Just like the great debate over which way the toilet paper roll goes, there is a similar spat over flushing: lid open or closed ... you always clean the toilet seat and other areas in the restroom ...

it did conclude that having the lid down did change the trajectory of the germs. When the toilet was closed, there was slightly higher contamination to the left and in front of the toilet but ...

which added that open-front seats help prevent contamination with urine, as well as “genital contact with the seat.” In its email to Nexstar, the IAPMO also noted that elongated toilet seats ...

Some have even posited that the open-front seat ... sizes that the closed seat just cannot. But the lavatory mystery has been solved. The mystery of the horseshoe-shaped toilet seats in public ...