Should males wash their hands after urinating?

Even if they didn't piss on their hands, every surface in a bathroom has been touched by other people who pulled the handle or pushed the lever before they could wash their hands.

My son pees sitting down, touches nothing but his unders, and still washes his hands. He’s 5.

Of course. How is this even a question?

Obviously, yes. Those who don’t are gross. He held his dick and without washing his hands, he goes to shake hands at the workplace, huh.

Men are just so unhygienic sometimes always debating whether basic hygiene is necessary. I don't even know why grown adults are still acting like little kids about washing their hands.

I have known some men who tell me washing their cock with soap is unhealthy for their cock. 

However, they sweat down there and it smells and they refuse to use soap. 

Makes me not want to have sex. 

It baffles as a guy why some dudes are so disgusting. How hard is it to keep your ass and hands clean after using the bathroom? Why is this even a question?

It's also just an excuse to wash your hands. We should be washing our hands throughout the day anyways, might as well do it then.

As a male, I regularly keep my penis in my underwear. Other things I keep there potentially have a lot of microorganisms. So even when I manage not to pee on my hand, I am still passing those germs to my hand.

Even if that weren't the case, if I don't wash my hands even when I'm in a place with a sink and soap, when will I wash my hands? It's safest to wash them a few times a day anyway.

Everyone should be washing their hands after using the restroom. Hell, I wash my hands if I go in a public restroom just to use the mirror. Germs EVERYWHERE.

Also, if you have gunk under your nails, you aren’t washing your hands enough/correctly.

Jesus Christ did we learn nothing from the goddamn plague

When peeing there is air born particles that come come up from the urinal or toilet that make contact with your hands and/or penis. Wash your hands.

Everyone MALE or female should be washing their hands after using the restroom . Entering a bathroom should give you enough reason to want to wash your hands . People need to get into the habit of washing your hands constantly . Come home from the grocery store ? Wash your hands . Going to cook a meal ? Wash your hands . Get off of work ? Wash your hands . USE THE RESTROOM ? Wash your damn hands you damn lazy men who say “ I didn’t touch it tho “

Yes. And to add - I always open the door with toilet paper to avoid touching the handle on the way out of a public restroom. Not because I'm some kind of germaphobe, but because I'm aware a shocking percentage of men don't wash their hands

Yes, WTF wouldn’t he?

When anyone uses the restroom should wash their hands as part of responsible hygiene and respect for everyone around them.

People that don’t have no respect for others.

Wash hands first so you don’t get your penis dirty while holding it.

Even if he's at home, he should wash his hands, so he is in the habit of being hygienic. If you don't usually wash your hands after peeing, at home, it's very unlikely you'll do it in public. Just stop being grubby and wash them. It doesn't hurt!

yes wtf

Uh yeah, anyone who don’t is nasty

DUUUUUUUUH. YES ....is this a real question? Just keep your penis hands to yourself.....ugh.

EVERYONE SHOULD WASH AFTER !!!!@

If you pee or poop you wash your hands. I learned that before I started school.

Consider this:

Need bathroom key to use the toilet.

Hold key in hands.

Touch penis

Touch key to return.

Next guy touches key

Next guy touches penis

Next guy touches key to return

Rinse and repeat. How many penises did you touch just by using the washroom and not washing your hands?!

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If I put my hand through the crack of my bag without peeing, I should still wash my fucking hands. Who the fuck thinks it’s okay to touch their dick/vag and not wash their hands?? Pee is gross but so is the sweat that collects up in your shit

Yes!!???????

Women don’t make a habit of touching the toilet seat or their pee either, and yet we still wash our hands???

This is grossing me out 😂.

i know where my penis has been, i always wash when i touch it

Uh women don’t get piss on their hands either… and urine is sterile anyway…. The issue is the flush, door handle, lock etc

Everyone should wash their hands after using the bathroom, regardless of what you do in there or what you have in your pants. Especially in public bathrooms because other people are gross and you've no idea what they did before touching everything.

Life tip, always wash your hands after using the bathroom, it’s basic hygiene

Yes, he should wash his hands. Does this dude really walk around all day shaking hands and giving high fives with dick fingers? Gtfo with all that

Everybody should wash their hands after using the restroom. Full stop.

