If there’s girls around I always put the seat down. They tend to appreciate it.
But if you don’t and a girl gives you the shits about it, just put the lid down as well.
You make an excellent point here. My intention of the “no sex” line was just to get a laugh from all the guys who’ve been there before in that situation; it was totally exaggerated.
I guess it’s no more unethical for the guy to leave the toilet seat up than it is for the girl to leave it down. Why shouldn’t the girl have to leave it up when she’s done in case the guy has to pee? But it’s more efficient just to leave it as it is, because you don’t know whether the next time it’s used it’s going to be up or down, so it might as well be changed just before the next event. The only caveat is that toilet seats are more often used down than up–since guys sometimes need it down, sometimes up, and girls always need it down. Also, for some reason guys are supposed to bend backward for girls, like opening doors for them, etc., so the toilet thing may just be an extension of that. One final thought: maybe the reason the girl expects the guy to leave the toilet down up for her is because she has penis envy (she doesn’t have a penis so she can’t pee with the toilet seat up), and making the guy leave it down for her gives more dignity to her contextually impaired condition.
Getting closer to the truth.
The only reason a toilet comes with a lid is because said lid is inherently necessary to its proper function. So it’s the need to stand up that is in fact the aberration. Therefore, mutants, put the lid back down after acting according to your inexplicable adaptation. 
We have have dogs and cats now so the toilet remains closed. The idea of… well any way it stays closed now. In the beginning there was a problem when we moved in together and he won the argument.
I complained about the toilet seat as women do because, falling in in the middle of the night is really really harsh. He won the argument by leaving the toilet seat down and the cover down and he peed in the tank. Crude but, effective I quickly learned to check before sitting.
This is the thing that really gets to me about the toilet seat dilemma. I don’t understand how females are so open about the fact that they DO NOT look before sitting down. Honestly it sounds like “You have to put the seat down because i could fall in if you don’t. Never mind the fact that falling in the toilet makes me sound like a retarded klutz.”
Think about it. If you were a female and you for whatever reason lifted the seat and forgot to put it down, then you go one night and fall in, you wouldn’t play the immoral card, you’d play the I’m a dumbass card.
Every time i hear the fall-in excuse i cant help laughing. The male is not responsible for idiot-proofing the bathroom. Look down first.
See I lived in a home that the seat remained down. I was naive about other males when I moved in with my husband. The 3 males I grew up with always left the seat down as did any cousins that I grew up with. So there is my reason for falling in. Trust me it only takes once or twice to break the habit of not looking. LOL I could hear my husband in his bedroom laughing both times. I happened to yell quite colorfully both times. Live and learn with humor.
What upsets me is how women always leave the toliet seat down. Thats just nasty. I dont want to have to lift it up every time I need to go to the bathroom. I think she should conform to my every whim. That being said…
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I sometimes lift a toliet seat that is down when I go.
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Sometimes I dont.
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I sometimes put the seat back down after I’ve used it.
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Sometimes I dont.
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I once went a whole day once without brushing my teeth.
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If I’m a guest at someone’s house… I will ensure the toliet seat is in whatever position it was at when i got there. Afterall, who am I to meddle in such a sticky subject.
3/4 of regular toilet related activities (not taking vomiting into account) are best done with the toilet seat down.
1 - male urination, toilet seat up
2 - female urination, toilet seat down
3 - male bowel movement, toilet seat down
4 - female bowel movement, toilet seat down
on a different note, has any person here tried sitting on the toilet backwards? When you really don’t feel good, you can rest your head on the back of the toilet and it is quite relaxing
it’s not really 3/4ths though because urination is more frequent than bowel movements
i don’t understand what you mean by sitting on the toilet backwards… if your backwards isn’t there nothing to rest your head on?
oh, you mean leaning forward, never tried that
I “poop” 3 times a day, and pee 3-5 times a day tops. ha HA! and here is an illustration to help you understand
Portraying a rule to be meaningless by undermining another rule in order to obey, and ignoring the obvious choice, is a very poor argument, surely! Proper and improper use of a toilet is quite defined. I start to wonder how many bad philosophers you’ll find in a University . . . not by their papers but by their conduct in between (hypocracy?).
Not to say your husband is a bad philosopher. But that really was bad philosophy . . . and bad conduct in the process. You conceded? What a sucker.
I can’t stand being in homes where the family feels fine with the dog using the toilet bowl. It shows their complete dismissal of animals as non-members of the house, and nonapplicable to the standards of good hygiene for everyone. They argue it doesn’t hurt them. First, it’s the principal. Seconnd, sorry- prove your bowl is so fing clean with a randomly timed test!