Why aren't we all using Japanese toilets?
Every one of these articles gets the pitch of these toilets completely wrong - for every person, and in every scenario, these are not universally better.<p>Consider the following experiment:<p>Smear some mud on your arm. Now, using a jet stream the power of a squirt gun and very low precision, wash it all off in 10 seconds. Not so easy.
Then - imagine if you put mud on a place with hair! Not only will it not be clean without some actual washing, we haven't even gotten to the drying part yet.<p>Fact of the matter is, these do not replace toilet paper. I thought they were OK (Google) until I decided to use toilet paper after - and I was shocked and disappointed. My routine simply got longer and more complex, with a small value add of washing with water instead of dry paper.<p>Sorry about the grim detail - I think the 'squeamish about bathroom routine' point of the article is right - just in the wrong way!