Washing your hands after urinating: hygiene or neurosis?
- Hygiene
- Neurosis
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Many people don’t do it. Is it neurotic?
I put hygiene… you can never be too sure what happens with the shake.
I wash my hands before and after I go. You can never be too clean!!!
I agreee with matthatter.
Hygeine, lets say you are in a public restroom at a restaraunt. You have just ordered ribs or shrimp or sandwich or something else you eat with your hands. In the restroom many other people have touched things that you touch. So if you don’t wash your hands then go pick up your food you may get more than what you paid for. 
Yummmmm
I think the order is: hygiene → automatism → neurosis. A neurosis may be an automatism gone rampant. Much like a cancer, really.
It may evolve like this. First, something useful is made into a habit. Then, the habit becomes instinct over time. But when the organism becomes decadent, the instinct may go lead a life of its own (no longer held in check by the concentrating force of the organism). “Health” is cognate with “whole”. Neurosis is really an anarchy of the instincts.
Especially since what all people visiting the toilet touch is the watertap.
Washing your hands before prayer, is that a neurosis?
Only if you use an antibiotic soap. 
Otherwise it could be just a prayer ritual.
Urine is actually a sterile solution so from that point of view I wouldn’t say there is any dire reason to wash them but… washing your hands at any time is probably a good idea so what’s one more?
It is sterile to a point but, its the taste that will really ruin your appetite, not to mention tasting someone elses urine or feces or what ever little nasty gross disgusting things humans do in restrooms. Have you ever been in a woman’s restroom? I am ashamed at those times to be a female. Women restrooms are over all disgusting places, one would think females would be a little more clean.
Men’s restrooms are better?
Believe it or not yes they are. I know because I have been so disgusted by the women’s that I will use the men’s. Yes, at that time I will have a guy stand watch for me.
Then a neurosis has to have some kind of destructive element that is counter to the person survivability?
I only wash my hands after I go to a public restroom. At home I don’t wash.
I chose “Neurosis” but not my own.
Wiki says that neurosis is something that “causes distress”. That’s why I wash: to prevent another’s distress in finding out that I didn’t wash my hands.
Your keyboard has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet seat:
cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/12/13/co … index.html
George Carlin on germs (Warning: Adult Language):
Hygeine.
Makes more sense from the standpoınt of hygeine to wash one’s hands before one uses the W.C., especially for gentlemen who may not wish to transfer germs etcetera to their member.
When my hands aren’t clean, I wash my hands. I can feel when my hands are unclean (I may be wrong, of course, but this idea follows from experience. When this feeling goes awry, we are talking neurosis).
Why couldn’t it just be upbringing?
I find this tends to happen after contact with religious people, even though my hands are clean. I guess it would be neurosis if I went ahead and washed my hands regardless.