The 38% for Japan seems suspect to me. I found this online from a commercial site, but the number is closer to my experience: "Bidet Toilets and Japanese Culture High-end Japanese-style toilet and bidet combinations might retain a degree of exoticism in the US, but they’re extremely common in Japan. According to NPR, roughly 80% of Japanese households own a bidet, and you’ll find fancy Japanese toilets in most public areas as well. "
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Get a bidet! You wouldn't wipe poop off anywhere else on your body with paper and feel clean about it
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Have my doubts about the accuracy of the data. Bidets of the handheld type are very common in Malaysia.
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Just got one of these and it's such a life upgrade. Has an anti stink function, too. Filters the air through activated carbon, which means unless you are dumping something extra nasty, there is not even any smell afterwards. And my bottom never felt this clean before.
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so this tells us the italians have the cleanest asses.
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Some countries don't have the plumbing to handle toilet paper, so they might use bidets or... buckets of water and a ladle. Not sure if that counts as a bidet or not.
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Japanese toilets.
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The reason Americans don’t use bidets is because they don’t realise there’s something better than smearing shit around your arsehole with a wad of dry paper.
Bidets are mandatory for serious cyclists.
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26% in Finland is bullshit. I have never seen one here or heard anyone talk about them.
Most people do have these hand showers that you can use to wash your ass / toilet / sink
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when they are used in those countries that use them the most, d’you think everyone bursts out singing, “happy bidet to you!”?
Difference between Japan and Korea is only 1%??? I don't even remember seeing non-bidet toilet in Japan.
In Australia, they were (and possibly still are) illegal, on the grounds that the possibility of fecal matter making its way back through the plumbing into the public water supply is theoretically nonzero.
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