Why couples fight over toilet seat up or down and who is correct?
All was well with the squat toilets , men and women were still happily relieving nature’s call without getting frustrated with each other. With the advent of sitting toilets came more comforts and in that it is even more comfortable for men to have the seat up and women to have the seat down in order to avoid touching the seat before peeing. It is this little comfort which is the bone of content between men and women.
To get the answer of who is correct, it is better to think from the angle of hygiene and design. Hygienically speaking it is better to have the toilet seat up always as otherwise it is always getting exposed to the moist and flushing environment of the bathroom. Also keeping the seat up helps to dry the water droplets and aerosols which gets formed during flushing faster as it can flow down by gravity. Moreover the design of the seat to have it movable up nd down only confirms its purpose this way to be used only when need. Like the eye lids which is only open when in use and closed otherwise, the toilet seat if to be used should be put down and if not in use should be put up.
So, who is correct? Although both are correct in convenience perspective, when looked at the angle of hygiene and design, it is better to have the seat up always and put it down only when in use. Thus the long term debate over whether the seat to be put up or down have been put to rest.