A question obviously for those who don’t
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
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.
This is why I try to limit it by grabbing the handle as high as possible on those full height handles of shopping centres.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
I spent enough time in the shower vigorously washing my weiner, it’s clean enough
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.
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
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.
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.
I avoid this by not peeing on my hand.
I don’t think thats the issue, bro. Its touching everyone else’s pee the hours since youve last washed your hands.
The pee isnt the bad part, even though gross.
People take a dump. Then they wipe. Then flush. Then wash hands.
Now someone comes in, pees, flushes, leaves. Poop germs are on their hand now. They go about their day and probably eat something or touch their face. Gross.
If you’re doing that, it’s good that you’re washing your hands.
Wash your hands, bro. Touch your wang? Wash. Wipe with paper? Wash your hands.
Not washing your hands after using the restroom is disgusting. Doesn’t matter how clean you think you are.
