I have been sitting since our wedding day 21 years ago. Her gift back to me is since I sit she cleans the toilets. I find sitting for a minute or two after peeing to be a time of relaxation and solitude. In asking me to sit so many years ago my wife gave em a gift and I appreciate her more for it.

Tim

Standing and peeing into a urinal is splashless as long as one hits the back wall of the urinal at a > 90 deg. angle, which is the natural configuration anyway. I don’t see what the big problem is there.

Sitting and peeing is more difficult for me; there is a very small range of motion that will keep me from contacting either the water or the inside of the toilet bowl lip.

Standing and peeing into a toilet does cause some splash iff I aim for the middle of the water instead of the back of the bowl; how effective I am at that is in part a function of how much water there is in the bowl. If I do splash, a quick wipe with some toilet paper takes care of the problem.

When I was a boy, living at home with two older brothers and a dad who smoked, Dad would go to the john first and have his morning cigarette in the bathroom and toss his butt in the toilet. This was after he’d used the and flushed the toilet, so he wouldn’t flush the butt. The next user would then get to see if he could keep a stream going on the cigarette butt long enough to disintegrate it. This developed good aim at a young age among my brothers and I, an experience I cheated my son out of given that I’m a non-smoker. Given my Dad’s current state of health, I make no apologies for that.

I’ve never heard of any man who can’t pee while sitting down, and as far as having to push one’s penis back, there are men who can push it back far enough to stick it in their anus, so come on, guys, let’s be real here. What hasn’t really been mentioned much here is splashback. When a man pees into a toilet, there’s almost always some amount of splashback that goes on, regardless of how good his aim is. If you want to see this is all its scientifically studied glory, try to get your hands on a copy of the Bathroom Book, published by some Brits back in the 70’s, which features charts, graphs, photos of men peeing, etc. Regardless of what position you use, you should be mature enough to see to it that you leave the toilet - and the area around it -clean and dry. I’m still amazed that there are men out there who cannot be bothered to life a toilet seat, even with their foot, before letting loose.

Apparently no one has mentioned these sites yet.

http://web.archive.org/web/20030604104917/http://restrooms.org/standing.html
http://www.restrooms.org/archives.html
http://www.femaleurinal.com/factsandfables.html

To my own, peeing while standing is a nasty actions, also it does not feet a man’s character, that’s like you imagine a respectable man standing up still some where, his penis is out and his piss line in front of him! Who made the rule that males MUST stand up while urinating? And don’t relate it to the nature, potentially many things are natural as an ability; one can bring it out (gun), aim and kill, but he has choosing power, although he has the ability, but he may not do it if he is sane; one can just bring it out, aim and piss, but does it mean he can not do it in a way but that?

Why stand to pee? Why aim? Aiming is for the time when you are distant to your target and can’t be close to it, but when you can be close to it, and if you are sane, you prefer being close to your target than aiming to the target. So sit down and be relax, the name of the place you are doing that in, is rest room! And why you waste your time and energy in cleaning bathrooms? You can save it for more useful affairs by reducing the need of bathroom to be cleaned!

As for those who say “peeing while standing is of a few pleasures of a man!”, I should say that a man is more valuable than way of peeing places as his pleasure and property! It does not fit a man to consider that as his worth! Men have more valuable special abilities to be mentioned! And as for those who say “peeing while standing is much easier than doing it while sitting or squatting”, I should say that bending over and pulling down pants, and keeping a part of panties down for a while and aim for a while both need an attempt; and the fact that which one is easier for a person depends on habit. The way in which one’s habit is based on, is easier for that one, and to which you habit, it will be easier for you! As God has made the ability of peeing while standing easily in guys, it must have an advantage, and yes it has. In men’s jobs some times urgent situations happen, and some times they have to do some thing in a short time when the speed is important, and some times men have situations that they can’t sit or squat or are in places where sitting or squatting is not easily possible; in such times they can use their ability of peeing while standing easily. But these urgent times just some times happen, not always! So I think there should be a project for men to stop, or to say better, manage peeing while standing. One group are already doing that and their site is: http://www.mapsu.org . As I mentioned, there are some occations when it’s needed to pee standing up, then it happens for both men and women! So what should women do? So easy, they can instantly pee standing up using a small device, one is here: http://www.travelmateinfo.com/page002.html .
However, it will be great if the current way of peeing of guys in toilets and bathrooms, in the most parts of the world changes.

Ali

Oh, and I do use urinals, but I always find myself peeing at odd angles to avoid splashback. Urinals need to be redesigned to take that into account.

My three-year-old daughter is recently potty-trained. Like most, she’s fascinated with the whole mechanism of the potty. And she has no conception of the meaning of the word ‘privacy’. Meaning, she walks in on me, constantly.

She is just *dumbfounded* that Daddy can pee standing up. We’re in big trouble if *she* decides to try it!

Regarding the advice in the post–obviously, the men in your life need to Learn How To Aim. :-)

Guys aren’t BORN knowing how to pee standing up. They have to learn dammit, and women should to. A Woman’s Guide on How to Pee Standing Up may be the best place to start.

And as an individual who frequently cleans toilets, I have to say: sitting down is SO the way to go. Just because a man Knows How to Aim and doesn’t get it all over the top of the seat, or his feet, doesn’t mean it all goes into the bowl. It leaves the toilet as a whole much less urine-encrusted if you sit down.

And, Richard, if you have ever squatted to go to the bathroom on a camping trip, you will find that, at least in nature, women by far have the edge on lack of laziness in terms of waste elimination. You have to have pretty great quads to hold a squat for a while.