On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 10:25:53 -0500, in alt.home.repair Dan Espen wrote:

You think you won't use paper after squirting water on your butt?

Good question.
I don't know the answer.

I can only say that I've stayed in peole's houses with bidets in other
countries where they use a small hand towel to blot up the (clean) water.

It should be no different than the towel you use after taking a shower,
with respect to how clean your butt should be after using the bidet.

Never had one, but with limited flow, the water is going to start
out near room temperature.

I think the warm water issue is the biggest one.

Dunno how bidets work, but you're not gonna have a gas-fired one, so, it's
either electricity or it has hot water piped to the toilet.

With electricity, I can see maintaining a temperature being easy.

With hot water piped in, I can see it might be like what it's like in most
showers, where the first few seconds are too cold and the last few seconds
too hot, with a goldilocks zone needing to be dialed in manually.