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

Healthy urine is sterile

It's not, actually.

Completely different set of muscles engaged in squatting. Urologists warn against hovering to pee.

Please elaborate. Have I been lied to?

I just wipe off anything left behind and sit down

Yes.

Is Urine Sterile? What the Research Says (healthline.com)

Thanks. I stand corrected and won't think it's sterile in future. Now I have more reason to hover.

me either

Can't see the linked site as it doesn't allow you in unless you agree to be spied on. However, urine filtered by your kidneys and stored in your bladder is sterile (unless you have an infection). However, there is a normal microbiome in your urethra, so the urine you pass will contain some bacteria & fungi picked up during transit from the bladder.

doesnt anyone hover with the seat up?

Only if it's already up.

It didn't ask to spy on me.

"None of us are scraping our fannies over the seat to deposit any kind of bodily fluid on there, are we"

This sentence wins it for me

This might help you too:

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.

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!

"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

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?

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

Seriously. Those are splatters left by hoverers.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.