Posted on 10/17/2013 8:03:11 AM PDT by tom h
When Viggo Hansen, a county counselor from the Left Party in Sormland, Sweden, tried passing a law that required that men sit down to pee when using the public bathrooms, his motion caused a flood of reactions. Hansen argued when men sit down to pee it is better for public health because it reduces the splatter around the toilets and stops the spread of disease. Hansen is one of many—including the head of the environmental protection agency in Taiwan, Stephen Shen, who also tried mandating such an order—that believe errant urine is bad for public health. They argue that droplets of urine spread disease. But just how scientifically sound are these arguments? Is it actually better for men to sit down and pee?
“Urine is actually sterile,” says Benjamin Davies, an associate professor of urology at the University of Pittsburgh. “There is no bacteria in it. You can drink urine.” (Though he's not advocating that anyone does take a swig of urine.)
So puddles of urine might smell bad and look gross, but they won’t cause disease. But Hansen has another argument: Hansen claims that men who pee while sitting will fully empty their bladders, which is better for their prostates—and means they'll experience a longer, healthier sex life.
But again, Hansen's claims are totally off the mark. "This is total bullsh**," Davies says. "There is no relationship between voiding and sex life. I haven’t the slightest idea why it would improve your prostate. If you are a normal male your prostate muscles relax while you urinate.”
Bottom line: Completely healthy men experience no benefit by sitting to urinate instead of standing. Some conditions might mean it is easier for a man to fully empty his bladder if he sits down, but for the vast majority there is no difference between sitting and standing. However, some cultures prefer to sit rather than stand—almost half of all Japanese men sit to urinate.
Davies believes that sitting is a cultural or psychological preference, not a health issue. “If you are tired," he says, "go ahead and sit.”
If God wanted me to sit down to pee he wouldn’t have given me a firehose to pee through! (/facepalm)
“Our Aim Is To Keep This Bathroom Clean.
Your Aim Will Help.”
From another forum —
Please don’t put cigarette butts into the urinals,
it makes them soggy and hard to light.
My dog and I go out for our late night walk and we both pee. It’s mutual expectation thing.
How old i s he?
Ive been sittinbg all my life t6o P..
but then Im built for such a posture
Men OTOH...
I take it you've never had to clean a women's restroom.
And the water is too cold.
I’d stand up if I had any pressure. I was hunting with a friend and his 12 yo son and watched the boy piss 12 feet across a ditch. I’d kill for half that pressure!!
It’s all bulldroppings. All the fancy words are meant to disguise the real agenda: make everyone exactly the same, ignoring the very natural differences that exist between individuals, the sexes and the races.
We have SEVERE economic and political problems beginning to boil to the surface and someone posts THIS crap? Give me a break.
“At home, it’s the opposite. My husband is the messy one, not that he’s especially messy.”
I got blamed for messing near the toilet, and I denied it; no one in our home but me and her ... wait ...
Culprit was the new poodle, lifting his leg on the front of the commode!
Oh for God’s sake! This is a stupid issue. My mom taught us as little kids to sit because we didn’t have the wherewithal to aim or to clean up our mess. That lesson was solidified during my Marine Corps tour living in a barracks. If you have to clean the head every morning you come to not appreciate the slovenly among us. When I became an NCO and observed someone pissing into the wind in front of a urinal or open stall toilet (who wants to sit on a seat that they’ve pissed all over), they were immediately put on head detail. Even today, at home, I sit because it gives me a few moments of rest and contemplation of whether or not I need to offload other material. Besides, when my three boys were growing up the bathroom with the door locked was the only place to get some privacy and peace.
I not only stand while peeing, but I call in my wife to hold and aim for me when I need to pee because my hands are busy holding beer.
deep, too
12.
This topic comes up once in a while, and I just don’t understand why people get wrapped up in it. As a man, yes, the world is my urinal. But I also think anyone who doesn’t get that, given the opportunity you might as well cop a squat, probably hasn’t cleaned enough bathrooms.
Interesting tagline for somebody who wants cowboys to pee sitting down like girls.
Does she have a sister?
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