But that myth that you can catch an sti from a toilet seat is.
Can u catch sti from toilet seat.
For you to catch an sti that did somehow survive on a toilet seat it would then have to transfer from the seat and into your genital or urethral tract or through a cut or sore on your buttocks.
You re not going to catch an sti from a toilet seat.
Not now not ever.
The likelihood of which is very small and if you ask any doctor or public health nurse they ll almost certainly tell you that they ve never heard a case like this before.
We re not about to try to convince you that public toilets aren t gross.
The truth is many disease causing organisms only live a short time on the toilet seat.
In fact you are incredibly unlikely to catch anything through skin toilet contact.
Although the chances of getting an sti like chlamydia or gonorrhea from a toilet seat are slim to none there are other infections you can get from a toilet seat.
You can t catch stis from the toilet attention germaphobes.