Yes. Even at home. Poo particles everywhere, especially on the flusher.

Take a minute, wash your hands, smile in the mirror to make sure nothing is in your teeth. Straighten yourself up and walk out of that bathroom with your head held high. You deserve it.

How can people not wash after every trip to the restroom? I find it disgusting if I don’t do it, so you can imagine how I feel about others not doing it.

Even if I’m in a hurry, I splash them in water with a squirt of soap and quick scrub. I touch keyboards all day and my hands need to be cleaned. Never mind when I physically worked with IT equipment.

Yes. Especially at work, especially before taking a piss. See, the break room has free snacks, including hot chips. I’ve yet to make the mistake of neglecting to double wash my hands but the fear of god and caspaicin is within me.

I regret opening this thread and this completly validates me using anything but my bare hands to grab door handles.

Of course. I am shocked people don’t. But it’s not entirely the act of peeing, it’s the fact a sink and soap are right there. It’s a good idea to wash your hands occasionally, so how about now?

Every time. It’s about upkeep, not worrying whether I touched anything. Plus, I always blot with toilet paper anyway…

LIFEHACK: do both at once by pissing in your hands! it’s environmentally friendly!!!

So Penn & Teller used to do a show called Bullshit where they would investigate things and explain why the “common knowledge” on them was, well, bullshit.

In the episode on handwashing, they took samples from people’s hands, faces, and groins before and after using the bathroom. They came to the conclusion that the before/after on hands was negligible, because most people’s groins are under multiple layers of protection and don’t get exposed to germs.

What they didn’t bring up in the show is that that’s not why you wash your hands when you’re in the bathroom. It doesn’t matter if your asshole is downright sterile, because it’s everything else in the world that is filthy. You wash your hands when you’re in the bathroom because you should be washing your hands regularly throughout the day and it’s easiest to do when you’re already in the room with the soap and running water. It’s got very little to do with anything else you may be doing in the bathroom.

Your roommate is disgusting

Its crazy not to unless the bathroom sink is so gross it feels like it would be worse. What really gets me is folks don’t shower before going into the pool. ewww. I would rather have everyone take a pee in the pool than not shower before. that at least is just proteins as opposed to all the dead skin, bacteria, and oil.

Yes. Wash my hands:

• after every toilet use
• after I come in from outside
• before I eat
• after I eat
• before I sit down at my desk and touch my mouse and keyboard
• before I start playing a game with my controller(s)
• edit: oh and before/after seksytime, both with myself and the wife

yes, of course. no exceptions. kind of disgusted by all the people in the comments admitting they don’t??? also your roommate reminds me of a roommate i used to have whom i despised and one of the reasons for that being her horrible hygiene. she admitted to pissing in our single private shower, which was shared amongst us (i had 2 roommates, so the 3 of us), and then after that called me germophobic for suggesting the idea that a shower/tub needs to be cleaned weekly??? also kept leaving piss in the toilet and never took out the trash. dont even get me started

At work my hands are dirtier than my dick, I have to wash them before I pee. Come to think of it my hands are probably always dirtier than my dick because despite my best efforts I still can’t use it to open doors and not many people want to shake hands with it.

The unfortunate truth is that most people are gross as hell. A huge number of people don’t wash after peeing. Ive come across some who don’t even wash after poop (confronted a person once and they said that they only touch toilet paper so it’s not like their hands are contaminated). Once you’re in common spaces, you will obviously have to touch the same things as these people. There have been swab and culture studies that show fecal bacteria on a lot of touch surfaces. There will even be fecal bacteria on your toothbrush from being in a toilet with aerosol toilet water with every flush. It is gross, but our immune systems handle this environmental contamination really well without OCD cleaning habits needed.

Some points for others:

1. You might think your genitals are “clean” but you wouldn’t want to touch any random person’s clean genitals. Your hands are going to touch common surfaces. Wash them as courtesy (the same courtesy you would want from others).

2. Washing isn’t about bacteria contamination. Pee has no bacteria on it but it would still be gross to be splashed by it. Hygiene gets rid of gross/ick things and it’s worth washing what you would expect others to wash.

3. There’s huge personal world-view at play here for each individual. Many wouldn’t put up with the inconvenience of wearing masks to protect others from COVID at inconvenience to themselves. Unfortunately this mindset extends to things like hygiene for a lot of people. Please consider the world you live in and some inconveniences (like washing hands repeatedly) are for the sake of your fellow humans.

4. Same goes for things like picking your nose or jerking off…people, please.