Do you put a cover on the toilet seat?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No toilet seat cover, no hovering unless circumstances are really bad. Most of the time I sit my buttcheeks right on the seat.

Still alive, no STDs, and have never even had covid.

Ditto. I did get COVID, but not from a toilet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No and I don't hover either. I've never had any negative repercussions from this lack of worry at a public toilet and I'm way older than you. I do inspect the seat for remnants of the last person and wipe that off before I sit down.

+1

The paper in the stall to go over the toilet is such a waste.

[Anonymous]

I don't think those paper covers are effective at all. I hover.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think those paper covers are effective at all. I hover.

I mean that’s not effective either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m white and I sit without hesitation. I’ll wipe off any droplets before.

There’s definitely a cultural/racial component and it’s not all positive or even harmless. I was a teacher in a DC school with all Black students and the students were really cruel to each other about hygiene and any perceived transgression.

I find that people obsessed with germs and cleanliness in this irrational way are usually dealing with fear of shame more than fear of disease. But obviously everyone is different.

Very good point.

[Anonymous]

Y’all are nasty if you sit on the seat. I hover and won’t touch DH the seat nor clean it. That’s what cleaning ladies are for.

[Anonymous]

no you can hover and piss if you have to, covers are for crazies

[Anonymous]

I use covers. Three of them.
I hate when places don’t offer them! Hovering is my back up choice.

[Anonymous]

There have been numerous studies about the amount of bacteria that collect on those covers. And it’s extremely nasty how some people use the cover and then leave it on the sit when they are done.

[Anonymous]

Yes, always. If the restroom doesn’t have the covers, I line the seat with three strips of toilet paper.

I’m Indian-American, for the PP collecting racial anecdata on this topic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There have been numerous studies about the amount of bacteria that collect on those covers. And it’s extremely nasty how some people use the cover and then leave it on the sit when they are done.

Link?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope I wipe it off then sit.

This. So many other germs in the bathroom and life. This is not what I worry about.

[Anonymous]

Can someone explain to me what the fear is of touching a toilet seat with your butt or thighs? I mean, I’m not rubbing my vulva on the seat. Have I been doing it wrong all these years? Any germs that want to climb up my butthole have to fight my own feces to infect me. Not to brag, but I have some hella stank poo. I feel like if something defeated my poo to infect me, it deserves to kill me, unless it wants to make me She Hulk. And anything getting up in my snizz gotta be airborne, and really, that’s not how you catch colds.

At worst, you have a tiny chance of getting norovirus from a toilet seat. But if someone’s spreading norovirus through poo particles on the seat, they’re also on everything else uou touch and the air you breathe, so it’s sort of a waste of paper.

Unless you’re like one of the moms who spreads antibiotic resistance by insisting your kid get antibiotics for viruses that antibiotics can’t touch, there’s nothing to gain by papering the bathroom. And if you’re that person, the only thing you seem to be gaining from a sane perspective is some weird power trip, trying to control every aspect of your life, including the microscopic entities that enter your bodies. Best of luck with that!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There have been numerous studies about the amount of bacteria that collect on those covers. And it’s extremely nasty how some people use the cover and then leave it on the sit when they are done.

You said sit instead of seat, so I can’t trust anything you say ever. Especially science stuff. You’re gonna have to show your work if you want anyone to believe you. Do you mean the liners in the box on the wall of the stall have diseases waiting to get me? That’s like saying I sneezed so the tissues in the middle of the box are waiting to give me a cold.

Also, that’s the dumbest thing ever. No one sees a pre lined toilet seat and thinks some Good Samaritan lined it after they did unspeakable things to that toilet. At best, dcum moms think the last liner didn’t catch in the swirl and they re flush or use another stall. At worst, they think there’s some gang going around rubbing their infected bits on the seat liners trying to give all the moms herpes so they never use a public bathroom again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think those paper covers are effective at all. I hover.

I mean that’s not effective either.

It absolutely is effective at keeping my butt from touching the dirty seat.