“It’s all pipes, Jerry!” (The hand gestures are what really makes it, though.)
Anyway, I think the reason it comes up is that you don’t have to go, you don’t have to go, you step into the shower under that hot stream of water, and suddenly, you have to go BAD. I don’t make a habit of it, but I’m not going to drip water all over the bathroom floor just to make sure it goes in the right pipe.
Plus, that extra flushing wastes water. Yeah, that’s it, I’m an environmentalist!
It’s a very old joke:
Q: What’s the definition of a W.A.S.P.?
A: Someone who can’t pee in the shower.
Well, a lot of them reported that they wanted to go but couldn’t.
It may be different from going in the shower but I definitely don’t think I could.
I think the reason people don’t want to pee in their pants is more associated with that gross, warm, wet underwear/pants feeling than social conditioning. That’s not really an issue in the shower so I get the feeling it probably be a factor for most people.
I don’t even take my dick out my pants to piss most times, unless it’s in some cunt’s face. Or all over a cocksucker like you. What I usually do is park the truck in the sun with the light comin’ in and piss my pants up somethin’ terrible." The truck turned another corner; he dropped one hand from the carpeted wheel between his legs, hefted his meat around some - but I couldn’t tell if he was doing it or thinking about it. "Yeah, boy, all that nice hot stuff, running down my leg, and squirmin’ my ass around in it.
-Hogg, from Hogg by Samuel R. Delany.
I could prattle on about all the water I save by not flushing away 3-5 gallons of clean water just to whisk away a cup full of urine by peeing in the shower but really it’s my chance to write my name in the snow (proverbially speaking). Plus it’s just goddamn freeing!
Yes, I do, though not frequently. I straddle the drain and the shower helps rinse. No big deal.
Regarding peeing in non-toilets: After my second back surgery, I had to go BAD. But, my blood pressure tends to crash after surgeries, which means I have a tendency to faint when I first stand up. I wasn’t stable enough for them to permit me to stand up and use the adjoining bathroom, so I was brought a bedpan. Even though I REALLY had to go, and even though I knew it was okay, it took a lot of effort for me to let go and, well, let go. Part of it was the lying down thing, but mostly it was just the feeling of, “But…but you don’t pee like this!” Eventually I got over it, but it was just odd.
Senor Beef, your post made me chuckle enough to read it out loud to hubby. Then when I got to your edit, I actually and truly Laughed Out Loud. Well done, sir…er, Senor. (Buen trabajo?)
After surgery recently wherein there had been a need for catherization, the nurses apparently removed the catheter too soon which angered my tubes so they decided to shut down and I could not pee at all no matter where or how much I tried. And I really had to go! They brought in a nifty little scanner thing and rubbed it across my bladder region and declared that I was “retaining” over 1000 cc. so they knew I wasn’t just messing with them when I was practically in tears from having to go so badly.
During the interminably long wait for the order/approval to re-insert a catheter the nurses had me try everything under the sun in order to go. We even did the ‘hand in warm water’ trick…all to no avail. Our final try (and thankfully the doctor called back to give the order just then) was a warm shower (which was a feat in itself post-op but I digress…) the nurses (and later the doctor) claimed that most people find it easier to pee in the shower than anywhere else with the exception of a toilet I am sure and all gave the “same drain and running water” explanation of why it is specifically not disgusting or unhygienic in any way. What’s more is that I was discharged with the (new) catheter in place and my discharge instructions included removal (a few days later) and included instructions to try to urinate in the shower after removal.
P.S. I am female if it makes any difference in the stats.
The reason I don’t pee first is that flushing the toilet interferes with the shower. I hate waiting for the flush to be over so I can get in the shower, and what the hell, if urine is good enough for the (former) prime minister of India to drink, it’s good enough for my shower, by god.
An all-time great username/post combo!
And I wish the poll had asked our gender.
This is funny to me. A couple years ago, me and two of my friends were going to a concert. Only one of us was 21 so we got a bottle of vodka and some sodas to drink in the car before the show (while parked at the venue). Somehow we got started on the subject of peeing in the shower. I and one of my friends was against it and the other for. So they decided to call a bunch of people and ask them if they pee in the shower. Including our parents. My parents denied doing it, along with around half of the other respondents.
I do not pee in the shower. I tend to have a ritual - pee, then take a shower. I am not in the shower so long as to have to pee in it. Even when I am shaving and whatnot I still never feel the urge. My longest shower will be less than 30 minutes. Only if I had drank a LOT of liquid/beer would I ever go from “not having to pee” pre-shower into “oh my god I have to pee NOW” during shower. But even if that happened I would pee BEFORE MY SHOWER.
A shower is not a toilet. No pee. Sorry, y’all are weird.
Me too but for some reason I am assuming that all the pro- pee-ers are male and all the “Y’all are weird and/or gross” responses are female.
What the poll could really use is more options. I don’t find it disgusting, but it is not something I routinely do either; and when I would entertain the notion is only those times that I am in the shower alone, which for me makes it very rare indeed since co-showering is one of my and my husband’s habits.
Looks like Argent Towers shoehorned a Hogg reference into an unrelated thread again. Imagine that.
Like hell it’s unrelated. If there’s a thread about piss, shit, cocksucking, or filth, I am going to mention Hogg. If there’s a thread about transgressive literature, I’ll mention Hogg. Outside of that, I challenge you to find a reference, from me, to Hogg, which is any more “unrelated” than that.
It seems like we’re making progress on this issue. In past discussions about this on the SDMB, there have been (as I recollect) almost as many opposed as in favor, and significantly more who are *vehemently *opposed (like Argent).
As for the poll, I don’t think adding options to represent the various degrees of pissing-in-the-shower is necessary; the situation is close enough to binary that IMO we’re better off keeping it simple. I guess I could’ve broken it down by gender, but it didn’t occur to me that there’d be a big gender gap, and anyway that’s not the information I was after. Anyone who wants to volunteer their gender in-thread, of course, should do so.
– Varlos (male, pisser)
I pee in the shower sometimes, if i have to go and then i won’t leave the seat wet for someone else or have to grab a towel to dry it with.
I’m an occaisional shower pee’er. If I have to go, it’s the easiest way.
I think peeing in a public shower is over the line. Like peeing in a swimming pool or hot spring.
Of course I pee in the shower. How else will the other males know it’s mine?
Considering you are currently outnumbered 4 to 1 in this poll, it appears you are the weird one. 
Oh, and FTR, I’m female.
Honestly I don’t care. If you effectively rinse the sink or tub out afterward, I’m not one to question your weird urine rituals.
Unless you drop your pants in the middle of the kitchen, then I’d have to show you the door.