Public Toilets for Women

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Apparently you have also been fortunate to miss the STDs and Staph infections that are alive and well on those same seats.

STDs,Staph? come on now you have a better chance of catching staph from the door into the mall or at the 7-11 than a public toliet seat.

For the most part you are safe from STDs unless you are having sexual intercourse or contact. Toilet seat have long been sited as POSSIBLE or THEORETICAL risk points for some sexually transmitted diseases. However, most professionals will venture to say that it is very VERY RARE to catch an STD from a public toilet seat.

Most STDs, such as chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes, and genital warts, are spread only through direct sexual contact with an infected person. Crabs (pubic lice) or scabies, which are often sexually transmitted, can be passed through contact with infested items like clothes, sheets, or towels.

Viruses start to die immediately once they leave the skin of the infected person and moreover it would take a "perfect" scenario to pass to someone else with a toilet involved. The infected person would have to leave behind some sort of virus and then pretty much IMMEDIATELY a person would have to sit on the toilet with broken skin or the wet skin of their privates on the same spot...but even still the virus would already be dying. It usually could not penetrate normal skin like the skin on the back of the buttocks or thigh.

For most STD's....( copied from this website ... http://www.joes-sanitation.com/adults.html) For one thing, they must be present in sufficient numbers to cause disease. For another, they must have an entry point into the body, either through a cut, sore or other break in the skin, or through the eyes, nose, or mouth. Your own susceptibility or resistance to disease at the time you come into contact with germs plays a part too. If you're healthy, you have much less to be concerned about. And, of course, one disease you don't have to worry about catching from a public restroom is acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). It is virtually impossible for AIDS to be contracted from any public restroom surface, say experts from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta. Not only is the AIDS virus relatively difficult to catch in the first place, but it is present only in bodily fluids (such as blood and semen) and is transmitted when these are exchanged through sexual contact, blood transfusions or contaminated needles. Also, most of the bacteria or viruses responsible for other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), such as gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia, cannot live outside the body long enough to be contracted from sitting on a toilet seat. The one possible exception is the herpes virus. Studies have shown that the secretions from an open herpes sore can survive outside the body for up to four hours. Theoretically, once they have contaminated a toilet seat, the herpes microorganisms could infect another toilet-user who has a sore or break in the skin (which allows the virus to enter the body). But because a sufficient amount of the virus is necessary to penetrate the body's defenses, infection is unlikely, according to Martin Favero, Ph.D., a microbiologist with the Hospital Infections Program of the CDC.



In summary: Wipe the seat good and sit down

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Can we post this in every public bathroom stall in the country so people will stop peeing on the freakin' toilet seat in the name of hygiene?!