
MSN Mainichi WaiWai News by Marvin Feltcher
Bidet brigade's bottoms feel the burn after a nasty bout of 'washlette syndrome'
Just over 25 years after Toto Ltd. introduced bottom-washer equipped toilets to the market, two in three Japanese homes now boast of having cleaning commodes. But it turns out that the cleansing crapper could actually be a literal pain in the ass, leading to an affliction some are calling "washlette syndrome," according to Shukan Asahi (12/1).
..."I use the washlette to clean up my bottom after I've defecated, but when I do so, the warm water it emits stimulates my buttocks and I feel like I've got more to let out. That goes on over and over again and makes it hard to leave the toilet," he tells Shukan Asahi.
I find that the biggest problems with washlettes is that I have difficulty going back to using regular non-washlette toilets when I visit home.