# Do girls get piss shivers? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 28, 2004, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-piss-shivers/257236 "2004-07-28T05:23:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-piss-shivers/257236/1 "2004-07-28T05:23:40Z")
I know most guys, including me, will get a shiver after urinating. It seems involuntary and inevitable. But I’ve rarely heard of girls who get the “piss shivers.” Is this more common than my female friends might have me believe? What do you guys say? ---
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-piss-shivers/257236/2 "2004-07-28T08:27:41Z")
I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-piss-shivers/257236/3 "2004-07-28T09:49:45Z")
I do. But at the beginning, not the end. ---
**Author:** ![Sisyphus\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sisyphus\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sisyphus_Stone)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-piss-shivers/257236/4 "2004-07-28T09:51:26Z")
I’ve asked this question to twenty-nine females that I know and the answer is **no!** But women get piss shakes, that small curl of the toe (usually the smaller toes, but not always) when the piss ends fulfillingly. ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-piss-shivers/257236/5 "2004-07-28T10:45:54Z")
I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-piss-shivers/257236/6 "2004-07-28T11:03:39Z")
I’m a guy, and I’ve never experienced this phenomenon. In fact, I’ve never even heard of it! ---
**Author:** ![Jane\_D\_oh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/839c29/32.png) [@Jane\_D\_oh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jane_D_oh)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-piss-shivers/257236/7 "2004-07-28T12:31:32Z")
Not regularly, but on occassion I’ll get a shiver. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-piss-shivers/257236/8 "2004-07-28T12:34:31Z")
> [@Early Out](#): > > I’m a guy, and I’ve never experienced this phenomenon. In fact, I’ve never even heard of it! I’m a guy, I’ve heard of it – but it’s never happened to me. ---
**Author:** ![gouda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gouda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gouda)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-piss-shivers/257236/9 "2004-07-28T12:35:00Z")
> [@Early Out](#): > > I’m a guy, and I’ve never experienced this phenomenon. In fact, I’ve never even heard of it! You’re missing out 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ponster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponster/32/17081_2.png) [@Ponster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponster)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-piss-shivers/257236/10 "2004-07-28T12:46:12Z")
Shouldn’t this be in **GQ**? I’ll ask my SO this evening… ---
**Author:** ![gooti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eb8c5e/32.png) [@gooti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gooti)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-piss-shivers/257236/11 "2004-07-28T13:09:02Z")
I get them occasionally, at the beginning. Not very often, tho. dammit 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-piss-shivers/257236/12 "2004-07-28T13:10:20Z")
How, ugh, _pedestrian_. You should say it with a french accent. Pee shiver is then pronounced more like “Pay Shiv-air” My wife get’s them before, if she has to go really bad. I saw my son get his first the other day, he’s four. You should have seen the look on his face. What was that! ---
**Author:** ![gooti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eb8c5e/32.png) [@gooti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gooti)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-piss-shivers/257236/13 "2004-07-28T13:10:35Z")
Oh yeah…for the record, I’m female. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-piss-shivers/257236/14 "2004-07-28T14:15:46Z")
Looks like my previous inquiries are confirmed…most, but not all, guys do get them. Most, but not all, girls do not. Weird. I wonder if there are any old folk explanations. Like, everytime you get the shivers, someone is pissing on your headstone. Anyways, maybe there’s a senior thesis in this for someone, discovering the medical nature of shiver upon relief of the bladder. I need to get a life. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-piss-shivers/257236/15 "2004-07-28T16:06:43Z")
> [@Turkey Curse](#): > > I need to get a life. 🙂 You’ve already got one! It just happens to be kinda creepy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-piss-shivers/257236/16 "2004-07-28T17:00:39Z")
I’m a girl, I get them quite often, usually at the beginning and sometimes during. Didn’t someone once ask Cecil about this? If I recall, he didn’t have anything useful to say about it. That’s a dare for all you search-crazy dopers: find the pee-shiver article! (if it exists) ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-piss-shivers/257236/17 "2004-07-28T17:10:05Z")
I don’t know, I don’t go around peeing on girls! Oh, you meant… Never mind! Erase! :smack: Erase! ---
**Author:** ![MidnightRadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-piss-shivers/257236/18 "2004-07-28T21:46:08Z")
[From the Straight Dope archives.](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_225.html) ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-piss-shivers/257236/19 "2004-07-28T21:55:53Z")
I don’t think I’ve ever had a piss shiver, nor have I heard of it before now. Well…there have been a couple of times when I really, _really_ had to go, that, after relieving myself, I did have a bit of a small full-body convulsion. But on these occasions, I was being delivered from the extreme agony of Nature’s most urgent call, and a mild shiver didn’t seem all that inappropriate a response, nor mysterious. As for the average squirt, nope, don’t get 'em. I’m a big hairy guy, btw. ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-piss-shivers/257236/20 "2004-07-28T22:13:00Z")
Just noting that the linked column is 10 years old, so an update should be possible. Also, Piss Shiver Decade is an excellent band name. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-piss-shivers/257236.md?page=2)