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

Squatting is not the same as hovering.

What if you need a poo? Like a quick post coffee and had a curry the night before poo? Can you hover that?

Good god yes! Always have hovered and always will. My thighs of steel never let me down. I do always wipe the seat after though, I'm not a monster 😉

No, I sit to pee/poo. Unless the seat/loo is disgusting. Then I go elsewhere.

You aren’t going to catch either from a loo seat unless you lick it or have an open wound

Strep is usually passed via respiratory droplets from sneezing, coughing, or speaking, whereas staph bacteria are commonly found on the skin and pass through skin-to-skin contact. Staph bacteria can cause infection when entering the skin through a cut or scrape

I trying to avoid handling any 'communal' touching points where possible. Handrails, door handles, lift buttons and everything in between. Never really been ill with anything or had a UTI.

Was brought up with phrase “you have to eat a peck of dirt before you die”

im 60, never even had a UTI and always sit down.

Can't squat. Not that flexible. There's lot of people who do this weekly, or more. Not with young kids obviously, so the demographic here might be not so that way leaning.

Nope, I sit my arse on the toilet seat. What exactly am I going to catch via a bit of plastic having contact with my butt cheeks?

Growing up in the 60s/70s my DM taught me to lay toilet paper on the seat before I used it. I mean cover it completely.... As an adult I realised this could block the loo, mean the paper would run out for sunsequent users and is environmentally unfriendly. I give the seat a quick wipe with one sheet of paper and a squirt of hand sanitiser. Saves my sanity, my thighs and the planet.

Perhaps you personally can’t. But hovering still isn’t the ideal in that case, so it’s not like anyone would be suggesting it as the best option.

I used to hover till I read a magazine article saying it was bad to do that because you don't fully empty your bladder when you squat so now I give the toilet seat good wipe then sit down. Thankful for alcohol wipes/ gel so that's useful if worried about infection etc.

If the seat has pee, or god forbid poo, on it and there's no other option I swear loudly, Jesus Christ people are bloody pigs! Then use paper towel and hand soap to wash it before I can use it. If I have baby with me then I have the diaper bag so am stocked with baby wipes and sanitizing wipes so can clean the seat with those - still swearing about the mess mind you and hoping the offender is the (often) well dressed lady at the sink and knows she's been caught and shamed.

If you hover at least have the courtesy to clean the seat when you are done.

I'd be impressed if you could! 😊

I have hovered my entire life. Hovering = fantastic thighs. 😀

I layer the seat with paper if I have to sit down due to space, luggage, tipsy, etc.

As this argument goes on, can we clarify what is mean by hovering? Is it standing upright and going over the toilet? Or is it like a half squat low over the toilet?

How on earth do you go about daily life not touching door handles, lift buttons or anything that another human being touched?

Why not just wash your hands after using the toilet, when you get home and before eating or handling food?

Certainly not, never.

I doubt hovering once a week is likely to have much of an impact - there's a wee bit of hysteria creeping into this thread.

I have it on a doctor’s authority that you are more likely to cause yourself UT problems from not emptying the bladder properly through hovering than you are to catch anything from sitting on a public toilet seat.

There's a lot of hysteria, from people who seem to think humans should be sterile surfaces and are terrified of what horrible illnesses they might contract via the backs of their thighs.

Must be huge problems in Cons where no one sits

Bloody auto correct! Huge problems in China where no one sits.

@Jumpingthruhoops - How is your likelihood of inhaling Streptococcus from a toilet seat going to increase if you sit on it? Do you breathe through your arse?
And you have Staphylococcus on your skin anyway. It only becomes an issue if you have open wounds.
People here seem to be unaware that an average-sized person is made up of about 30 trillion human cells and about 40 trillion bacteria. We have evolved to host large numbers of bacteria without coming to harm. The Staphylococcus that lives on our skin all the time is one of the things that protects us from fungal and other bacterial infections.

So what impact does sitting have?