06-07-2009, 11:40 PM
It is usually said that this is an old wives'tale.However, a while back I read an article, maybe it was Time?, entitled"Your mother was right,"and this article discussed the work of an expert who went round to all kinds of toilets looking for germs.He found plenty. Toilets, not just but especially public toilets, are chock full of germs and viruses, and so is the air around them, especially when you flush them.So whereas it is not usual to get some kind of disease from them, it sure is possible.But not crabs. Crabs are an animal, a type of louse, they don't like surfaces like toilet seats, they like hair and skin and clothing and won't leave it. They don't fall off.
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