Do toilet seat covers provide any real protection?
Nope, but your seat doesn’t really need protecting. All those paper covers do is mentally separate your backside from the countless bums that have occupied the same space. Before anyone gets their panties in a twist, let’s listen to a few medical resources: “To my knowledge, no one has ever acquired an STD on the toilet seat — unless they were having sex on the toilet seat!” according to Dr. Abigail Salyers, president of the American Society for Microbiology, quoted on WebMD. “It’s OK to sit down. Most organisms that cause STDs will not survive for long on a toilet seat,” notes Dr. Sherry Marts, scientific director of the Society for Women’s Health Research, on the Swedish Medical Center‘s site. As Columbia University’s Health Promotion Program sums up: “Because toilet seats are not major culprits in
