Guys Who Pee With The Door Open - 8 Questions

If you are home alone, or around other guys, what's the big deal about it? All guys have $%!@es, and all guys have to pee, who cares? No big deal.

Slyfox: I thought the same until a recent episode of "Mythbusters" on Discovery Channel proved that those E. Coli germs not only collect on everything in the bathroom, they collect on everything in all the rooms NEARBY to the bathroom as well. Might as well get used to it. If you are straight and planning on getting married, to quote an old saying: "You know the honeymoon is over the day your wife waits until you are busy shaving to sit down next to you and do a 'number two'." :-)

I personally could care less if I or another guy in my house, or at their's, leave the door open or shut it. All guys have $%!@'s, all guys know what they look like and what they do, So, why shut the door in embarrisment? But, alternativily, if you just like your privacy, or are doing a little more than taking a leak, then, by all means - shut the door.

Thanks for your input, Dashin. We always kept the bathroom door shut when we peed at home, but would share the bathroom upon request. When I was a little guy, my mom, my dad, or my older sister would come in to pee while I was in the bath or shower, and I never thought anything of it. As I got older (10 - 11), everyone fell into the mode of waiting until the bathroom was empty. Over the years, I've made many friends from different backgrounds. I've been surprised how casual some of my guy friends are about peeing with the door open. Not so much around other males in the home, but when female family and friends are close by. I knew that the guys wouldn't care, but was surprised that none of the women ever said to close the door. I created the poll to see what the norm is for most people today and if guys feel self-conscious or not to pee in front of girls/women when at home.

This question is required! QUESTION E: If you selected answer number 1 in the QUESTION D above, what makes you feel embarrassed? The trouble is that I didn't select answer 1 to Q D, but your logic makes me give an answer to the last question even thought I didn't meed the criteria for this question - beware, I faked the answer.

