Quite simply because we don't usually need it down. So it doesn't register to put it down until we need it unless we think twice about company within the house. Those that are reminded are merely forgetful, so don't judge them/us too harshly.

I agree that men don't need to use a toilet with the seat down. But, as being a male, I prefer to sit down, too, as women do... for one reason: When men urinate in a toilet while standing, they splash urine-contaminated water outside of the toilet bowl. There is no need to explain why urine outside of the toilet all over the walls and floor is not a pleasant thing. I have sat for years this way, and it really isn't that difficult to get into the habit of doing so. Women have no choice. I figured that if women have to do it that way, I am not special! No one wants urine splashing everywhere around their toilet! And I always remember to leave the seat right where it is... in the down position, like a man.

There are three positions for a conventional toilet seat: up, down, and closed. I leave the seat in the position I needed or I close it. I do not expect to find the seat in the 'right' prosition when I use a toilet and I always check the seat position before using a toilet. It is messy to urinate on the lid when it is closed. The flip side of this could be: "Why do women leave the seat down all of the time?" Or the appeal: "People who close the lid are inconsiderate, because lifting both the seat and lid is extra work for my poor aching joints." People should look before they sit... or stand... or place a foot to dry it after a shower.

As a woman I have to say it's infinetely preferable living with a man who forgets to put the toilet seat down than one who forgets to lift it up. Men generally pee standing up- which is a fair distance to aim, and the presence of the toilet seat makes the target smaller. Lifting it up is an act of consideration in itself, its just that they forget to put it down again. If women had to leift up the seat to pee I'm sure they'd forget to put it down again too. Same as we forget to put things away when we've finished using them.

Well... I think the gest of the entire question is with the assumption that it is not fun to accidentally sit on the cold porcelain rim of a toilet. Women who fail to check the toilet, and men who fail to put the seat down leave the chance for a woman to sit on an uncomfortable rim.

Several reasons...(1) forgetfulness, (2) laziness, or (3) because men can. Choose one! :) I hope this helps to anaswer your question!

I happen to be one of 12 males who work in a company with over 200 employees. The building that I am in has 5 single user bathrooms, which are not labeled by gender. Since I am the only male in this particular building, when I leave the seat up, everyone knows who did it. Not too long after I started working for the company, handwritten signs appeared in all of the bathrooms asking employees to "please remember to put the seat down." We all know who the signs were intended for. I removed all the signs, and also any that reappeared. When someone finally approached me, I asked why they wished me to leave the seat down. The response was, that they didn't like to have to touch the seat because of the germs on the seat. I inquired whether they expected me to touch the seat twice, to prevent them from having to touch it once. She said "Oh...I never thought of it that way." I haven't heard anything regarding the issue since, and I have now been at the company for almost two years.

i don't understand at all how a woman could simply not notice if a seat is up or down. and as a woman i agree that yes it is quite annoying to have to touch a germy nasty seat and put it down. if you don't feel like putting it down w/ your bare hands grab some TP as a buffer or simply squat. but how daft can you be to not notice when you walk into the bathroom that the lid is up. it's simply absurd to think that people have actually not bothered to look before they plop down on a toilet. common sense would tell you to look in any case because you simply never know what little surprises someone before you may have left...whether the seat was up or down. use your brain and stop complaining.

Probably for a similar reason that women don't.

I think they just don't think about it. My son puts it down. I figured I'd nip that argument in the bud. lol It will be one less thing for him and his future wife to argue over. lol

It get peed on if you leave it down.So woman should like to leave it up to

cause their mommy takes care of everything

How can anyone possibly keep track of duplicate questions? I think they are asserting themselves. Since we NEVER have a reason to have it up.....I think it's an in your face gesture. And I think they LIKE to splash a little; make a stink, so to speak.

The Truth is simply because they forget! However there is a website that provides you with a funny alternative to subconsciously train man to put the seat down! www.PottyTrainMyMan.com good luck ladies! this has been proven to work, i have done it!

Why do you suppose we women put the seat down and leave it down? It has always seemed very unfair to me that the guys have to do all of the seat action when we use it just as much, or more. In my world, I taught my sons to raise the seat and I would lower it. That way I don't have to sit in urine and we all do half the seat manipulation.

You're generalizing. I never leave the seat up.

I've been married quite awhile. I normally put it back down. I fail that once a year or so. When I was single, I left it in the last position I used it in.

I've always wondered just the opposite, why so many men go to all the trouble of putting the seat back down, or worse yet, don't put it up at all. (ugh). I've lived in a house full of men; Hubby, sons, grandsons, and the seat is nearly always down.

I leave the toilet seat up because thats the position i use it in, and am to lazy to bend back down to lower it again. Also sometimes I splatter when I pee.. and so it's just easier for the seat to be up that way no little droplets get on the seat.. what really gets me is when i go to public restrooms and theres sit down toilets (in the mens bathroom) covered in yellow beads.... it's just grose. Anyways the seat's easier to clean when it's up.

