Super Terrific Japanese Thing: Portable Washlet

I’ve already gone on record as being a fan of the Japanese toilet and its washlet, which sprays water on your bum to help clean your nether-regions significantly more than toiler paper alone ever could. I know the idea of getting anally power-washed is funny to some people — especially when it’s called “getting anally power-washed” — but the benefits stay the same, and they are significant. I still wish they’d come over to Western civilization.

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However, this portable travel washlet strikes even me as a bit… weird. Again, I approve of washlets in general, I just don’t want to carry one around with me. Frankly, I don’t want to carry anything around that I have to stick near my asshole on a regular basis… it seems unclean, which kind of defeats the purpose of the washlet. Still, at the very least, it’s given some Japanese reporters the opportunity to hand it to some ignorant gaijin and force them to try and figure out what it was. Hey dude — not a cellphone. (Via Japan Probe)