Why did I want this feature in the first place.

I have Kohler seats and they stay up as they should. Have them five years in this house and a few in the last. I'd get them again.

Just slide forward to removed for cleaning. I'd get them again.

Can someone please explain why you need to remove a toilet seat in order to clean either the seat or the supporting ceramic part of the toilet itself? The sitting side is fully exposed when the seat is down. The underside is fully exposed when the seat is up. The edges are fully exposed while holding the seat half up with one hand and can be cleaned with the other hand. The top surface of the seat supporting ceramic is easy to reach when the seat is up except for the area under the tank, which can be reached with a sponge when the seat is down.

Over time you can get some gunk around the mounting portion. Makes it easier for a thorough cleaning, maybe once or twice a year.

A toilet seat can be a work of art :

Lots of items have added features that are almost worthless just for marketing advertisements. Just like many of the laws that are passed, just a feel good things so that they can say they are doing something good.

Kohler I've heard of for decades. Kohler of Kohler. I should have been suspicious of Bemis (and Butthead.) Never heard of them before.

Talk about features, now I want the one with remote control.

They range from $400 to $900, which is a lot, but it's worth it to have so much fun.

Yes, although if one is careful to begin with I can imagine going quite a bit longer before it needs such thorough cleaning. Of course not as long as I've been here, 40 years.

It also makes it much worse when a common old-man medical issue makes it harder to aim. (Just since I turned 74.)

It did get thoroughly cleaned when a seat wore out and I changed seats.

When it got really bad is when I had a natural oak seat with brass hardware. It was pretty but the hardware turned green, and I think there was green stuff flaking off into hard-to-reach corners. Why would anyone want a toilet seat with brass hardware? I dont' think the wooden seats with steel hardware did this, and I know the ones with plastic hardware didn't. Does brass mean one is upper crust?

I wanted dark brown to match the cabinets. Not every brand comes in that color.

That was good. I liked the very short ad for Clorox at the end. They make a good team.

We love our Toto s7e Washlets. Once you try it, anything else is barbaric.....

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In all my years in the medical profession, I never came across a patient or a journal article that made the connection between some gunk around the mounting portion of a toilet seat and a risk to health. I'm certain that I've never prepared food or eaten anything off the surface of a toilet. Any friend of mine who refused to visit again because my toilet seat fittings failed their cleanliness inspection isn't someone I'd likely remain friends with for long. If you choose to spend some of your limited time on this earth cleaning that carefully, I guess you get a real sense of satisfaction from doing that. The only time I've ever been compulsive about cleanliness was when I was treating patients either in my office or in the operating room.

That reminds me of when I visited a friend. H/is wife had put on one of those thick knitted seat covers, which made it nearly impossible to keep the seat up

Now that you are getting older, you may have an accident on the toilet sometime. Maybe one of the little grandkids. Get back to us and let us know how easy it was to clean up.

If I get explosive diarrhea and crap all over the back of the toilet seat, then I'll clean everything in the area that's been affected. Until that happens, I stand by my previous comments. And, there are no kids, much less grand kids by choice. My wife and I made that a prerequisite agreement prior to marriage. But thanks for the thoughts.

I had a good friend who said he wan't going to have children. Then he got married.

I thought he'd change his plans, but he didn't. At least not in the last 30 years.

It is likely that leaving the seat down, whether for male or female use, is healthier. Men can actually still use the toilet that way; less aerosol splash, less chance of missing, less tribble, less to get on clothes while zipping up.

Of course, you do need to have the ability to sit and stand. That isn't a given past a certain age.