Am I the only one who sits right down on public toilets?

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Of course....Obviously, it's better, if the woman is standing, if the seat is up.

Well I've always sat right down on toilet seats and I'm still alive. Maybe I'll start wiping the toilet seat before I sit though. But I do have a strong immune system, so that helps too.

No. They actually got worms. There were class announcements of the danger and stuff was sent home to our parents.

Is it awful this made me laugh?
I never got this about gendered bathrooms. Guys have to crap, too. At some time in his life, some dude is going to have to face up to sitting on a public toilet. So why the mess and the lousy shots?
I generally use disability bathrooms because they aren't gendered, and they're a lot cleaner than both the men's and the women's, as I've used both at different times. No problems sitting down in the disability bathroom. But otherwise, if called for, I hover. But they say germs can jump 10 feet anyway.

I've taken swabs and grown cultures from public toilet seats. They were surprisingly clean. The bathroom door and faucet handle were both gross. Not as gross as the cell phone swab, but both considerable more growth than the toilet seat. Maybe most people are just afraid to touch the seat so it stays relatively clean?

How often do you touch things with your buttcheeks?

Well I aimed the question at females because we have to sit for both pee and poo, and it is more common to do a pee in public toilets than a poo.

Actually there was one thing I was going to ask guys, and that is how do you manage to pee in a public urinal? Like how do you do it when there are strangers coming in and out and peeing next to you? If I was a guy I'd always make sure I pee in the toilet, where other men can't see me.

Guys just stare straight ahead. To look at another man peeing is considered a serious breach of male protocol.

I'm not germphobic, and I don't have much sympathy for people who are. Learn to science.

I also don't care about people around me. Lots of older bars have a long trough, with men standing shoulder to shoulder when it's crowded. Punks don't care.

Gay bars have a different sense of order about bathrooms. Men apparently hook up in the men's room, and pee in the women's. Probably sloppily; I wouldn't sit on those seats, in many cases. The only time I went into the men's room, it was unoccupied, but I was only there to pee and the guy who followed me in perceived that.

Hippies have their own unique sensibility. At Rainbow Gatherings, there tends to be one line leading to two shitters dug into the ground with wooden lids. You squat down next to whoever happens to be there, and do whatever business you have.

I guess there are rare cases of people who actually want to look, but it isn't a sexual context so that's out of place for most of them. I guess I care more about not dripping in my pants, or getting myself clean, than worrying about it. I don't have a lot of shyness about that.

If a guy looks at another guy peeing, the other guy would get quite perturbed.

We stare straight ahead, like others have said.

It's just odd. Most worms that send eggs or whatever out in poo require some animal to eat the eggs in order to get back into the digestive system. Some pass through mammals into fish and then get back in when mammals eat the fish. But, they have all kinds of exotic life-cycles, so it is a possibility. It seems like the kind of thing which would get noticed as a public safety threat when there are outbreaks, so I wouldn't worry about it.

You have a point. People sometimes talk, if they know each other, though.

Men also seem to prefer to leave space between them. If you want to mess with people, occupy the middle urinal. I find the whole 'dirty' thing odd. If people in the US cared as much as they say, we'd have toilets like Japan (which would in fact be awesome).

I don't want to mess with anybody in the bathroom LOL

I just want to do my thing, and get out.

OMG,,,,believe me, you shouldn't sit on toilet seats. I have heard from more than one source about things that people do to public toilets.
Germs do not just come from people peeing/pooping on the seat accidentally while squatting. Everyone's skin has germs and some are downright nasty!! I avoid using any of my skin to contact any part of a public restroom.
I work in healthcare - there is a lot of scary stuff out there!

People in healthcare have one thing right. You can massively reduce risks to your health by using the paper towel you dried your hands with to open the door before throwing it away. That's why hospitals always put the trash can next to the door.

I just thought they make eye contact, like people do everywhere else when someone enters a room.

Maybe it's because I'm a woman, and women would stare at other women no matter what. Women don't seem to care that I get pertubed when they stare at me.

I've never been in a men's bathroom, so I don't know what the rules are.