Posted on 10/17/2013 8:03:11 AM PDT by tom h
When Viggo Hansen, a county counselor from the Left Party in Sormland, Sweden, tried passing a law that required that men sit down to pee when using the public bathrooms, his motion caused a flood of reactions. Hansen argued when men sit down to pee it is better for public health because it reduces the splatter around the toilets and stops the spread of disease. Hansen is one of many—including the head of the environmental protection agency in Taiwan, Stephen Shen, who also tried mandating such an order—that believe errant urine is bad for public health. They argue that droplets of urine spread disease. But just how scientifically sound are these arguments? Is it actually better for men to sit down and pee?
“Urine is actually sterile,” says Benjamin Davies, an associate professor of urology at the University of Pittsburgh. “There is no bacteria in it. You can drink urine.” (Though he's not advocating that anyone does take a swig of urine.)
So puddles of urine might smell bad and look gross, but they won’t cause disease. But Hansen has another argument: Hansen claims that men who pee while sitting will fully empty their bladders, which is better for their prostates—and means they'll experience a longer, healthier sex life.
But again, Hansen's claims are totally off the mark. "This is total bullsh**," Davies says. "There is no relationship between voiding and sex life. I haven’t the slightest idea why it would improve your prostate. If you are a normal male your prostate muscles relax while you urinate.”
Bottom line: Completely healthy men experience no benefit by sitting to urinate instead of standing. Some conditions might mean it is easier for a man to fully empty his bladder if he sits down, but for the vast majority there is no difference between sitting and standing. However, some cultures prefer to sit rather than stand—almost half of all Japanese men sit to urinate.
Davies believes that sitting is a cultural or psychological preference, not a health issue. “If you are tired," he says, "go ahead and sit.”
At 3AM in the dark I’ll sit, but for the rest of the time I will stand tall.
Hush and go clean the bathroom after you make your hubby a sandwich... :)
Yuck!
Our Aim Is To Keep This Bathroom Clean.
Your Aim Will Help.
I guess you have never managed a restaurant - when I did, the Lady's room was always MUCH worse then the Men's room. And this was in a high-end joint. And judging from college dorms I have seen, the girls are as bad or worse than the boys.
“no one wants to clean your filthy pee off the floor dude”
Thats why I tell my wife I’m doing her a favor when she yells at me for peeing in the back yard. Less for her to clean up. :)
I’ve been to japan on many occasions. The bathrooms I’ve used consist of a hole in the floor. That’s in factories and such. Hotels have western style toilets in most cases. Sometimes they just have a seat over a hole in the floor.
In public restrooms? Heck, no.
ROF,LMAO
shake it like you just don’t care
Whenever the commies lead a story with a rhetorical question, here it comes.
Be proud, When you’re a man the whole world is your urinal.
Thanks for the chuckle
It might be a good idea for men that get up in the dark of the night. I think it would be easier go get back to sleep if you use muscles as little as possible while doing the prostate shuffle.
Bitte Sitzen has been the rule in Germany for decades.
I call it ‘hovering’ .... and as filthy as many women’s public bathrooms are, it’s often necessary for ‘self defense’. I just can’t believe what pigs some women can be in public bathrooms .... and that’s probably an insult to pigs.
LOL! I was going to say it if you already hadn’t ;-)
“...she yells at me for peeing in the back yard.”
Saves on your water bill, too.
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