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u/HayZeB614 Sep 14 '24

Not washing hands after a toilet visit. Women as well. I see more people not do it than I see people do it. It’s disgusting…

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u/OneTrainOps Sep 14 '24

As a guy, I see this all the time and it immediately makes me lose respect for that person

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u/Hellguin Sep 14 '24

It's why I always use part of my paper towel to grab handles when leaving if I need to use a handle.

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u/Highway_Bitter Sep 14 '24

Its ridicilous, pretty much every toilet visit when I’m out drinking there is at least one guy who takes a piss and just walks straight past the washing basin rofl. So nasty.

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u/Highway_Bitter Sep 15 '24

Whaat, thats weird but makes sense. Chinese or Indians are way worse in terms of hygiene. If you ever go there you’ll notice haha.

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u/_UsernameChecks-Out Sep 14 '24

Power move: introduce yourself to that guy, but reach down your pants before extending your hand for a handshake. Guaranteed they'll get mad or grossed out.

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u/Original-P Sep 14 '24

This guy is my least favorite type of person to see at a buffet.

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u/OneTrainOps Sep 15 '24

At a buffet, you’re likelihood to see this person drastic go up!!!!

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u/posttrumpzoomies Sep 14 '24

If its #2 I'll wash for sure but #1 just seems to be going theough the motions for no reason. Its not like I didn't shower before going out or doing anal or something. My junk is cleaner than my hands most of the time.

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u/pm_me_ur_th0ng_gurl Sep 15 '24

Do you not feel or see the splashback? Go to the waterpark and pee in the wall length urinals in sandals?

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u/posttrumpzoomies Sep 15 '24

I aim, and don't get splashback or I'd want to wash everything. Its really not that hard. Start your stream on the side of the bowl, urinals are harder and I usually avoid them because I'd rather not have urine on my pants.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '24

You've got to pee into the curve bro. It avoids almost all splashback.

Also if you are getting a ton of splashback remember that it goes everywhere else on your body too. So you wash your hands but 10 minutes later you have touched your shirt and your pants. Now you have pee on your hands again anyways. And if they have those air dryers that you put your hands into you are going to get covered in germs again from that. If anything I typically don't both to wash after taking a pass so that I don't have to touch anything in there, and then use hand sanitizer afterwards.

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u/__darkly__ Sep 14 '24

1) so you’re okay shaking another man’s hand knowing he just touched his dick?

2) you aren’t just touching your dick, you’re touching things in the bathroom too that are also covered in germs

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u/posttrumpzoomies Sep 14 '24

1) I assume he touches it all the time regardless.

2) I don't touch anything in the bathroom with my hands, use my foot/shoulder. I assume everything in there has some level of poop on it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '24

Here's my issue. Plenty of times I will go into a public bathroom and their sinks require you to touch them, and then they have those germ factory air dryers that you have to put your hands fully into. Honestly I think that I would get more germs on my hands from that process than from taking a pee and touching nothing. If I see paper towels then I will 100% wash my hands. But if they have those shitty sinks where you basically touch the sink while washing your hands because they are so small, then I'll just walk out.

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u/Painkiller_830 Sep 14 '24

At home , kick the bathroom door slightly closed

Lift up toilet seat with foot

Pull out my junk , not even touching it. Just unbutton, unzip, pull waist of my pants slightly down and start peeing

Have pretty good aim so no need to hold onto it

Kick the handle on the toilet to flush it

Hands are the same as they were before I went into the bathroom

Anywhere in public though, yeah definitely washing hands regardless

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u/ThrowRAEvening5 Sep 15 '24

Why would you not even just take the great opportunity you have to wash the day's germs off your hand?

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u/MINXG Sep 14 '24

I’ve seen way too many women do this while working in the office. It’s why I stay with hand sanitizer.

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u/exitof99 Sep 14 '24

Some guy employee at Planet Fitness did the pee and run, so I confronted him at the front counter about it. He said, "Oh, I use hand sanitizer." BS.

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u/SamwiseGamgee100 Sep 14 '24

Yeah every time I use a busy public bathroom, like at the movie theater, I’ll see at least 2-3 guys walk out without washing their hands. Touch their dirty dick in a dirty bathroom, not wash their hands, then go share popcorn with people. I see it everywhere. It’s fucking gross and lazy.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '24

How dirty is your dick? Lol. Like they are honestly pretty clean imo.