Absolutely not wrong everyone should wash your hands after urinating we touch door knobs our hands are the dirtiest things

That is fucking gross!! WASH! YOUR! FUCKING! HANDS! I cannot believe a fully grown human adult actually gave this response on purpose without a lick of sarcasm! Jesus, there is splash back from urinating while standing! That is why you do not keep things by the toilet. I need to know if he keeps his toothbrush by the toilet.

At least use hand sanitizer! I imagine the desire to not wash one’s hands is related to time. Use hand sanitizer!

Even if you don't touch a stream of urine, you've still touched your penis which can have smegma or body oils etc that aren't sterile and should be washed.

Enough said.

I don’t understand how a man who touches his genitalia to pee doesn’t have to wash his hands but a woman should even though her hands never touches her genitalia when she pees. By that dumbass logic no body should wahs their hands when pooping bc if it’s safe to touch your genitals and not wash ur hands after then it should be safe if your hands never touch them at all.

I think guys were just raised to be gross. Like shaking their penis when they’re done, essentially flinging their piss all over the bathroom. fucking disgusting

Wash, pee, wash again.

Any trip to the washroom should end with handwashing

Yes because there is bacteria on the skin, and the bacteria in that area of the body is particularly dangerous to have on your hands and then spread to whatever you touch including your face or your partner or kids faces, or in some conditions, their private bits. You’ll be spreading poo and wee related bacteria into your mouth with the next snack you eat with your fingers. It’s not about the urine it’s about the bacterial build up in the area.

It’s also about general bacterial build up on your hands throughout the day from everything you touch, your dick, your phone, handrails thousands of dirty hands have touched or birds and other animals have been on, the doggo you petted, money you’ve handled. Washing your hands resets the your hands bacterial and viral collection back closer to zero and you should take every opportunity to do so.

WC are nasty, you see the state of some toilets? Now remember whoever did that, also touched a lot of stuff in the whole bathroom.

Every trip to WC requires washing your hands. EVERY

You touch your genitals, you wash your hands. Period.

You should wash your hands just because it’s good hygiene and you touched stuff in the bathroom

Tell this male in question that this has the same energy as not washing your buttcrack in the shower, because the water and shampoo will fall down and do the job.

Nobody wants to touch your dickfingers, and nobody wants you touching things with your dickfingers. Wash your hands, you nasty so-and-so.

YES

Yes.

Yes. Absolutely.

Urine splashes. Yes you should wash your hands.

I wash before

Yes! I had this conversation with my friend’s husband. For the record, he does wash his hands after he uses the restroom, but he just likes to be controversial 😂 anyway, my friend and I were saying that if anything, men are the ones who definitely need to wash their hands, bc they’ve just touched their junk. Women aren’t actually touching a body part, they are just holding toilet paper. Either way, of course everyone should wash their hands after using the restroom, and probably before, too. Bathrooms are disgusting places. We touch so many doors and tables and gas pumps that a million other people touch every day

Yesssss

Folks /should/ wash their hands after blowing their nose, but do they?

HAND SANITIZER. please warn me before I shake hands with you non washers.....as a woman....I expect of YOU what you do of ME. Good lord.

Yes, of course. Tell him not to be a lazy disgusting pig who disgraces his parents' teaching every time he befouls a restroom.

Ewww gross, of course!!!

Yes. 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

With the exception of medical professionals (at least I hope they are all the exception) no one washes their hands nearly enough.

At a bare minimum, wash your hands after using the bathroom, after changing a diaper, before preparing food, and before eating. Again, bare minimum.

Ideally, you should wash your hands after touching any commonly touched items, like your phone for example (keys, doorknobs etc). Phones are covered in germs.

But yes, you absolutely should wash your hands after touching your penis. There are lots of sweat glands in that area, plus people are touching the door, the handle to flush etc. Please wash your hands.

Obviously yes.

I wash it before AND after.

I think I’m more worried about the penis than the urine honestly

Yes, I don't know why some dudes don't fucking do this. Yes I've seen plenty of guys not wash their hands, especially at the gym, where they put their grubby hands on all the weights and machines.

just wash your fucking hands jesus christ

Yes. It is disgusting not to.

They... Don't????????????

