Peeing standing up - why?

[Kimbles20]

This may not be the best section to post this question but here goes.....

When men go for a poo, they generally have a wee at the same time. When they have just a wee, they stand up to wee, but when they have both at the same time, they sit down to do both.

So my question is, if men can sit down to wee, then why dont they do it all the time??

Thanks for your assistance! Its just one of those questions thats been going through my mind for the last few days.

[:Ace:]

Because it's more convenient and easier.

[fo3nix]

1) it takes less time and is easier to go standing up. hence urinals.

2) sometimes the tract is easier to empty if you're standing up (simple gravity and straightening it, i guess). it's also advised by doctors usually to not take something to read with you if sitting down, as that tends to make you lean over a little more.

[Loosehead]

I can't believe you need to ask this! If ladies could pee standing up they would. It's much quicker, you can get more urinals in a space than loos, hence more throughput. Go anywhere where there are a lot of people and it aint the blokes who spend all day queuing.

[ugly_bob]

cos we can.
the world is our toilet.

[andy-hughes]

Actually, ladies can pee standing up if they wish - it's simply time and social custom that dictates that they don't.

As advised, it's simply quicker and easier to 'zip and flip' and men are all for making life simple ..... leave it!

[Kimbles20]

Thank you all, I didnt really know what sort of answers to expect to tell you the truth I just wanted to know from a mans point of view why it was that if you can do it then why dont you all the time.

Thanks for taking the time to repond - although anyone else who wants to reply please do - I obviously have much to learn about the opposite sex.

PS (I do occasionally try to go to the toilet standing up but my aim is not so good - at least men have something they can aim!)

[SaxyJag]

Andy's post reminds me of a very old edition of an antiques programme. Someone had this china thing that looked a bit like a gravy boat - turned out it was victorian ladies p***pot - one that she would keep in place beneath her crinoline, just in case she needed to go.

[Space]

peeing sitting down is rather uncomfortable for a male
because the stream hits a part of the toilet seat that is only a few milimiters away from the source, and that means some droplets are going to bounce back, which is very unpleasant.

[Backdrifter]

It can be more convenient sometimes, and not necessarily more uncomfortable, for a man to pee sitting. In the male toilets where I work, you have no choice in fact - all cubicles and no urinals. It also helps to avoid the occasional unpredictability of the penis and the possible consequences thereof, which women always (and mostly inaccurately) condemn as "not aiming properly".

[doglady]

Surely, backdrifter, you can pee standing up in a cubicle if you want to? Just like you do at home? It does give you a choice, but it means you don't know if a bloke goes into a cubicle that he is going for a pee.

[Backdrifter]

Yes doglady true, I didn't mean to suggest I and my male collagues feel we're forced to sit down!

[Toureman]

Women always used to pee standing up!

When there were no public urinals and women never wore knickers but always wore long skirts they did it over a grid in the street, much more easy than for the men because they had to flip it out and expose themselves.

This is true!

[cuetip]

It's much more difficult to pee on the seat when sitting down. Thats why we stand up.

[Grunty]

Around 1968/69 I knew an elderly lady who did as Toureman describes. At the halfway point on her daily walk, she would stand over a grid and get her knees in exactly the right position.

[skilliyay]

you lot are weird

[pedderwo]

Not that I like to air my very personnal business on a forum I would like to inform you that after years of getting up in the night to go to the loo and squinting in the Blackpoolesque glare of our bathroom so that I can see that my aim is true I now don't bother with the lights and sit down for a No 1s at night.

Advantage is that you don't wake up too much. Disadvantage is that you can fall asleep on the job and wake up 20 mins later unable to walk due to pins and needles.

[pedderwo]

Just an aside I don't even sit down for No2s during the day. Time is money. Doesn't half make a mess in the urinal though.

[peanut]

the only time i sit to pee when i dont really have to is in the middle of the night. i can go in complete darkness (i hate turning lights on in the middle of the night, its annoying) and not have to worry about where im aiming.

[joko]

similar to saxy jags antique gravy boat, you can apparently but cardboard spouts that fold up to enable women to use urinals, they are then flushed away.

i don't think that really caught on though.

my dad doesn't like the lights going on in the night either so i painted the inside of the toilet door with glow in the dark paint. its white during the day but at night it gives off a glow. you have to keep your eyes shut and turn the light on for about 5 seconds first though.

[wildwood]

In the winter I am glad I am a male.

Nothing worse than exposing a maximum amount of skin to the freezing night air, and worse, a chilling toilet seat.