"Tackle and ring"???. . . If you stand at the basin, you get soap all over the floor, and you can't get your tackle and ring really clean unless you dunk them, and you don't want to be using a facecloth, for your ring.
Bidets have never really caught on in the United States, though you might find them in wealthy folks' homes and some of the tonier hotels. They're certainly more hygienic (and easier on the tender areas) than toilet paper. I think a lot of Americans find the idea of warm water squirting up their ass rather decadent.Hey, how many people here, have a bidet?
I want one.
(And yet people will pay for worthless "colon cleansing" treatments. Go figure.)