Honest answer. I'm a man, 39, married going on 15 years. I always, and I mean ALWAYS, no matter where I'm at, will put the seat down after using. Not 'cause my wife complains, as I've always put it down, but because after I exit I don't want the next user to know if I just wizzed a bit or went ahead and dropped anchor.

why do women leave the toilet seat down? they have to pick it up to pee and we have to put it down. it seems like a fair trade

This is a debate that's been going on for millions of years... The Moon-men wouldn't put 'The the seat of magnificent importance' down after a piss and nor would the matian women lift it after there's. It's been sientificly proven that i dont give a toss either way. Thats that settled then ;)

Your Honor, I object! While its true that many of my colleagues may do so it is simply conjecture to say that all men do so! I present to you Exhibit A. Notice, Your Honor, that I've left the toilet seat and lid in the closed position. My reasoning behind this is that I don't believe that anyone has any interest in seeing exactly what the inside of the toilet looks like. I rest my case!

cause we are lazy :D

Why should the seat be down? The toilet (or water closet) is sold without a seat. Technically the seat is not 'part of' the toilet, it is in fact an option or accessory and as such does not have a set position when not in use. Further there are no instruction sheets pertaining to the seat stating that the lid remain in the horizontal position when 'idle'. Let's face it, even if it were in the instructions us guys never read them anyway! Look at it this way ladies. Would you rather sit on a wet seat (an inevitable result if left in the 'target perimeter' yo...)?

I dont. I leave it down. I piss on a girls toilet seat, just to prove to her that she will never have that problem from me. Whats with all those damn women leaving my toilet seat down? Dont they have any respect for my needs?

Why do women leave the toilet seat down?

This has been the center of a controversy for years with my wife and I. After our marriage, in 1965, we both agreed that i would lower the toilet seat, if she would raise the toilet seat, when finished. I am happey to say that i did my part. this worked for about 6 months. then, my wife became pregnant. our toilet seat agreement went out the door. After birth, we never continued our agreement. it just slipped out the door and never came back. Anyway, after 43 years together, we still have our disagreements over the toilet seat. We still love each other and decided on a comprimise. To keep a big bottle of Lysol spray always by the toilet. Worked so far.

It doesn't really bother me one way or the other.

It is a force of habit on my part and I don't think about it. Plus, no one I know, girls or guys, really cares so it isn't a big deal for me. However, if a girl asks me not to leave the toilet seat up, I'll try my best to leave it down when I am done.

I think men who leave the toilet seat up intentionally, especially if visiting the household of a female friend, secretly harbor some hostility toward women. Surely, every man who had a mother (or sisters) has been asked to put the seat down when finished. There is nothing worse than stumbling into the bathroom in the middle of the night and nearly slipping into a toilet, when attempting to sit down. Men, YOU KNOW THIS!! It is a kind gesture. Men who announce something to the effect of, "You should put the toilet seat up for me," generally turn out to be self-absorbed jerks--the kind of guy who is rude to waitresses, gets impatient in traffic, and yells at old people who drive too slow. They see the toilet seat as a control issue, not a simple consideration. I wish I had paid more attention to this red flag!! Ladies, head up! Seat down men will treat you better. They make better friends and lovers!

Mine don't. My husband, and I taught my son this as well, put the seat down and the lid down before flushing and thats where it stays till used again. The reason? Because when you flush you are leaning over the toilet and when flushed small particles of urine or fecal matter are sprayed into the air along with water. You don't notice it , but its there. I personal do not want a face full.

my boyfriend doesn't - he sometimes puts the lid down too and I have almost peed on it a couple of times!

They were not trained correctly when they were young. My mother taught me to put the seat down when I was finished and as an adult, I get it right about 99% of the time. It i a courtesy issue and gentlemen put the seat back down when they are finished.

mine dont - they are welll trained!!

Why do women always leave the seat down?? How inconsiderate.

Toilet Etiquette for a Non-Sexist Environment, By Daisychain1978 (c) 2009. Check these 3 possible scenarios. If the seat was already up and you put it down to go, put it back up when you leave. If the seat was already down and you lifted it to pee, then put the seat down when you finished. If the lid was down when you entered the bathroom, put the lid down before you flush. i.e. Leave it as you found it. That is the most polite thing to do. It also passes the responsibilty back to the previous user and so you can't get blasted. Unless you do an evil-stinking dump. You should always, for the love of god and humanity in general leave the lid down to contain the stink! Simples.

I will REMOVE the fucking toilet seat if you don't shut up! "We don't always look before we sit down, and sometimes at night we don't even turn on the light." This is a deficiency. This admission, made almost with pride, says two things to me: 1. I make unwarranted assumptions. 2. I am militantly unaware of my environment. So as a male, apparently I am expected to make up for this deficiency by making sure that the lid is always left in the correct position. In the interest of not falling into the toilet and/or urinating on myself, I always make sure to look before I sit down. I find the concept of "not looking" interesting. How exactly does one not see the condition of the toilet before sitting on it? The only solutions I have been able to come up with on my own (since females seem uninterested or unable to tell me) are these: 1. Women enter the bathroom with their eyes closed or while staring at the ceiling. 2. Women open the bathroom door and then proceed to back into the bathroom using their rear-end to locate the toilet. 3. Women only do bathroom business after daylight hours and are incapable of and/or unwilling to operate a light switch. 4. All women are very cleverly hiding the fact that they are born blind. 5. Toilets/toilet seats are diabolically engineered to be completely invisible to women.

Why do women leave the toilet seat down and then complain because their men accidentally sprinkle the seat? Why not leave it up all the time? In our house, there are three males and only one female, so the majority tends to rule. Between the three males, we do almost all of the cooking, the yardwork, the laundry, the dishes and most of the other household cleaning (including the bathroom). Although, if leaving the seat down was a guarantee of more frequent sex, I'm sure it would affect my opinion.

If women can't be bothered to look before they sit, then why should we bother to put the seat down?

Habit

I'm going to say something terribly sexist. Did you ever notice that when you see a car with the back all dented in, it's usually being driven by a woman? It's the women who complain about getting a wet arse because the seat was left up. There's a pattern here, in that women cannot or do not look when they are backing up. Flame away ladies! :-))

If you live alone, it only needs to be down 20% of the time.

If it's my house, it's my rules!