I don’t want any little kid outside the men’s room pointing to me and saying “Mommy, that man showed he his wee-wee”.
I usually don’t.
I’ve got some BPH going on nowadays. Emptying the tank requires about twice as much time as it used to, and at least 10x as much jostling and shaking - and nobody wants to see that.
But if I skip that crucial step in the process, I’ll end up looking like I’ve been straddling a garden sprinkler.
One of the movie theaters I visit now has no-water, non-flushing urinals. I guess they prevent backsplash, but I have to wonder how clean they are.
Sometimes when I pee, I take the opportunity to re-tuck in my shirt and generally straighten up, it’s easier to do with the extra room in a stall.
Doctor told me not to lift heavy things.
I don’t but a couple of people I know who do, do it out of stage fright.
- Place foot in toilet and pee down your leg.
I use the stalls because I sit down to pee.Like the Germans (or not). As God intended.
Not really stage fright. It’s more I’m stressing out that I’m going to hold everyone up and hence can’t relax enough to pee (I’ve also noticed I sometimes struggle to pee if I’m alone but stressed/frustrated/worried about something else). Though I’m really bad. I struggle to even use the stalls if there’s a line or too much noise outside.
It’s called a “smartphone”.
My foreskin is a little too tight. So sometimes it squeezes the end a little too much and distorts the hole. This means that I can’t be sure which direction it will be going in. It’s like squeezing the end of a hose and making the water fan out. I’d rather do that in a cubicle as there’s a larger target and I’m not going to hit anyone else.
I’ve rarely found splashback from urinals to be a problem; they key is just to pay attention to aim so that that the stream strikes a glancing blow against the back wall, like a plane on final approach.
As for why some men prefer peeing in a stall even when a urinal is available, I wonder how many men have untreated (or poorly treated) hypospadias; this condition involves a malformed urethral terminus, which can result in urine spraying in all directions. For such men, sitting down to pee is pretty much a requirement in order to maintain decent personal hygiene.
I only pee in a stall if all the urinals and sinks are in use.
Anecdata, cool story bro:
I went to a high school in the 1990’s with a massive population of immigrants from Hong Kong. Almost to a person the HK guys would use the stalls and the non-immigrant guys would use the urinal. During the rare occasion where an HK guy would use a urinal, he’d position himself so as to have maximum privacy (almost pressed into an end urinal with his back tilted towards the centre of the room).
Figured there are probably different expectations of peeing privacy in different cultures, obviously no other practical or physiological reason for it.
There’s your piece of anecdata for the day. Get a bunch of those together, and you got yourself a stew going, baby!
I do it because of my blue urine.
As McMurphy said in the book One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest “I intend to pee in it, not eat out of it”. If there’s no back splash, and no handle to flush, all the traffic between me and the urinal is one-way. So cleanliness is not a major concern for me. YMMV.
In answer to the OP, I don’t. I operate under the polite fiction that no one notices anything I do, and I don’t notice anything anyone else does. And what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
Regards,
Shodan
Don’t pee on the plastic things, those are intended to catch gum, towels, or other things people toss in urinals; they’re not targets. It’s peeing down into the water that causes splash back. Instead, most urinals are designed to pee into the back wall with no splash, as long as you’re not pissing like a racehorse. Ones with flat backs will cause splash if you do that, so you’ve just got to use the side or maybe pee in the bottom but just not onto the plastic or into the water.
Personally, I almost always use urinals, even if they are bookended, but this is a common reason I’ve heard. Also, particularly for larger guys, sometimes the extra space is needed. I’ve personally gone into stalls when the urinals are oddly close together. Or if I need a little bit more space or privacy for other things, like farting, retucking, fixing a wedgie, etc.
It’s called Paruresis or shy bladder. Some people honestly can’t go when other people are watching.
Sometimes you get sprayback if you have a particularly full bladder, safer to use a toilet then. I’ll use a urinal unless I can’t leave a space. Or if I wear sweatpants- sometimes if you only move them down a little, the pants will fold away from your body only a little bit so you risk peeing on your pants at the end of the stream when pressure lowers. In that case you have to use a stall and lower pants completely before peeing.