Gentlemen, it is with great displeasure that I must inform you that we’re doing it wrong.
Sitting is 10 times better. Easier to pee, no need to aim, no splash so you don’t fuck up the bathroom. But I’d use a urinal over any toilet when I’m outside because 1) it’s faster 2) I don’t want to sit down on a common toilet).
If all you touched was the outside of your outerpants and the waistband of your unders, there’s no need to wash your hands either!
Total agreement with this guy as long as I don’t need to touch any door handles.
Alas, I’m female so that’s pretty much never.
I don’t want to pull down my pants and don’t want to have to do a sitdown and stand up for a pee. Those would be my cons.
We conclude that the sitting posture is the best position for men with urination problems, e.g. due to an enlarged prostate to urinate in, whereas no difference was found in healthy men
Buried near the bottom. Clickbait headline.
I’m waiting for the StandUp to Poo study
Yeah, a study that compares the benefits of using a toilet vs the benefits of pooping the way East Asians traditionally do (a “hole” on the ground).
And if I recall, the results were that squatting is actually better at lining up all of the anatomy for least effort in evacuation. As a result there was a suggestion of a lower incidence of haemorrhoids.
Squatty Potty enters the chat
Bend over, load torpedo, FIRE.
Be like Butters
Boo OP
Thanks.
I’m a woman now and technically, they didn’t say it’s wrong for a woman to stand while she pees.
Oops this is Men’s Liberation. Sorry. Back to lurking. Good luck, men.
The title should be prepended with the word: Older. Sitting to pee is better for men with prostate issues.
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yes but who cleans the bathroom anyways?
I regularly sit down to pee because the toilet in my van has a divider which diverts all the solids to the back and the liquids to a storage tank in the front. Good to know it’s also healthy for my prostate.
My bathroom is carpeted. I’ve sat to pee for years, and now default to it everywhere. Plus, fewer issues with drippage.
My problem is that I drip when I stand up even after I’m “finished”. It feels easier to get every last drop out when I stand up.
Also, I could never have carpet in my bathroom. That just sounds like a breeding ground for mold and mildew just from the humidity of showering even if you are sitting down to avoid sprinkling droplets of pee everywhere.
Protip: when you’re done, doesn’t matter sitting or standing, push on your taint. It often helps clear the plumbing and prevents dripping. Was a life changer when I found that trick.
That does get most of it out but I’m not always into pushing on my taint every time I take a piss so I usually just shake a lot and hope for the best.
If by push you mean pressing from the base to the tip with two fingers, as if you were doing the scisors animation, that’s faster than wiggling it and it’s way more effective.
Yeah, it wasn’t my choice. But so far it hasn’t been an issue, and the floor was already fucked up, which the carpet was an attempt to just cover it up. Eventually I’ll probably deal with it, but haven’t had the cash to yet.
My bathroom is carpeted
Eww. My apologies
I think an elongated seat/toilet makes sitting down much easier and more comfortable. Round seats/toilets really suck for a man.
Round seats are best because you can tuck your willy under the seat and there’s no chance of it popping up. Also the cool ceramic underside of the toilet seat helps stimulate urine flow
What a terrible day to be literate.
Preach
Our new place has a round bowl, rather than swap to an oval toilet I bought a split seat and replaced the full round seat. It helps a lot.
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In public I use the urinal or sit down. At home I sit down. Sometimes peeing makes me want to shit anyway even if I wasn’t planning to originally.
I just enjoy the short break! If I start stressing myself while peeing, where do I stop?!
when shitting
I don’t even sit when I shit
Could always just get a litter box. Way more convenient.
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At worst you just dump all the litter
You think cats are going to let that act slide just by offering to clean up their litter afterwards? Ha.
When I’m in a hurry I stand, when I’m chill I sit down - obviously not in public restrooms.
Also German insider: you will find passive aggressive signs for people to sit down to pee in quite some homes.
Damn sitzpinklers and their elitist signage
In America if you sit to pee, your dick touches the water
Long dick daddy from Cincinnati
Yeah…totally…hate it when that happens😒
I hate when I need to shit in public and can’t find a toilet without actual excrement on the seat. No way in hell am I enduring that just to piss.
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Have fun shitting while standing.
I know I always do
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Squatting to do all the deeds simultaneously is far more universal, cross cultural and even cross species among mammals.
Millions of years of eating raw food and now cooking is better? Millions of years going by foot and now traveling by things with wheels is faster?
Humans haven’t been standing to pee for millions of years.
Bipedal specializations are found in Australopithecus fossils from 4.2 to 3.9 million years ago and recent studies have suggested that obligate bipedal hominid species were present as early as 7 million years ago.
With that logic, you could also argue that all cavemen showed nazi salute, because they had arms.
You can’t just jump from “can in principle stand upright” to “pee upright”, that’s bonkers.
This is true. There is no way of knowing whether early homo male stood up to urinate, or sat down on a toilet.
I would think it’s safe to assume that a pursuit predator like us or our ancestors would at least piss while running, no?
No.
Care to elaborate?
Care to elaborate your initial statement? It doesn’t make sense, if you think just 5 seconds about it. Humans hunt in groups, and the point of endurance hunting is not to be very fast. It’s absolutely no problem, if a single member literally pisses of for a minute.
Not sure what your point is. It’s not because a species is bipedal they do their business standing up straight.
I mean just use a diaper and you can sit to pee anywhere!
When in your own home, just do it the way god intended: kneeling. (it’s really quite nice)
if you do it right you can get your beverage coming out from 3 or 4 places at once.
