# How would urine run down a woman's leg if the legs are spread wide so there's enough space? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 8, 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-urine-run-down-a-womans-leg-if-the-legs-are-spread-wide-so-theres-enough-space/830790 "2019-03-08T21:49:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![jordan20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@jordan20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jordan20)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-urine-run-down-a-womans-leg-if-the-legs-are-spread-wide-so-theres-enough-space/830790/101 "2019-03-14T01:02:31Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Yeah, that’s what’s been bothering me all along. Dunno how true it is for all women, but when I pee I lower my pants like all the way to my calves/ankles (skirts get hoisted, no prob) and my panties to at least my knees. How in the world WOULDN’T you end up all the cloth between your legs being pissed on if you stood up straight? If the the clothing was around the ankles and you were standing directly over the toilet, it would go in the toilet, not on the clothing. I guess someone could lean forward also. ---
**Author:** ![jordan20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@jordan20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jordan20)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-urine-run-down-a-womans-leg-if-the-legs-are-spread-wide-so-theres-enough-space/830790/102 "2019-03-14T01:05:03Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > I pee outside more often than I do inside (in season). I have peed IN my shoes as well as on my shoes. And splashing (watch that substrate!) is an issue, along with not correctly assessing the slope, so you rise up from a urine pool around your feet. I’m pretty good though. The issue as I see it, is that in western cultures we do not spend a lot of time squatting. To pee really well, you have to squat very low and wide. Try to squat high, so you don’t tip over, you’ll often get the running down the leg effect, due to the angle of the the thigh being so attractive to the stream. Few western women who are not yogis are going to be able to squat low enough for consistent misses. > > Lucky for me, I was born with very loose hips so I did not need many years of yoga to perfect the extra low squat. If your hips are flexible enough you don’t have to take your pants off. Nothing runs down my leg because the dripping stops at the buttocks, that seems to slow it down for me. For others it keeps dripping down the leg for some reason, but I don’t know why. ---
**Author:** ![jordan20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@jordan20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jordan20)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-urine-run-down-a-womans-leg-if-the-legs-are-spread-wide-so-theres-enough-space/830790/103 "2019-03-14T01:17:29Z")
> [@Macca26](#): > > As a kid, I went through a period where I decided that if I couldn’t BE a boy, at least I could PEE like a boy. I successfully peed standing up for a couple weeks. But all it took was ONE failure, and getting pee shoes as a result of it going all down my legs, that I decided this experiment was now over and I would not pee standing up any more. > > This is why any sensible woman when asked why they don’t pee standing up will say, “I don’t, because I would/could get pee on my legs.” The risk is not worth the reward in a modern society where toilets are easy to find. That you don’t get it means, well, you’ve got either an obsession or a fetish. Even a 1% chance of pee soaked shoes will deter any normal person. > > It’s common, as mentioned, for the labia to divert the stream. That you haven’t experienced it yet simply means you have not peed standing up enough yet. It’s like a guy saying they’ve never had their pee stream come out in two directions, ever, in their life, and they never will. Nah. They will. One day. At least once. My labia DOES divert the stream, it drips down the buttocks, but that slows it down, it doesn’t run down my leg. As for it not working once, well maybe it had something to do with your posture, like you weren’t just standing naturally for some reason and that caused a problem, I don’t know. Others have acted like it should run down the leg almost every time. I’ve done plenty it of times without issue. ---
**Author:** ![jordan20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@jordan20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jordan20)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-urine-run-down-a-womans-leg-if-the-legs-are-spread-wide-so-theres-enough-space/830790/104 "2019-03-14T01:18:53Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Oh my god, Becky, look at her labia. My labia isn’t that small. ---
**Author:** ![jordan20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@jordan20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jordan20)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-urine-run-down-a-womans-leg-if-the-legs-are-spread-wide-so-theres-enough-space/830790/105 "2019-03-14T01:23:49Z")
> [@Enola\_Gay](#): > > I’m having a hard time understanding this, so perhaps you can clarify. How can urine drip down your buttocks, then just stop? Where does it go? If you are standing up, wouldn’t gravity cause the urine to either drip off onto the ground or run down your leg? 😕 When some of the urine drips down the buttocks that seems to slow it down, so it just stops. It makes sense that it would slow it down because it’s such a narrow space. My buttocks touch, but maybe some people have buttocks that don’t, I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![jordan20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@jordan20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jordan20)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-urine-run-down-a-womans-leg-if-the-legs-are-spread-wide-so-theres-enough-space/830790/106 "2019-03-14T01:25:13Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Don’t forget another key question - how does it get to the top of her buttocks to then drip down them? I mean the part of the buttocks right below the labia. ---
