Do you pee standing up?

[Tristan]

The first time I peed outside after srs I learnt the hard way to only pull my pants down to about around the knees, not the ankles like one usually does when sitting on a toilet.

Haha this is so true. All the reason more why I'm dress and skirt girl. Popping a squat is more difficult than the easy guy way if standing and peeing

[Michelle S.]

Nope, never. I want GRS and my thought process is that I better get used to it now. I also hated being reminded of it which standing does.

[A]

No. Hell no!

That would feel awful. My father tried to teach me when I was a child, and I tried it maybe 3-4 times when he "forced" me. It made anything from a few drops sprinkling elsewhere to a big puddle next to the toilet along with completely wet pants. I never saw the point and completely refused to do it from then on.

Even when I was in the Cadets and we were out on survival, when I really really needed to go and our "wood toilet" (two big branches on trees and we did our stuff in a little hole) wasn't built yet, I just found a spot far away, lowered my pants to my knees (I think?) and crouched awkwardly. Someone sorta saw me. Excuse? Malformation. Not many questions asked. :p

Yeah, no, I never saw the point of peeing standing. It feels humiliating ("look, toilet, how do you like my thing proudly dropping its stuff into you from above?"), it's a pain and it takes a lot longer, not to mention it's really uncomfortable to wipe. And it's risky. Yeah, no, I'll never understand it.

If I ran into a very nasty public bathroom, either I held it in, either I picked the least dirty one and I cleaned the pee up with toilet paper and, in extreme cases, used the hand sanitizer in my purse to finish the job up. (Yeah, I've been carrying a sort of purse for over two years. Problem? :p) Sitting in pee is yucky, but I'm not afraid of butt germs. It's not like any amount of contact between my butt and a surface full of germs can infect me. And anyway, germs aren't scary in general. In my life I've found that when I was the least sick was when I lived with a dirty roommate and 3-4 animals, and microbes worked really hard at training my immune system on a daily basis. :p

Not to mention that most cell phones, coins, keyboards, etc. are probably more full of germs than any toilet. You know, people don't carry much germs around their butts, and pee, however yucky, is sterile.

[Cyndigurl45]

The first time I peed outside after srs I learnt the hard way to only pull my pants down to about around the knees, not the ankles like one usually does when sitting on a toilet.

LOLi hadn't thought of that in a long while... Before my reroute I guess I did stand to pee while camping, now it's just a physical impossibility, my pee hole is just a few cm from my anus. While camping I find wearing a skirt so all I have to do is slide my panties to my knees and squat to be the way to go.....

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[Jamiep]

If you stand to pee and miss the big oval or spray & splatter all over the place I have coined a military term and call it "collateral damage." lol

Jamie

[natastic]

For pre-op and non-op girls, do you ever pee standing up?

No.

[A]

Jamiep: Even with perfect aiming, the laws of physics will make it splatter everywhere. That's just what happens when you throw a liquid into another from over a meter above.

[Joanna Dark]

It depends. I sit now that I am transitioning. But sometimes it is hard to pee sitting down. MAABs weren't made that way. Before transition, I would sit occasionally. When I was with my ex I sat. But basically most of my life I have stood and it didn't bother me. I think if you sat to pee your whole life that would def be a form of gender and genital dysphoria that manifested itself at an early age, fitting the narrative. (there is a lot of anti-narrative sentiment on this board and it sometimes upsets me because I kinda fit it and I can't help it). I was prob forced to stand by my mom with the threat of her withholding her love if I disobeyed. But I think standing or sitting is a preference. Quite frankly, it's hard to stand at a urinal as i am not blessed as a man. I don't think I reached Tanner V.

[Ltl89]

For those of you who refuse to stand up, what would you do in a public bathroom if you had no choice.  I always hold it in to to the best of my ability, but I've encountered times when I couldn't while in public.  The idea of having to sit down on some public seat is one the most disgusting thoughts I can envision. I've seen some horrific bathrooms and I can't imagine sitting down and allowing myself to be infested with those germs.  I'll always avoid standing if possible, but sitting on a public toilet is really disgusting to me. Maybe I'm just an ultra germaphobe.

[vegie271]

For those of you who refuse to stand up, what would you do in a public bathroom if you had no choice.  I always hold it in to to the best of my ability, but I've encountered times when I couldn't while in public.  The idea of having to sit down on some public seat is one the most disgusting thoughts I can envision. I've seen some horrific bathrooms and I can't imagine sitting down and allowing myself to be infested with those germs.  I'll always avoid standing if possible, but sitting on a public toilet is really disgusting to me. Maybe I'm just an ultra germaphobe.

I do what my cis gender women friends do, hover. 

yes we actually sit around and discuss stuff like this. and some roadside rest area restrooms are the most disgusting you have ever seen (plus in the winter they are freezing)

[bullwinklle]

For those of you who refuse to stand up, what would you do in a public bathroom if you had no choice.  I always hold it in to to the best of my ability, but I've encountered times when I couldn't while in public.  The idea of having to sit down on some public seat is one the most disgusting thoughts I can envision. I've seen some horrific bathrooms and I can't imagine sitting down and allowing myself to be infested with those germs.  I'll always avoid standing if possible, but sitting on a public toilet is really disgusting to me. Maybe I'm just an ultra germaphobe.

