Good morning Sarah,
I'm sorry I didn't see this question from you before now or I would have tried to answer it earlier.
It is really wonderful that you were taught at a young age how to pee from a standing position - most women are not, but instead learn that everything "down there" is dirty and to be avoided. The simple task of standing to pee has opened up many adventures to you, including the ones you have mentioned about hiking and backpacking that many women will not do simple because they need a toilet to pee into.
Guys have learned from their mothers, sisters and girlfriends that girls always need to sit to pee, so to hear about a gal that can stand a do it is usually a surprise and a natural curiosity for them. It helps to understand how boys and girls grow up differently, especially when it comes to peeing. For children, the first thing they learn about how boys and girls are different is that girls have a different "pee-pee" from the kind that boys have. Boys are taught and expected to stand to pee at a very early age. What boys are taught to do is to open or pull down their pants and take a hand to hold their penis and aim it out away from their bodies before they release their stream. As the stream begins to flow, they are taught to watch it, and move their penis to be sure the stream lands in the correct place, usually in the toilet bowl and not all over the floor, walls, lifted seat or tank. This may not be as easy as you might think for a boy for any number of reasons, which I would be glad to elaborate on if you request. Before the boy is officially finished, he must take care of any remaining drops and some small residual left in his ureatha and so he is taught to again use his hand on his penis to squeeze out the last pee left in his penis and shake off any remaining drops before packing it all back up into his pants. For boys, this is usually an enjoyable experience and the source of endless games, both solo, and with friends. It's easy and common for boys to run in from play all at once and gather around the toilet bowl and all pee together, making a group game out of hitting each other's streams or any other game they can think of at the moment. And of course it is a handy time to see each other's penises. If the boys happen to be outdoors and they are allowed to pee outside, then there are even more challenges to try and ways to play with their streams. Aiming for bugs or plants or cans, or having a friendly contest to how can shoot their stream the farthest, or whos`stream can last the longest are all part of the fun of being a boy and peeing with a flexible penis.
It shouldn't take much thought to contrast the boys experience with how a girl is raised to go pee. Most parents take the simple approach - lower your panties; sit on the toilet seat; let your pee go into the bowl; take some toilet paper and wipe yourself clean of any of that dirty stuff, being careful not to get any on you; flush it away; stand and pull up your panties. You don't even have to look at it in the bowl as it goes away. Girls who try any thing else more often then not, find it discussingly messy - the pee flows down their legs, into their shoes, or sprays uncontrollably. That's about the end of any experimentation with peeing in any other position. Most women are so discussed by all the "garbage" that comes from "down there", they want nothing to do with it but get rid of it quickly and cleanly. Many have never explored their own uulvas and fewer have explored to find their own pee hole, fewer still have taken a mirror and actually watched themselves pee. To compound the mystery, it is hard to see just where and how pee comes out of a girl. Even if you are in the bathroom when she does pee, she will sit on the toilet seat, legs togeher, you can hear the hiss and tinkle, but you still don't get to see how the plumbing works and watch the yellow fountain flow.
Guys are used to seeing the "plumbing", at least on them self and other guys, and watching the flow; but when it comes to understanding how this all works on women, most have no idea. Then comes the concept of having a woman standing to pee, and some saying they even use men's urinals; and now the guys are trying to put it all together in their very curious minds and are puzzled: "how does that work ?" So, you see, where is a guy to go to find out about this strange happening -- too embarrassed to ask mom, sister and girlfriend don't know anything about it, and think he is a pervert for even thinking of such a dirty thing. His best hope is to come here to Misterpoll and ask rhe women here that do know, and are willing to explain how women pee, and how they can pee standing or in any other position or place. Unfortunately, this is not a subject covered in Sex Ed 101 so they need woman with this experience and who are willing to explain the plain details of female urination so the guys can understand it, and the other women can find out what they are missing and could be enjoying if only they knew. The guys may take this back to their women and help them learn and have fun in the process.
Some of us have long known how this works and have helped our wives and girlfriend to enjoy the freedom from having to have a toilet to sit on every time nature calls, and more to the point these women have learned that nature can call them into the wild to enjoy the beauty there and not be held back by not being able to enjoy a pee and poop in the woods or on a boat. And it matters to guys because they can then take the love of their lives to the place of their dreams.
Thanks,
-J-
Posted by sarah41 on 2006-11-23 07:22:03
Just wondering, why does it seem like it is always the guys who post the poll's asking whether girls pee standing or sitting? Is it a fetish or something? I personally do pee standing and a few of my female friends do, but why should it matter to a guy?
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Female urinals
In the 1950s, American Standard sold a female urinal called a Sanistand. A lady could straddle the porcelain fixture and basically pee standing up without touching a dirty toilet seat, etc.
For the females only: Have you ever used a Sanistand or something similar?
| Yes, I have | 50.0% (24) | |
| No, I have never seen one | 20.0% (10) | |
| No, I have never used one, but I have seen something that must've been a Sanistand | 4.0% (2) | |
| No, but I think it's a good idea and I wish they were more common | 20.0% (10) | |
| No, I see no reason to have that, I'm happy using a regular toilet | 4.0% (2) |
48 voters answered this question.
For females only: Have you ever tried to pee standing as an experiment, in the shower or elsewhere?
| Nope, never tried it | 4.0% (2) | |
| Yes, I tried it and it worked! | 72.0% (35) | |
| Yes, I tried it and it did not work for me | 16.0% (8) | |
| This is an absurd question! | 6.0% (3) |
48 voters answered this question.
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why does it matter