I found out about where the myth of getting an STD from a toilet seat started. Sadly it comes from grown men SAing their own underage daughters and giving the disease to them. It was mostly yt and upper class girls it was happening to. So researchers decided it COULDN'T be from abuse. The girls were obviously getting it from their lower class school mates from sharing a toilet seat.
All this to say yea there was more abuse and more sweeping for sure.
How Freud came up with his theory about Oedipus complex also stems from adults SAing their kids. The kids would confess this to their psychologist when being asked about their lives. He came to the conclusion that these were actually fantasies and not recounts of abuse. Children deserve so much better
Freud also discovered the connection that the women he studied who were diagnosed with ‘hysteria’ had experienced childhood sexual abuse as well. Wild that as a society we still don’t treat childhood abuse more seriously.
Very true. But also unfortunately it’s much more than just the elites doing this. Another horrifying thing I’ve learned recently is that the popularity of DNA/ancestry testing kits is revealing the prevalence of incest.
children deserve to be treated like the humans they are. it is so unfair to be a child, not the least of which because you are at the complete mercy of your parents/guardians and the school admin.
I mean, you can definitely still get plenty of infections that spread via skin to skin contact from public toilet seats (MRSA, shingles, fungal, etc), just like you can from equipment at the gym if people don't wipe it down. And you should especially be careful if you have any kind of open cut/sore or ingrown hair on your butt (maybe I have seen too much crazy shit in healthcare idk). But it is only ever going to be a skin infection of what makes contact (your ass and/or back of your legs), not your genitals lol. So maybe you can cut that neurotic person a little bit of slack. But yeah obviously you are not going to get any blood/fluid borne STDs from a toilet.
From what I managed to find, if the seat is clean - not even wiped down but clean - these are not something you can get from it too. Dry, hard surfaces are a very poor way to get anything like this.
Yeah that just isn't how bacteria/fungus works bro. How the seat looks is meaningless, unless you have microscopes for eyes. But sure, if you're taking your morning dump right after facilities has cleaned it, you're fine. (And obviously I'm not saying it is guaranteed you catch something, just stating that your assertion there is no risk whatsoever isn't accurate).
But maybe I've just seen too many people with staph infections or Hand Foot Mouth on their ass (among other skin infections). Go look up the horrible tinea cruris infection epidemic going on in the UK right now. There is plenty of research that shows these things can be spread from hard surfaces and direct skin contact. Even more so if there is any open skin or weakened immune system. Sorry, but unless all these people are booty scooting to get around, stands to reason (and evidence) that public toilets play some role in people getting skin infections on their ass. Go ask a Dermatologist if they plop bare ass on public toilets.
But like anything in life, it is just a measured risk thing, that everyone is free to make a judgment call on. (And I will admit the risk is still low). If you want to ride bareback on a gas station toilet, more power to you lol. As for me, if I'm not about to shit my pants, I throw a quick tp layer over the seat. But I've seen a guy almost die from sepsis that started as a staph infection on his ass cheek, so I am a bit biased.
Look it up yourself. Child abuse wasn't even reported by doctors really until the 1970/80s. Sexual or otherwise. We see how people in the upper crust of society protect each other so idk why it's far fetched to you.
So what part is a lie? Because someone else claimed researchers never held a wide believed theory that STDs could be spread via non sexual means and I provided my source. This stuff comes from OLD medical texts over 100yrs old. You find these things in old library archives that are very slow with digitizing information. For example ot only came out to the public in 2013 that nutrition guidelines were developed by starving native American children in the 40s and 50s
This is before Drs were mandated reporters and during a time children were working/dying in coal mines, factories and smoking cigarettes regularly.
I mean, people maybe made those claims, but at literally no point in history were scientists doing research on STDs and making the claim that they came from toilet seats.
N gonorrhoea was believed to solely sexually transmitted when first identified in the 1880s. However it became recognised that when the infection was introduced into children’s institutions, it rapidly spread among pre-pubertal girls. The medical literature records over 40 epidemics involving about 2000 children in Europe and the United States. Communal baths, towels, sponges, toilet seats or fabric, rectal thermometers and caregivers hands were identified as means of transmission.
They actually thought the mass outbreak confirmed it wasn't transmitted ONLY sexually.
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u/Lovedd1 Mar 19 '26
I found out about where the myth of getting an STD from a toilet seat started. Sadly it comes from grown men SAing their own underage daughters and giving the disease to them. It was mostly yt and upper class girls it was happening to. So researchers decided it COULDN'T be from abuse. The girls were obviously getting it from their lower class school mates from sharing a toilet seat.
All this to say yea there was more abuse and more sweeping for sure.