@lilstu Perhaps you're over thinking things. We wash our hands after toileting; we don't cut them off and throw them away. So, they have to be as clean as the pot.
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What is your opinion on these dildos here?
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But we don't get in direct contact with feces. I mean even if you wipe your ass your hand doesn't get any feces on it.
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Normally, that is true. But there are plenty of instances when parents are changing diapers, for example, that feces are transferred to the hands. The solution, as you have stated, is a thorough washing with soap and warm water.
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But is soap really enough to remove all the bacteria? I'd rather use something with alcohol in it which kills bacteria and viruses.
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Few things in life are 100%. But it is generally accepted, as a sanitary practice, that washing hands well with soap and hot (without burning yourself) water will make your hands pretty sterile. That being said, you could probably come back with some super contagious disease that requires more, but most of these don't
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But there are smells which you cannot remove with soap. For example when my fingers smell like onions or garlic then soap doesn't work.
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Some smells, like the ones you mention, can get deeper in because they dissolve in fats, and so can go through the skin into the fat layer below. (They aren't harmful, though, and they evaporate back out over time.) Viruses and bacteria are larger, and stay on the surface if teh skin isn't broken.
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How is not broken defined? This is something I asked myself before.
Let's say for example I cut myself and it bleeds and after 30 minutes it doesn't bleed anymore but there's still a cut then what would happen if I got
HIV blood on this cut? Would it go through or not? Do they even know this? I cannot imagine that they did any tests like this with humans or animals. -
That I don't know, I confess. It would be safe after it had healed, but when it's just a clot I don't know. You may well be right that nobody knows.
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That's scary.
I also once read something from a scientist who said that HIV viruses actually survive on surfaces way longer than they officially tell us. He talked about weeks if I remember it right!!!
It sounded a bit like a conspiracy.