Alice,

Too bad Hey, what's a bidet? and Okay, but how do you sit on a bidet? weren't posted on the wall of my hotel bathroom in Norway back in 1974 when I was ten, and when my Norwegian father and I (an American) vacationed there. Shortly after discovering that "thing" next to the toilet, I turned it on and washed my face in it. It was the right height for a little kid to wash up before dinner, but thanks to my father's horror upon entering the bathroom while I was in mid-wash, I quickly learned that bidets were for little "heads," not big ones.
So, I guess that I'm one answer to anyone who read these questions and thought, "Who in their right mind would stick anything but their genitals in something that looks, feels, and sits next to a... toilet?"