Where in the World Do Men Sit Down to Wee?

The stream isn’t always consistent and I ain’t got the patience to clean that shit up. Sittings easier.

Same here. Having to clean your own bathroom is a life-changing experience.
Even worse if there's a pube wedged in the outflow pipe exit, splitting your stream into two completely random directions, neither of which being the bowl.
OPs restroom must be gross
- No, cause he sits

At home I always sit. I don't care how well endowed you are or how well you can aim, there's always a bit of splash that I don't want to deal with. In most people's homes I'll have the same decency to sit. Nobody wants to sit where someone's pee has been, or clean that off the floor, etc. At work I'll usually sit too, let's be honest I'm probably going to scroll on my phone for a minute or two while I'm at it.

I rarely go to the bathroom in public, I'll usually wait until I get home. For the few exceptions, I'll almost always stand. Because some of those toilet seats, especially in men's bathrooms, can be nasty.

As someone who has had to clean public restrooms, women's bathrooms are worse.
- That's because all the pee washes away the other sins
- It's honestly baffling.
  Even at work, this appeared to be the case based on what coworkers say.
  Now I work at a place with a unisex bathroom, and it seems like we've eliminated all problems... except for that one person who uses the bathroom for 15 minutes while running the water.
- Women hover no matter what

In public always use a urinal when peeing. At home always sit. Simple. I don't like cleaning pee off the toilet, it's disgusting.

A surprising number of respondents “Don’t know”

Yeah, like what leads to this decision? Handstand while peeing but too shy to tell?
- “I’ve never really thought about it honestly 🤔. It just sort of happens on its own come to think of it. 🤔”
The bathroom blackout crowd
The diaper crowd.
Too embarrassed to say "in the shower."
Coz "squatting to piss straight into a drain" wasn't an option and they refused to add it when I asked.
id say idk because the real answer is pretty much never, but it's hard to be sure

I think if you clean your own toilet you'll never pee standing at home. It splashes everywhere, it's so nasty.

As someone born without a penis it was always annoying to share bathrooms with people that pee standing/leave the lid up.

I recommend watching this video.

I sit exactly for this. I hate cleaning the splash, or the dirt the drying drops attract.
Public bathroom, is another history.

My fellow Americans, please try it. It's much more peaceful in there, and you avoid the chatty kathies at the urinals. They don't try to speak to you(1) when you're in a stall.

(1) usually

Well Kathy needs to get out of the men's room then, she can wait until I'm done peeing to have a chat.
You forgot that in the US all stalls seem to have these awkward 2 cm gaps. There is not much privacy to be had there.
- More like 2.54 cm.
- No, but it's usually enough to deter the chatterers
Chatting at the urinal is verboten in the US. It's an unwritten rule. You'll be the village pariah if you try.
- Unless you're at a dive bar, in which case it's apparently mandatory.
- My boss chatted me about a project at the urinal during our quarterly onsite a few months back. Wtf dude. Can you really not wait til we get back to the conference room‽
- There are certain repeat offenders at my workplace

I'm pro choice

I'm really surprised by this, as someone in the "never" category I honestly didn't realise there were men who sat down (obviously aside from physical disabilities), or that it would be a cultural thing. I've never thought about it.

In fact sometimes if I go for a "number two", I will take it in two parts, pee standing up then sit down for the second part, or vice-versa. It's just more comfortable like that.

How do you deal with all the pee splatter? Or do you piss on the sink? Or are you a dwarf?
Pissing while standing is only ok when a proper urinal is available. Pissing in toilet while standing imparts too much kinetic energy on the pee, causing violent splashing. Yes, even if you aim at an angle. And aim will always falter at the end anyway with decreasing water pressure...
- Normal cleaning of toilet/bathroom areas deal with that kind of thing. It's not like I'm pissing in the kitchen.
- Power of the stream is a factor... As well as aim and your bowl geometry, some just splash more. I have the bladder of a squirrel, and generally splatter no more than a few drops on the toilet seat if I fail to raise it. My bestie will absolutely cover my bathroom in splatter.
I used to always stand. Once I realized that even with perfect aim, urine droplets will find their way to the floor and walls, I stopped. My toilet never smells like urine now, even if I haven't cleaned it for a while (which is rare).
I do about half and half. Especially in the morning or in the middle of the night I sit. Don't have to try to aim in the dark or when I'm half asleep.
I suspect also the men who are married with families tend to sit more than single guys.

