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Who's afraid of peepee? Donald Trump says he is "very much a germaphobe." (Original Post) In_The_Wind Jan 2017 OP
Since urine is sterile, golden showers would be the perfect fetish The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2017 #1
Actually, urine is NOT sterile.... Raster Jan 2017 #13
Interesting. Not that I ever played around in the stuff myself... The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2017 #15
Done it once or twice, in the shower... Raster Jan 2017 #16
Urine is sterile Don, but Don already knew that. nt Ilsa Jan 2017 #2
Incredible since that never stopped him from groping and kissing strange women wishstar Jan 2017 #3
bingo n/t. okieinpain Jan 2017 #8
I Had Similar Thoughts erpowers Jan 2017 #12
He didn't stop during or after Vietnam either Caliman73 Jan 2017 #14
Wasn't Howard Hughes a Germa-Phobe and Fascinated with Urine Stallion Jan 2017 #4
Ask a psychiatrist. HassleCat Jan 2017 #5
A germaphobe wouldn't be grabbing women by the crotch liberal N proud Jan 2017 #6
Right. eom. In_The_Wind Jan 2017 #11
I dunno. fescuerescue Jan 2017 #21
Trump is a facto-ophobe True Dough Jan 2017 #7
Just because he is a germaphobe doesn't preclude him from watching nadine_mn Jan 2017 #9
Unbelievable. We were tossing this excuse around here last night. Denzil_DC Jan 2017 #10
A normal person who'd been accused of doing something like that The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2017 #17
Yup. The tone of political discourse has decidedly gone down the tubes, huh? Denzil_DC Jan 2017 #19
Who kisses strange women and grabs crotches? Uh huh... n/t Lucinda Jan 2017 #18
Uh huh In_The_Wind Jan 2017 #20

Raster

(20,996 posts)
13. Actually, urine is NOT sterile....
Wed Jan 11, 2017, 07:19 PM
Jan 2017
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/23/urine-not-sterile_n_5378925.html

The popular notion that urine is sterile is a myth, new research finds.

Yes, the myth that comes up every time someone pees in a pool (or drinking water reservoir) is actually false. In fact, bacteria do live in urine, Loyola University researchers reported this week at the general meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Boston.

Some of the bacteria may even be linked to certain bladder conditions that have long been believed to be neuromuscular, not infectious, in origin.

“We need to reassess everything we think we know about urine,” study researcher Evann Hilt, a graduate student at Loyola, told Live Science.

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Raster

(20,996 posts)
16. Done it once or twice, in the shower...
Wed Jan 11, 2017, 07:26 PM
Jan 2017

...very much a "been there, done that" type of thing. Never really understood the cachet, except for the fetish aspect.

wishstar

(5,267 posts)
3. Incredible since that never stopped him from groping and kissing strange women
Wed Jan 11, 2017, 05:29 PM
Jan 2017

Don't think germaphobia has ever deterred him, especially since he probably looks forward to taking showers afterwards

erpowers

(9,350 posts)
12. I Had Similar Thoughts
Wed Jan 11, 2017, 06:01 PM
Jan 2017

First, how would being a germaphobe stop him from watching some else getting a golden shower. The dossier supposedly says he watched instead of participating in golden showers. Second, he boasted about sleeping around during the Vietnam War. If someone is a germaphobe do they sleep with multiple sexual partners. When boasting about his sexual exploits during the Vietnam War he claimed he put himself at risk of getting sexually transmitted diseases. So, he had no problem risking getting an STD, but somehow he could not bare seeing urine touch someone else's body. That just does not make sense to me.

Caliman73

(11,690 posts)
14. He didn't stop during or after Vietnam either
Wed Jan 11, 2017, 07:23 PM
Jan 2017

The guy cheated on Ivanka with Maples, then I believe he cheated on Maples with someone else precipitating that divorce. I don't doubt he is a germaphobe. He seems like a very anxious man who overcompensates with his bravado. However, it is odd that a person afraid of germs would engage in some of the riskiest behavior with regards to the transmission of disease.

The man has no core. He is a windsock.

liberal N proud

(60,298 posts)
6. A germaphobe wouldn't be grabbing women by the crotch
Wed Jan 11, 2017, 05:33 PM
Jan 2017

They would be freaked out by genital contact.

As with everything, he is a fucking liar!

nadine_mn

(3,702 posts)
9. Just because he is a germaphobe doesn't preclude him from watching
Wed Jan 11, 2017, 05:44 PM
Jan 2017

the prostitutes pee on the bed Obama slept on. Never said they peed on him. Oh, and just eww.

Denzil_DC

(7,187 posts)
10. Unbelievable. We were tossing this excuse around here last night.
Wed Jan 11, 2017, 05:46 PM
Jan 2017

I can't believe he ran with it. And not on the basis that it's outrageous to suggest he'd do such a thing, but that he's far too careful to get caught out!

So bigly presidential.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,267 posts)
17. A normal person who'd been accused of doing something like that
Wed Jan 11, 2017, 07:33 PM
Jan 2017

would vehemently deny ever doing it, instead of just making a lame excuse that his personal phobia would preclude him from doing it (especially since the accusation seems to be that he watched, not that he was either the pee-er or or the pee-ee), or that the purveyor of the information is a "fake news" organization.

I can't believe we're discussing an alleged excretory fetish of the President-elect of the US.

Denzil_DC

(7,187 posts)
19. Yup. The tone of political discourse has decidedly gone down the tubes, huh?
Wed Jan 11, 2017, 07:57 PM
Jan 2017

I guess we'd better get used to it ...

A few folks have noticed that Trump was parroting the "germophobe" defense that some of the Trump defender trolls were using on Twitter etc. last night. He's evidently lacking in imagination as well.

He also added that he was well aware from experience that cameras were everywhere in Russia, so "believe me", he wouldn't have been so stupid as to do anything dubious.

I mean, it's not as if he's ever been recorded saying or doing something embarrassing in a media-rich environment before now, huh?

And the Russians are well versed in organizing seductive honeypots with any drug assist that may be required to lower the guard.

(I should maybe add, unless I'm sounding like a prude: What consenting adults do together is none of my business. If they're in a position power and what they've done leaves them open to suspicion of being subject to blackmail, that's different.)

Still and all, the video allegations (and there are certainly more than one out there, as the BBC's been reporting) are the least of it. He's in hock up to his eyeballs, there are suggestions he may have been a Putin informant about the activities of wealthy Russians in the US, yadayadyada.

He could allay a lot of suspicions if he released his tax returns. If it's not looking deeply suspicious that he still hasn't done so, I don't know what it takes.

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