While public toilet seats may seem unsanitary, studies show they harbor fewer germs than common surfaces like door handles.

They may have all but disappeared from newly built homes, but traditional Japanese squat toilets are still found in places ...

Watch out if you don't put the toilet seat down before flushing ... within an office building in China. One contained a squat toilet, which is a 'hole-in-the-floor' toilet type popular in China ...

Dr Figuers recommends simply fashioning a ‘nest’ of toilet paper to sit on, or utilising a paper seat cover if the facilities have any on offer. And if you are forced to, infrequent squatting ...