How is this even a question ??? YES

Yes. If you go to the bathroom and touch anything, an object or your genitalia, you should wash your hands. Whether you're at home or outside. It's nasty to not do so.

Every time

I am disgusted it’s even a question. Of course everyone should wash their hands after going to the toilet regardless of what happened there.

Why is this even a question?

Obviously they should wash their hands, but lmao at “which can have smegma”…. Yeah, if the dude has terrible hygiene 🤢

Yes absolutely. And I hate to be the one to bring this up, but here it is: every time a guy pees in a toilet or urinal, little splashes come out and get on his legs. It's unavoidable without sitting down. Guys will always have urine on their legs after peeing. Even if they don't see it or feel it, I can guarantee it happens every time.

You have touched your dick. PLEASE for the love of God wash your bloody hands.

Yes, you should wash your hands any time you touch your genitals and then go on to touch other things

Who can’t find the time to wash after hocking a piss?

God!The standards really are in hell 😭

I dont even get why this is a question to be debated. Whatever your gender is, if you dont wash your hands after using the toilet in whatever way, then you are such an unhygienic, disgusting person.

Cool. So your buddy uses his personal bathroom. Touches his privates. Then does not wash his hands. Touches multiple surfaces in his bathroom. He goes from there and uses the doorknob, that you, and all his other friends touch. Gross yeah.

Most men lift the toilet seat up to piss, so yes, wash them hands.

Given how gross many surfaces are in general we should wash our hands regularly. Doing so after having a pee is just a good reminder

Who the fuck doesn't wash their hands????

Yes, what kind of crusty, dirty hands having, piss smelling fuck would not wash their hands??????????????????

What the fuck. Yes of course. You've touched your junk. Why would you ever think that's ok?

After you done using a cleaning solution, you're expected to wash your hands. After handling meat and before handling me, you're expected to wash your hands. If you're in a bathroom, you don't know how many people didn't wash their hands and you don't want to wash yours? Also unless you just cleaned your penis, you should be washing your hands. Period.

He is touching his genitals in order to pee. Would he want you to wash your hands after touching your genitals? I’m guessing yes. For the love of God how can this even be a question - WASH YOUR HANDS !!!!!!!

Yes they should definitely wash their hands afterwards

incel ass terminally online ass question. wash your hands after pissing. if you don't you're gross, regardless of gender or attachments.

People do not wash their hands enough normally. Doesnt matter if you dont even touch your self to go to bathroom, washing your hands well everytime you go into bathroom is an event that triggers you to wash your hands.

Think about this example. A friend of mine got a skin infection on part of his penis. He was not sexually active at the time with anyone and the microbe infection was orginally on his hand. Thankfully he went in and recieved antibiotics.

Think of every door knob, elevator button, borrowed pen, and our phones. Think abt now using that hand to do your business. Scary, right?

Washing your hands when you walk into a bathroom is not just for hygiene of that event, its also a maintenance plan.

There’s more poop and pee in a public or any bathroom than is ever in the toilet. You flush, it splatters everywhere because water does that. Its in the air, on the walls, on the floor on the toilet, all over. He needs to wash his freaking hands.

Eww. The fact that this has to be a question is concerning.

It doesn't matter whether its a private home bathroom. HE TOUCHED HIS PENIS! Then he touched the door to exit the bathroom, then he proceeds to touch everything else in the house including people.

None of these people expressed willingness to be touched with his penis cooties.

Would he want to shake hands with someone that just went #2 in the bathroom and wiped themselves? Only the toilet paper touched their bodies, but still, would they want to shake hands? Want that person to touch their face?

This isn’t a debate wash your god damn hands you nasty

Do men generally not think about everything they touch in the bathroom? At the very least, you gotta open the door, and you're assuming that nobody else who's touched the door, in or out, had pee or poop on their hands. Gross.

Yes - fluids and feces aside, you're culturing who knows what kind of bacteria in the damp down there.

Side question: someone wipes their armpits with their hands. Do you think they should wash their hands before doing things like handling food or other items?

There isn’t a debate. Unless you are a total idiot knuckle dragging ape, wash your hands after using the bathroom. Stop looking for excuses to justify being lazy and disgusting.

I wash before i whip it out. My hands are dirtier than my member. I wash hands afterward to keep busybodies happy

Wait, people still wash their hand/s?

