How to use a bidet

Step 5 Drying Yourself

Once you have cleaned your genital and anal areas, you dry yourself off. Some Bidets have a cloth towel nearby, DO NOT USE! This towel is for drying off your hands only. Most Bidets have a built in air dryer for you to use. If the one you are facing does not, use toilet paper or other paper towels to dry yourself off.

Do not throw any toilet paper into the Bidet. This can clog the Bidet and be unsightly.

Comments

[Euphrosyne]

This was very helpful, informative, and tactful, and thanks awfully!!! Henry What's his Name, the Anais Nin buddy, committed a worse crime than Irving's character did, which he describes in his autobiography, whose title also escapes me at the moment. I've always wondered why bidet owners can't afford a seat, if the naked rim would be cold, and other concerns that lead on to unseemly peripheral thoughts. One other worry: what if an elderly or infirm person doesn't have a handy sink to grab, like the girl does in the photo? And what about persons who are too small or young to manage? Do super-considerate bidet owners provide grab bars or steps? A very useful and polite treatment of bidet-dom, I suppose field engineering answers these questions, you can't be expected to anticipate every little nervous suspicion?

[octopusses]

Sorry, but the small towel near the bidet actually IS meant for drying yourself! Most people use the towel by the sink to dry their hands, after they wash them. And I'm not sure where in the world you're talking about, but here in Italy almost every house/hotel bathroom has a bidet, and I have NEVER come across one with a built-in air dryer. Assuming you're in a hotel room and not in someone's home, dry yourself with the towel, that's what it's there for... :-P

[gonzo3031]

There is a humorous passage in John Irving's "A Son of the Circus" about a very similar faux pas. It concerns a urinal rather than a bidet.

[Rishnai]

Thank you for the warning not to use the cloth towel. That is a faux pas I probably would have committed the first time I encountered one.

[camscam]

Yea and I probably would go next. I hope the towels are white...