Can you catch a desease from a toilet seat?
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"There are a hundred times more bacteria on a cutting board than a toilet seat, so lick a toilet seat rather than a cutting board." \n\nhttp://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/EMIHC000/333/333/220417.html\n\n"Scary as it seems, organisms known to carry STDs like chlamydia and gonorrhea have been found on toilet seats in your local restroom. Yet, unless you have a moderate butt laceration, there is little chance you'll get the clap. Infections such as these are called sexually transmitted for a reason; they need a genital tract or cut to travel into, which is not likely to occur. \nNot only that, but these germs (and other diarrhea-causing bacteria) have a short life span and quickly die after being exposed on the seat, in the sink or anywhere else. Even in the case that you do come into contact with a germ or virus, there has to be a fair amount of it for it to have any effect. \nIf you sit on urine or get sprayed by toilet water as you flush -- besides being completely revolted -- there is a small chance of infection, just like any other bacteria in the washroom. It's best to wipe off the seat before you get comfortable. Don't be a bum."\n\nhttp://www.askmen.com/sports/health_60/68b_mens_health.html\n\nYou can catch sicknesses, but they are contracted from your hands (flushing, using the faucets, etc):\n\n"From a common cold to stomach flu viruses, bad things lurk on sink surfaces, hand dryers and toilet seats. Without proper care, you're at risk of being bedridden for weeks with a multitude of diseases like the nasty-sounding streptococcus (a form of strep throat and meningitis), E.coli, hepatitis A, and staphylococcus (the virus behind food poisoning and a form of pneumonia)."\n\nhttp://www.askmen.com/sports/health_60/68_mens_health.html
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I teach a student success class at a university and this question comes up a lot in our discussions about "captains of the world" It shouldn't be a big deal.  I think you should look before you sit and if it is a big deal "to you"; then you should be in charge of making sure it is "down".  You become the toilet seat police. That works both ways.  If men wish the seat was up all the time for them; then they become the "toilet seat police."  There are so many more important things in life to worry about :)
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I TRY and aim myself carefully (and I always put the seat up so  it won't get wet) - but sometimes the urine hits the floor, either right in front of the toilet, or sometimes behind and to the right of the bowl - I tend to overshoot. \n\nGuess I need to work on my aim!
651978
Well.. if you hold it in... you could get a hernia.
21012
maybe you need to be more careful which way you wipe
558944
hey is saw a stall once and someone had crapped all over the toilet, floor, wall , and left their crappy underwear on the floor! dumps will always be funny!
233647
You body trying to eject an irritant.
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First off, nobody "gets" AIDS.  One "gets" HIV which then *MAY* progress to AIDS.\n\nHIV dies almost immediately upon being exposed to air.  It can not live for very long at all outside the body--mere seconds at the most.  Theoretically, one can contract HIV from a toilet seat.  However, a very specific set of circumstances would have had to occur.  A person who has HIV bled or otherwise left on this hypothetical toilet seat some amount of HIV-infected fluid.  Then, you would have to *IMMEDIATELY* sit down on the toilet seat and you would also need to have placed a cut or other opening into your body directly on the blood or other fluid.  Then, you MIGHT contract HIV that way.  But who sits down on bloody toilet seat?\n\nAs far as convincing your mother that touching something will not give her HIV try this tactic:  If HIV *was* spread through touching items, many, many more people would have it.  In fact, even she might have it *IF* it were spread so easily since, chances are, she's either come in contact with HIV.  Or someone she's come in contact with has contact with someone with HIV.  Or someone that person has come in contact with has come in....  Well, you get the idea.
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It only depends on the local position of the toilet.\nThe coriolis force is not involved here.
443898
Dont let the pee run down your leg lol no I guess hike the dress up this will avoid the hem of the dress hitting the bathroom floor which can be very yucky if your dress soaks any leftovers up...
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I don't believe you can.  First, it's a public bathroom, second you would have a hard time proving that is where you in fact caught the STD.  You could also call a personal injury attorney and see what they think, most have a free consultation fee, so there would be no fee to you.
203397
Why the embarrassment?  Maybe funny, but not embarrassing. The bathroom is THE place to go. If you can't let one rip in the bathroom stall, you can't rip one anywhere.
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Hovering has it's advantages...those seat covers do nothing, if the seat is wet it goes right through them as well as any toilet paper you put down so what's the point?  Hovering can also be looked at as a strength training exercise, building strong quad muscles in the legs (hey, I'm looking for a bright side here to hovering).   But if I get so much as a drop of tinkly on the toily seat I am considerate enough to wipe it off.  I have never understood how women can pee all over the seat and then just leave it there?  Or worse yet, after going a very messy poo just leaving it for others to walk in on and view.  I pity the poor soul (minimum wage employee's usually) who have to clean it up.  People need to have some class!!!
512114
Hahahahahaha!! That's gross!! Best damn question I've read all night. \n\nOn the other hand, it could be old toilet paper tangled in your @$$ hairs.
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It's not the SEAT so much, it's the LID. First, no one likes looking at the inside of the toilet, especially not when brushing teeth. Second, it's piggish to NOT leave the bathroom as neat as (or neater than) you found it and ready for the next person. Third, now wouldn't it be awful if your stuff kept 'just happening' to fall in? (I have no idea how how your  personal stuff keeps getting from your bedroom to the bathroom, much less into the toilet bowl -- but if you'd put the lid down, this wouldn't happen!)
202230
stupid question first.  Second I would recommened you stop picking your butt..what are you hoping to find up there?  And maybe washing your hands afterwards if you just have to go searching there.
73775
yes, herpes can be contracted from fluid secretions. any contact that you may have with toilet seat "left-overs" can enter through membranes on your bottom.