> Surely you would need to use soap and use your hand, which doesn't seem to be very sanitary...

You can wash yourself with soap, and then wash your hands (which you should do in any case). I don't see how you can think that leaving all that the TP doesn't take away can be _more_ sanitary than a bidet.

I never said that TP is more sanitary. I was more concerned about poopy water dripping from your hands while getting the soap, or poopy water splashing onto your legs, etc. However as I've never used a bidet, perhaps these aren't problems.

I think if you really want to get clean after a particularly messy poop, the best way is to have a shower from the crotch down.

Whatever you do, you'll end up cleaner than when just wiping with paper anyway.