I’ve quite recently made a change to sitting down to pee instead of the usual point and shoot and I can’t believe I haven’t earlier. It’s quieter, more comfortable and completely avoids any potential mess from split streams or spraying. Standing does have its place and can be more convenient in certain scenarios but I don’t think it should be standard for penis-havers. Do people think it’s gay or something?

Thoughts and feelings would be appreciated and will advance the piss discourse of the site.

  • CarbonScored [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    36·
    9 months ago

    Dangers of sitting:

    • If it’s cold, it can be a shock to the rear
    • Peepee can touch porcelain bowl, cold/moist/gross
    • Peeing between seat and bowl can happen accidentally and insidiously. Soaked pants/socks + pain to clean up.
    • If not in your own house / have awful housemates, touching gross things like toilet seats

    I say this as a dedicated sit-downer wherever possible. I find it preferable, but when you’re groggily wiping a pool of pee off the floor at 1am, you realise it’s not a promised pee land.

  • TimeTravel_0@hexbear.netEnglish
    24·
    9 months ago

    Pissing while sitting down is dangerous for me because my dick doesnt naturally point down into the toilet bowl, instead pointing forward and posing a serious splash hazard to my pants. This can be remedied by leaning forward a bit instead of leaning back, but Ive been burned one too many times and just pee standing up. Besides peeing while standing up just feels better, more liberating.

  • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    23·
    9 months ago

    I used to do professional cleaning, piss gets everywhere, it’s goddamn disgusting. Take a damp paper towel and give a single wipe on a wall right next to a toilet, you’ll never want to stand to pee again.

    That said, sitting to pee is gay, and it’s what turned me trans. You’ve been warned.

  • emizeko [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    22·
    9 months ago

    pee splashes around more than most people realize when people pee standing, little droplets go a surprising distance and are definitely getting on the front of your pants

  • glans [it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
    19·
    9 months ago

    An ex of mine peed in the sink then washed his dick and the sink it every time. He said his grandmother taught him to do it. He was raised in a very different context. Most saliently where bidets were commonplace. But I doubt this was normal.

    He was 100% clean at all times, that was nice.

    • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]@hexbear.netEnglish
      10·
      9 months ago

      I get knocked down, I get knocked down again,

      You’re never gonna knock me down!

      I take a whisky drink, I take a chocolate drink,

      And when I have to pee, I use the kitchen sink!

      I sing the song that reminds me I’m a urinating guy!

    • DyingOfDeBordom [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      I mean if there’s no toilet available and you HAVE to go then it makes sense that like while it might seem gross it’s okay to pee in a sink as long as you 1000% clean it after, but why is this person’s grandmother teaching them what is basically a Goblin Mode Lifehack

  • Comradesexual@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    16·
    9 months ago

    My pee stream loves to suddenly go to a side into the wall so I never pee standing anymore. I don’t trust my piss.

  • SexMachineStalin [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    9 months ago

    Some situations do warrant standing up. Examples: Ronald Reagan, Henry Pissinger, Margaret Thatcher, John Voerster, Winston Churchhill, Stepan Bandera, Eli David Kay, Queen Elizabeth II, the Vietnam War Memorial, etc.

    bathroom

  • TeddyKila [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    9 months ago

    If I try that outside of peak summer, the ambient temperature has my penis pointing between the toilet seat and bowl and creates a huge mess unless I dedicate a hand to pointing it down

      • ReadFanon [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        9 months ago

        This is probably borderline tmi but I wield a penis which is of the show-er variety, as opposed to the grower variety, and I have encountered this situation myself.

        • Comradesexual@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          11·
          9 months ago

          I am neither a shower nor a grower, I am personally just comically small. IDC about TMI, I’m all for normalization of casual penis talk.

          • GinAndJuche@hexbear.netEnglish
            9·
            9 months ago

            That debate grifter meme with the table and a sign but it says “talk to me about my penis, it’s normal. Change my mind”

          • ReadFanon [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
            5·
            9 months ago

            I’m not going to tell you how to feel but I’d be careful with how you talk about your penis because it can have some pretty big implications for other people who are smaller.

            I’m not presuming that your comment hasn’t come from a place of personal acceptance (sorry for the tortured double negative there) but there’s a thing that I try to be sensitive about and…

            [CW: mild discussion of suicide ahead]

            …to make an analogy here, I’ve dealt with chronic suicidality since I was a kid. Unless I’m having a mental breakdown, there’s no suicide joke you could tell me that I wouldn’t laugh about. Part of that is a coping strategy and part of that comes from a place of acceptance. But I keep that aspect of my humour under wraps because I wouldn’t want to minimise or trivialise someone else’s experience of suicidality or to cause additional suffering to people who have lost someone to suicide; just because I’m totally cool with it doesn’t mean that this is the case for others.

            I’m not trying to grill you over this or anything but I’m just thinking about other guys who might be seriously concerned about their size seeing the phrase “comically small” and having it hit them like a ton of bricks and compounding their anguish.

            This isn’t intended as a low-key flex but rather I’m speaking as a person who is attracted to men - I think that penis size is overrated and way overemphasised. I once had a relationship fall apart due to the guy I was seeing at the time having size issues. If spare you the details but it made intimacy into a chore and they couldn’t connect with me or understand what I saw in the relationship. They felt like life had shorted them (pun intended) but they weren’t able to make room for my experience of things, not even in a ‘two things can be true at the same time’ kinda way, and this doomed the relationship. I think about this person from time to time and the amount of suffering they experienced due to societal values and discourse about penis size. It’s pretty heartbreaking tbh, and I’m absolutely certain that he isn’t alone in this experience.

            I guess what I’m driving at is that it’s worth keeping the other small dick kings in mind when you talk about your own size because I don’t want them to think of themselves as being mere comedy props and I’m sure that you don’t either.

  • Water Bowl Slime@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    15·
    9 months ago

    You can scroll your phone for half an hour if you sit. I would’ve thought you guys knew this already? Y’all are missing out on so much free time at work.

  • ButtBidet [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    14·
    9 months ago

    Although I’m enjoying the sarcastic comments, I do actually do this at night when I can’t see anything. It’s just way safer than maybe hitting the bowl.