# I can pee standing up! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 21, 2000, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-pee-standing-up/34051 "2000-09-21T20:41:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-pee-standing-up/34051/1 "2000-09-21T20:41:18Z")
I went to [http://www.restrooms.org/device-assist.html](http://www.restrooms.org/device-assist.html) and ordered the TravelMate. It’s fantastic! I practiced about 4-5 times at home, and last night had a successful field test in a public restroom. I can’t wait to take it camping, and it’s going to be a lifesaver when I’m at the airport or have to use those Porto-San things. It is just great - you don’t have to take off your pants, just unzip. You don’t have to concern yourself with what might be living on the toilet seat, and you don’t even need toilet paper! It rocks! ---
**Author:** ![Strainger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strainger/32/244_2.png) [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-pee-standing-up/34051/2 "2000-09-21T20:43:34Z")
I dare you to walk up to a urinal in a men’s room and use it. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-pee-standing-up/34051/3 "2000-09-21T20:49:14Z")
You’ll probably scare alot of women if you go pee standing up in public restrooms. ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-pee-standing-up/34051/4 "2000-09-21T20:54:04Z")
AerynSun, did you nominate that site for a Weird Earl? I can hardly believe it’s real. ---
**Author:** ![Shaky\_Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@Shaky\_Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shaky_Jake)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-pee-standing-up/34051/5 "2000-09-21T20:54:11Z")
Uh…congratulations? I’m sure it’s a convenience I can’t truly appreciate, having always had “outdoor plumbing”. However, I won’t be duly impressed until you can do it [device-free](http://www.restrooms.org/device-free.html). That is true talent. 😉 Shaky Jake ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-pee-standing-up/34051/6 "2000-09-21T20:56:34Z")
Ahem. Um, is it real? ---
**Author:** ![Baglady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Baglady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baglady)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-pee-standing-up/34051/7 "2000-09-21T20:59:05Z")
\*\*Strainger \*\* dared: “I dare you to walk up to a urinal in a men’s room and use it.” Oh come on, Strainger – you KNOW that that will intimidate the men far more than it would AerynSun. In fact, those few times I’ve seen women use a men’s restroom, men don’t dare enter until they’re sure the women are out. I mean – you men have some of the most complex social rules for using urinals. – Baglady, yet another TravelMate owner. ---
**Author:** ![Baglady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Baglady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baglady)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-pee-standing-up/34051/8 "2000-09-21T21:01:11Z")
Yes vix, it is for real. You can buy TravelMate online and you’ll get it in your mailbox. I’ve tried this little penile substitute, and other than the fact that it could be longer, it works fine. {cough cough} ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-pee-standing-up/34051/9 "2000-09-21T21:01:37Z")
I won’t be impressed until you can legibly write your name in the snow. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-pee-standing-up/34051/10 "2000-09-21T22:04:01Z")
I think Cecil did a column on this many years ago, but there was once such a thing as the female stand-up urinal. I actually saw one in the mens room (!?) of the naval base’s airport terminal in North Island off San Diego. It looked like a giant porcelain eye-cup (as if anyone remebers what they look like). Female urinals were common in the days when women wore dresses, but fell into obscurity when gals started to trouse themselves and were required to sit (yet another example of women’s lib being a two-edged sword). As for this guy, Slith Tove prefers to micturate while seated at home, but adopts a stand-offish position when out in the big dirty world. I don’t think it’s a masculine/feminine issue worldwide - I’ve read that the Arabs always pee at the squat, and when Richard Burton was sneaking into Mecca disguised as one he blew his cover by peeing standing up, and had to kill his Arab guide to keep his secret. And this men;stand/women/sit is just a human race issue - cows and mares can do the standingest pisses and make the sudsiest suds you can imagine. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-pee-standing-up/34051/11 "2000-09-21T23:34:35Z")
Why would you want to pee standing up??? Is there anything so you can do number two standing up? ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-pee-standing-up/34051/12 "2000-09-21T23:39:36Z")
well, you asked. My son, when he was a toddler, took his diaper off and was standing in the kitchen (at least it wasn’t carpeted), and, as I watched in horror, pooped a long 'un, then stomped in it. Hopefully his girlfriend doesn’t read these boards. ---
**Author:** ![Pergau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7c8e57/32.png) [@Pergau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pergau)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-pee-standing-up/34051/13 "2000-09-22T00:02:21Z")
this is too much - i’m a guy and I want one. In my local pub, there is such a queue for the ladies loo, thAt they use the gents but this is such an eloborate troll that it is true or I want one anyway ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-pee-standing-up/34051/14 "2000-09-22T02:22:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AerynSun \* > \*\*It is just great - you don’t have to take off your pants, just unzip. \*\* I’ve been doing that for years 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-pee-standing-up/34051/15 "2000-09-22T03:35:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gunslinger \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by AerynSun \* > > \*\*It is just great - you don’t have to take off your pants, just unzip. \*\* > > I’ve been doing that for years 😉 \*\* Suddenly, the word “Gunslinger” has a whole new connotation. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-pee-standing-up/34051/16 "2000-09-22T03:46:03Z")
Hey! I remeber something similar, probably the first generation, advertised in camping magazines in 1970. They have REALLY improved the design! The old one had a spherical cup that didn’t look like it got a decent seal and immediately went into a long, narrow tube. It was just made for major backsplash if you gave it anything more than a slow, steady flow. Thank you Jesus for making me a guy! ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-pee-standing-up/34051/17 "2000-09-22T04:10:47Z")
> [@](#): > > I can pee standing up! Me too, though I don’t usually mean to. What? :eek: Oh! :o ---
**Author:** ![Teach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/47e85d/32.png) [@Teach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teach)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-pee-standing-up/34051/18 "2000-09-22T16:20:59Z")
It seems like someone at Reuters thinks this is something new and that it was invented in South Africa. [http://news.excite.com/news/r/000922/11/odd-women-dc](http://news.excite.com/news/r/000922/11/odd-women-dc) ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-pee-standing-up/34051/19 "2000-09-22T17:28:47Z")
**AerynSun:** Just don’t forget to put the seat down when you’re done. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-pee-standing-up/34051/20 "2000-09-22T18:22:52Z")
Yes, it is real. If you don’t know why women would want to pee standing up, you’re not a woman who’s been confronted with atrocious airport/train station/Porto-potty toilets. Not to mention the problems of outdoor whizzing while camping or putting up with a full bladder on the longest stretch of exit-less highway you’ve ever seen. Yes, I do raise the seat and put it back down after. If only women who hover would do this instead of pissing all over the seat! They are yet another reason to use the TravelMate. As for using it in a men’s room, I have a shy bladder in the stalls of the ladies’ room! I don’t think I’d be able to. But maybe at the next baseball game, when the queue for the ladies’ is a mile long, and the men’s is practically empty . . . But I do think I could write my name in the snow, if I had enough . . . ammo. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-pee-standing-up/34051.md?page=2)