STP's.

Call me a man, but i feel just way too lazy these days to be messing around faffing with an STP when i just wana waz. Sure, it be nice to be able to just wang it out and go... But with an STP you have to make sure you're possitioned right before you go ahead otherwise you get it all down your leg. Not to mention it's impossible to use an STP with trousers and pants still in tact.

Is it just me that would rather not have the hassle and just sit down and get on with it?

I suppose I'm lazy too. Don't get me wrong I really like just going without having to find a spot on the toilet that's warm (winter here). But like you said adjusting over and over when you have to go makes me impatient. Not to mention if you screw up early in the day you are stuck with a wet spot and smelling of pee all day.

I do feel natural standing up but I dunno I get angry when I pee and have to do extra work for bits that should have been there to begin with. Plus the longer I am on T stuff changed and I haven't found a STP that doesn't bother sensitive areas. Went mango stp.

I'm with you on those counts, I just don't feel the need to mess with all that when I can just go in a stall and do the silent-against-the-bowl maneuver. And some days I'm very lazy, I must admit that.
So many people have so many problems with every pre-existing STP style, from the coffee-can DIY method, to the 2500 dollar prosthesis with medical-grade tubing or whatever the hell it is. I do not want to mess with all that either.
Yes, it would feel natural standing up but it doesn't feel natural pissing down my own leg one out of five times. I don't call that a positive tradeoff.

So, sitting down for me until my brain decides I need a urethral hookup and all that good jazz.

I'd agree. I've tried so many different methods, but I think I am just too clumsy to ever be able to use them without peeing down my leg. Not to mention it takes way too long.

Definitely not just you.  I was so excited to get my STP, but after about two weeks (maybe even less than that), the novelty just wore off and the whole process just became annoying.  I'd much rather stand, but I don't really care anymore.  Yeah, finding a clean toilet to sit on is a pain, but it's a ton better than worrying about pee down my leg or where to put the thing when I'm done. 

Quote from: jonjon on January 31, 2010, 11:46:12 AM
Not to mention it's impossible to use an STP with trousers and pants still in tact.

Huh?  You mean still up and covering your butt?  I can do it...  I have to unzip my fly and undo the top button, then whip it over the waistband of my underwear (maneuvering through the fly hole takes too much time), but it's do-able.

Positioning doesn't take that long once you get the hang of it, and I've never peed down my leg at the urinal.  That said, there are times when I prefer sitting--usually when I'm exhausted, sick, up in the middle of the night, or generally can't trust my aim.

Yeah i'm too lazy to use one tbh, and most of the time some of it goes down my leg so I stopped using it.

Yeah I have never really bothered with this side of things.  I wonder if it is something that will come on later, but for now I much prefer to just sort of 'hover and pee,' you know not sitting on the seat but still facing the 'wrong' way.  AGH that was probably TMI   

I a m like Eryk, no probs but do need to undo the top button most times. It is faster than sitting most times and at those places with out stall doors, saves ya a ton of searching for another lavatory.

I didnt like to do it until I got my new stp, i guess it just works better for me

When I'm wearing boxers all I have to do is unzip my fly, and I love the simplicity.

The way you feel about STPs, is probably the way I feel about packing.. cause I dont really pack.. eh thats kinda off topic, but oh well.

It does take a lot of practice at first, but now I can do it almost as fast as any guy.  Using a urinal can be a huge boost (is for me) but there are a lot of guys who don't care and just sit.

Packers/stps are a huge PIA, which is why I'm getting lower surgery in July.  Even if I end up having to sit to pee, NO MORE PACKERS.


Jay

Yeah, I tried using an STP for awhile but with no success. I tried all the positioning and recommendations and everything but with little to no improvement. My urine stream is weird anyway because it always shoots in different directions at once so it's hard to control it (TMI you're welcome ). I was always making a mess so I just gave up and just sit. Much easier- no embarrassing mess or smell.

I'm just...really lazy most times, so I just sit. I really don't feel like shifting this, adjusting that. Bah.

Jay-

whaddaya mean no more packers, even if you have to sit and pee?  You're getting medio or plasto? sitting is for pussys.

Quote from: mudd on January 31, 2010, 11:22:10 PM
Jay-

whaddaya mean no more packers, even if you have to sit and pee?  You're getting medio or plasto? sitting is for pussys.

Hey, my brother is far from a 'pussy' and he sits to pee because he feels like it.

Quote from: mudd on January 31, 2010, 11:22:10 PMsitting is for pussys.

Oh, the irony of your condescending post just kills me.

Quote from: IndigeoAliquis on January 31, 2010, 11:26:17 PM
Oh, the irony of your condescending post just kills me.

I know, same here. Where do you get off calling anyone here a pussy, anyway?

Quote from: jonjon on January 31, 2010, 11:46:12 AM
STP's.

Call me a man, but i feel just way too lazy these days to be messing around faffing with an STP when i just wana waz.

I have the same opinion.  I stand so I can get it done and get back to whatever I was doing, usually work.  If I am not in a hurry, I often sit.  If I am at home and relaxing, tired, I almost always sit.

I suppose that I can understand the fascination that young transmen have with STPs, but I've always found it to be a little silly.  I suppose that it's like a young man's first shave; it's the novelty of growing up, but after a year or so, it's just another chore.

- N

Meh, I tried a couple times and it just seems like too much work. I might bother and try again, but mostly my dysphoria is about how I look and am considered a female as opposed to whether or not I can piss standing or have to shave my face everyday.

Yeah, it would be cool but I don't really have the equipment and my way works more easily anyway.

Nope I do that too. I tried and failed with the STP... would love to be able to use it.. well not long now before I have the real thing! w00p!

Jay