I also use gloves for handling my prints, but they aren't cotton gloves. Wondering what's the advantage of cotton cloves over rubber gloves.
Also, and this is for sharing here the "bad" experience I had with a batch of prints.
I received my prints from the lab rolled into a tube. When I take them out of the tube, the prints don't stay flat, they curl, so I put them between two flat panels for a few days, they slowly flatten.
However, what happened once when I removed the top panel, it sucked air like vacuum effect and the whole stack of prints fell against my legs and onto the floor. Unfortunately, the prints got damaged. Yes, 50 euros of prints got scratched
I learned (from breathing color website), how to best handle prints: always with two hand holding the prints the top corners. So far so good, not print "accident" since then.