Should men sit or stand to pee?

According to a Taiwanese minister it would create a cleaner environment. He also says they should learn from “Japan and Sweden.”

Men in Japan and Sweden pee sitting? Girls.

Both. I prefer to sit at night and stand during the day. It has to do with lighting levels and presence of a urinal (I’m mildly annoyed by having to raise and lower the lid, and water splashing out of a toilet onto my feet and slacks is unpleasant).

Maxim magazine readers would call me unmanly, but I have nothing to prove to such people.

After 7 years of working in a building mostly populated by men with toilets (no urinals), I concur. A good proportion of men cannot piss for shit.

Sadly, the combination of waning bladder pressure and increasing prostate constriction means that I am reaching that point in my life where I have to contemplate that move personally. There is no way I can get two streams at 90[sup]o[/sup] into the bowl at the same time. Either that or I have one directable stream, and risk a dribble on my shoes. :frowning:

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Anyone who cant, without fail, aim and get a bullseye, and thats pretty much all 'a ya’s, should sit to pee. Better for your prostate anyway.

What?

If you clean the bathroom yourself, pee standing up, I don’t care. If someone else cleans the bathroom, sit down.

We should all just adopt the Asian style toilet, then the problem would go away.

Asian Toilet Instructional Video

Don’t cross the streams!

I generally sit. Unless its a quicky at a gas station or the like. Or behind our shed in the back yard.

It depends on how gassy I am. If I’ve got some serious ammunition in the chamber, I usually sit down so I can vent it with my urine. Otherwise I prefer to stand.

This. I won’t let any Swedish social engineering sitzpinkler dictate to me how I drain my lizard, either.

Situational. At 3 am I’m more comfortable not even turning on the light, just sitting. On kayak trips I use a plastic urinal in my boat. In a bar’s men’sroom I stand.

For a variety of reasons, my aim and pressure are unreliable. If a toilet is available, I use it. I only stand if I’m outdoors.

Pee however you like but don’t leave the evidence behind. If you dribble clean up after yourself.

This guy has obviously never been inside a public toilet for women. It is disgusting how often females of the species can’t seem to master the simple act of urinating into a toilet bowl. I can’t help but think men wouldn’t do any better.

Pretty much this. Everything else is personal choice, but this isn’t. :stuck_out_tongue:

At most places I stand. At home I almost always sit, because less cleaning is necessary.

I almost always stand, and it appears I am not alone in stumbling to the head in the dark and sitting at night, though.

As far as mess…I keep a package of Clorox wipes in the cabinet above the toilet. If I see it needs it, I’ll just wipe it down real quick. Takes 30 seconds and makes it safe for company.

I just remembered something from my youth. I was seriously considering going into the Navy in a serious way. All kinds of testing…physical…mental…skill wise blah blah blah.

One of the test I needed to pass was literally can you pee standing up straight at a urinal. Even then I thought “is this really a problem that needs to be tested for?”

There’s a Hank Hill joke in here somewhere.

I said, BETTER FOR YOUR PROSTATE ANYWAY!!

(sorry, couldn’t resist) :slight_smile:

Urinals use less water and less space, and standing to pee takes less time (unzip, whip-out, pee, tuck-in, zip - instead of unzip, unbelt, drop-trou, sit, pee, pull up pants, tuck in shirt, zip up). If men all sat to pee, the lines outside mens’ rooms would be as long as the lines outside ladies’ rooms.

If I wake up in the middle of the night to pee, I don’t want to sit on the toilet; it takes more effort to return from sitting to a standing position than it does to maintain a standing position.