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

[summerfinn]

I was out this weekend and had to use the toilet to pee. I normally hoover above toilet seat to pee in public toilets and was thinking to myself this is difficult especially if I need to do a long pee🙈😂 Is this what most women do too or am I being extra germ conscious and should just wipe the seat and sit down? Sorry if tmi but I'm just curious

Not sure if this has been mentioned but there are physiological reasons for not hovering.

www.healthywomen.org/content/article/sit-dont-hover-when-using-toilet

Needing a pee while out shopping, walked to a public loo only to see the seat lined with loo roll that someone had placed, sat on and not bothered to remove.

Recently been away and while out and about used public/restaurant loo's and am surprised at the amount of people that walk out and don't bother to wash their hands.

I really don't like the thought of importing the germs off the toilet seat into my clothes and then my house.

I don't know how to break this to you, but there may already be germs living in your house

I'm not sure what they think a lining of loo roll will actually DO other than make a mess.

It is bizarre.

Or that simply by going outside, one is exposed to "germs".

I shower in the morning so thoughts that I'd sat on a public toilet seat and then get into bed mostly naked at night makes me feel sick. Maybe I'm just a bit ocd. Sounds like it. 😂😂 I thought everyone did this🙈

I really don't like washing my hands then exiting via a door with a handle. I also don't use hand dryers (warm moist conditiions) so I usually rinse my hands and dry if towel is available, waiting for the door to be open and then hold it with my foot. If its not I'll sometimes have to rely on hand sanitiser after touching the door handle, it's not ideal but as I'm a bit grossed out by handrails I often have to wash as soon as I get home. There's very little point in washing your hands then grasping that door to exit as at least half don't wash their hands.

Life is too short for me to worry about what invisible things my arse touches.

I'm not eating dinner with my thighs, I'll shower at some point. I'm fucking sitting down to wee.

This is very interesting and eye-opening! Since having recurrent UTIs and lots of tests as a teenager, and one test showing I wasn't emptying my bladder properly when sitting down, ever since then I have hovered as I found when did this after sitting down to pee, I could pass a little more urine. Over time this has turned into hovering every time I pee, regardless of being at home or away from home (I have become a master at this and never pee on the seat). But this might explain why I'm left with two prolapses at 34 following the birth of my son. I will now never hover again! Will just have to hope my UTIs don't return.

I saw a local news story about a nudist couple who went to a pub where some people were 'shocked' to see them. They were soon 'seated by staff' and enjoyed a meal. I wouldn't have been shocked to see them, but I wonder if they sat with their bare arses on the chairs. I wouldn't want to sit on their skids later.

Just wipe the seat and cover the seat with lost of toilet paper and them sit down

I've never hovered. 38 years old and yet to catch anything unsavoury.

I sit but never wipe the seat as someone else’s urine on my hands is ughh! If it is visibly unclean I won’t use that loo. A few years ago I went to a concert at a football stadium but the queues for the ladies were enormous so the security opened one of the mens loos for the women to use - they were absolutely disgusting, really filthy and the stench made me retch but I was desperate so I went in and there I saw the most revolting thing ever - a group of women were actually sitting in the urinals, knickers at their ankles weeing in the urinals 🤢🤢🤢

Always sat down. Wiped if need be beforehand.

I have OCD so avoid public toilets when I can. When I do have to use them I just choose one that looks clean and sit on the toilet. I'm more concerned with keeping my hands clean than the backs of my legs.

Oh, and don't put your bag on the floor!

I hover in public toilets and have never had a UTI. Pelvic floor is fine. I don't make a mess for other people because I watch what I'm doing and where it goes. To each their own but I don't plan to sit on toilet seats where other people might have dribbled urine, even if they've wiped it after.

Interesting, is this different to squatting though? Because squatting is superior to sitting (in terms of your bowels anyway)

OP, it almost seems to cruel to point out to you all the crap on all the shared public surfaces that we all touch whilst out in the world, that we then transfer everywhere else, including our own faces, hair, bodies, even into our mouths and lungs. People touch their faces all the time, mostly without realising.

Don't you remember the particulate modeling during Covid? Or the visualisations done with coloured dyes showing how quickly and comprehensively we pick up and smear microorganisms (dye) all over ourselves and our environment?

A possible germ on the back of your thighs being transferred to your clothing and then bedlinen is the least of your worries.

@My2pence2day I'd say squatting is different as your knees are higher than your bum. When you hover, your knees are lower or level with your bum.

Why would anyone plant their naked bottom onto a piece of plastic that hundreds of others bottoms have been on. Always hover.

I sit unless toilet looks particularly gross.

Also, the hover is useful for avoiding the sanitary bin that is always placed too close to the toilet. I do not want that bin touching any part of me.

Healthy urine is sterile but I don't want it on me for the rest of the day. If someone has splashed all over the toilet and wiped it dry, I don't want to sit on it. That just feels gross. Germs in the environment don't bother me but it's a quirk of mine maybe that I don't want to sit on public toilet seats. 🤓I don't splash on the seat so don't think anyone should care if I sit or hover.

This thread made me wonder... how do all posters know its the hoveres who drip the urine on the seats? I assume there would be people who let it happen even if they sit down and then are not particuarly smart with wiping? From what I gathered /not entirely sure how/ lots/most women wipe from the front and perhaps standing up which also leaves room for leaving drops behind?