Dating Disasters·
PUBLIC TOILET DILEMMA
A 27-year-old woman defends her habit of sitting on clean public toilet seats, while her boyfriend recoils, sparking a blunt, boundary-testing clash over cleanliness and sex.
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Her boyfriend was horrified to learn she had been sitting on public toilet seats to pee.
The surprise came from a passing comment about "sitting in a porta potty." That was enough to send the conversation off the rails. The poster, 27, explained that when she needs to pee in public, at a restaurant, a gas station, anywhere with a restroom, she sits down if the toilet seat looks clean. If there's "a little bit of pee" on it, she wipes it off with a tissue first.
That routine had apparently never come up in three years with her boyfriend. Once it did, he reacted hard. She said "he is absolutely horrified" and "really grossed out" that she had sex with him after sitting on a public toilet seat. In his mind, the issue wasn't just the bathroom itself. He compared it to "wiping his dick on the lid of a toilet," and then took the argument even further, saying that when he goes down on her, "he is putting his mouth on peoples poop particles."
The poster didn't get much backup from the people around her. She asked a couple of friends what they thought, and they told her she was "definitely the gross one" and should "always hover to pee." That left her second-guessing the whole thing. She said she feels like she's going crazy and wanted to know whether she was actually in the wrong.
Her question was simple: "Am I the asshole for sitting on public toilets??"
The post lays out the exact habit at the center of the dispute. She doesn't sit on visibly dirty seats. She checks first. If the seat is clean, she sits. If it isn't, she wipes it down and sits anyway. But to her boyfriend, the distinction didn't matter once he heard the words "public toilet seat" and connected that to their sex life.
From there, the argument became less about convenience and more about disgust. He was not just surprised; he was "absolutely horrified." He framed the issue in blunt terms, using his own body in the comparison and bringing up what happens during oral sex.
Now the poster is stuck in the middle, hearing one set of friends call her "definitely the gross one" and her boyfriend react like the revelation changed everything.