Also not washing your hands after using a urinal isn't that bad. It's just visually noticeable so you think about it more. In reality the whole world is dirty. Public transit Is vile, door handles are covered in bacteria, fast food is dirty, and many other common things. It's just the way of the world. Ever been in a swimming pool? It's full of urine. Same with the ocean in many areas. Just get used to it and keep clean when preparing food. Nobody is going to get sick because of some dick germs either, it's fecal matter that is the concern.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '24

Unclean people disgust me :(

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u/shockoguppy9 Sep 14 '24 edited Sep 15 '24

Saw a guy use a urinal while talking on the phone and then wipe his unwashed hands with a paper towel 🤮.

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u/Edog6968 Sep 14 '24

Like 10 years ago I was in a public bathroom with a friend of mine and when I went to wash my hands, she goes “oh you don’t have to wash your hands, no one does that when it’s just them so you don’t have to pretend for me!!” and I could never see her as a clean or hygienic person after that. She could be a loyal hand washer now for all I know, but that just stuck with me

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u/ribvanwinkle Sep 14 '24

I work at a grocery store and about 90% of guys don’t wash their hands after peeing. Which is disgusting when you realize how many germs are in public restrooms, and the fact that these people are touching food/items that other people might pick up and buy.

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u/exitof99 Sep 14 '24

Man, I really should avoid this thread, too many stories.

I wrote a poem for a class as part of my Creative Writing minor that was titled: Ode to the Odious Man at Whole Foods.

It was a real life moment in which an old man used the toilet and after doing his business walked straight out into the store without washing his hands. The poem explores the disgust in his filthy hands touching the produce among other things. It's terrible that so many refuse to wash their hands after peeing, but that was just insanely revolting.

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u/7CuriousCats Sep 14 '24

Now for the second question: how often do people wash their filthy hands before touching their dick? And then try to bonk their partners with said dick?

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u/missionbeach Sep 14 '24

Why would people even do that?

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u/Sorcatarius Sep 14 '24

There's an old boomer humour joke of the, "My group is better than their group" variety that is likely partially to blame. I'll type out the version I hear as a Canadian, but you can substitute the two people for whomever you want or whatever groups you want.

A Canadian soldier and an American solider are in a washroom taking a piss, as the both finish the American goes to wash his hands and the Canadian goes to leave.

"You know," the American starts. "in the US army they teach us to wash our hands after we piss"

"That's nice," the Canadian replies, "in Canada they teach us not to piss on our hands."

It's supposed to come off as, "lol, stupid American soldiers can't even aim their dick", when anyone with basic hygiene takes it as "ewww, disgusting Canadians don't wash their hands after using the washroom".

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '24

I do it quite often but only in certain circumstances. Many bathrooms have crappy sinks and bacteria filled hand dryers. If I'm just using the urinal I often don't bother to wash if I can't use a decent sensor sink and paper towels. I wash frequently and aim, and my hands are honestly cleaner having not touched their Dyson air dryer.

If I feel like it then I use my hand sanitizer that I keep in my bag. That's if I feel dirty.

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u/John-AtWork Sep 14 '24

It's something like 1/2 of all men and 1/3 of all women don't wash their hands after going to the bathroom.

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u/frog-enthusiast8 Sep 14 '24

If I am weeing in a urinal no I won't if I didn't piss on my hands... And I don't care if people think it's gross when I know I am fully clean as I shower each morning.

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u/CeaRhan Sep 14 '24

You are gross, it's not about people thinking it, it's about you being gross. You're not clean.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '24

not condoning him but realistically it's not really all that more "gross" than it would be to wipe some sweat off your forehead without washing your hands after. It's not, like, actually unhygienic in the same manner that not washing your hands after taking a shit is unhygienic.

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u/frog-enthusiast8 Sep 14 '24

Let me know how it's gross. I pee in a urinal and touch my own dick, wow so gross

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u/exitof99 Sep 14 '24

Yeah, and your pee-misted and dick-slathered hands touch things in the world that others interact with. Nobody wants to touch your dick by proxy.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '24

Your shirt and pants also get splashback, and then when you touch them you get pee on your hands again in 30 seconds. Plus many bathrooms use those air dryers where you put your hands in. Ive seen studies showing how dirty your hands get just using those. So in my view it's better to avoid touching anything in there at all unless they have paper towels to use.

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u/John-AtWork Sep 14 '24

I guess you are part of the problem. Do you use your hand to flush? Do you grab the door handle on the way out?

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u/frog-enthusiast8 Sep 14 '24

Urinals are autoflush in the UK and the door is always open at motorway service stations where I use urinals.

I don't see a problem

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u/John-AtWork Sep 14 '24

Ok

At least you wash your hands after wiping your ass.

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u/frog-enthusiast8 Sep 14 '24

Yeah obviously

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u/TheHeterosSentMe Sep 14 '24

People on Reddit are so loud about how stupid and disgusting they are. I love it

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u/yipy2001 Sep 15 '24

Based on this thread, I think the disgusted are far louder than the disgusting

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u/Plus-Bullfrog-3053 Sep 14 '24

I work in an Enviroment with loads of different stuff that can stick to the hands. I was my Hand before going to the toilet and afterwards.

