In yesterday’s straight dope the following question was asked: “What’s more important in cleaning, soap or hot water?” In the answer was a link to an earlier column asking the following question: “Why are men supposed to wash their hands after urination? Plus: urine therapy!”
The last line of the earlier column states: “But if you want to try it, be my guest. Just don’t eat any asparagus first.” The “it” referred to is the drinking of one’s own urine. Try as I might I cannot make the connection between quaffing one’s own pee and eating asparagus. Is there anyone out there who understands the asparagus reference?
I have another question about a related phenomenon. I have heard that gay men, especially those into transvestitism, enjoy drinking urine. To my understanding, they drink it directly from the “spigot.” Is this true, or just another urban myth that needs to be dispensed with?
Grody. Urine fetishes aren’t limited to the gay community. I used to pee on my girlfriend all the time when we showered together. She didn’t appreciate the humor as much as I did. Maybe that’s what she meant when she said I wasn’t serious about our relationship.
I have heard of this ‘urine therapy’ before, in a book called, I believe, Mud, Honey, Maggots, And Other Medical Miracles (it was a library book, so I don’t have the reference here) In the book, as I recall, emphasis was placed on the morning urine-your first piss of the day. I have no earthly idea why, but there it is.
In reference to wishbone’s earlier response, it was William Shakespeare (I can’t recall which play) who said: “Tis better to be pissed off than to be pissed on.”
16 typos in one post! We have a winner!
Stars, you are an idiot. A poorly educated, inbred idiot by the look (or smell) of it.
I will not even get into all the factual errors in your post as there are others far more capable than I in the wings typing madly I am sure.
Banning recommendation sent.
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M. Peterson, it is not a gay-only thing. Type “porn water sports” into your favorite search engine. No, that’s not water polo.
I also doubt that it is a particularly common fetish for gay men, inasmuch as any fetish is particularly common. Are there gay men that do it? I guess so. Do most gay men do it, or most transvestites do it? I seriously doubt it.
First, as the initiator of this discussion, let me apologize for the loathsome and reprehensible comments made in the post authored by “StarsandBars.” It seems that some residents of the southern part of the United States don’t seem to realize that the Confederacy died 136 years ago. If you don’t believe me, find a history book and look it up. I suggest you begin with the section entitled “Civil War.” Good luck.
Next, let me respond to Irishman’s comment. My anecdotal evidence indicates that, while not pervasive, the practice in question is well known in the gay community, particularly among transvestites. This is not to suggest that most gays, or even most transvestites, engage in it. However, in my long years on this planet I have never met or heard of a heterosexual male who enjoys consuming the urine of females (directly from their much smaller spigots or otherwise). Nor have I heard of a woman (heterosexual or lesbian) who feels compelled to quench her thirst by drinking urine (I don’t care how hot it is outside).
I’m not a raving piss-guzzling fiend, but I have enjoyed and do enjoy the occasional trickle. Usually it’s the result of stimulating (overstimulating?) a female’s G-spot. I don’t have one, but I’ve been told that when it is stimulated you get the urge to “push,” which can cause a release of urine. (Some folks claim it’s something else, but I’m not going to debate that here.) If you’re also orally stimulating the woman, then it’s going to get in your mouth.
It’s not unpleasant at all… In fact, in small quantities (i.e., a couple of cc’s or so), it’s quite erotic.
Do it enough, and eventually you will begin to look forward to it.
As for gay vs. hetero - there’s an entire subgenre of pornographic videos, intended primarily for hetero males, that depict “squirting” and “peeing” females - the latter frequently dressed in schoolgirl uniforms. I’m not aware of any sort of subgenre in gay (male) porn vids. But then, I don’t browse those aisles.
First, a technical point. When a gay man dresses in women’s clothes, it is for fun and to make the humorous point that gender boundaries are not well defined. He is a drag queen.
When a straight man dresses in women’s clothes, he does so for a sexual turn on, and he is a transvestite. (Transvestism is unknown in the gay world.)
Second, fetishes do not seem to obey gay/straight boundaries. I do not personally know of a straight person into water sports, but I suppose the expert would be a sex worker. Because of societal boundaries, deviant practices find there expression most often in that world. (“Deviant” should not be construed as laden with value. It means “other than the majority practice”. Homosexuality is deviant and normal, for example.)
So, no gay men get turned on by dressing in women’s clothes? Also, what would happen if a straight man dressed in women’s clothes for fun and to make the humorous point that gender boundaries are not well defined? Would he be a drag queen too?
Well just to prove your statement overly general, I’ll butt back in with this. I’m a diabetic, and I recently did an experiment to see if there was any truth behind the full name of the disease, diabetes mellitus, which means “sweet flow” in latin.
Yes, it’s what you’re thinking. I let my blood sugar rise to nearly 400 mg/dl (4 times normal, and not a good thing at all) - the point where I generally start getting thirsty and urinating frequently. And I collected some of my urine in a paper cup and tasted it… and it was indeed noticeably sweet. Very sweet. Startlingly so.
In fact, it was rather tasty. Of course, by that time my kidneys weren’t filtering much out of my blood other than glucose and water, so it was a rather clear sample. But it was sweet enough that you could have bottled it and sold it as a soft drink. (Too bad Mellow Yellow was alrady taken!)
Even worse, I had to restrain myself from finishing the contents of the cup.
Now my question is who was in the habit of drinking or tasting urine to associate the sweetness with the other symptoms of the disease, and thus arrive at the disease’s formal name?
