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.Consider the following experiment: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.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.Sorry about the grim detail - I think the 'squeamish about bathroom routine' point of the article is right - just in the wrong way!