Usually during. I mean the sink is right there anyway, it saves time, and water.

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

Surgeons wash their hand after peeing. Tradies wash them before peeing. Who would you rather shag?

Also maybe surgeons should be out of the running completely. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25498174/

I think people that over wash also get sick easier from not building up resilience, I still wash in public but more from peer pressure than feeling like my hands are dirty

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?

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

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.

Somewhat related, have a think about how clean your belt is. Probably the first thing you touch after getting cack handed and never washed. Enjoy!

do you wash your hands after shaking someones hand or scratching your arm ?

do you pee on your hands ? do you wash your dick where you shower ?

I’m the same as your roommate but then I’m also not pissing on my hands. i do occasionally but only just before I eat and not because I’ve just pissed.

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.

Lmao, reminds me of a college bathroom experience where someone entered, used the urinal, used the hand drier, and left.

I was astounded.

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.

Honestly I wouldn’t sweat it. It’s more something that seems gross than is actually going to make you sick. Pretty much ANY high traffic surface in public is gonna have way more pathogens on it than something in your house. And breathing the same air as your roommate is more likely to get you sick than touching something that they’ve touched. Still kinda gross though.

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.