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Here's Why You Shouldn't Urinate in the Shower
newsweak ^ | Aug. 16, 2021 | KATE FOWLER

Posted on 08/19/2021 7:47:59 AM PDT by PROCON

It might not be easy to admit, but a lot of people pee in the shower. In fact, a 2020 survey by Showers to You found that 76% of people let loose in the cubicle.

However, pelvic floor therapist Dr. Alicia Jeffrey-Thomas says that showers aren't the place to pee, for legitimate health reasons.

Dr. Jeffrey-Thomas, who has a doctorate in physical therapy, told her 400,000 TikTok followers back in April that there are two main reasons urinating in the shower isn't a good idea.

The video can be seen in full here.

Dr. Jeffrey-Thomas explained that the first reason applies to everyone and cited the famous "Pavlov's Dog" experiment, in which dogs were conditioned to associate various stimuli with getting food, and so would salivate at the sound or sight of them alone instead of the food. Instead, Dr. Jeffrey-Thomas said we humans are essentially conditioning ourselves to associate the sound of running water with needing to urinate.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: pee; peeing; shower; takealeak; urinate; urination; urine; yellowflow
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To: Night Hides Not

Yes, when it exits the body. It doesn’t stay that way for very long.


41 posted on 08/19/2021 8:15:22 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: PROCON

associate the sound of running water with needing to urinate.


urinating is the sound of running water unless you are doing it wrong................


42 posted on 08/19/2021 8:17:42 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PROCON
The thing I wonder about is people peeing into an adult diaper or one of those "stadium pals". If one is old and incontinent, there is no avoiding it. But if one is younger and doing it temporarily (at a football game or a long road trip or giving a filibuster speech) it could cause problems.

First one has to train oneself that it is okay to pee in such a situation. But the problem would be that when one has dispensed with the peeing gizmo and is back to normal peeing, mightn't one forget that it is not okay to pee right where one is standing and wet oneself?

I think it is best to associate peeing with being in the bathroom standing in front of or sitting on the toilet.

43 posted on 08/19/2021 8:19:04 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: PROCON

Guess I better pull up that Jane Fonda urinal target then.


44 posted on 08/19/2021 8:23:24 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Claiming Racism, the antidote to personal responsibility)
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To: PROCON

The left’s crazy new language rules make it impossible to hold a PG rated conversation. The word “women” is nice because you can comfortably use it in public or in front of your kids or in front of your mom. So of course it has to be banished and replaced with something inappropriately explicit.


45 posted on 08/19/2021 8:24:14 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Yo-Yo

Very bigoted author. Doesn’t everyone have a right to self identify as a Shower Pee-er is they so choose?


46 posted on 08/19/2021 8:25:16 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: PROCON

I’ve a sneaking suspicion that all those finding this thread funny are guys...

Can’t wait for the next prostate thread. ;-)


47 posted on 08/19/2021 8:25:43 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: PROCON
Can we stop with all the pee-pipe talk?

What does Pimple Popper MD say?


48 posted on 08/19/2021 8:25:52 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: PROCON
Dr. Jeffrey-Thomas claimed in the video that only those assigned female at birth will need to be concerned. People with vaginas can't fully relax the pelvic muscles

Sounds to me like this mentally challenged "doc" is acknowledging the existence of God ... or else who did the "assigning" at birth (actually, nine months before birth?)

49 posted on 08/19/2021 8:26:56 AM PDT by glennaro (Dennis Prager: "Until it's safe" means "Never")
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To: Rebelbase
I want to hear from Dr. Van Nostrand.


50 posted on 08/19/2021 8:27:46 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Boogieman

Very funny! I guess I should call “them” a “canine of color “.


51 posted on 08/19/2021 8:28:19 AM PDT by Spok (Those who can compel you to believe absurdities can compel you to commit atrocities.)
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As far as I am concerned, the world is my urinal. It have peed on many famous structures, and I have stopped the car with gps to pee directly upon the tropic of cancer, the tropic of capricorn, the equator, and the arctic circle with one leg straddling both sides of each line. Someday I wish to pee on the antarctic circle, and then maybe a few choice graves


52 posted on 08/19/2021 8:29:57 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

They make it sound as if such assignment is an arbitrary decision made at birth.


Kind of like an entry on my driver’s license. Apparently I was ‘assigned’ hazel eyes. Getting tired of being asked to nod approvingly at nonsense.


53 posted on 08/19/2021 8:33:13 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: RoosterRedux

Simmer down Joe...


54 posted on 08/19/2021 8:33:26 AM PDT by Smogger
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To: Egon

Must be under the “glass ceiling” or something.


55 posted on 08/19/2021 8:34:55 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: PROCON

No wonder people in the swimming pools are always smiling.


56 posted on 08/19/2021 8:36:41 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Larry Lucido

She had a helluva show last night. As usual, plenty of cringeworthy moments.


57 posted on 08/19/2021 8:37:43 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: PROCON
I'll only pee in the shower if I learn that Obama once used that shower.

-PJ

58 posted on 08/19/2021 8:38:56 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (* LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: PROCON

Must admit I too am guilty of the horrific sin of using my shower in this manner. But...I also brush my teeth in the shower! Therefore I must always use VERY, special care NOT to drop the toothbrush. (At least not before I finish brushing my teeth LOL ;>)


59 posted on 08/19/2021 8:45:09 AM PDT by sevinufnine
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To: Codeflier

Eww, all those dog germs after he drank from it and you’re bathing in that.


60 posted on 08/19/2021 9:08:47 AM PDT by bgill (.Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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