I don't see what the big deal is about germs and public bathrooms. Urine is sterile. If it's on the seat, wipe and dry it with toilet paper. If there's fecal matter, go to the next stall while wondering how someone gets poop on a toilet seat.

Keyboards and purses (and probably door handles as well) have been shown in studies to have more germs than a toilet seat; I would be more worried about people not washing their hands than the toilet seat. And besides, your immune system needs a little workout now and then to stay in shape! 

[Joanna Dark]

I don't see what the big deal is about germs and public bathrooms. Urine is sterile. If it's on the seat, wipe and dry it with toilet paper. If there's fecal matter, go to the next stall while wondering how someone gets poop on a toilet seat.

Keyboards and purses (and probably door handles as well) have been shown in studies to have more germs than a toilet seat; I would be more worried about people not washing their hands than the toilet seat. And besides, your immune system needs a little workout now and then to stay in shape! 

Exactly.

[Cindy]

One of the things I totally love about this site and its incredible members are the diversity of topics


When I came across this thread I didn't believe it!!!!

OMG how do you pee, and with a poll!!!!!

I reckon this should be written up and presented at a scientific meeting!!

The only equivalent I remember was a poll taken at the University I work at.

A student posted a poll about whether people covered the toilet seat with paper before sitting, whether they wiped the seat or if they just went for it.

I remember being surprised by that as well!!!

Hugs People and Thank You

Cindy

[V M]

LOL... As long as no-one does a handstand to pee I'm sure they'll be okay 

[Jennygirl]

No, never. Maybe twice in the last 6 months when I had no choice but to pee in public.

[A]

For those of you who refuse to stand up, what would you do in a public bathroom if you had no choice.  I always hold it in to to the best of my ability, but I've encountered times when I couldn't while in public.  The idea of having to sit down on some public seat is one the most disgusting thoughts I can envision. I've seen some horrific bathrooms and I can't imagine sitting down and allowing myself to be infested with those germs.  I'll always avoid standing if possible, but sitting on a public toilet is really disgusting to me. Maybe I'm just an ultra germaphobe.

Hmm, I usually try to avoid the public toilet, but if I need to go, then I go and I sit on it. I find it much less disgusting than to drop liquid into liquid from a huge height and necessarily splashing elsewhere; possibly on me. Not to mention germs aren't yucky. You don't see them, smell them or anything, most of the time. And:

-Your cell phone, coins, door handle, keyboard and quite a few other items are probably much more full of germs than any toilet seat.
-Even if you joyously rubbed your butt on the most germy surface ever, it would most probably be without consequences, because contrary to your mouth, eyes and nose, the skin of your butt is hardly a doorway to infect you.

So, yeah, you're too much of a germphobe. :p

No, never. Maybe twice in the last 6 months when I had no choice but to pee in public.

Hmm... Was it because it's humuliating for a "guy" to sit to pee, or something? No one's ever given me trouble. Also, tip: if there's people around and you're really embarrassed, just wait longer. Either they'll think you pooped as well, either no one will have been there when you arrived and when you left, so they won't know. Although doing such things has always proven unnecessary for me.

[Ltl89]

I don't see what the big deal is about germs and public bathrooms. Urine is sterile. If it's on the seat, wipe and dry it with toilet paper. If there's fecal matter, go to the next stall while wondering how someone gets poop on a toilet seat.

Keyboards and purses (and probably door handles as well) have been shown in studies to have more germs than a toilet seat; I would be more worried about people not washing their hands than the toilet seat. And besides, your immune system needs a little workout now and then to stay in shape! 

Maybe it's a New York thing, but some public bathrooms leave you no room for improvisation.  It's truly horrifying the conditions that some of these bathrooms are in.  Even if they are less infested than keyboards, I can't sit on something like that.  Who knows what I'll contract.  I'll sit at home, but otherwise I have to hold it in or just use what I have.   Oh, and I always try to carry around hand sanitizer because of the germs that are spreading onto other things.  You should see my family and I go out to eat.  We always have a few bottles of sanitizer on the table. 

So, yeah, you're too much of a germphobe. :p

Yeah, you probably hit the nail on the head,lol.

[A]

"I don't know what I'll contract", you say. If it's pee, it's disgusting because it stinks and all, but know that pee is by far the most sterile liquid that exits your body (and maybe enters it, too). It might even be more sterile than the water you drink. So just use a big ball of toilet paper and wipe it off the seat. If it's poop or vomit, granted, it's disgusting, but surely there's at least one stall that isn't full of poop or vomit? And if not and you really can't go anywhere, combine a big ball of toilet paper with that hand sanitizer of yours.

And again, you're extremely, extremely unlikely to contract anything, ever, even if you rub your butt really well on every single public toilet you meet. I mean it.

Work on this obsession. :p Being afraid of germs makes you more sick because you private your immune system from its regular training.

[vegie271]

So, yeah, you're too much of a germphobe. :p

I have another friend, she carries hand sanitizer and uses it ALL the time!, we were walking through the hospital once and they have dispensers about every 25 yards, she hit every fraking one of them! I don't even use hand cream like she uses this stuff.

I just use soap and water at my sink when ever the mood hits. I NEVER catch a cold or the flu.

I wash my hands before I cook or eat and after I relieve my self - thats it.