# Should men sit or stand to pee? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 27, 2012, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-men-sit-or-stand-to-pee/632828 "2012-08-27T15:14:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-men-sit-or-stand-to-pee/632828/21 "2012-08-27T17:20:18Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > Pee however you like but don’t leave the evidence behind. If you dribble clean up after yourself. Agreed. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-men-sit-or-stand-to-pee/632828/22 "2012-08-27T17:30:22Z")
> [@tapu](#): > > I said, _BETTER FOR YOUR PROSTATE ANYWAY!!_ > > (sorry, couldn’t resist) 🙂 Butter on your probate Amway!? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rich\_G7subs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Rich\_G7subs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_G7subs)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-men-sit-or-stand-to-pee/632828/23 "2012-08-27T18:07:52Z")
I stand and let fly… AND I leave the seat up too. So there! ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-men-sit-or-stand-to-pee/632828/24 "2012-08-27T18:29:13Z")
Be like Dad, not like sis. Stand up when you take a piss. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-men-sit-or-stand-to-pee/632828/25 "2012-08-27T18:41:57Z")
> [@tapu](#): > > I said, _BETTER FOR YOUR PROSTATE ANYWAY!!_ > > (sorry, couldn’t resist) 🙂 No, no, no. Ejaculating like a race horse is good for your prostate. What’s this sitting down thing? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-men-sit-or-stand-to-pee/632828/26 "2012-08-27T18:45:34Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > 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. Men should wear kilts, they greatly facilitate toilet activities either way. If you are nervous about other men staring at your equipment at the urinal, a kilt can provide greater obscurity. Manparts get proper ventilation, and most importantly, no one will ever have to tell you you left the barn door open. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-men-sit-or-stand-to-pee/632828/27 "2012-08-27T18:48:15Z")
if you want man boobs then go ahead and sit. at night also depends on your sleepability; sitting on a seat (unheated) may be arousing enough to prevent easily getting back to sleep. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-men-sit-or-stand-to-pee/632828/28 "2012-08-27T19:33:52Z")
Well I don’t know about the rest of you guys, but I have to stand so my tallywhacker doesn’t dangle in the water. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-men-sit-or-stand-to-pee/632828/29 "2012-08-27T19:45:37Z")
I have to sit to pee. The doctor says lifting heavy things is bad for my back. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-men-sit-or-stand-to-pee/632828/30 "2012-08-27T20:15:09Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > Pee however you like but don’t leave the evidence behind. If you dribble clean up after yourself. Complete agreement. I don’t care which way DH goes about it, I just don’t want to be cleaning up misses. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-men-sit-or-stand-to-pee/632828/31 "2012-08-27T20:54:09Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > 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. Excellent points. I can’t imagine the lines. As far as peeing at night, if I have to get out of bed to pee I probably have to pee like crazy, and sitting down takes too long and the act of sitting there with a full bladder seems to compress things that make it harder to pee full-force. ---
**Author:** ![Bozuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-men-sit-or-stand-to-pee/632828/32 "2012-08-27T21:50:38Z")
> [@si\_blakely](#): > > 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. Unfortunately I think it’s less that they can’t do it right than that they can’t be bothered. Actually I wonder if it satisfies some deep instinct to piss everywhere (only when the culprit cannot be brought to justice, of course). ---
**Author:** ![Leipzig\_Jesus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@Leipzig\_Jesus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leipzig_Jesus)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-men-sit-or-stand-to-pee/632828/33 "2012-08-27T21:59:02Z")
Personally, I prefer to lie down when I take a pee. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-men-sit-or-stand-to-pee/632828/34 "2012-08-27T22:05:47Z")
If I peed sitting down I’d wind up pissing all over the floor, gonna stick with standing. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-men-sit-or-stand-to-pee/632828/35 "2012-08-27T22:46:05Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > If I peed sitting down I’d wind up pissing all over the floor, gonna stick with standing. Based on my analysis of every single bathroom floor that has seen men, I think you overestimate your standing control. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-men-sit-or-stand-to-pee/632828/36 "2012-08-27T22:50:03Z")
> [@si\_blakely](#): > > 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. ☹ > > Si\ 😕 You have two penises? ---
**Author:** ![Bozuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-men-sit-or-stand-to-pee/632828/37 "2012-08-27T22:50:54Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Based on my analysis of every single bathroom floor that has seen men… Wow. You really are dedicated to your hobby! ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-men-sit-or-stand-to-pee/632828/38 "2012-08-27T22:58:36Z")
Of course, if you are [in Leaffan’s shower](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15428480&postcount=5), standing, for women as well as men, would be preferable. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-men-sit-or-stand-to-pee/632828/39 "2012-08-27T23:20:18Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Based on my analysis of every single bathroom floor that has seen men, I think you overestimate your standing control. I make a navigational cone out of newspaper. ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-men-sit-or-stand-to-pee/632828/40 "2012-08-27T23:24:20Z")
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