# Do you pee in the shower? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 29, 2000, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/35024 "2000-09-29T16:50:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/35024/1 "2000-09-29T16:50:57Z")
Years ago, my mother, sister and I were talking about - of all things - peeing in the shower. We all did. My Dad overheard us and thought we were all absolutely disgusting. What do you think? Is it just a female thing? Do men do it too? Or are the women in my family absolutely disgusting? ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/35024/2 "2000-09-29T16:52:36Z")
Surprising…I would have thought this was an exclusively male activity. Not that I, uh, urm, ah… ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/35024/3 "2000-09-29T17:01:19Z")
Doesn’t everybody? ---
**Author:** ![DavisMcDavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@DavisMcDavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavisMcDavis)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/35024/4 "2000-09-29T17:09:55Z")
How you can you not? That running water sound makes me have to go every time…Anyhow, I thought it was more acceptable after Madonna admitted to it on Letterman few years back… ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/35024/5 "2000-09-29T17:34:36Z")
of course… but don’t tell my housemates ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/35024/6 "2000-09-29T18:14:56Z")
I can honestly say I’ve never peed in the shower. I have peed from the shower into the toilet(well most of it went into the toilet) ---
**Author:** ![Wildest\_Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Wildest\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildest_Bill)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/35024/7 "2000-09-29T18:27:18Z")
I will go with Duke’s answer. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![zut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zut/32/2875_2.png) [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/35024/8 "2000-09-29T18:36:21Z")
Oddly enough, this very topic arose a few months ago in a thread entitled, aptly enough, [Peeing in the shower](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=27543). Anyone interested can take a look and find out, all at once, how their favorite Dopers feel on the subject. Oh, it wound up in the Pit for some reason, too. I’m reall not sure why, unless **slythe** objected to **JimmyNipples’** gratuitous quip that > [@](#): > > sometime when I shit in the tub, I pretend the logs are submarines and I put pipe cleaner periscopes in them. If that’s the case, I guess this thread is headed there, too. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/35024/9 "2000-09-29T18:55:21Z")
I used to pee in the shower, but I don’t anymore. (I was showering with someone for about three years, and I just got out of the habit, I guess.) I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it, though. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/35024/10 "2000-09-29T19:31:03Z")
I have heard that if a guy has athlete’s foot and pees on his feet while showring, it will clear up. Guys, how 'bout it? ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/35024/11 "2000-09-29T19:38:49Z")
I’m sooo sure I’m admitting to this, but, yes Virginia, I pee in the shower. . . While I’m brushing my teeth! 😃 It seems more efficient to me. I kill three birds with one stone and don’t have to move around much in the morning. When company joins me in the shower, I refrain. As for the athlete’s foot theory, I can verify this. A non-athlete, the only time I’ve had AF has been in college, from those nasty dorm showers. Something about the ammonia in urine works like bleach on the fungus that causes AF – kills AF dead. Eeeeyyyeeew. ---
**Author:** ![RonA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@RonA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RonA)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/35024/12 "2000-09-29T19:42:51Z")
Do I pee in the shower? Only when the sink is being used. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/35024/13 "2000-09-29T19:43:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by EJsGirl \* > \*\*I have heard that if a guy has athlete’s foot and pees on his feet while showring, it will clear up. > > Guys, how 'bout it? > > \*\* hmmm… I’ll have to try this out. wonder if it’ll get rid of dandruff too? oh and I do it too. ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/35024/14 "2000-09-29T19:50:41Z")
I pee in the shower. I shave in the shower, too, _sans_ mirror. My wife finds my peeing in the shower abhorrent, and claims she never does it. ---
**Author:** ![tubagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@tubagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tubagirl)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/35024/15 "2000-09-29T19:59:03Z")
I used to do it a lot, but since I met my husband I have cut down on htat. Somewhere in my mind I think he will somehow hear the extra stream of liquid while shaving at the sink. It is weird. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/35024/16 "2000-09-29T20:09:33Z")
I pee before my shower, when I let the water run for a second the sounds stimulates that urge, and the time it takes to pee is exactly the time it takes for the shower to warm up. Works nicely. That said I don’t find pissing in the shower especially gross, as long as you aim where the water is running, pissing straight ahead into your soap dish probably isn’t a great idea. Oh, and I flush after the shower, just so you know ;). ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/35024/17 "2000-09-29T20:14:54Z")
That’s not even a question! In the ORIGINAL peeing in the shower thread, I believe it was Mullinator who said he poos in the shower and squishes it through the grate with his toes. That nearly made me pee in my chair. –Tim ---
**Author:** ![Running\_with\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Running\_with\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Running_with_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/35024/18 "2000-09-29T20:23:04Z")
> [@](#): > > _Giraffe:_ > I was showering with someone for about three years That’s a hell of a shower. The water bills must have killed you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/35024/19 "2000-09-29T20:32:24Z")
Uhh, no. Don’t know anybody who does (or admits to it), either. This seems a little gross. ---
**Author:** ![Diesel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Diesel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diesel)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/35024/20 "2000-09-29T21:12:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homer \* > \*\*In the ORIGINAL peeing in the shower thread, I believe it was Mullinator who said he poos in the shower and squishes it through the grate with his toes. > > That nearly made me pee in my chair. > > –Tim \*\* That’s it. i’m outta here. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/35024.md?page=2)