution, as you are washing less and less undesirable material left and the water runs cleaner and cleaner. So take extra time, wash front to back, and do multiple slow passes.

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  • JoBo@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So, sit on it backwards?

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    • rowinxavier@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For handheld bidets or the hose attachment this applies, the ones where it is fixed have much more flow and deal with the problem that way. That said, I’ve never used one of those so I can’t say.

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  • charlytune@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ah! Thanks for this. I didn’t know about the water direction. This makes sense now.

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• kool_newt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Don’t have any links, but about a year ago a saw an article about a study on bidets and genital bacteria and bidet users with vaginas were found to have higher fecal bacterial counts.

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  • charlytune@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ewwww. I think I’d need to look into that more before trying one.

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  • frogfruit@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    www.healthline.com/health/are-bidets-sanitary#res…

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    • kool_newt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s a different one I think but similar.

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• frogfruit@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You have to angle your body such that the water drips straight down and not toward the front. It requires some practice to get the hang of.

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  • charlytune@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How much practice? I’m not very good at practicing. If something is a faff I’m liable to give up quickly, particularly if it’s something that could be icky.

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    • frogfruit@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can probably get it down in one sitting. Just make sure you can get the angle right before actually going so you don’t end up with an infection.

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• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Unless you’re lying facedown on the toilet, it will need to trickle UP into your bits.

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  • charlytune@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When you’re sitting the arse sits a bit above the vulva, height wise. Just didn’t like the idea of water trickling poo down between my flaps, where it could then get into the vagina.

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