Do men just not wash their hands after using the toilet?

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I'm so fed up. We've had several workmen in the house over the past few months, a delivery man and several of DH's friends - all of them used our toilet and didn't wash their hands after. AIBU to find this totally disgusting and unhygienic?! Why are there so many people who skip this step? Don't they feel unclean?

God I HATE this . Their dicks sit in their pants all day with microscopic faecal matter being blown out their arses all over it. Vom.

myfavouritecolourispurple interesting! Although I can see the logic behind it I can't imagine that smearing fetal matter onto newborns heads will catch on though!

I was having a conversation with my partner last week about why there seemed to be more d&v bugs going around schools than when we were kids. I thought that it was to do with the removal of bleach in commercial cleaning, but now i'm not so sure!! Hands should be washed every time you use the toilet and in between!!

Let's just hope none of them are chefs

georgiepeachie your ex* urinates in the sink? Why? At home or at friend's houses too? I would be horrified if I ever found that a friend of ours was using the sink instead of the loo and then just 'rinsing it out'. I put water in our sink to wash my face with and the idea that someone has pissed in it and then swilled himself down in it. That is truly disgusting.

*nearly put DH and had to go back and check. Relieved this creature is an ex!

Their dicks sit in their pants all day with microscopic faecal matter being blown out their arses all over it. Vom.

I'm always curious how oral, anal, or even normal sex fits in to hygiene matters.

Have you never been intimate with a man without him showering and washing throughly immediately before and after? How do you bring yourself to touch, even lick these disgusting penises? And how on earth is anal even a thing, with all that faecal matter being spread everywhere!

I too have very dry hands that bleed if washed too much. I carry around Cetaphil that I squirt onto my hands then towel off - no water. This is when I'm out as most of the industrial soaps are way too harsh for me. At home I will either wash with my soap or do the Cetaphil routine.

But when out I always run the water a bit even if I use the Cetaphil so someone isn't horrified that I seemingly hadn't cleaned my hands!

My friends daughter recently went to the staff loo in work (she works for a well known supermarket).
She was horrified to find an unflushed turd looking up at her from one of the toilets. To make it even worse, she said there was no trace of loo roll down there.
I am sorry to add so much hideous detail - but she reckons it was freshly laid (her words, not mine) and no attempt of flushing had been made 🙁
I am really not sure how she was sure of this, but she was quite adamant. If this is the case, some people really do have poos without wiping their arses.

Yep correct I have yet to see or notice any man wash his hands after having a pee.

Sorry posted too soon - when I say towel off I mean with paper towel or toilet paper not fabric hand towels!!

Lack of hand washing is absolutely revolting, ignorant and arrogant. It's come up on mumsnet before - I have a horrific memory of a thread were numerous people claimed they never washed their hand so after changing shitty nappies either.

I was having a conversation with my partner last week about why there seemed to be more d&v bugs going around schools than when we were kids?

Might it be more to do with both parents working, plus the pressure not to have time off? My Mum was mostly at home, so if I was ill, I'd just stay there. I know at nursery, d&av was rife because people were unwilling or unable to take time off.

Agree, OP. Men are definitely worse but judging by some of the responses here there are a lot of women out there too who are fine with subjecting the rest of us to all manner of gross on all the shared surfaces they subsequently touch.

And coincidentally... Double glazing fitted this week. Three workmen. All went to the loo in quick succession after joking about the amount of coffee I'd given them. When I went into the bathroom a few minutes later, the sink was as dry as the Gobi desert.
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I read that 31% of d/v type viruses would be eradicated if people washed their hands as a matter of normal routine.It definitely doesn't happen as often as it used to/should and not only men if you use public toilets it's easily noted

I once heard an interview on Radio 4 with some eminent professor who was a medical expert in the field of hygiene. Someone said 'But surely men in particular need to wash their hands because they actually touch their genitals when they pee?' and the professor said 'But their genitals are actually much cleaner than their hands in the first place. Rather than washing hands that have touched the penis, they should really be washing the penis that's touched the hands.'

Oh god at work I wash my hands before AND after using the toilet! I have to brace myself to stop me washing my hand before using the loo at home. I can't imagine not washing my hand at all

Surely washing hands after the loo is the most basic hygiene rule, not being 'obsessive' about germs.

Ha! Overnight, bright green "have you washed your hands?" stickers have appeared on the inside of the door out of the toilet areas in our school. Probably to do with the fact that we are in the middle of a flu epidemic and so we are all being encouraged to wash our hands.

My DH is supremely clean and always washes his hands after using the toilet, before eating etc etc

We are all clean in this house and I'm the only female member.

Please don't generalise based on your own experience.