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.”
Please. I used to manage a department store with high traffic public restrooms. I can tell you unequivocally that woman leave public bathrooms in a much, much more...exponentially more...nasty, filthy state.
I don’t know if the urine flow is strong enough when sitting down. Need to get those toxins out. Need to sweat toxins out too. Sweat and pee, it’s a ‘guy thing’.
I have seen some nasty, nasty, nasty stuff in female public restrooms. At home, it’s the opposite. My husband is the messy one, not that he’s especially messy.
I hate public restrooms and have excellent bladder control. My husband is amazed that when we go on long trips, I can go the whole trip w/o needing a pit stop, while he has to stop what seems like every hour.
I recall from my days in Germany that there were few urinals in the mens room. Instead, you urinated on a wall designed for that purpose.
Seemed pretty effective to me.
LOL!
It beats the bathroom looking like somebody stood up to take a dump.
“Be proud, When you’re a man the whole world is your urinal.”
It’s a rite of passage, having your ol’ man teach you how to write your name in the snow.
roflmao
“men are pigs and need to learn to clean up after themselves”
Toilets are too low for most guys.
Oink Oink.
I, as a mother, taught all three of my boys to sit when they go. I did not want to get down behind the toilet and clean up their mess! When they got old enough that they knew better than to make a mess, they were allowed to stand. They know mom will give them heck if they make a mess, and to put the toilet seat down before they leave.
In Germany, I am told men who sit to pee are called “sitzpinklers”, and it is a derogatory term.
At least, I would use it as such.
Well, because of the anatomy, they can’t just unzip and let fly.
Totally irrelevant to the article -
I finally searched on Bing, what the heck DWTS is, because I see it everywhere.
Which only showed how un-connected and out of touch I am.
At work, the mens room only had a commode. Somebody posted a sign that said, “Your mom doesn’t pee here. Leave the damn lid up!”
Still, it was always down. Men are so conditioned by women.
McConnel probably already does! (As well as McCain, Boener, Graham and Cornyn!)
Western civilization increasingly demands emasculated men whose every word and action, right down to bathroom trips,
be feminized. It’s up to men to say, “Hell, no.”
And for the record, my husband is a real man who doesn’t leave a mess.
Hahahahahahaha...and I’m a chick too.
The difference is that women only tend to do that in public facilitis. Male dribblers dribble at home too.
The one thing I am amazed at is how come women get it all under the seat? Sure they can complain if little johnny drips a spot on the seat and doesn't clean it up, but how the hell does it all seem to go horizontal and up with women? It's like it goes in a pendulum cycle from beginning to end.
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