# Shower - standing up or lying down? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 16, 2001, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shower-standing-up-or-lying-down/50291 "2001-01-16T06:00:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [January 16, 2001, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shower-standing-up-or-lying-down/50291/21 "2001-01-16T20:15:57Z")
[Steven Wright] I like to sit in the bath tub with the shower on and pretend I’m in a sinking submarine. [/Steven Wright] I tried sitting in the shower once. I found that at the lower height, the mist from the shower was too great and made the water too cool to enjoy. As for masturbation in the shower, the drain in my apratment’s tub does not drain fast enough to make this feasible. ---
**Author:** ![Stella\_Fantasia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@Stella\_Fantasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stella_Fantasia)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shower-standing-up-or-lying-down/50291/22 "2001-01-16T21:20:55Z")
As a female whose first sex partner was the Water Pik, I must say that I never had any trouble jackin’ while standing up. Yeah, your legs get weak & all, but the tension there is part of the fun. (This is also why vertical sex is soooo great.) Anyway, the cord on the showerhead wouldn’t have reached if I’d been lying down. I tried lying down & using the faucet, but it didn’t feel as good. Since I no longer have that kind of showerhead, I remain standing throughout my shower, & it had never occurred to me to lie down. I’m going to try it tomorrow, though. Sounds like fun. ---
**Author:** ![robgruver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@robgruver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robgruver)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shower-standing-up-or-lying-down/50291/23 "2001-01-17T03:59:06Z")
Wow… Great set of post. I thought I was the only weird one. I have never laid down in the shower, to tall (6’1"), and nevermasterbated (the whole falling down thing). My wife and I have had sex in the shower, but beyond that, waterplay isn’t my forte’. Although I will try some of the things I have read here. ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shower-standing-up-or-lying-down/50291/24 "2001-01-17T12:07:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Medea’s Child \* > \*\*I don’t maturbate, but I do give blow jobs. > > I _love_ giving blowjobs in the shower. Its better than playing naked in warm rain. Part of it is the standing thing, he has to work to keep standing so he can keep getting a blow job. Its a great power trip. I’m also a big fan of having guys tangle thier fingers in my hair, and with wet, drippy hair it just increases the effect. Digging fingers into trembling ass muscles while he grabs ontpo my head fighting for balance…mmmm…way too much fun. > > (And, from her sig): > DRY _is_ my favorite. > \*\* 😛 All the rest of you can just take a number!! **Medea’s Child** : **"Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear (Kathryn)–I mean, my dear (Miss Everett). It cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have had in my heart for you has ripened into a deeper feeling, a feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred. Dare I name it you? Ah! It is love which makes me so bold!"** –Rhett Butler to Scarlett O’ Hara, Gone with The Wind 😃 [sub]As for me, I don’t lie down in the shower and I don’t masturbate–there[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shower-standing-up-or-lying-down/50291/25 "2001-01-17T12:43:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mnementh \* > \*\*I really cant see laying down in there just for the hell of it, but when I’m ‘polishing the broadsword’, as it were, \*\* Oh, good, I’m so glad that’s catching on… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Doobieous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Doobieous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doobieous)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shower-standing-up-or-lying-down/50291/26 "2001-01-17T13:11:33Z")
Hum…i never thought of lying down in the shower! Well, i might not have much fun because our shower head only sprays like half the tub so part of me would be cold. Also, i’m 6’2", and i either have to sit up so my legs can lie flat, or recline with my legs bent. BUT, i will sit down, cross legged, or sitting with the soles of my feet on the tub floor, and my knees clamped together with my arms, held up against my chest , in order to be under as much spray as possible, as well as to enjoy the warmth. However, this way it’s kind of sucky because so much water runs down my face that I cant see, or if I breathe, I inhale water. As to masturbating in the shower i dont do it often, because i like quick showers. But, the times i’ve done it, it’s mostly sitting up, legs extended. I did try it standing up, but for some reason i felt like I was going to faint (i guess I over exerted myself). ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shower-standing-up-or-lying-down/50291/27 "2001-01-17T14:21:30Z")
I merely mention that I like giving blow jobs in teh shower and all hell breaks loose… Didn’t really love me before, eh, DRY? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shower-standing-up-or-lying-down/50291.md?page=1)