Why do ppl insist on not washing hands? It’s not that hard. Ppl both men and women who don’t wash their hands are gross and act like little ass kids who don’t wanna wash their hands. Probably these ppl also don’t close the lid before flushing the toilet too. Just gross

Hell yes, how is this even up for debate? I’d argue for washing them before, too, just because I wouldn’t want my dirty hands rummaging around down there with God-knows-what from doorknobs and computer keyboards and who knows what else on them. 🤮🤮🤮

YES.

Ask him if he wants someone who has touched their own penis to touch him or his things right after.

I certainly don’t want second hand penis touching me or mine.

Hi, I just scratched my dic. Want to hold hands?

Yes every single person should wash their hands after using the restroom every time forever

But you expect your partner to go down on you. Got it.

Urine is sterile. Even if he peed directly on his hands, that’s not why you should wash them - if you want to be technical about it.

Any adult who doesn't understand basic hygiene and why you need to wash your hands after touching your privates is wrong. 

Everyone should wash their hands after using the toilet!

Are you fucking serious wash your fucking hands this should not be a fucking question

if a woman were to touch her vagina, would we expect her to wash her hands?

are penises somehow free of germs despite being locked away next to a nutsack and likely some dripping pee?

when did said male last wash his underwear that aforementioned penis was touching?

did said male touch the flusher?

just wash your damn hands; f'ing gross.

If you go into a bathroom for any reason you wash your hands before you exit it.

Underwear (Br. pants), or pants (Br. trousers) if you go commando, are germland from your butt. Germs migrate. Wash your hands.

I wash my hands before and after! Who knows where that particular appendage has been...

Yes the 100% should.

I showed by husband once that statistic that said like 80% of men didn’t wash their hands. I then told him imagine all the guys hands you’ve shook, you’ve essentially touched their dick.

He now washes his hands religiously lol

Okay even assuming the penis is perfectly clean when peeing right after a shower… penis goes back in underwear.

Inevitably there is a slight drop of urine now on the underwear that leaked from the penis (99% of the time)

Person walks around for a few hours, urine is spread around underwear and groin area.

Person pees again, holding a penis that is guaranteed to be not clean anymore.

Even perfectly holding a clean penis while peeing standing up will get pee on the penis.

An experiment you can try. Stand up and put a single thin layer of toilet paper around your penis. Pee while standing up like this. Observe how many tiny droplets got on the toilet paper.

In conclusion, men are gross. Wash your hands.

Yes, men should wash their hands after urinating!

Yes

I heard a stat that we come “into contact” with at least 10 different penises in a day because people with penises do not wash their hands.

Have we learned nothing from COVID and the importance of handwashing?!?!

bathrooms are gross and no one wants to touch some strangers penis so yeah they should most certainly be washing their hands 😭😭

Not counting all the public surfaces since the last time to washed your hands, you touch the door going into the bathroom, you touched your pens, and you touched the nozzle to flush the toilet. WASH YOUR HANDS.

I believe they should wash their hands after. I’ve talked to guy friends about it and I’ve learned that some guys do and others don’t even bother. Gross.

If you've got smegma from holding your dick while pissing, you've got bigger issues than handwashing.

YES!!! WTF?!

Yes. Plus also preferably they should sit down to pee and use toilet paper to wipe afterwards. No splattering on the floor, walls, and cabinets this way. My mother used to hate cleaning her bathroom when my father was alive, because he stood up to pee and the splatters were horrific to clean up. Am glad that my European husband sits down. :)

Yes they should I’m a female always wash my hands

YES!

Yes.This is supposed to be common knowledge.

Yes nasty ass

Why would this even be a debate lol

Wash hands. Period.

Yes

Of course...

Most women aren't pissing on their hands. Just fyi.

Dude microscopic pee droplets bounce and hit your hands.

I don't know about "males," but a gentleman always washes his hands after using a bathroom.

Yes! Even if you’re just touching your zipper and nothing else, that’s still the zipper that you touched last time you pooped!

I don’t want to touch your penis dude, wash your hands

YES

Should be more worried about washing your hands before using the restroom. Your hands SHOULD be much dirtier than your member. If you don’t have std’s and keep good hygiene

JFC you really have to ask this?