Ashamed of my bidet

I say just embrace it... no bidet is going to look like a totally normal toilet seat unless you spend a LOT of money. If you really want to be low key, you can tell visitors that it was already installed when you moved into the apartment.

Liz,
A bidet is the ultamate 'chic' in French bathroom Fashion...it was invented by the courtisans of the French Royal Courts...they were considered 'avant guard' and extremely sexy women...
If anyone asks you about it just tell them that you were reading a book about Napoleon and that all of the women in his life 'just had to have' a bidet!
You will appear to be very fashionable and chic and it will shut up everyone else...
ps...really good to give those tired feet a quick rince in cold water on those hot summer days!
Sharon

Flip your perspective to that of your guests:

This may be - will probably be - their first actual experience using a bidet, and undoubtedly most Americans associate bidets with up-scale bathroom accoutrements.

My room-mate was effusive in his praise of the bidet after I had it installed, and says that now he can't imagine using the toilet without a refreshing bidet wash afterward - toilet paper is so crude and inefficient by comparison.

Leave the instruction card prominently displayed so your guest knows that they are expected to use it, and they will!

So everything is good. Not only is a bidet seat NOT a source of embarrassment, but just be silent about it and your guest will walk away being mightily impressed at how sophisticated your restroom is.

They are very common in Europe and Japan.



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It is easy to be embarrassed by bathroom items you are not accustomed to using. Our whole family loved my bidet so much I had to put one in the children's bathroom.Your embarrassment will disappear once you start receiving friend's and neighbor's compliments. Everyone likes to feel clean!

Please do not be ashamed! I installed mine before surgery and while it isn't usual to see a bidet at bathrooms in the US I just thought I had to make my life easier, pretty much the people who loves you and are worth for you to have as guest at your home will not care! I promise! If someone makes you feel bad about it, they are not worth yor friendship or affection. You need to make your life better and the bidet sure helps! Do not worry and enjoy your new member of your life.... Your bidet. You soon will realize that you should have gotten one earlier.

The past two years I had stopovers in Tokyo while on my way to Vietnam and China. My favorite part of the airport at Narita, Japan is to visit the restroom and note the newest TOTO bidets. (Every stall in the women's restroom has a variety of bidet styles!) I have a TOTO bidet but it is over 10 years old. The newest ones have a button to push and when you do so, it generates the sound of a toilet flushing.....just the sound not an actual flush! It seems to be used to conceal other noises being made while on the toilet! Think of all the water saved by not actually having to flush the toilet in order to camouflage bathroom sounds we'd rather not have our friends, etc. hear!

What a wonderful gift! How about a sign "Beware of Bidet".

Actually having a Bidet is luxury. Very wealthy in many countries who have them are usually talked about in a good way. I always grew up in a classy household with them and thought nothing of it. Would have the toilet then a bidet next to it.

You're friends will be envious! You will have the best toilet in the neighborhood. Enjoy!

Sue