# Do you pee in the shower? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 25, 2006, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/362063 "2006-06-25T07:54:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/362063/41 "2006-06-26T17:49:51Z")
I pee in the shower when I’m alone, and in the gym shower (single stall). Always wear your flip-flops in the public showers! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/362063/42 "2006-06-26T17:53:21Z")
I’ve been on this message board a lot of years, and this topic shows up again and again. What is the universal appeal of shower peeing?? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/362063/43 "2006-06-26T18:13:31Z")
Convenience. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/362063/44 "2006-06-26T18:13:42Z")
Well yeah… it helps break apart the loaf I just pinched. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/362063/45 "2006-06-26T18:27:06Z")
I had no idea there were people who didn’t pee in the shower. That’s seriously weird. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/362063/46 "2006-06-26T18:36:13Z")
[QUOTE=FairyChatMom] I’ve been on this message board a lot of years, and this topic shows up again and again. What is the universal appeal of shower peeing?? [/QUOTE] You just feel so… _free_ when you do it. You really must try it sometime. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/362063/47 "2006-06-26T18:37:46Z")
[QUOTE=Rigamarole] You just feel so… _free_ when you do it. You really must try it sometime. [/QUOTE] You…_worry_…me, **Rigamarole**. That’s the word. “Worry”. U-huh. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/362063/48 "2006-06-26T18:39:13Z")
My wife got mad at me once for peeing in front of her… … she said I should have moved the dishes out of the way first! 😃 just kidding. Heck yeah I’ve wizzed in the shower. gee, I hate to hijack, but while it’s fresh on my mind… what are some of your favorite euphemisms for peeing? piss wizz tinkle go wet take a leak drain the radiator , ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/362063/49 "2006-06-26T19:11:31Z")
[QUOTE=Lama Pacos] Literally, not once in my life that I’m aware of. It never even so much as _occured_ to me until I read about it. [/QUOTE] Exactly. The thought never came close to entering my head until I saw one of the previous threads on this topic. From the time I was 9 months old (at which point in time my parents had learned that they had another child on the way) I was taught to go in the toilet, and _only_ in the toilet. Over the years this instruction became quite deep-seated, and exceptions to the rule (peeing in the bushes on fishing trips: OK, peeing in skanky porta-potties at concerts: OK) were added much later and don’t seem to have the same power as the “only in the toilet” rule. I just can’t pee in the shower. I can’t overcome the fundamental taboo. Ain’t kissin’ my brother, either. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/362063/50 "2006-06-26T20:19:36Z")
[QUOTE=Dr. Woo] I just can’t pee in the shower. I can’t overcome the fundamental taboo. Ain’t kissin’ my brother, either. [/QUOTE] I don’t think you can compare the two. I’ve responded before and will again. Yes, I do and I recommend it. It’s freeing. Like being in the wild when it’s raining. ---
**Author:** ![Spezza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Spezza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spezza)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/362063/51 "2006-06-26T20:23:54Z")
I pee in the shower. I wrote an essay in grade 9 about the benefits of peeing in the shower. Generally one of the first questions I’ll ask a person I have just met is “do you pee in the shower?” If I’m in the shower with somebody else I’ll ask prior to peeing. If they decline permission I ask them to kindly remove themselves from the shower while I go. While shower peeing, I always aim towards the drain, unless I’m aiming at the person (always ask additional permission for that). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/362063/52 "2006-06-26T20:30:17Z")
[QUOTE=Grossbottom] I pee in the shower, and if someone’s in there with me, I’ll try to pee on her leg because I think it’s funny. [/QUOTE] Well, if she’s showering with someone called **Grossbottom** , then I suppose she must have a pretty high “ick” tolerance in the first place. Yes, I pee in the shower. I also shave in the shower. (But I’m a girl, so where else would I shave?) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/362063/53 "2006-06-26T20:35:51Z")
[QUOTE=The Weird One] I pee in the shower. I also shave in the shower. (But I’m a girl, so where else would I shave?) [/QUOTE] I have a square shower stall and being someone of epic proportions, I can’t pretzel myself enough to shave in there. Should I decide to resume the habit, I’ll sit on the closed pot and shave over a towel, with a basin of water handy. Anyhoo, I side with George and say that “I saw a drain!” and that I pee in the shower; it’s a drain in the middle of the stall so I spread my feet and let her rip. The drain is clear so it pretty much instantly disappears. I didn’t start doing this until I lived on my own, but now I do it even at other people’s houses, provided I will shampoo and soap up to wash it away during the course of the shower. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/362063/54 "2006-06-26T20:48:31Z")
[QUOTE=Rigamarole] You just feel so… _free_ when you do it. You really must try it sometime. [/QUOTE] You want free? I live out in the country – closest neighbor is a half-mile away. Nothin’ says freedom like whippin’ it out in the great outdoors and lettin’ go. Don’t wanna’ get too caught up in the freedom thing, though. Sunburn’s a bitch. But yeah, sometimes, only at home. I go to a gym regularly, and the nice thing about guys’ locker rooms is you don’t have to towel off to drain the lizard – just walk, dripping wet, to the urinal, then get back in the shower. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/362063/55 "2006-06-26T20:51:09Z")
Off to IMHO. I thank Number One, starship captain and Greek god of urination. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/362063/56 "2006-06-26T21:50:03Z")
At our minor league baseball games, I get out of my seat, walk down the stands to the rail, unbutton my jeans, and pee in the dirt. Always on the third base side, btw, Never on the first base side, that would be gauche. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/362063/57 "2006-06-26T22:28:50Z")
[QUOTE=Sgt Schwartz] I also ensure that if I masturbate in the shower, I kick it down the drain. [/QUOTE] \*KICK \* it? How big is your, umm, product? ---
**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:** [June 27, 2006, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/362063/58 "2006-06-27T01:55:34Z")
:eek: I won’t ask about the kitchen sink! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/362063/59 "2006-06-27T02:05:53Z")
I did. Once. For twenty minutes. Back in the – oh nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/362063/60 "2006-06-27T04:13:30Z")
> [@Grossbottom](#): > > I pee in the shower, and if someone’s in there with me, I’ll try to pee on her leg because I think it’s funny. OK, I’m _really_ curious. Does this end up with you not getting tail for a long time? How exactly does this end, anyway? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/362063.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pee-in-the-shower/362063.md?page=4)