Why won’t prudish Brits recognise the bidet’s brilliance
May 2, 2017 5:40:16 GMT 7
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Post by Soutpeel on May 2, 2017 5:40:16 GMT 7
Why won’t prudish Brits recognise the bidet’s brilliance?
Like many other links to Europe, bidets have almost died out here. What a pity. A brave campaign was launched to save them by the Council of British Sanitary Pottery Manufacturers in 1963, but failed. We were restrained by British prudery, suggested the council, “depriving the country of the most hygienic washing appliance of them all”.
What’s the matter with us? The Italians and the French have used bidets for 300 years (and not just at court or in brothels). Perhaps we’re still too embarrassed to embrace this vital bit of bathroom equipment. Or to talk about washing our bottoms. I’m using bottom as a catch-all term, because there are so many ailments and substances that the bidet can heal and deal with effectively: piles, periods, fissures, itches, prolapses, as well as your everyday effluvia, but we have long been a relatively prudish and grubby lot as far as down there goes.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/01/why-wont-prudish-brits-recognise-the-bidets-brilliance
Like many other links to Europe, bidets have almost died out here. What a pity. A brave campaign was launched to save them by the Council of British Sanitary Pottery Manufacturers in 1963, but failed. We were restrained by British prudery, suggested the council, “depriving the country of the most hygienic washing appliance of them all”.
What’s the matter with us? The Italians and the French have used bidets for 300 years (and not just at court or in brothels). Perhaps we’re still too embarrassed to embrace this vital bit of bathroom equipment. Or to talk about washing our bottoms. I’m using bottom as a catch-all term, because there are so many ailments and substances that the bidet can heal and deal with effectively: piles, periods, fissures, itches, prolapses, as well as your everyday effluvia, but we have long been a relatively prudish and grubby lot as far as down there goes.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/01/why-wont-prudish-brits-recognise-the-bidets-brilliance
