# Taking a slash. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 5, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-a-slash/248855 "2004-06-05T21:17:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-a-slash/248855/1 "2004-06-05T21:17:16Z")
Guys, do you hold your Johnson in your right or left hand when you take a wizz? I’m a lefty when I drain my dragon but usually right handed for everything else. Unzip with my right and pee with my left. Curious in NC. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-a-slash/248855/2 "2004-06-05T21:21:16Z")
All these years I thought a slash was the _solid_ kind. Left-Handed. I use my left hand. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-a-slash/248855/3 "2004-06-05T22:44:53Z")
Neither. I have to use **both** hands. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-a-slash/248855/4 "2004-06-05T22:46:03Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Neither. I have to use **both** hands. 🆒 You don’t have the kickstand? ---
**Author:** ![Beauty\_Personified](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Beauty\_Personified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beauty_Personified)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-a-slash/248855/5 "2004-06-06T05:12:24Z")
I seriously use both hands, and a particular finger arrangement. I place both thumbs close together at the base of my penis where it meets my stomach. I place both middle fingers close together at the base of my penis where it meets by scrotum. I then gently hold the head of my penis (I’m circumcised, just for the record) with the tips of both index fingers. Once “the hold” is in place, it’s just a matter of aiming and shooting. Anyhoo… ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Ed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Just\_Ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Ed)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-a-slash/248855/6 "2004-06-06T05:52:54Z")
Left. And I’m righthanded. I think somebody else mentioned somewhere on these boards how much of a disappointment that pivotal plot point in _Gattaca_ was: When it was revealed it had been surmised that Vincent wasn’t who he claimed to be because he used his left hand to hold it when he went, and he was supposed to be righthanded. ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-a-slash/248855/7 "2004-06-06T07:17:03Z")
My SO lets me use either hand to hold his penis while he urinates but he prefers the right. 😕 What? Just kiddin’! Now, that’s a question… how many guys let their girls hold it while they pee? ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-a-slash/248855/8 "2004-06-06T13:54:14Z")
Right hand, unless my wife is in the room. Then I let it dangle free, just 'cause it weirds her out to no end. 🙂 > [@SanguineSpider](#): > > Just kiddin’! Now, that’s a question… how many guys let their girls hold it while they pee? Hmmm…very familiar. Didn’t we cover that one recently? ---
**Author:** ![Tir\_Tinuviel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-a-slash/248855/9 "2004-06-06T15:17:04Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > Right hand, unless my wife is in the room. Then I let it dangle free, just 'cause it weirds her out to no end. 🙂 Ok, yeah, just the though of that is scaring me! > [@](#): > > Hmmm…very familiar. Didn’t we cover that one recently? What, her hand? 😃