Before reading this, PLEASE try to open your mind enough to put your post-1960s childhood bathroom training, and cultural or personal inhibitions, on hold for now. OK? The question is: Where and what is the best place inside any household for men, teen boys, and many male pre-teens to always use when they have to pee? Look at it as purely logistic: The goal is simply to void your bladder into the plumbing fixture which is clearly best suited for this use, as all those drains really do go to the same place. FIRST objective is to do it the cleanest, tidiest, most sanitary way possible without messing up anything in any way. SECOND objective is to do it as easily and conveniently for yourself as possible. So where should guys pee? WRONG answer is the toilet fixture, on ALL counts! RIGHT answer is... the bathroom sink, on ALL counts! And here are most of the valid reasons why this is objectively true. First, we guys can't aim that thing as well as we'd like to pretend, especially the first shot, which can go up, down or sideways; and we finish up by dribbling. Trying to hit the toilet bowl perfectly is a lost cause -- doesn't work and never will. That's true even for a guy who is very careful, wide awake, and fully sober as well. Very few males are always all three of those at once. This leaves a nasty mess of ugly grunge, grime and mildew -- behind, around, and especially in front of the toilet fixture. And who has to clean it all up? Poor old Mom or poor old Wifey, which is not at all fair. But when you pee into the sink, every last single drop goes directly down the drain, either at that time, or whenever the water is turned on later. That's a direct 100.00% clean, perfect transfer from bladder to drain, with zero mess to clean up. Your "old lady" (either meaning) will thank and bless you for it! Second, urine is sterile, which means no germs, which means peeing in the sink is fully SANITARY by dictionary definition (look it up). By contrast, human saliva is loaded with germs, many being disease-causing germs like staph or strep, which is as UNSANITARY and nasty as you can get. So if you think it's perfectly proper to spit in the sink every time you brush your teeth, like all of us do, but filthy and sordid to urinate into the sink, then you have it completely upside down and backwards. This is just one more example of where typical childhood bathroom and hygiene training, plus cultural myths and urban legends, collide head-on with scientific and medical facts. Third, rinsing the sink right after peeing in it is not necessary nor even desirable. For one thing it wastes water. Before long, you or someone else will use the sink to wash up, and run way more than enough water to flush all the pee away too. For another thing, leaving the drain trap full of unflushed urine in the meantime (especially overnight) will chemically slow down soap film, shaved whiskers, washed-off cosmetics, and other such residue from sticking as easily to the inside of the pipe, so you won't have to use drain-cleaner quite as often. Any initial sharp odor caused by not rinsing at all will quickly disappear as the oxygen in the air neutralizes it. The droplets left in the sink, even if allowed to dry, will disappear when someone first turns on the water at a later time. Fourth, taking all the above three factors into account, there is the unbelievable ease and convenience of peeing in the sink. Trying to do it in the toilet, you have to concentrate anxiously to try to aim (which still never quite works), hold yourself carefully, worry about missing the target or making a mess, shake off, flush the toilet, and probably wash your hands. But by using the sink as a urinal, you can just walk in, stand up against the front of the sink, let Willy hang freely into or above the sink (hands-off), empty your bladder down to the last dribble, and walk out without shaking off or rinsing or flushing or anything. Beyond all that, in one word, peeing in the sink is pleasurable; in more words, it just plain feels really good to do it that way, every time you gotta go. This convenience aspect is extensive. To wake up to pee at night, there's no need to flash-blind yourself with the lights to try to stand up to pee at the toilet (or sit on it like a girl). Just go in there, find the sink "by Braille," stand close, let it all go with no need to aim or even touch yourself during or after, and go back to bed. And when you and your wife or G/F both need to pee when first waking up or getting home after a long drive, you can go together, with her using the toilet while you are using the sink. As another added bonus, you can also pee at the same time while you're combing your hair or brushing your teeth too. The "wasting water" factor is anything but trivial. As of the year 2000, Americans use SEVEN BILLION gallons of fresh water EVERY SINGLE DAY, in just flushing our toilets alone! If you work out all the math and demographics, you'll find that if every male who can physically do so would bypass the toilet and urinate in the sink every time instead, without running any water just to rinse the pee, then as a nation we would save around 2.5 billion gallons or more of fresh water every day. This easy, simple, sanitary tactic all by itself would conserve more fresh water than most all other common and often-costly "low-flow" plumbing improvements and upgrades combined. The practice of men peeing in the sink is not new, and some history may help. When modern indoor "Western" plumbing was invented and perfected in England, between 1850 and 1910, Victorian women and their maids went ballistic over the mess made by men in the bathroom. The British slang term "the bogs" for the bathroom was all too often accurate! Most men quickly learned to use the sink as a urinal. Those small circular bombshell-shape "efficiency" sinks, so common in apartments even today, first appeared over a century ago. Even the very first ones were knowingly and deliberately engineered at that time to double equally well as a male urinal, with no corners to collect puddles, steep sides to channel all liquids into the center drain, and a very narrow front ledge for easy access. For over half a century, most boys (including this writer and his childhood friends) were taught by parents to pee in the sink, first standing on a small step-stool until they grew taller. This custom seems to have had somewhat regional or cultural aspects; it would be standard in many small towns or city neighborhoods, but not quite all of them. Then in the last quarter of the 20th Century, this practice suddenly began to disappear or go into hiding in many areas. Perhaps the time has come to restore it more extensively again. One hint: If you want to give this a free 30-day trial (and we hope you will), it's probably wise to be sure your parents or "significant other," and other household members, are all on the same page with you before you start. Showing them this posting may help. If you are a parent of one or more boys, and this practice turns out to work for you, it's another item to add to their bathroom training when they are tall enough (as mentioned, a small step-stool can help this happen earlier with younger boys). Another hint: If you make this a new standard habit, don't verbally tell visiting men to pee in your sink; they may think you're "weird" instead of being well-informed and wiser about such matters. Simply post a tactful sign on the bathroom wall above the toilet, starting "Attention -- MEN:" which politely but clearly explains how you would prefer this to be done in your home, and why. This impersonal approach has proven to work very well. That's probably what you need to know about this for starters (and probably way too long for one posting). But -- NOW YOU DO KNOW! If you decide to give it a try and like it, please spread the word... and who knows? Maybe we can once again have nice clean bathrooms, less overworked Moms and wives, lots more fresh water to go around, and no more panic attacks for guys in shag-carpeted bathrooms. Good luck! :-)

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