It is possible to take a piss without touching anything other than the front of your trousers and the zipper, how would washing your hands in a pulic toilet, which involves touching the tap and the dryer, improve your hygiene?
All this “hands off” stuff seems a little out there to me. Does anyone here seriously just (a) undo the button, (b) undo the zipper, © let fly, (d) redo zipper, (e) redo button and then (f) leave? I can see a couple of problems with this, the least of which is that you don’t shake it off, an important part of any male urination ritual. The bigger problem is that, unless you’re going commando, you’re peeing down your leg. If you do touch your underpants–the only other logical alternative–now you’re touching something that’s been hugging (or at least lightly brushing) your penis all day. Now you might as well have grabbed on to that nasty door handle you’re so afraid of.
So unless you go commando–and even then we’re leaving out the aiming and the shaking-off–this argument for dirtiness is a nonstarter.
Note: the Google ads have this one figured out: Hand spray, hand sanitizer, auto-foaming soap, and hand rub.
Of course, it reminds me of the joke (the following version of which was found on this site):
(I hope that this is an acceptable way to follow the 2-click rule, and also to attribute the source of the above joke.)
How about if I washed my penis earlier that day - assuming I didn’t transfer germs from my hands to my penis that I got off the doorknob on the way into that truck-stop bathroom?
Believe me my stuff is cleaner than any bathroom,So why take the risk of getting my hands all germy.Vetbridge is right on the money
I see it as a good idea to wash your hands a few times a day because of all the other germs we come in contact with on a daily basis. Bathroom time is a good time to do it.
Plus, I rarely can go and wipe without some sort of contamination. It’s part of being a girl, I guess.
Well, why didn’t you say so? I’ve got no problem with that. 
It’s a possibility I’ve considered, but I think it was unlikely in the case I described.
Besides, why didn’t the cashier inform me of that if it was their routine, she watch me
walk out and I’m sure she knew why, otherwise she would have questioned me about
leaving. As to this issue of touching the faucets and door handle when leaving the
bathroom, I think it’s way overblown. We come in contact w/ many things everyday
that have the potential for passing microorganisms, money for example. Frequent
hand washing is an excellent habit, but keeping your hands away from your face and
mouth should be practiced also.
Aiming is not required at a urinal and shaking can be done by jiggling your pants a bit. (Shaking is over-rated anyway, doesn’t matter how much you shake, there is always one last drop.)
I don’t know about you, but I use my spoon!
Sometimes I do, sometime I don’t. Here’s an example:
i) take a piss
ii) turn on tap (faucet), thereby putting germs on tap
iii) wash hands. Turn off tap picking up germs again
iv) dry hands by whatevers available
v) open door, getting germs from guys who don’t wash.
In an ideal world all would wash up, but they don’t and this isn’t.
Since there’s plenty of TMI in this thread already, I’ll share as well.
I frequently don’t wash my hands after I urinate.
The main question is whether my penis is cleaner than anything I’m going to touch on my way out.
If my penis is cleaner than the faucet handle, I don’t wash.
If my penis is cleaner than the towel dispenser handle, I don’t dry.
If my penis is cleaner than the door handle, I’ll grab some toilet paper / paper towels and open the door with the paper.
I haven’t had to shake off ever since I taught mine to go sniff.
First of all, are any of you seriously ill or dead? I didn’t think so.
Washing your hands *is * important. Doing so while you’re in the bathroom anyway, is a convenient time to do so. Your hands have more bacteria on them than your collective penis, or the door, or the faucet handles. Your hands are warm and moist, so they harbor bacteria for hours, even days if you don’t clean them off periodicly.
Door handles, faucet taps, even counter tops do harbor bacteria and viruses, but only for an average of 2 to 6 hours. Of course, there are exceptions such as the Hepatitis virus.
They die, because those surfaces are hard, dry (or should be) and cold. Bacteria are especially fragile in those conditions.
Someone asked what your hands might harbor.
90% of cases of colds and flu are from touching something or someone, then touching your mouth or nose. Droplet spray from a sneeze only travels about a foot befor falling to the floor, a cough not even as far.
Another example of what unwashed hands might carry is E. Coli O157:H7 it causes Hemolytic-uremic syndrome in children. You may remember an outbreak generated by Jack in the Box™ from under cooked meat. A little over half of the kids we treated had eaten there, the others were family members or shared daycare.
As for reasons to NOT wash your hands? There are no GOOD reasons. Even soap sensitivities, eczema, or dry, cracked skin aren’t good reasons to not wash your hands.
Use warm water, a small amount of soap, rub your hands together, vigorously for 15 seconds, then rinse well and dry well. Cracking and irritations come from using cold water, or not rinsing adequately.
Most people that don’t wash, just don’t seem to believe in what they can’t see. If bacteria were the size of spiders, I doubt anyone would forget.
I know of no people that will go wash their hands after any of the following activities:
Sneezing
Blowing their nose
Scratching their pit
Picking their nose
Rubbing their eyes
Mining for earwax with a pinky
Adjusting a shifted bra (for the ladies)
Adjusting a pinched package (for the guys)
Picking up their cat
Getting licked by their dog
Peeling gum off their shoe
Typing on a keyboard
So why the bathroom?
Given the soupy morass of dirt and germs we live in constantly, it has always seemed weird that people are so hung up on one little aspect of cleanliness which probably pales in comparison to other sources of exposure in our lives that we take for granted.
The difference is that I’m immune to most of the bacteria on my hands. I’m immune to most of the bacteria in my mouth. I’m immune to most of the bacteria in my nose. I have no qualms about swallowing a cup full of my own disease-ridden, bacteria-laden saliva – but I’d recoil in horror if I had to swallow a thimbleful of someone else’s.
If there is no paper towels (just that wind machine), I won’t wash my hands.
Don’t people turn off the tap using paper towel, and open door using paper towel? Thereby not touching any part of the rest room with clean hands.
part of the problem is poorly designed bathrooms, public restrooms should have those big ass handles on the sink that you can turn on and off with your wrist or back of your hand, paper towels and doors that swing out without a knob. instead they seem to be laid out to spread germs around as much as possible.
and if you wash your hands then touch dirty stuff you are picking up significantly fewer germs because you have recently washed the oils that bind with them off.
If there were evidence that the lack of these features is actually causing meaningful amounts of disease to spread, you’d have a good case. But in most of these discussions, little or no such evidence is ever presented.