Do you sit on a public toilet seat or hover?

[Sprinkleofspice]

I’ve never got the hang of hovering even though I have fairly strong thighs. Increasingly I’m seeing pee on the floor or seat in public toilets (not just in outdoor buildings but train stations, shopping centres etc.) which makes me think more women are hovering nowadays - which in turn seems to actually be making toilets/seats dirtier. I would love it if they all had the spray dispenser in the cubicle to wipe the seat but I very rarely see this.

So, do you hover and if so how do you do it while not touching any part of the toilet with your clothes and relaxing enough to get all the pee out? I was also going to ask how you aim into the toilet but it seems like a lot people can’t manage that bit!

Sit unless toilet seat it's grim looking.

Some people will avoid public loos altogether, but i figure that I do shower daily so it's not like I'm not washing.

They're really not, as much as you'd like to think all us women are clean and 'would never' reality is there are some really very dirty ones out there

I don’t know if toilet seats are getting swabbed much but I did read about an experiment where hands were swabbed before washing and after using electric dryers and there was a lot more bacteria on them after using the dryers. I put my hands in my mouth (like a PP said I don’t eat a sandwich with my bum cheeks) so I generally sit on the seat but I don’t use the hand dryers

Of course I sit. I’m not licking the back of my thighs after I’ve used said lavatory so not sure what use hovering would ever be

Gargoyle position! 😂. I used one of those porcelain holes on holiday once and it was a weird experience but I didn’t mind it because it feels quite natural (unlike the hover over a full toilet)

I sit. If the seat has sprinkles on when I arrive, I wipe it with tissue before sitting. And even if a speck of urine is there, it’s only going to be transferred to my buttock and that seems unlikely to be harmful.

Wish people wouldn’t hover though (or if they do, they should clean up after themselves).

Hover

Hover. Unless it's an especially clean and fresh public loo. Don't touch handles or seats either, use my foot, elbow or a tissue and still wash my hands. Don't touch door on way out.

I sit and I have never got ill as result. I don’t know anyone who has been ill or died as a result of sitting on a public toilet seat. I mean, I really don’t care, do what you want but seriously - why?!

Thats a bit much.

How very odd. Why is an elbow safer than your thighs? What kind of magical antibacterial qualities does a tissue have? How are you leaving lavatories if you won’t touch doors? Why are you making lavatories dirty by using your shoes on them? 🫤

Saddened that Mumsnet would remove my legitimate, politely expressed concerns about males using female lavatories from this thread 🤷🏾‍♀️. Poor form for a supposedly pro-women platform.

What are you using your foot on? I assume you mean shoe and not your naked foot. How do you cope with going to a grocery store or catching a train or bus?

Male here. As others have stated I place around the seat when I have to sit and FWIW I hate using a public toilet and also hate the smell and the fact that no one seems to be able to leave a bowl clean.
The exception came this week when I visited a restaurants loo and it was honestly spotless.

Ditto

I hover over any that isn’t my en-suite!

I always sit but I’m in the habit of always wiping down public toilet seats before I sit, even if it looks ok, as I have been burned before by sitting in someone else’s piss which is gross. Also has the benefit of noticing before the point of no return if there’s no loo roll!

My Mum instilled in me from a little girl that I should always hover. I have never really questioned it and still hover to this day, almost 65 years later.

I sit.

Hovering is not good for pelvic floor health & I’ll take not involuntarily weeing myself when older over toilet seat germs.

I sit and make sure to give the old arse cheers and backs of thighs a good soaping in the shower.

Arse cheeks

Arse cheers are farts.

My stepmum always said you can tell how clean a restaurant's kitchen is by looking at the state of their loos. I've never forgotten it!

I want to touch the least amount of things possible. I take my own tissue too. By your logic it doesn’t matter how I flush it as anyone else would also be washing their hands too ?

So why do it if you're washing your hands afterwards? What do you think is going to happen?