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ITT: a bunch of actually my penis is super clean grots who seem to think they only ever use the urinal directly after showering their dick.
Wash your hands after using the bathroom, always. You are not as smart or as clean as you think you are.
https://www.sciencealert.com/do-you-really-need-to-wash-your-hands-after-using-the-toilet
Normal people do, Elon.
As a truck driver in the US, depends on the restroom.
More than a few of the restrooms I've visited over the years had no soap or nonfunctional faucets, usually at the smaller truck stops. I started keeping handwashing supplies (separate from my daily hygiene bag) in the driver side cargo hatch of my truck. Access to potable water being often times limited, it would often be hand sanitizer, if I could get it, or windshield washer fluid, sometimes both. Not a great solution, but you work with what you have.
As for the folks that just don't wash, ya, I've no clue.
Just FYI: If you're not drinking it, it doesn't need to be potable.
True, but I’d rather not wash with water from a diesel island faucet.
I have hand eczema that flares up with harsh soaps. I use hand sanitizer instead, it's small and fits in my pocket. Also I think that some sinks are dirtier than my ass.
Can confirm, I shit in the sinks because they are cleaner than the bathroom and using the faucet as a bidet is gentler than the communist-era 0.25ply (sand)paper.
same
Unless you got serious hygiene problems, or your balls have been mad sweaty for a bit, your dick will have far less bacteria on it than your hands.
So you wash them before using the restroom then, right?
I actually do lol
I also wash them after
Nope. Not worried about bacteria. And I am well aware of germ theory. Most of my bacteria worries center around open wounds, even tiny ones because they hurt. :) If you clean and seal those correctly, it's amazing how fast they heal.
If you go down that road, you're going to live in fear your whole life. Did you just take a breath?! You certainly sucked down some bacteria, and 100% you sucked down fungus spores.
I don't have time for it. Get some biology education, learn what real risks look like, you'll be fine.
You don't have time for washing your hands - but do you have time for a staph infection or gastro?
Maybe you should get some biology education. Here's a start from real scientists who have studied this exact topic.
https://www.sciencealert.com/do-you-really-need-to-wash-your-hands-after-using-the-toilet
Because I don't go touching every surface. Most of the times I only touch the flush button with a finger tip.
Hands get much dirtier anywhere else, sitting on a park bench for example, but doesn't have the yuck factor.
There is a therapy massage office in the same floor as where I work
I meet the guy in the public bathroom stalls regularly, and he does NOT wash his hands, EVER.
Needless to say, I ain't going to that place even if my life depended on it
I normally do, but I have seen bathroom sinks questionable enough to make me go "No, I'm good!"
Disclaimer: I usually wash my hands.
Those that don't wash their hands touch the door handle leaving the restroom. They also likely touch the main door handle leaving the store. If you wash your hands, aren't you undoing it immediately?
I thought about this a lot at my last office I worked at. We had a wide variety of washers, non-washers, religious who also washed their feet (over and under socks), and people who washed and used the paper towel to open the bathroom door but subsequently opened the next door bare handed, and the germophobe who never touched any surface barehanded.
There's no good answer. Though, metal is a pretty bad surface for germs to live on if that helps. My recommendation is to just wash your hands and then try not to think about the rest.
washed their feet (over and under socks)
Beg pardon?
Worked with a lot of people from India. I'm guessing it's from one of the many Hindu sub-religions (is that the proper term?). They worship a lot of different gods in different ways. Though some were Muslim and did call to prayer in the afternoons. Noticed some would slide the shoe and sock off and wipe down the bottoms of their feet after washing their hands. Others didn't go quite that far and would more touch the bottoms of their socked heels with a damp hand. I presume a more symbolic gesture than anything. Which is why I also assume it's religious and not for hygiene.
It was only a few from hundreds that I saw this behavior from.
Wasn't super crazy as the washing of hands and feet is also symbolic in Christianity as well.
Ah I see. For some reason I was imagining someone soaking their socked foot in the sink, and then slish-sloshing their way out of the bathroom 😂
Ahahahaha I think I prefer your imagery.
I have a small plastic freezer bag in my pocket, which I use turned inside-out to open the door.
My GF has severe (no, severe) OCD, and among all the rituals that are, objectively, pointless.... This is the one that I wholeheartedly understand and agree with.
If you wash your hands, aren't you undoing it immediately?
Yup, might as well stop showering too since the cleanliness from showering is also temporary. And might as well not eat anything since hunger is just gonna come back anyway.
My recommendation is to just wash your hands and then try not to think about the rest.
This is the real answer. Don't even think about anything else, just wash your hands every time visiting the restroom and touching anything in there that others you don't know have touched.
Also wash hands every time coming from outside. Just normal sanitary behavior to prevent illness. Hands get very dirty very easily outside. More than we think.
I spent enough time in the shower vigorously washing my weiner, it's clean enough
If there isn't paper towel I don't bother. No point in washing my hand then touching the dirty door handle.
I have two small hand sanitizer bottles in my pocket, one for unscented soap, the other for unscented hand sanitizer.
I try not to touch anything in a public bathroom. Including the handles on the sink. I'll use one of those automatic alcohol sanitizer globes everyone has since COVID so I never have to touch anything other people have had their hands on.
When I was little I'd run away because the sound of flushing scared me.
Because I washed them before using the bathroom, and my weiner is cleaner.
Yuck. Touch the wang => clean your hands, dude.
Sorry, it was a joke response, I thought I was on Shitty Ask Lemmy. Obviously I wash both before and after... though not because I touched my wang. (If yours isn't cleaner than your hands, you're doing something wrong.) It's because I touched other things in the bathroom and people aren't great about washing their hands.
If yours isn't cleaner than your hands
It's not cleaner than my hands while I'm peeing. That's the reason why you need to wash your hands when touching your dick while going to the bathroom.
What the hell is wrong with your dick?
Nothing? It's just common sense. I also wash my dick every few visits before washing my hands, to keep extra clean in general. I wish I had a bidet though. That would be nice. I hear good things about those.
i dont wanna touch someone's dick hands
Seems like a them problem
I wash my hands before using a public washroom because I know where my penis had been. It's freshly showered and has been in freshly laundered underwear. I don't know where the other hands that have touched the surfaces in the washroom have been. If I'm just peeing my hands are cleaner after I wash my hands then pee than they were when I entered the bathroom. If I'm deficating I wash my hands before and after.