Ok, I went to my neighbor’s to see the NFL opening game (big screen, free food, etc). During the halftime, one of the guest came asking for a mop for the bathroom. “Gees, John, you only had one beer and you’re missing the toilet.” My neighbor told him where the mop was, but I volunteered to mop up the mess. While I was moping, the guest was thanking for doing it and volunteered what happened. He was suffering from phimosis, inability to retract the foreskin, and as part of his treatment was to have his foreskin retract for a period of time to encourage skin growth. When he went to the restroom, he learn that when he urinated this way, he seemed to have little control. So, flashforward to when I’m home and in my bathroom. I give it a try and it seems he was right. With my foreskin forward, I could just stand there and my urine with come out in a strong stream, but flow downwards like water out of a hose. With it retracted, it came out more forcefully and went everywhere like when you put your thumb on the hose nozzle. Is this normal or is my body just used to urinating in a particular way?
In Germany, the women force the men to sit to pee.:o
Don’t you mean to ask about 'uncircumcised’ urination?
As a circumcised citizen, I can only attest to peeing one way, and it’s always been a clean, straight shot for me (under typical, unaroused circumstances).
ETA: Not to say I don’t hit everything but the toilet every so often.
Is that why German men prefer to go to war and die than stay at home with the women?
That explains the last 2 World Wars. The women were pissed off.
I’m uncut, but I retract. If I retracted too hard then I’d have severe loss of directional control, but as long as all I do is fully expose the glans and meatus (pee-hole) then there’s no problem, and that’s my preferred method. Peeing unretracted is messier IME. I sometimes (not often) get the “adder’s tongue” problem, where the urine stream forks (vertically, not laterally). Usually this is fixable by stopping and beginning all over again.
Male German here. That’s a myth. Some women try, some men pretend to do it, but nobody I know actually does it.
Sweden, not Germany.
Not having a penis of either style, I can’t say for sure, but my guess would be that if you pull the foreskin back too far, you distort the opening of the urethra sufficiently to skew the direction and dispersion of the stream.
Phimosis isn’t just having difficulty in retracting the foreskin, it actually causes the foreskin to close up quite tightly and looks slightly deformed. I used to suffer from it; the end of my penis looked like an elephants trunk. (If you google for it, you’ll probably see what I mean). It was often difficult to pee straight, with foreskin retracted or not. I actually had to get circumcised to fix the problem, since more non-invasive treatments weren’t working.
Do they stand and watch while you do it? That would be off-putting.
Uncut doper checking in. I leave the foreskin unretracted, usually, as it seems to funnel things where it needs to go. (I have a fairly long foreskin, a CI-9 on that goofy scale.) This made it much easier when I got my PA 
If I retract it halfassedly, it distorts the urine stream to the point of inaccuracy, but if I skin it back all the way, I get an accurate, but smaller and much more pressurized stream.
The foreskin tightens the opening to the urethra, causing the jet effects. If you were actually circumsized (or after you get things all stretched out), it wouldn’t be so tight.
Frankly, it’s the foreskin that normally causes the most splatter.
As an aside: I understand what his doctor was getting with the stretching-the-skin-to-cure-phimosis, but I don’t understand why that would work if he’s flaccid. Sounds more like a recipe of irritating the glans.
Why would you volunteer to mop up someone else’s mess?
I can pee with reasonably good control either way. There is occasionally a slight sidestream, but it’s at the level that can be cleaned up with a little toilet paper, not a full-out mopping.
I did it out of courtesy and force of habit. I used to work as a personal attendant and helping my employer to use the bathroom was part of my job. Unfortunately, the other attendants had poor aim :eek: but I did a very good job of cleaning up.
I’m circumcised, and occasionally get the “thumb on a garden hose” effect. It can be disconcerting to begin peeing, and have the stream shoot off to the side and hit the wall or something (women take note–sometimes we can’t help making a mess, but we SHOULD clean up after ourselves). I just stop for a second, and spread the hole open really quick. Just one of those little annoying things in life.