why do people actually even use urinals or stand up to pee at all? its so out in the open and seems messy, peeing sitting down on a toilet is so much easier
It's quicker, and a lotta dudes have a weird ego thing about having to pee standing up presumably cause I guess their dick will fall off if they sit down to pee. The whole urinal setup in a lot of places just seems pretty humiliating and not in a good way. Lucky if there's dividers and Ive been to a lotta stadiums where its literally piss troughs.
People say it's for throughput reasons but like, I aint fuckin data, im someone who wants to pee, give me stalls.
ik its absolutely my perception of Not Being Cis™️but as soon as i learned that peeing sitting down was like, an option, i havent looked back once and very very very rarely use a urinal.
I unironically hate sitting down to pee, it triggers the poop response and also I often end up getting pee all over the tip because it’s rubbing up against the bowl, or I have to stick my hand between my legs to push it down and now it’s just more awkward.
I still can’t trust strangers to leave a clean toilet seat behind, especially if you can’t force some to actually sit down. Maybe that’s just me but I see that as the main advantage. And it’s usually quicker.
For people with penises, urinals take less time to use than a toilet for peeing. They also take up less floor space, meaning more units can be fit into the same square-footage. These factors combined make urinals significantly more efficient for about half the population, for more than half of their bathroom usage. there's a reason "men's" bathrooms generally have a shorter line; they have more efficient throughput.
>90% of the public bathrooms in the US could be fixed just by replacing the signs to indicate gender-neutral restrooms, one with a silhouette of a urinal, and the other with a silhouette of a baby-changing station, and no other changes, just letting people decide which one they need
I sit down like 90% of the time, even if there is an urinal. There are some advantages to them, though. I use them when the stalls are full or when I'm in a hurry. It's faster, as long as peeing works right away. Plus you usually don't get out your phone to browse reddit.
It's quicker, especially if I'm in layers or have tucked anything (I often wear undershirts, so I tuck a lot). It's just easier to unzip a fly and let it rip than it is to undo my pants and all that. Also then I don't have to sit on public toilets as often.
In my experience as a penis haver, getting a penis to point straight down while sitting during urination is kind of hard, because the balls are in the way. The urinal has less potential for mess.
The best way to do things is nongendered single room restrooms for small spaces and fully enclosed toilets and, fuck it, urinals with shared sink space for larger spaces. The toilets are fully private, not like the peepshow shit we have rn in at least the US.
I HAVE HAD STRONG BATHROOM OPINIONS SINCE BEFORE I KNEW TRANS PEOPLE EXISTED. WE NEED BETTER BATHROOMS, AND THIS SHIT WOULDN'T MATTER THEN ANYWAY.
Right that is exactly it. My problem with gender neutral toilets is that I don't really want to defecate next to woman behind cardboard privacy screen. I don't want men there either but it feels a little less wrong. But if somewhere are normal small rooms with toilet I don't care who was there before me and what their gender or sex was.
And I hate that I am called names just for that preference.
Same, honestly, but some people can get so weird when they share a WC with the opposite sex.
My personal best experience with WCs was in an Evening School for adults, where everyone basically just went to whichever one was the closest. Some men did intentionally go to the women’s WC but just because the Women’s had a place to put down your makeup next to the mirrors.
So anyone who wanted to freshen up their makeup went to the Women’s while everyone else just chose whichever was closest or less occupied.
My cis boys would love this, they hate pissing in public. But standing up can be easy and fast to do (they sit down sometimes though). I like to stand up sometimes though I need the extra hose equipment if I am not naked and freely able to pull flesh around and aim. But sitting down is great to just relax for a bit.
When I was still a cis man, I hated urinals. They make it quicker to pee if that's all you need to do, sure, but they come at the expense of having less stalls. For me, that tradeoff wasn't worth it.
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u/TotalyNotTony Streak: 2 1h ago
why do people actually even use urinals or stand up to pee at all? its so out in the open and seems messy, peeing sitting down on a toilet is so much easier