A question obviously for those who don’t
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.
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.
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 normally do, but I have seen bathroom sinks questionable enough to make me go “No, I’m good!”
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
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.
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?
i dont wanna touch someone’s dick hands
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.
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 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.
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.
When I was little I’d run away because the sound of flushing scared me.
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.
