A bidet-owning friend said it this way: “If a bird shits on your arm, would you wipe it off with a kleenex and consider it ‘clean’?”[quote=“tyroney, post:49, topic:93965”]
When my toilet time gets serious, the back side of the bowl is exactly… the danger zone. Keeping an old toothbrush handy to try and scrub all around a little pipe doesn’t sound like fun.
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Not sure about the one in this article, but the cheapo one I have has a little plastic guard that protects the little pipe/nozzle bit. When you turn on the water, the nozzle extends out from the guard to spray. If there’s serious toilet time, the guard is very easy to clean off.