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.

    • edge [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      This but semi-ironically. Squatting is the natural and therefore easiest position to shit. We make it harder for ourselves and cause more rectal issues by sitting.

          • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
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            4 months ago

            The other way around actually, it's not the case for people with a vagina squatting because their urethra is so short.

            If you have a penis, then you have a much longer urethra that goes down from the bladder, curves up and then curves down again. Squatting is helpful to completely void the bladder, particularly if you have an enlarged prostate, kidney stone, inflammation etc

            • Dessa [she/her]
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              4 months ago

              Folls can try this next time they're peeing outside and have a long stay. Try squatting and standing mid piss. You can feel the flow loosen up

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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        4 months ago

        Or you could just lean forward while sitting, it does the same thing.

        • edge [he/him]
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          4 months ago

          Not really. It helps a bit but it's still worse than squatting.

  • CarbonScored [any]
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    4 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.

    • Abracadaniel [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      Peeing between seat and bowl can happen accidentally and insidiously. Soaked pants/socks + pain to clean up.

      This one is a big bummer when it happens, but as you say it's still worth defaulting to sitting.

    • Dessa [she/her]
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      4 months ago
      • Your skirt can dip into the water behind you without you noticing
      • CarbonScored [any]
        ·
        4 months ago

        Oh gosh, I've never had that, but I will quickly be paranoid now.

  • barrbaric [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    You are correct, and it is good to see the pisscourse continue to be elevated.

  • TimeTravel_0
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    4 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.

    • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]
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      4 months ago

      because my dick doesnt naturally point down into the toilet bowl, instead pointing forward and posing a serious splash hazard to my pants

      Are you peeing with a boner?

      Also I don't see how it would splash onto your pants even if that were true

      • LeopardShepherd [none/use name]
        hexagon
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        4 months ago

        It can happen especially if you are a "grower" rather than a "shower" . The unerect peen can be so small as to resemble a micro-penis and just kind of point forward between the seat and the bowl. This can be made much worse by cold weather or certain medication such as stimulants.

        The size difference in some growers is quite remarkable.

            • whoops
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              4 months ago

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                • VOLCEL_POLICE [it/its]B
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                  4 months ago

                  Show

                  The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.

                  نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.

                  volcel-police

          • OgdenTO [he/him]
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            4 months ago

            If you click the hamburger, then profile, there's a dick size field. It used to be mandatory, strange you didn't have to fill it in when you made your profile.

      • TimeTravel_0
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        4 months ago

        Splashes out between the bowl and lid.

  • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]
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    4 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.

    • LeopardShepherd [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      4 months ago

      You're right, ever since I made the switch I have an urge to take estrogen and wear thigh high socks

      • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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        edit-2
        4 months ago

        The moment you started having Socialist thoughts, you were doomed to go down that pipeline anyway. Very few people new to the left survive with their original pronouns intact.

  • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]
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    4 months ago

    Yeah I used to do this sometimes
    Now I just pee in a soup container and dilute it to fertilize the lawn
    It's got what plant's crave, yim yum

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    4 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

    • Dessa [she/her]
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      4 months ago

      And then it can aerosolize and linger in the air. For those of you who dont mask, you breathe in strangers piss and shit every time you go to the bathroom

  • glans [it/its]
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    4 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]
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      4 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]
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      4 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

  • SexMachineStalin [comrade/them]
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    4 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]
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    4 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]
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        4 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.

          • GinAndJuche
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            edit-2
            4 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]
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            edit-2
            4 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.ml
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    4 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]
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    4 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.