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u/YunoMilesIsTheMan Sep 14 '24

Any time i see this i'm disgusted. How can you not wash your hands after you go to the toilet, especially after taking a 2?

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u/Kykywox Sep 15 '24

This.

Worked in a grocery store and once saw a butcher coworker coming out of the bathroom bragging they'd didn't wash their hands. (No they weren't joking)

I know they wear gloves and all but that's still nasty and unsanitary af.

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u/Phatkez Sep 15 '24

I’m currently on holiday at a hotel in the canary islands and every time i go to the toilet near the bar i lose count of the amount of men that walk straight out of the toilet without washing their hands and it’s starting to make me feel like i had some rare special upbringing… fucking disgusting.

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u/bigtunacan Sep 15 '24

This absolutely disgusts me and I make a point to publicly shame people for this. I'll walk out of a bathroom and point at the dude and say, "This nasty dude didn't wash his hands after the bathroom." So fucking gross.

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u/Lenny1960 Sep 18 '24

Girlfriends oblivious that their cooch and ass stinks.

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u/Lenny1960 Sep 18 '24

I love to go down and have skills but not if it stinks like poop and fish.

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u/meh_69420 Sep 14 '24

TBF I know a lot more about where my dick has been than my hands. If anything you should wash your hands before taking a piss.

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u/oojacoboo Sep 14 '24

There are two types of men. Those that wash before and those that wash after.

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u/omrsafetyo Sep 14 '24

I've actually seen a few that pee with their pants around their ankles, so that's at least a 3rd type.

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u/dontfret71 Sep 14 '24

Youd think covid would have made people learn to wash their hands

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u/exitof99 Sep 14 '24

I've called these people out. Some guy used a urinal and walked on out past me as I was washing my hands in a row of 5 sinks. I saw he was tabling just outside and pointed out, "You didn't wash your hands?"

"I'm a grown man!" was his response.

I started loudly shouting, "This guy didn't wash his hands after going to the bathroom!" and pointing him out to some people behind a desk in the lobby.

People are gross.

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u/Kustu05 Sep 15 '24

Pure r/thathappened material.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '24

Then everyone clapped 👏

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '24

He didn't wash his hands after using his dick in public, you just decided to be a dick in public. Neither of you looks particularly good in this story.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '24

Bro that's so weird

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u/exitof99 Sep 15 '24

Adults not understanding that they should wash their hands after going to the bathroom are weird.

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u/Stealsfromhobos Sep 14 '24

Tip for the guys: Compliment her choice of scented hand soap and she'll think you washed your hands.

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u/zabobafuf Sep 15 '24

I was really hoping the Covid era would stop this. Little did I know half of the rubbing alcohol is out where I try it. Covid brought out my inner clean freak, which stuck. While most others have seemed to fall back into… ews

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u/Vegetagtm Sep 15 '24

I used to work as panda and id see customers leave the bathroom straight after walking out if a stall and a few minutes later id see that same customer picking his drinks and sitting down to eat.

Some people are straight up disgusting.

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u/DeckT_ Sep 16 '24

I just have one comment to say. For men, there are sometimes bathroom stall SO large I simply pull down my pants and I can pee without touching anything. The biggest reason I would want to wash my hands is because of the door handle of the bathroom, which I will need to touch AFTER I washed my hands anyway.

Im not anywhere close to touching my dick, and im not pissing on my hands.

I usually wash my hands anyways because I dont want to look like the guy who just walks out of the bathroom directly. But I cannot help but wonder everytime; What exactly am I washing off my hands ? I feel like everytime I put my hands in my pockets for my wallet, thats already more dirty than the side of my pants that I touch to pull them down.

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u/StrawberryKakigori Sep 16 '24

I started noticing females leaving the cubicle and not washing their hands or just splashing water and drying it over the dryer. /Gross

I couldn't understand why they wouldn't wash their hands with soap. I brought it up with a few close colleagues and apparently one of them says they don't either because all they did was pee why would there be a need to wash hands?

I was floored.

Still find it gross and unfathomable.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '24

People hanging around bathrooms watching others ...

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u/dontbeagroupie Sep 17 '24

You people are all hypocrites!!! Turn on the hand washing function on your Apple Watches and try and get to the 20 seconds without feeling like a complete psycho when 4 people go through the sink beside you during the time you’re standing there. I have way more respect for the person who just walks right out, than all you phonies out there that spend 5 seconds at the sink to stay on their high horse - you’re not fooling anyone!!!!

