Methodology:
To determine the bath, shower and bidet hotspots around the world, we calculated the percentage of hotel bookings in each country, state and city that have showers, baths or bidets.
We used Booking.com to determine the total number of accommodations (hotels, apartments, holiday rentals, etc.) in each geography and then found the number of accommodations in each geography that have either baths, showers or bidets using Booking.com filters.
I was unable to find an option for “baths, showers, or bidet” in the booking.com filters, let alone options for each of those individually. So I’m not sure about the exact data used for this infographic.
Yeah, this is complete bullshit. Every bathroom in every home in Brazil has a spray nozzle, at least, to rinse off one’s dirty bum.
I was in Japan for two weeks and even the tiniest bar in the middle of nowhere had a heated toilet with a bidet attachment, I didn’t see a single “normal” toilet
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. "
I’ve been there twice, don’t recall using any toilets without a bidet. Public trash cans on other hand, felt like it lines up with USA use of bidets.
It doesn’t just feel like public trash cans are rare, they are rare. In 1995, cultists hid sarin containers in public trash cans and trains in and near a Tokyo subway station. One conclusion that was reached from the incident was to get rid of public trash cans and shift society toward disposing of trash at home.
That’s some BS right there
Ah, that makes a lot of sense. I figured that I was simply not looking in the right place for them.
Get a bidet! You wouldn’t wipe poop off anywhere else on your body with paper and feel clean about it
I hear this argument a lot and partly I agree, but partly I disagree.
It’s still your asshole, it’s never going to be clean. Sure it might be clean after using the bidet (if you use soap) or if you use the shower (you do clean your ass in the shower, right chat?). But it’s not going to stay clean, your asshole isn’t some hermetically sealed airlock. Bacteria are going to leak out. People also fart all the time, causing even more nasties to leak out.
So an asshole is never going to be a clean thing, that’s why people don’t mind cleaning it with just a bit of paper. Elsewhere on the body, people do try to keep clean (hopefully), so cleaning shit there with just some paper isn’t good enough. Although there are so many people that don’t wash their hands after using the bathroom and using a phone on the toilet is also pretty normal. And those disgusting people that keep their towels right above the toilet. So the standards might not be as high as I would hope.
Regardless, I still think bidets are a good thing. And people should use them. But the argument most used on the internet is a bit flawed.
Sure some things may leak out through the day but the anus is incredibly effective at being a barrier. Even a strong spray of bidet directly into asshole? No water gets in. Okay maybe a little stuff eventually leaks out, but now you aren’t just smearing shit all over your cheeks and hole dry, it’s much cleaner.
And the air is dirty and therefore your skin will accumulate dirty, pollution and chemicals the second you exit the shower. Should we stop showering on the same note?
The color grading on this map is anything but beautiful. Having sub 1% be the same color as 30% is terrible.
Have my doubts about the accuracy of the data. Bidets of the handheld type are very common in Malaysia.
It says “% of booking.com accomodations with bidets” so it’s not actually measuring total bidet use.
Yeah but as somebody else pointed out, there’s actually no filter on booking.com for bidets, so it’s a mystery where the data is coming from
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.
@UpperBroccoli you’ll need to replace the activated carbon every ~100 hours of use though, for that to work ok long time … @Sunshine
so this tells us the italians have the cleanest asses.
Or they need them the most because they’re all assholes.
Some ~30 years ago bidets were extremely common in Brazil; I don’t have data, but it was way higher than the current 6.6%.
I feel like this is because, nowadays, toilets are made for ants. No space for a bidet or a bathtub - only shower, sink, the loo itself, and the door between shower and the rest. (Plus fixture that doesn’t take space, like a mirror.) Demographic concentration got way overboard in the large cities. Plus those mini handheld showerheads became way more common, if you do need a bidet those are a decent sub.
…I have mixed feelings about this. I don’t care about bidets, but I get pissed (pun not intended) because of why they’re gone.
Plus those mini handheld showerheads
Those are also called bidets.
You’re probably referring to the ones siding the loo, right? There’s those too, but I meant the one coupled to the main shower head. (Dunno if in English they have the same name, but in Portuguese they’re called “ducha higiênica” and “chuveirinho” respectively.)
It’s really interesting how different places just have different arrangements of stuff. In Asia it’s pretty common to have only the ‘chuveirinho’ which we just refer to as the shower.
Why does Finland have so many bidets?
When youre a little woozy after getting out of the sauna, you dont want to accidentally spill your lonkero having to wipe your butthole
Japanese toilets.
Those toilet light things are amazing at night when you don’t want to turn the light on for some reason.
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.
…a ladle? How the fuck does that work? Do you just pour it down your backside and hope it washes some off?
Use a finger while the water is flowing.
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.
Listen we imported all of our ‘native’ cuisine from China and the Americas. It does the same shit to us as it does to you, capiche?Bidets are mandatory for serious cyclists.
They should also be mandatory for food service and hospitals. Ideally would prevent hands from ever coming into contact with shit, even if people did a subpar job washing their hands.
Difference between Japan and Korea is only 1%??? I don’t even remember seeing non-bidet toilet in Japan.
