Most women hoover above toilet seat in public toilets to pee?

As a commited hoverer I never used to sit, but I did so about five years ago, caught bubonic arse plague, and have been dead ever since.

No. No, they aren't. Unless perhaps they have a disability that means they can't stand up in the usual way, but that's frankly a risk I don't think you have to worry about. Hoverers who spray piss everywhere are far, far more common.

Why do you believe a significant number of people are dragging their anuses, vaginas and urethral openings across toilet seats? Who told you that? Where did you see it?

It’s the hoverers that are making a mess. I’ve been putting my bare arse on public toilet seats for almost 60 years. Haven’t caught anything yet.

The strange thing is, that none of this bothers me. Germs don't bother me. I think I've just been deeply conditioned from childhood. It's definitely psychological to hover, and I can do that without splashing for those who care. I'm content for everyone to choose their own public toilet habits, so they can let me choose mine.

I just sit down.

hovered

This is mad. Ive never offered in my life. Im not wildly worried about my thighs touching the same seat as other people's thighs. Humans aren't meant to be sterile.

^this x1000000

Good point.

And just think how many people have slept in that hotel bed. Some of them won't have showered in the last 24 hours and only the duvet cover and pillow will have been washed since the last occupant.

The pillow, mattress, duvet or blankets will have been slept on by multiple unknown, often unshowered people.

Also think about all the different bare feet that have been walking around on the carpet and bathroom flooring.

Unknown hands that have opened the door, opened the curtains, used the TV remote.

Starting to worry less about the toilet seat now?

For those worried about taking germs from the loo back into their homes, I hate to break it to you but there are germs from urine and faeces everywhere. Just because you wash your hands doesn't mean everyone does. So they go off to that cafe you went in, open the door with their unwashed hands. Sit on the chair by pulling out the back. Which you'll do next. Pick up the salt cellar or pepper pot, pick up the menu.

Or pop into that clothes shop or grocery shop and touch all the things you're going to touch. And all of that will get on your clothes and back into your house.

And in those cafes, even if you avoid the door handles somehow, you'll still need to sit down. And those chairs, where you'll sit in the clothes you don't want covered with anything from the loo that may have got on your thighs, you'll have had toddlers having an accident. Or menstruating women having a small 'leak' because they didn't realise they'd come on, people putting their feet on the chair opposite and, if dogs are allowed, the odd one or two licking crumbs from the seat. If they're cloth covered chairs you can bet they're not washed down every night - so watch out for those comfy armchairs!

Hover if you want to but don't think it's going to save you, your clothes or your home getting germs!

Only if it looks disgusting.

if it's a full day out, either come back home to wee or book a cheapish hotel just to be have access to a clean loo. I know I'm crazy

What makes you think a toilet seat in a cheapish hotel is any different from a toilet seat in a restaurant?

This.
Also hovering is not good position for peeing and really bad for pelvic floor muscles.
OP, stop hovering for your own health, there are sprays or wipes you can take with you to disinfect the seat if it's dirty.

Sit, unless you have open wounds what do you think is going to happen?

I just don't drink water, so don't need the loo. or if it's a full day out, either come back home to wee or book a cheapish hotel just to be have access to a clean loo. I know I'm crazy.

If you're that bothered just take some antibac wipes of spray in your hand bag

After you've hovered and washed hands and left the toilet ( if it's at a motorway services or in a cafe) presumably you go and get a drink and sit at a table that requires you to pull the chair back. Now covid is less of a thing that table will be a petri dish of germs. The sticks in the pot of wooden stirrer things at the communal area will have been touched by a million men who've just had their cocks in their hands and haven't washed them.The bin flap you have to lift to dispose of it all will be plastered in germs. You can't avoid germs. Hovering over a toilet seat is pointless. Life is too short . No matter how much you wash your body it is covered in bacteria and microscopic creatures. Google what lives in your eyebrows. You'll be horrified.

There's no excuse for that if people watch what they're doing.

A bouncy tampon, then whiped off.
No, not sitting on that. No no.

some users are inclined to drag themselves off the seat, rather than alight directly upwards

Seriously. Those are splatters left by hoverers.

My parents taught me to hover as soon as I was tall enough. I think it's ingrained now. How do you never have to use public toilets? What if you're out for hours?

"Tim Spicer, a nephrologist and the director of Renal Services at Southwest Sydney Local Health District, agrees the myth that urine is sterile probably persisted over the centuries in the absence of the advanced technologies needed to detect tiny urinary microbiota."

Is urine sterile ... and how useful is it as a survival tool? - ABC News

Urine - Wikipedia

Urine is not sterile, and neither is the rest of you | Science News

I used to hover when using a public toilet (for various reasons I won't use public toilets at all now). As a young girl I was advised to do this as it prevented 'picking up nasty germs' from previous users. I understand what some people are saying here, in that it is only your thighs which have contact with the toilet seat if you're sitting down, but some users are inclined to drag themselves off the seat, rather than alight directly upwards, if you see what I mean!

Unless you’re intending on licking the backs of your thighs immediately after using a public loo, I don’t get the paranoia. As a PP has said, it’s just skin! This is like the anxiety 12 year olds have about catching an STI from a toilet seat.

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