All week I'm going to be at college, and I've been using the male toilets so far. I now have a problem, I've come on and I will have to change at some point in the day. I don't want to go in the men's and have people hear me, plus there is the issue of no bins. There is no way I'm using the female toilets because I'm stealth there. Usually I avoid the toilets but tomorrow is an extremely long day and I don't know what will work best.  Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks

My best advice is to have paper towels in your backpack/bag and sit on the toilet until the bathroom is empty, try using a bathroom that gets less traffic.  When the room is empty, hurry the changing process, wrap whatever you are using in the wrapper from the fresh item and then wrap that in some paper towels and toss it in a trash can somewhere.  If you aren't going to be getting on T anytime soon, look into getting a diva cup or moon cup.  With those you don't have the noise of unwrapping things, and you don't have to empty it as often as you would have to change other things out.

Do you have disabled toilets at the college? Or other unisex ones? They generally have done form of bin just in case.

I don't know what subjects the college does, or the lay out, but my old one had a separate block with engineering stuff in which was almost exclusively male but still had female toilets and wasn't ever used by anyone else. So maybe try and find somewhere like that out of the way.

Joe, I am in same situation as you, using the men's at school and still have my shark week.  I have long days on campus two days a week, so have to change tampons on those days when they occur.  There are no unisex restrooms in the area of campus where my classes are located so I have to use the men's. I use them in a building where I don't have classes and am likely not to see anyone I know.  I try to go when there is likely to be few or no one else in there.  As,  wheat thins are delicious, was saying I rap the used tampon in tissue very well and then push it into the waste towel bin well down.  I have been doing this for about a year and have had no one see me which is great.  This month my heavy days occurred when I didn't have long days on campus which was great.  I read a little about the cups and quickly decided I couldn't use one as there is way to much handling of your parts to get one and out. 

I've had this problem before, at a rest stop nonetheless. If it's empty, hurry up the process, wrap up the pad and put it in your pocket until you can reach a trash can.

If there's people in there, what I've had to do is wait to remove the pad when someone flushes or runs the faucet/hand drier. It blocks out the noise of you taking off the pad and fumbling with it.

Quote from: halfsleep on November 01, 2013, 02:05:40 AM
I've had this problem before, at a rest stop nonetheless. If it's empty, hurry up the process, wrap up the pad and put it in your pocket until you can reach a trash can.

If there's people in there, what I've had to do is wait to remove the pad when someone flushes or runs the faucet/hand drier. It blocks out the noise of you taking off the pad and fumbling with it.

^ This. That's exactly what I do.

That's one of the benefits of this time of year: you're generally wearing something that has pockets (such as a hoodie or jacket) so you can stuff the offending item into your pocket and nobody will know. Or if you're taking a back pack to college, you can take that into the loo with you if you want to be even more stealthy.

It's less stressful than trying to stick it in a rubbish bin in the toilets (if there is one, which there usually isn't in this country) because you'd be terrified of someone spotting what you were up to if you did that. That having been said, men are generally inattentive (especially in toilets) so they probably wouldn't twig.

Practice a bit wider of posture (you'll see why) and also leaning forward a bit. It will reduce the noise considerably (sans 'whistle'). If not, then wad up a bit of paper and drop it more towards the front of the bowl (use your best judgment depending on the commode for that. Don't be too hasty in trying to clog it up lol). And if you can control it enough, just don't let it out as forcefully. It's pretty easy after a while to get it. It'll get easier with more growth down there also, but don't lean too far forward until then otherwise you run the risk of it shooting out... and well, yeah. Just... use discernment. Practice.

As to the other thing and I'm fully aware it's not strictly speaking sanitary, however. Take a few sandwich ziplock bags and just wrap the stuff up in paper and put it in those and then keep it wherever (cargo pants/shorts are great, or failing that a backpack compartment) and then dispose of it when safe. I'd had to do that a few times pre-T and it really wasn't a big deal. Although, tampons are really better for that because it's just the applicators and wrappers to deal with; lot less messy too. As to the noise of that... haven't you noticed seat protectors make a great deal of noise in and of themselves? That is what they'll assume is going on. But if you're still REALLY paranoid about it, get into the habit of just using a newspaper as a prop. Bonus is that you can also wrap the stuff up in some of it without wasting so much more of the bathroom tissue. Someone you know surely must still get the paper and would take no issue of you relieving them of the chore of throwing theirs out (sports pages, funnies, whatever).

Now I'm going to let you in on a "secret": almost all guys pee sitting at least once a day. Where do you think their junk is when they're dropping a bomb? Why, tucked aiming into the bowl. Why do you think that is? It's not for the fear of showing off the goods to the inconsiderate ass that barges in, I promise you. It's actually because they'd pee all over themselves, the wall or the floor otherwise. Almost everyone pees when they have a BM (it's really hard not too). So it truly is not a big deal. Nobody cares. Guys are not in the next cubicle with their ears pressed firmly to the divider to find out other men's habits. And guys with micropenis that can't clear their fly, or else those with improperly placed urethra also have to sit to pee every time (conditions which aren't all that rare. As it happens and for all intents and purposes both apply to us). Don't sweat about it so much. If a guy claims he's NEVER sat and pissed, he's lying or has super-human bladder control. Actually, I'm fairly certain the oblong shape of the modern (American by and large) commodes are due to this very reason, other than the typically round and tiny ones of many years ago... makes more room for guys to comfortably tuck into the bowl without pinching it against the rim (which I imagine was not ideal). So that's just more evidenced to how true this all really is: guys pee sitting too. They just don't talk about it much or ever. It's nothing to be critically dysphoric or paranoid about.

Thank you for the tips and advice everybody. They proved very helpful today and everything went smoothly. Luckily the toilets were quiet all day so I ran in and out without any trouble. Thanks again!