**Author:** ![jordan20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@jordan20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jordan20)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-urine-run-down-a-womans-leg-if-the-legs-are-spread-wide-so-theres-enough-space/830790/107 "2019-03-14T01:26:17Z")
> [@Enola\_Gay](#): > > Enquiring minds want to know. I mean the part of the buttocks right below the labia. ---
**Author:** ![jordan20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@jordan20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jordan20)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-urine-run-down-a-womans-leg-if-the-legs-are-spread-wide-so-theres-enough-space/830790/108 "2019-03-14T01:30:37Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I suspect that’s it. “Tried urinating while standing once. It ran down my leg / went onto my shoe.” Unless the woman in question is a true outdoorsy type, or otherwise often doesn’t have access to a toilet, I imagine that the solution is, “don’t try that again,” rather than, “I’ll change my stance next time.” I’m not talking about having the legs spread that far, I only have them about two feet apart. That doesn’t seem that hard to me. Also I get the feeling that these women are saying that it would run down leg their no matter how far apart their legs were. ---
**Author:** ![jordan20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@jordan20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jordan20)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-urine-run-down-a-womans-leg-if-the-legs-are-spread-wide-so-theres-enough-space/830790/109 "2019-03-14T01:32:08Z")
> [@naita](#): > > It is entirely possible that your experimentation on this involves spreading your legs wider than any of the other women in your conversation have ever tried, and that they are extrapolating from what experience they do have and are simply unwilling to consider trying this with wider and wider stances to prove themselves wrong about a topic they don’t really care about. I only have them about two feet apart, that doesn’t seem that hard to me. ---
**Author:** ![jordan20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@jordan20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jordan20)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-urine-run-down-a-womans-leg-if-the-legs-are-spread-wide-so-theres-enough-space/830790/110 "2019-03-14T01:35:50Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Putting a scientific angle on this, it could be [surface tension](https://www.scienceabc.com/eyeopeners/why-do-liquids-sometimes-run-down-the-side-of-the-container-when-they-are-poured-out.html). [SFW] It doesn’t run down my leg. Some of it drips down the buttocks, but that slows it down and it stops there. I don’t why it does with some and not others. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-urine-run-down-a-womans-leg-if-the-legs-are-spread-wide-so-theres-enough-space/830790/111 "2019-03-14T14:20:11Z")
jordan20, I promise you don’t need to respond to every individual poster, but also, here’s how to use the multiquote feature: let’s say you want to respond to posts A, B and C. Click on “Multi Quote” (the little pic, not the link; for some reason the link is cranky) on post A, then on post B, then click “Reply with Quote” on post C. TADAAAAAAAA! ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-urine-run-down-a-womans-leg-if-the-legs-are-spread-wide-so-theres-enough-space/830790/112 "2019-03-15T03:53:19Z")
> [@jordan20](#): > > Nothing runs down my leg because the dripping stops at the buttocks, that seems to slow it down for me. For others it keeps dripping down the leg for some reason, but I don’t know why. Here’s the reason urine keeps dripping down the leg when a woman urinates while standing up: GRAVITY! > [@jordan20](#): > > When some of the urine drips down the buttocks that seems to slow it down, so it just stops. It makes sense that it would slow it down because it’s such a narrow space. My buttocks touch, but maybe some people have buttocks that don’t, I don’t know. The real mystery is why the forces of gravity don’t apply in your case. Again, when you say that urine drips down your buttocks, “then just stops”, WHAT HAPPENS TO IT? Do your buttocks absorb the urine? Are you in a very arid climate so that the urine evaporates quickly? WHERE does it go, if it doesn’t drip down your leg or fall to the ground? ---
**Author:** ![jordan20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@jordan20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jordan20)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-urine-run-down-a-womans-leg-if-the-legs-are-spread-wide-so-theres-enough-space/830790/113 "2019-03-15T05:10:46Z")
> [@Enola\_Gay](#): > > Here’s the reason urine keeps dripping down the leg when a woman urinates while standing up: GRAVITY! > > The real mystery is why the forces of gravity don’t apply in your case. Again, when you say that urine drips down your buttocks, “then just stops”, WHAT HAPPENS TO IT? Do your buttocks absorb the urine? Are you in a very arid climate so that the urine evaporates quickly? WHERE does it go, if it doesn’t drip down your leg or fall to the ground? When liquid slows down it stops dripping and then it would get absorbed into the skin after some time, unless it was wiped off first. Imagine that there was some liquid dripping down an arm or something and someone put their hand on it, that would slow the dripping down, it wouldn’t just keep dripping just as fast. The liquid would slow down, pretty much come to a stop, and then get absorbed and the area would feel dry. Unless skin type makes a difference, I don’t know. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-urine-run-down-a-womans-leg-if-the-legs-are-spread-wide-so-theres-enough-space/830790.md?page=5)