As someone from a country where bidets are normalized, I was horrified when I learned what the toilet paper in Western cartoons was actually used for.

Hi I’m from the TP lobby, but don’t you want to smear poo around on yourself with a piece of paper that will probably rip anyway and get it all over your hand too? 🥺

I put off getting one for a long time just because I didn't see a problem with the way things were going. If only I had realized sooner how much better life could be.

Gay: remotely squirting water at your butt. Not gay: shoving your hand up your butt covered by the world thinnest paper.

Mostly speculation on my part and remembering conversations from decades ago, but at least in the US among men, anything touching your butthole = gay. Using a bidet is something those effeminate Europeans use and not something for manly Americans. These same men think that actually cleaning your butthole in the shower is also gay. Fortunately this mainly seems to be a mindset that older generations hang onto, as I talk to younger folks (Millennial and younger), they seem to be much more open to bidet usage. I have one installed at home and I don't feel clean if I have to do my business somewhere without one.

Right! Maybe it's due to its French origin. Freedom lovers can't stand French things.