# Male Dopers: Do you pee in the sink? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 20, 2004, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349 "2004-06-20T21:20:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/21 "2004-06-20T23:51:15Z")
> [@Dog80](#): > > It is just a couple of feet away, but the important thing is that the sink has the right height. The bowl is quite low, so I usually miss and pee all over the place ☹ Have you considered sitting? ---
**Author:** ![Sengkelat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Sengkelat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sengkelat)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/22 "2004-06-20T23:56:23Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > Have you considered sitting? Of course not. The sink is way too high to sit on. ---
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/23 "2004-06-21T00:35:52Z")
I usually pee in the tub. I drape my Lordly Might over the shower-curtain pole. ---
**Author:** ![bat312](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@bat312](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bat312)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/24 "2004-06-21T00:59:59Z")
I would never pee in the sink. That is disgusting. Unless maybe I had little much to drink or the toilet was to far away or I did not care because it was not my sink or I was really drunk and I had already peed in the freezer (true story) or someone broke in and stole my toilet or I was really really drunk and thought my freezer was a toilet or my sink was dirtier that my toilet anyway. WTF I am a guy and will pee where I want. Hey, can I come over and use your freezer? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/25 "2004-06-21T03:43:19Z")
When I had my own apartment, I did it all of the time for the reasons you specified. Now that I am married and have my own house, I only do it when I am feeling especially lazy. Why aren’t there any girls responding in the affirmative to this thread? ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/26 "2004-06-21T04:24:41Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > When I had my own apartment, I did it all of the time for the reasons you specified. Now that I am married and have my own house, I only do it when I am feeling especially lazy. Why aren’t there any girls responding in the affirmative to this thread? Because the title says " Male Dopers". But since you made the invite… Yes, I have peed in the sink, but I had a very good reason. I just don’t remember what it was. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/27 "2004-06-21T04:30:17Z")
I’ll take “Things the Average Woman Would Like to Learn Least About Men” for $800, Alex. During my 18-year sojourn in Cambridge and Somerville I often had male roommates. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![1010011010](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/ea666f/32.png) [@1010011010](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1010011010)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/28 "2004-06-21T04:46:24Z")
Add one more to the shared-bathroom-personal-sink crowd. After you’ve been locked out enough times, you don’t even bother going through the trouble of checking and just pee in the sink intentionally, rather than as a back-up. ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/29 "2004-06-21T04:56:00Z")
> [@AlbertRose](#): > > I usually pee in the tub. I drape my Lordly Might over the shower-curtain pole. I don’t know, it cracked _me_ up pretty good (I laughed so loud the cat ran out of the room!) Girl here: yes, I’ve peed in the sink, but only for Really Good Reasons not having to do with total laziness (you guys are unbelievable!), to wit: my girlfriend’s taking _forever_ on there and I have to go BAD. I usually get her back by threatening to pitch used TP between her legs (gets her up in a hurry, though! 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/30 "2004-06-21T05:42:28Z")
_shudders_ Now I wonder if my brother has peed in the sink. I haven’t, I don’t really think its all that comfortable… ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/31 "2004-06-21T06:06:51Z")
> [@hillbilly queen](#): > > Because the title says " Male Dopers". > > But since you made the invite… Yes, I have peed in the sink, but I had a very good reason. I just don’t remember what it was. My oldest sister peed in a sink once, and according to reports from the next oldest sister, broke the sink in the process. She did wake with a bandaid on the appropriate area in the morning. I’ve never tried it, having learned from their mistakes and preferring to make their own. -Lil ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/32 "2004-06-21T06:18:03Z")
I haven’t peed in the sink since I was about five. I’ve never peed in the pool, or in the shower/bathtub either. You guys are kinda icky. ---
**Author:** ![Grimace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3e96dc/32.png) [@Grimace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grimace)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/33 "2004-06-21T07:22:54Z")
> [@Slithy Tove](#): > > If the sink has a garbage disposal, who needs a toilet at all? There isn’t many things one can say that can make me shudder, and say “SICK!” outloud. But that one hit me right between the eyes. I’m now going to find a bucket of bleach to pour in my ears in a futile attempt to remove the mental image from my head. ---
**Author:** ![Dog80](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/34 "2004-06-21T07:31:02Z")
> [@Grimace](#): > > There isn’t many things one can say that can make me shudder, and say “SICK!” outloud. But that one hit me right between the eyes. > > I’m now going to find a bucket of bleach to pour in my ears in a futile attempt to remove the mental image from my head. A sink is not much different from a toilet bowl construction-wise. Why taking a crap in the sink seems so gross to you? (I haven’t tried that, but I am always open to new suggestions 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/35 "2004-06-21T09:50:59Z")
> [@Dog80](#): > > It is just a couple of feet away, but the important thing is that the sink has the right height. The bowl is quite low, so I usually miss and pee all over the place ☹ Then. Sit. The. Fuck. Down. Jeez, sometimes it’s a mystery to me that there’s a single woman still straight in this world. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/36 "2004-06-21T10:05:07Z")
Heh. I used to know guys like you in the army: they’d be the one’s who’d piss through an RPG because they were too lazy to step out of the damn tent. Coincidentially, those were also the guys who avoided showering. ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/37 "2004-06-21T11:13:23Z")
> [@whoisreadingthis](#): > > urine is sterile and antiseptic. Urine is sterile _in your bladder_. Outside of your bladder, warm urine provides a great home for bacteria. I suspect I’ve peed in a sink at some stage, but I’d never do it sober. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/38 "2004-06-21T11:38:50Z")
I used to see guys do it in the ballpark when the urinals were incredibly full. Other than that, no. ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/39 "2004-06-21T11:56:22Z")
> [@Dog80](#): > > It is just a couple of feet away, but the important thing is that the sink has the right height. The bowl is quite low, so I usually miss and pee all over the place ☹ You _miss_? Dude, you must either be 12 feet tall, or four years old. . . ---
**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/40 "2004-06-21T11:59:06Z")
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