# Peeing in the shower **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 14, 2000, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-in-the-shower/22402 "2000-06-14T22:05:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-in-the-shower/22402/21 "2000-06-15T07:34:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Pregnant women’s urine is supposed to be great for one’s complexion. I’ve never tried. > \*\* One wonders how this was ever discovered. “That didn’t work. Let’s try it when she’s PREGGERS!” 😕 ---
**Author:** ![zut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zut/32/2875_2.png) [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-in-the-shower/22402/22 "2000-06-15T12:11:44Z")
I have a friend who told me **he** was told by his dad that: In the Army, you were encouraged to pee on your feet in the shower because: Urine on the toes prevented athlete’s foot. On the face of it, this looks like an UL, but can anyone confirm/deny that 1)urine prevents athlete’s foot, or 2)this method of prevention was ever (erroneously or not) advocated by the US Armed Forces? ---
**Author:** ![jayron\_32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jayron\_32](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayron_32)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-in-the-shower/22402/23 "2000-06-15T14:45:53Z")
I both pee and blow my nose in the shower. I always pee before the shower too, but for some reason, the running water give me a little squirt more. Oh, and my nose usually doesn’t start running until after the steam hits it and loosens up some stuff. I’ve never seen the harm in any of it. ---
**Author:** ![ReservoirDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-in-the-shower/22402/24 "2000-06-15T16:08:39Z")
I leave the toilet seat up and just aim from the shower. Most of it goes in. ---
**Author:** ![Floompy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e56c9b/32.png) [@Floompy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floompy)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-in-the-shower/22402/25 "2000-06-15T16:20:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Is this just a guy thing? Because I do it too. It’s much easier than getting out. > \*\* Nope, not just a guy thing…I pee in the shower nearly every time I take a shower. Maybe its something about the hot water that inspires the urge,but there’s no way I’m getting out and going back in by my free will. Especially not in the winter months. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-in-the-shower/22402/26 "2000-06-15T16:54:38Z")
A few things: 1. Urine is basically sterile but not always. e.g. bladder infections. 2. The water from the shower/tub goes right into the same pipes that the toilet uses. 3. The sound of running water often makes hearing people need to pee. ---
**Author:** ![Fyodor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/958977/32.png) [@Fyodor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fyodor)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-in-the-shower/22402/27 "2000-06-15T17:28:16Z")
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned that it is an environmentally sound and economically prudent practice because it saves water. Has environmentalism become radicalized? ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-in-the-shower/22402/28 "2000-06-15T17:57:27Z")
I’ve always peed in the shower. And no, it doesn’t run down your leg if you’re a female. And if it does, who cares? You’re in the shower! Wash it off! I have a sort of funny/embarrassing story about this, though. My ex, who has about the same amount of tact as a rhinosaurus, was extremely upset when I once peed in the shower. Not on him, or anything like that. I think I was in the shower and he was shaving at the sink or something. Anyway, it came up, and he was appalled. He was so appalled that he left the bathroom and LOUDLY asked my roomamte (this was before my ex and I were married) if she thought it was disgusting, and repeated our conversation to her. I was mortified. I don’t even remember her answer. I was just completely embarrassed. All this, from a guy who regularly pleasured himself in the shower. If it comes right down to it, I’d much rather have a little foreign urine on my feet than spunk. Gross! ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-in-the-shower/22402/29 "2000-06-15T18:08:56Z")
I don’t think anybody knows I do it. My BF might, but I try really really hard to keep it a secret. I don’t want anybody to know what I do in our shower, and I don’t want to know what they do. (I share a shower w/my sisters and my BF) ---
**Author:** ![junebeetle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@junebeetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/junebeetle)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-in-the-shower/22402/30 "2000-06-15T18:20:13Z")
See if I ever let you people use my shower! I don’t pee in the shower. I tried it once for kicks but it did nothing for me. I have an unusually expansive bladder to begin with (a fact which I am quite proud of), so I have little trouble holding it until I get out of the shower and dry off. Same goes for the pool. - JB ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-in-the-shower/22402/31 "2000-06-15T18:22:06Z")
Athena Sez: > [@](#): > > \*\* > If it comes right down to it, I’d much rather have a little foreign urine on my feet than spunk. Gross! > \*\* Well, now I know who I’m **not** going to ask to the prom. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-in-the-shower/22402/32 "2000-06-15T18:22:22Z")
I’ve used the original column on urine in one of my college pathology courses. Made the teacher laugh and I got an A. I do it, too. It’s easy and convenient, and for God’s sake, I’m gonna wash myself anyway, and besides, the warm water kinda encourages the process, anyway. Robin ---
**Author:** ![vandal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/858c86/32.png) [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-in-the-shower/22402/33 "2000-06-15T18:23:34Z")
Yup, I also piss and blow my nose in the shower. Sometimes, when I’m running late, I’ll even brush my teeth in the shower. And if I feel the need, I’ll shave as well. It’s a real time saver to get all of that done at once. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2000, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-in-the-shower/22402/34 "2000-06-15T18:28:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > but can anyone confirm/deny that 2)this method of prevention was ever (erroneously or not) advocated by the US Armed Forces? > \*\* I’ve never heard of this or anything similar to it in my service, which was in the Army in the mid to late 80s ---
**Author:** ![JimmyNipples](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@JimmyNipples](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimmyNipples)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-in-the-shower/22402/35 "2000-06-15T18:31:11Z")
Christ I’m a pig…sometimes I pee in the sink whilest I’m shaving. Kidding… But sometime when I shit in the tub, I pretend the logs are submarines and I put pipe cleaner periscopes in them. I rock. ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-in-the-shower/22402/36 "2000-06-15T21:03:11Z")
I pee in the shower nearly every time…when Mrs. ricepad joins me in the shower, she can always tell when I’m about to start peeing because she says I get a really serene look on my face, which she uses as her cue to stay out of the line of fire. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-in-the-shower/22402/37 "2000-06-15T21:28:13Z")
Ok, I’m glad that at least _one_ person mentioned peeing in the shower with somebody else there. I was shocked and mortified the first time Mr. Sunshine peed in the shower while I was in there too. But then he gave me the whole saves-water-just-gonna-wash-off-anyway spiel and it made sense. So now we both pee in the shower. But the pee-er (?) has to stand in front so the other one doesn’t have to stand in it. That’s **love** man. Plus, I believe Cecil did a column on the practice of Urine Therapy (drinking urine daily) which basically said drinking urine was not really going to hurt you, but also didn’t really have any benefits. So I guess getting a little on you isn’t really that bad. Read all about it here: [Why are men supposed to wash their hands…?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_220.html) [The Ultimate Liquid Diet](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/961101.html) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-in-the-shower/22402/38 "2000-06-15T23:58:01Z")
To the Pit! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ab097/32.png) [@neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neuro-trash_grrrl)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-in-the-shower/22402/39 "2000-06-16T00:10:47Z")
I do it too. Why not? As previous posters have mentioned, it’s sterile, it washes right off, and it beats getting out and in again. Besides, it gives me the opportunity to have a little creative fun with it that I don’t usually get the opportunity to do, what with not having a penis and all. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-in-the-shower/22402/40 "2000-06-16T01:34:24Z")
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