While enjoying my stay in Germany, I happened to notice something in every ones bathroom. A neat little sign above the toilet picturing a man standing at the toilet and having a red line through it. This sign lead me into an argument with one of my friends about why I have to sit and pee in his bathroom. So here is the question, are you a man and stand and pee or do you do it the clean way and sit down while peeing in order to avoid splashing?
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01:17 PM
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Posts: 9105 From: Indy southside, IN Registered: Jul 2009
Mostly stand, as sitting, for a guy, is not the neat way. I mean have you ever sat and pee'd? I don't like walking away from the toilet to have leftover piss stream down my leg 20 steps out the door. Now, the exception is at night. If I get up from bed to go pee, I don't want to turn on the light, so I will sit.
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01:23 PM
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Posts: 38235 From: Displaced Alaskan Registered: Jun 2003
Never crossed my mind that a guy would sit for #1, unless a #2 was in the deal. Nope I haven't, however if I was in a place that was quiet like someones home, and didn't want the waterfall sound to be heard by everyone, I have knelt down on one knee. Maybe I was inefficient as opposed to sitting? Anyway I don't plan to sit and pee.
Ok. You got the typical sophomoric male answers. So now the real, anatomical answer.
It has to do with directional flow.
For a male's anatomy, the direction of the exit hole makes it that standing over a toilet is the way the urethra is most oriented to where the urine needs to flow.
For a male to sit on a toilet and urinate, the unaltered orientation of the urethra would generally lead to peeing onto the floor in front of the toilet, which most people consider a negative. To sit and urinate, a male generally has to physically re-direct the penis at a more downward angle. For some, this can impede urine flow and slow down the process. Plus the extra time involved in pulling down the pants and underwear, versus the convenience of standing, and just opening zippers and flaps.
So really, the more natural flow opening is to stand versus sitting. Plus the convenience factor. (while maintaining a very high target acquirement rate).
BUT, for an older male, the urine flow is often ALREADY impeded...by the enlargement of the prostate gland. For those males, the impedement to the urine flow can make it such that the urine actually would land on their feet instead of into the toilet. That group of males, then, find it more personally and socially acceptable to sit, as the urine flow impedement effect is minimized due to the proximity of the urine exit hole to the target.
Is that clear, or did that go over anyone's head??
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Posts: 43235 From: Southern MN Registered: May 2007
Since I am currently getting up at 4:00 AM, and it's very quiet where I live, and I have a 1 year old son that my wife would not be happy about waking, I sit in the morning, and as mentioned, you have to physically aim down of you will be aiming just under the seat and therefore it gets on your legs.
The only other time I sit is if I really have to pee and have a wood. It's not physically possible for me to stand with a wood, unless I feel like bowing about 75 degrees forward (which I still have to do if I sit, but at least I can balance my weight against my knee with my arm.
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Patrick Member
Posts: 39263 From: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Registered: Apr 99
I'm waiting for Maryjane to suggest a correlation between sitting to pee and manscaping.
QUOTE] No, --not that I would ever succumb to either sitting to pee or manscaping, and I am one of the older folks here Frontal Lobe. Gravity, being the insurmountable force that it is, dicktates (ya like that pun like spelling?) that even while sitting, the directional flow will be down, unless one has an erection at the same time.
I cannot, under any circumstance, imagine myself sitting or squatting to pee--and I've found myself in a LOT of different circumstances.
No, I just figure that in the case of the region spoken of in the opening post, (what used to be known as the fatherland) came as a result of 2 of the last generations of that population's army occupying France twice in the last century. They picked up some bad habits and took them home with them.
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Posts: 43235 From: Southern MN Registered: May 2007
I don't usually do it on purpose but I do it. Usually because I don't realize I have to pee until the warm shower water hits me...
Found a survey, kind of surprising: --- Do you ever pee while showering in private? 6% (91) Never 14% (206) Well, I have 78% (1106) Yeah, why not 1403 voters have answered this question.
On a serious note, i'm sure most of the male population have this problem(except Pontiackid86) if you sit and have morning wood and have to piss like a race horse, folding/bending to spray down/under so your junk doesnt hit/drag in/on the front of the toilet bowl can be a problem and dirty.
