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.
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?
Well, I can’t unthink that, Dung.
I have decided my experiment will have to occur outdoors on the deck to minimize the mess. It’s too cold today. Thank God there are no neighbors. I hate to admit it but I have been on the deck with no pants on, before. For reasons you don’t need to know.
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 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.”
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?
I’m a woman and I don’t need to spread my labia. Urine doesn’t run down my leg if the labia are together. Some of it drips down the buttocks, but that slows it down and it stops there. Some of it drips down the buttocks even when I’m sitting so that makes no difference.
My legs aren’t spread that wide, maybe like two feet apart. I wouldn’t have to take my pants off, but maybe women with bigger legs would. Everyone is different.
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.
