Anything toilety requires total privacy as far as I’m concerned. At a push, I can pee in front of certain select people, but usually I have trouble getting the flow started if someone is in the same room as me. When I’m out, I find it impossible to use a urinal, and have to wait for a cubicle.
As for ploppy-poos, I take privacy to the extreme. The door must be locked and closed, and I always flush the toilet to cover up any noises. Should there be anyone sitting in the next room, they are made to switch on the TV before I go to do my business, in order to further mask any noises. Of course, the plop only takes place if the toilet seat is cold. If it’s still warm from a previous user, the act must be put off until it has cooled. Nothing worse than a warm toilet seat, IMHO. And the toilet has to be my own, as strange shitters really do cause me to close up, so to speak.
The only time I let someone into the bathroom for any reason( well, not any. If they need to use the toilet I leave until they’re done) is if I’m just brushing my teeth or putting on makeup. Any situation requiring my pants to be down calls for the door to be locked.
See, if the 101 other things about being in prison weren’t horrific enough, just the single and simple fact that one’s toilet is in the middle of the room that one shares with another, perfectly visible to all who pass by, would be enough to keep me on the straight and narrow all my life.
I’m quite private about bathroom functions. I had a hell of a time in basic training when the latrine consisted of a few urinals and 6 or 8 toilets along the wall–no doors, no partitions, nothing.
23 month old china bambina is simply fascinated by watching me pee standing up.
pooping in China is/was a lot more public. There are so many people and used to be not that many toilets. Just could not be as personally modest as we are in the US. If you were lucky, public sqat toilets were seperated by a 3 foot high wall, with no door in front. Let me tell you that was fun, having a group of Chinese who have never seen a foreigner before, watching me suffering from Mao’s revenge. Sheesh.
I still prefer to shut the door and poop in peace.
While I pee, yeah, no worries, you can watch if you like.
While I’m sitting on the toilet having just let go or am about to let go then my SO can come and talk to me briefly about something if it’s important. She doesn’t do this but she could if she wanted.
While I’m physically excreting and also while wiping I would prefer the entire apartment was empty.
Absolutely not. Not no way, not no how. Not that I’m gone that long - I do my business and get out of there (I’ve voiced my opinion about reading in the bathroom before and won’t go into it again except to say “Poor lighting, poor air quality, poor seating.”)
Amen to whoever mentioned the warm toilet seat. If I go to the bathroom and the seat is warm, then someone else’s butt has been there not long before mine. With the SO that’s not such a bad thing, but in a public restroom - it gives me the willies.
Good Lord, who lets other people into the bathroom when they’re using the toilet? What difference does it make if you’re pissing or shitting? What the hell’s wrong with you people? Honest to God. Must be the same posters who piss all over their feet in the shower.
I used to poop in front of my ex, but we had been together for 5 years and were comfortable doing anything in front of each other.
I wouldn’t mind peeing in front of the girl I’m dating now (although I doubt she’d want to be in there when I am), but I would not poop in front of her…we’re nowhere even close to that level of comfort yet.
Absolutely not. I use the spare bathroom, in a far-off corner of the basement, with the door always locked and the fan always running. I call it the Private Sanctum. If, for whatever reason, people are in the basement, I negotiate with my mom so I can use the upstairs bathroom. “Hey Mom, go smoke a cigarette or 2, I need the entire upstairs to myself for a moment.” The best times are when no one is home, and I can go worry-free.
Sometimes I’ll leave the door open when I’m peeing if no one is home; the most I worry about is the dogs coming in to watch. But #2 - never. I cannot concieve of going in front of an SO. I cannot imagine acknowledging to an SO that I do, in fact, go. Especially if the bathroom environment is not suitable to privacy. I’d rather go home early.
In my Private Sanctum, there are an assortment of magazines and books.
My husband and I are both private people and do not allow the other into the bathroom whilst doing our business…although the cats have been known to accompany us in and “hang out”. One of my cats likes to curl up in the sink while I’m in the bathroom doing whatever, even taking a shower.
I have been known to pee in front of one or two of my close girl-friends, it’s not like it’s nothing they haven’t seen before! I guess I’m still shy around my husband. If our shower curtain was not clear plastic I would probably pee while he was taking a shower, but poop, definetly not. The other day I was having a bout of morning sickness and barfing up a lung, and he asked, “Do you want me to come in?” My answer was a resounding, “No!”
I’m with all-privacy-all-the-time faction. I suppose I could pee in front of a family member or close friend if I absolutely had to, but I can’t imagine what would be necessary to justify it. I don’t even like it when my mom or grandmother leave the door open whilst peeing.
Ugh. And don’t talk to me when I’m peeing. Girls always go to the bathroom in groups which is great so you have someone to chat with in line, or washing your hands or whatever, but when I’m in the stall Do Not Talk To Me. And if you’re in the stall Do Not Talk To Me. Nothing’s creepier then holding a conversation over the “tinkle-tinkle” sound.
You people are SOOOO anal. You (or anyone) can come in while I’m bakin brownies. You might not want to, but you can. Now peeing, dont enter until I begin, I get stage fright. Once I start though, I could pee off an over pass. Again, I dont invite people in with me, but if you come in, thats fine. As long as there is a decent reason. Update the score of the game, tell me Mom is on the phone, to tell me I should stop Bogarting that, anything really.
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