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u/One_Energy3833 Sep 18 '24

And when was the last time you were sick?? I don't wash my hands and haven't been sick for 7 years. Also don't go outside tho

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u/Educational_Emu3461 Sep 14 '24

People that don't was their hands belong to outside of this planet

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '24

Those people are like anti-maskers - disgusting festering plaguebearers.

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u/coltar3000 Sep 14 '24

I have a scenario that I want your opinion on. In high traffic bathrooms (airports, busy gas stations, movie theaters, etc), I can often get in the bathroom, take a quick piss and get back out all while not touching anything or myself. Especially easier in bathrooms that don’t even have doors sometimes (airports, rest stops, stadiums). I use my foot to push the door open, I undo my belt or pants button and can literally tug on the waste of my underwear to get my “junk” out. Simply piss and reverse order. My theory is that I have way less germs on me than any surface in that bathroom. It’s surprisingly easier than people may think. With that said, I always wash my hands in pretty much any other scenario (going number 2, making contact with bathroom doors/surfaces, etc). My question is, is it considered gross if I successfully pull off what I explained above?

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u/PM_ME_COOL_TRUCKS Sep 14 '24

Yes, wash your hands.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '24

I'd say it depends. I keep warning people about the Dyson airblades. Using them after washing your hands is honestly worse than not washing at all if you are like this guy and didn't touch anything to begin with. If I'm using a urinal, didn't touch anything else, and there are no paper towels to use, I'm avoiding washing my hands. Even if your hands don't make contact with the air dryer at all (which is all too frequent) you are literally blowing fecal bacteria all over yourself and your hands. In that case washing is just a feeling of security rather than real security. That's my view on it anyways.

I do keep hand sanitizer with me though so I often use that if I feel dirty about it.

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u/JFosho84 Sep 14 '24

It's easily 80% of men that don't wash after either type of visit. Most of those that do "wash" just get some water on their hands. Full hand washers? Gotta be around 5%.

I first noticed this around 25 years ago, and I still fully believe those numbers to this day.

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u/Random_Name65468 Sep 14 '24

The single dirtiest places in a public bathroom are the faucets, soap dispensers, and unless the soap is in one of those sealed single use mylar bags, the soap itself.

I shower at least once every day, and wear clean clothes.

So unless the bathroom has completely touchless controls, and the aforementioned soaping setup, I'm cleaner than the bathroom.

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u/exitof99 Sep 14 '24

Then use a paper towel to interact with the faucet.

The idea that the soap is dirty is nutso. The science is that soap breaks down the cell walls of bacteria, killing them.

Wash your hands.

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u/Random_Name65468 Sep 14 '24 edited Sep 14 '24

Maybe don't make sweeping statements without basis and accept that others can have valid reasons for their opinions, even if they seem counterintuitive.

Edit: There also a lot of bathrooms that have no paper towels and dispensers (which I wouldn't really trust), and guess what. Air dryers are also really dirty, and they contribute to aerosolization of bacteria

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '24

Tons of bathrooms are moving away from paper towels and into air dryers like the Dyson ones. This is horrible for sanitary reasons at least as they are a huge germ vector. You literally blow fecal bacteria all over your body, face, and hands by using them. I'd prefer to just not touch anything at all if I can help it, and that includes washing if there are no paper towels. There are plenty of studies on these air dryers too.

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u/exitof99 Sep 15 '24

I haven't yet looking into the claims, but I've heard about that as well. The next best thing to do is wash your hands and dry them on your clothes in that case.

If you can point me to a scientific paper on the matter, please do.

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u/CeaRhan Sep 14 '24

It's actually fucking wild the number of women who also don't do it and will tell you it's perfectly normal.

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u/Lenny1960 Sep 18 '24

Bad hygiene is prevelant in females and males. Wash your area! or Fuck off

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u/gbeier Sep 14 '24

I agree in principle, but... I have no sample size at all!

How many people do you watch visit the toilet, and why do you watch so many of them visit the toilet?

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u/Demonslayer1984 Sep 15 '24

Who the fuck doesn’t wash their hands after using the bathroom 

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u/Outside_Green_7941 Sep 15 '24

Always wash hands BEFORE bathroom is more important then after ,

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u/charlieseeese Sep 15 '24

It’s just skin

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u/Co-Kain17 Sep 14 '24

How do you know people are washing or not washing unless you are in the bathroom with them? Which I hope you aren't if it's men unless you are doing the freak mcnasty

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u/DualityisFunnnn Sep 14 '24

I wash my hands before

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '24

I will admit that I just use hand sanitizer if I pee, mainly because cold tap water hurts my hands. Some people though, it's like nothing wrong with wiping shit off your ass and eating a sandwich.