What is this thing called (next to the toilet) in this picture?

[SportsNerd]

and what is used for?

[BobbyC65]

Bidets are primarily used to wash and clean the genitalia, perineum, inner buttocks, and anus. Some bidets have a vertical jet intended to give easy access for washing and rinsing the perineum and anal area. The traditional separate bidet is like a wash-basin, and can be used for many other purposes such as washing feet.

[OlderAndWiser]

It is a bidet and it is used for cleaning yourself after using the toilet.

[Screenwriter]

Actually, I thought it was used for cleaning yourself after sex and I'm sure toilet use would enter into the picture too. Jets of water go in the nether regions.

[OlderAndWiser]

@Screenwriter You could certainly use it for either purpose.

[FunkyMonkee]

Because I can't see it very well in this picture, I'd guess it's a bidet. After you pee or take a dump, you sit on that and it squirts water up your holes to clean you up/out. Some people use it as a fountain.

[reptocarl]

Bidet. It sprays water on your butthole after you shit to wash it

[Jamie05rhs]

You don't say? What a marvelous invention.

[Guardian45]

It's a bidet, which is used for washing pussy. It is archaic, cuz it's being replaced by intelligent toilets that now cleanup your perineum like a carwash!

[Browneye57]

A bidet. Pronounced 'bidd-ay'.
To wash your nether regions after using the toilet.

[Adam_INTJ]

Why does it seem like mostly 40 and older people know what it is?

And why not just wipe one's own butt instead of spraying it with a water jet?

Seems gross to me and it has me really confused.

[Boppy]

It's an old thing from France, still used in Europe and Japan.
The idea is... if you pick up poop with your hands, is it better to wipe most of to poop off (toilet paper) or to spray it off with clean water (bidet)?

[Browneye57]

@Adam_INTJ - Agreed. I've never tried one, but gee, surely some like a water-gush enema. LOL
Some other countries they don't flush their TP - they throw it in a wastebasket, shit and all. OMFG

[Boppy]

Oh my gosh yes. It's scary how many countries have toilets that can't flush TP.

It's only an enema if it hits a bullseye. Just gotta roll the die sometimes.

[Gedaria]

Bedet, I think that's how it's spelt. It's french. It for a woman to clean her private bits...

[josephvjohnsoniii]

I think its called a bidet, its something that was used a lot before the 21st Century instead of toilet paper

[Screenwriter]

I wonder if it saves water too. We all know it saves paper... But it would be better to have it attached to the toilet so you aren't hopping off "dripping"... etc. I think the 1960s "Mr Bidet" does that.

[Anonymous]

Bidet. I't is used by women to clean themselves after sex.

[BeMuse]

Automatic ass blaster.

[MackToday]

Could be a urinal , not sure.

[HaveNoName]

Watch Crocodile Dundee.

[Brad23203]

"Watch Crocodile Dundee." Yes, but I believe in the movie he used a garden hose. Just say'n.

[HaveNoName]

@Brad23203 Haha. I have a vague memory that he came across a bidet and it took him a long time to figure out what it's purpose was.

[lofii]

It washes your butthole

[Brad23203]

... you mean my ex? I didn't even see her in there.

[lofii]

@Brad23203 lol what

[Brad23203]

you said it washes your butthole and by the word "butthole", I thought you were referring to my ex... as in ex-girlfriend.

[lofii]

@Brad23203 your ex used to wash your butthole?

[Anonymous]

It’s called a bidae and it’s for washing your butt

[Opinion Owner]

Usually in rich peoples homes and really high class hotels

[SportsNerd]

Are you from the Balkans?

[Opinion Owner]

No I’m from the USA and they have them here

[Aiko_E_Lara]

Drinking fountain!

[Aiko_E_Lara]

I meant drinking fountain for the ass

[slatyb]

Bidet

[NovissimumVirorum]

It's a foot bath

[outside_Toronto]

bidet

[Anonymous]

Bidet/urinal.