A question with great social and philsophcal implications,why do men pee standing up?

[scottmandue]

A few years back there was a gal here at work that broke up with her longtime boy friend who she had a child with... she was very distraught so I spend a lot of time talking with her... In one of those conversations she described a previous job where she watched over small children and that she would make the little boys pee sitting down so as to not make a mess. At first I was taken aback but after some thought I couldn't think of a good reason why men/boys shouldn't pee sitting down.

The other night my wife and I were discussing that her mom, who lived in rural southern Oregon and was very 'pioneer women' in that she did cooking, sewing, babysitting to take in extra money... she also made the little boys sit down.

This launched my wife and I into a philosophical discussion of why the heck do men pee standing up? The best I could come up with was "they make special toilets for us so we can stand up." but I suspect that is only for logistics, you can fit more urinals into a small space and it makes for quick and easy entrance/exit.

I suspect there is some deep historical and/or physiological reasoning behind men's stance on urinating?

What think ye?

[HardDrive]

Because its our god damn god given right, thats why.

[livi]

Because we can. With a urethral orifice situated at the end of a limb sticking out from the body, its possible to pee standing without having the urine dripping down your legs. Women, not equipped with that special feature, will keep dry legs better sitting down.

OK. Just speculating here.

[lane912]

this spot is mine- and I will pee on it if i need to mark it so there is no confusion about that-

[Outback Porsche]

To remove any danger of sitting down on your testicles. It's bad enough tempting fate when you have to crap.

Hand in your man card for even contemplating the idea

[Porsche-O-Phile]

My son likes to arc his into the toilet from about 5' away. I'm proud.

[slakjaw]

Take my man card away but I do sit down when I am drunk. I just dont like cleaning up mass amounts of piss and when I am drunk I cannot aim.

EDIT: I do not sit down on any public toilet ever no matter what.

[masraum]

because it's quicker and easier to get you dick out the front of your pants than dropping your pants and sitting down, especially since most toilet seats have been peed on by the last 100 guys that used the toilet.

When wearing shorts and peeing into a toilet, I feel splashback hitting my legs and feet. As gross as it is to imagine wandering around with your legs or pants covered in pee, it's worse to think about the area around the toilet at home being covered in it. Maybe it's because I'm tall so it's got farther to go and creates more splash, I don't know. At work, I use the urinals, but it seems like lots of guys have a hard time with those because there is always a puddle on the floor under them.

[Head416]

Take my man card away but I do sit down when I am drunk. I just dont like cleaning up mass amounts of piss and when I am drunk I cannot aim.

Haha! I do the same thing in the middle of the night! When I stumble out of bed half asleep at 3am, I might as well be drunk!!

[J P Stein]

Duhh.............So we can write our name in the snow. This seperates us from the "other" animals.

[Evans, Marv]

Because somebody designed men's pants with flies in the front a long, long time ago. Also in really cold areas you wouldn't want it hanging down to get frost bitten. In those areas, they call it weasel skin weather. You might be able to imagine why.

[GWN7]

No zippers in a kilt.

I remember reading that the first urinals in North America were actually bidets that the plumbers didn't know what they were so they hooked them up for peeing in.

[flatbutt]

when I sit my junk hits the water. it's gross.

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by livi

Because we can. With a urethral orifice situated at the end of a limb sticking out from the body, its possible to pee standing without having the urine dripping down your legs. Women, not equipped with that special feature, will keep dry legs better sitting down.

OK. Just speculating here.

Yeah, but girls has some very cool special features too... feature that most of us boys will do just about anything to play with

Originally Posted by lane912

this spot is mine- and I will pee on it if I need to mark it so there is no confusion about that-

This is along the lines of what I was thinking... possibly goes WAY back to some primal territorial marking thing? It is so ubiquitous (look mom I used a big word!) no one questions that men pee standing up (generally speaking, the few women in charge of very young boys I mention notwithstanding) However, logically I can't think of any reason why I can't vent just as easily sitting as standing... and logically the odds of making a mess (splashing, dribbles. missed aim) is much less sitting Vs. standing. On the other hand something deep inside me yells "FOUL!!!" when a lady suggests I pee sitting down.

Weird

[atcjorg]

bathrooms are relatively new to humans, I have to believe men have been peeing standing up for a very long time. I believe women that want you to sit are just haters and a little jealous, and yes the water is cold and your piss will splash back on ya, no thanks...man card intact

[Dueller]

because the Entire World is man's urinal

[Taz's Master]

Originally Posted by atcjorg

bathrooms are relatively new to humans, I have to believe men have been peeing standing up for a very long time. I believe women that want you to sit are just haters and a little jealous, and yes the water is cold and your piss will splash back on ya, no thanks...man card intact

Exactly, we didn't start peeing after the invention of the toilet. If you've ever been out in the woods, did you look for a log to sit on while taking a leak? Etiquette schmetiquette, just don't track it back into the house.

[wdfifteen]

I remember teaching my son to pee on a tree. It was a great bonding experience. I only sit down at home and only because I was single and cleaning my own home long enough to realize the amount of unseen splashing that occurs from the stand-to-pee position.

[rusnak]

I thought "Pioneer Women" pee squatting, not really "sitting down".

[McLovin]

I don't run when I can walk, walk when I can stand, stand when I can sit or sit when I can lay down.

And that includes while peeing!