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I was very leery of these things when I moved to Japan, and they make convenient targets for jokes, given the butt-centric advertising campaign and the anatomically suggestive buttons on the remote control.

After all the snickering, though, I found that the washlet is totally superior to what we use here in the U.S., for all the reasons seika and yuzu (Japanese nicknames?) mention above. For reasons no one wants to discuss at length, toilet paper is pretty crude technology, and it doesn't do that great a job, while creating unnecessary additional paper waste. Get over the adolescent heebie jeebies about the water, it really is vastly cleaner and better.