I do it both ways, which pretty much aligns well with my gender identification. If it's the middle of the night, I almost always sit because it's much easier to do in the dark

Although I still stand from time to time, sitting is starting to become second nature to me. In public restrooms I still tend to use a urinal if that's all I have to do, A: because I feel like it's cleaner and B: because I somehow get nervous that someone is going to walk in and somehow know all I'm doing is peeing. XD But although I do still stand if I'm in a hurry or something, when I'm feeling more relaxed I do tend to sit.

I sit. 

I'm going to actually start doing the sit routine in a woman's restroom when I am in public - thanks for explaining exactly why to someone who can be quite oblivious at times

This question has a very simple answer. He stands or sits. She sits only. I would never stand in a ladies room-- even in a closed stall. Trust me, people will know. The when in Rome rule applies here, for sure.

Because of my anatomy I am forced to sit. And that's a good thing

I sit every time. I stay tucked 24/7. Standing to pee doesn't really work.

Generally I sit however I reserve the right to exploit my alien physiology and stand if the toilet is
1: Filthy
2: Freezing cold
3: AHH IM LATE I GOTTA GO BEFORE I GOTTA GO!

I sit all of the time. I had prostate cancer 4 yeqars ago and since they removed it there was shrinkage and I have to sit to pee.  One of the little blessings they don't tell you about before the operation. Oh well. What's a girl to do.
Beth

Quote from: Seven on November 17, 2010, 06:02:14 AM
At least I know the penis doesn't have AIDS.

I seriously doubt it is possible to get AIDS from a toilet seat.   Now, of course you might get pregnant...

- Kate

I actually squat over the toilet and not sit on it. My friend and I were talking about it the other day and we both agree that we can't really truly "sit" on the toilet in a public setting. But, I don't pee like a guy facing the toilet... I do it the girly way still. I hope this makes sense?

At home I always sit... in public, usually wait for a cubicle, and then stand... don't truly like to stand in those ridicule things showing it to everyone else than cares to glance in my direction.

I guess than in public is more about hygiene than anything else...

Quote from: Seven on November 17, 2010, 03:18:29 PM
An exaggeration... but not much of one. Those things are disgusting.

Quote from: Lexine on November 17, 2010, 03:31:21 PM
I actually squat over the toilet and not sit on it. My friend and I were talking about it the other day and we both agree that we can't really truly "sit" on the toilet in a public setting.

OK, I guess I missed something during toilet training.  First of all, most places I go have clean toilets.  Second, it is difficult to get a disease from a toilet seat unless you have open sores on the parts that rest on it – lower buttocks and backs of thighs.  Your intact skin acts as a barrier.  Third, those who hover and don't clean up after themselves cause the very problems they are trying to avoid – dirty toilet seats.  Fourth, urine is inherently clean, although feces and blood are not.  If there are feces or blood on the toilet seat, I will either clean it up or find another toilet to sit on.  Look before sitting.

Am I the only one who doesn't have a problem sitting on a clean toilet seat in a public women's room – the same seat other relatively clean women sit on?

- Kate

QuoteAm I the only one who doesn't have a problem sitting on a clean toilet seat in a public women's room – the same seat other relatively clean women sit on?

Nope.

And it is actually true that there's quite a few common household items that are cleaner than the typical toilet seats.

From someone who does janitorial work in a medical setting for a living...

The part about urine is accurate (clean).  In that case, wipe down with toilet paper.

Feces or blood?  You can wipe it down and probably be safe.  If you want to be sure, then have some lysol/clorox wipes in your purse and whip out one of those to use on it.  As long as you get the seat surface where you are touching clean, you should be good.

Or, just hit another stall.  But yeah, the supervisor here typically has a batch of clorox wipes in her purse for when she has to travel outside the building, just in case (she IS a germaphobe).

As to HIV on any surface, if the body fluids have been exposed to air more than 10 seconds, it's gone, kaput, an ex-parr, er virus.  It is not pining for the fjords.

the answer is not as simple as it might seem.

First, I don't have any paranoia about "nastyness" - if a toilet is obviously soiled I don't use it at all - short of extreme emergency - if it's not, invisible cooties don't scare me at all.

Second, my preference is to sit but I make a couple of exceptions. The major one being that if i sit, for whatever anatomical reason, i don't drain completely - sitting is a flat out guarantee I'll be needing to again within the hour.

If it is impractical for me to go again so quickly - and if I am in a private setting such as a one-seater with the door locked - I might chose to stand. I don't really like the feeling I get from it but I'm not going to paint yself into a corner because I want to avoid that moment of dysphoria.


but all that said...never ever EVER would i stand to pee in a public ladies room that's not a one-seater.

I'm not gonna beg for that kind of trouble, no matter what the implications for later might be.

Hovering is the cause of disgusting public toilet seats - not the solution. If nobody hovered, seats would never get dirty except for possibly a few drops at the front; the rest of the seat is always in contact with skin. If everybody hovered who was physically able to do so, every toilet seat would be covered in bodily fluids, and those with physical disabilities would be stuck either cleaning up the mess or sitting in someone else's waste. Thus hovering is morally indefensible, because it would be absolutely unacceptable if everyone did it - just like standing to pee without putting the seat up.

I don't have to use women's restrooms anymore (thank God, they're revolting, piss-covered seats and unflushed blood-and-feces-filled toilets jammed with 50 feet of toilet paper and dirty-toilet-paper-strewn floors...) but on behalf of those who still have to, I beg you: wipe the seat and sit on it. Please.

Fallacious how? Any other line of reasoning has to allow for some people being so bloody "special" that their pristine behinds can't be sullied by others' dead skin cells and minor bacteria, so "special" that their own cleanliness outweighs the harm they do to others by pissing on the bloody seat.

As someone who's had to touch quite a few toilet seats attacked by "hoverers" (I had an eye condition that caused temporary near-blindness a few years ago, and when you can't see, you have to either sit on the seat or reach out and touch it) I'm a little bit emotional about this. People too often don't think about the effects their behaviour has on others.

I honestly don't know why they don't raise the seat. Some of these people literally leave the toilets covered with droplets of piss and blood and sometimes dirty toilet paper and diarrhea. I don't think the next person's health and comfort is high on their list of concerns...raising the seat would probably involve too much contact with surfaces that have been touched by us mere mortals.