I cant imagine spraying my floor with piss everyday.

- I have no problem spraying both of your floors with piss.
I can't imagine someone who doesn't learn how to aim their pee stream well enough to not spray piss all over their floor.
I also can't imagine pulling my pants and underwear down to my knees every time I need to piss. Sorry ladies.
- No matter how well you aim your gonna splash. Put a bucket with water next to the toilet and youll see all the spray that normally coats your floor
- Show me how uneducated you are without saying how uneducated you are.

Hot take: The majority of men splash pee on themselves on a regular basis.

It’s so predators know we’re coming. You know, to give them a sporting chance.

In public? Standing

At home? Sitting.

Just cuz.

Never sit on urinals
- Hate when my balls dip into the blue.
Because at home comfort is king

I have also come to realize that at home not only is more comfortable it is also no splashes whereas outside it is the other way around is much more sanitary and convenient. So best of both worlds.

I am not putting on my glasses and turning on the light at 4am. I'll have a seat, it's fine.

That's pretty surprising seeing as German is the only language which has Sitzpinkler as an insult

I was surprised when I found out it was an insult. Assumed it was a fun German expression but did not consider it to be adjacent to soyboy or whatever.
Made me wonder if schadenfreude might be less fun in context than how English speakers use it. Like we tend to use it in the context of relatively minor misfortunes happening to others.

I like to sit so I can look at my phone while I pee.

The Germans are just too drunk to stand

The really weird part about this is that like 30-40% of US are elderly and Grandpa can barely walk, but he'll keel over in the middle of it long before he "pees like a girl."

He may have trouble getting up from the seat unaided

I bleed and hurt if I pee sitting down (urethral stricture, had some stuff done, but looking to probably get stints installed), so I pee standing up even if I do have to poop.

Side note, I had no idea how truly awful most urologists (at least in New Jersey) were until I had to get this addressed. It took two years and three doctors (in two different urology systems with many locations, one of which was clearly more of a cash grab than actually giving care), and it was only when I wad getting a vasectomy done an hour and a half away from my house (closest doctor with more than a 2-star rating and with no horror stories) that he was horrified the previous doctor said "make an appointment if it gets worse" in response to blood and pain when urinating.

The first two also seemed to refuse to accept that my 10-year married ass didn't have an STI despite multiple tests from multiple sources to the contrary and me adamantly expressing that it wasn't a "burning" pain, it was a "tearing" pain.

Sorry, long rant, but yeah, some of us can't really pee sitting down.

That sounds terrible. I am truly sorry
- The worst was having to self-cath twice a day for a month, then once a day for a month, to try to stretch it out. It worked...for about 3-4 weeks. Then it slowly started coming back. Not what I would call a good return on investment.
Urologists are awful. Even worse for women. I'm always joking that they are mens doctors as they seem not to know what to do with women. Blood in urine? Must be a period....
- I can't imagine how long it would take to get my issue addressed if, after finding I didn't have an STI, they could just fall back on "irregular period" or "cramps."

Shitty question.

If there’s a urinal this is a no brainer, it’s quicker and more efficient to use that. If there isn’t one then this is a valid question.

Also, in public bathrooms where toilets might be occupied or dirty, I'm betting that a lot more people stand at the urinal just so they can pee and get the hell out. I'd like to see the answer to whether or not men sit down to pee WHEN THEY'RE AT HOME. That seems like a good way to actually get a sense of what men prefer.

Ywss the silent majority. Much prefer to sit at home, got my soft seat and toilet space all nice, little light reading. It's just classy.

I think the question requires more context. If I'm at home, I sit down. I'm too lazy to clean up if something inevitably splashes outside the bowl. When I'm not at home and there are urinals, I will use those and never sit down.

US: At home 100% sit; out and about, 100% stand.

If it's not my home toilet, I'm not even going to sit to shit. Lift the seat, put down a layer of protective toilet paper to prevent splash landings, aim, and squat. If they have very clean toilets, like someone's home, I'll make an exception, or a clean public restroom that stocks seat liners, I may use them.

TBH, that's a method of last resort though. If I can wait until I get home, I do. Nice, clean, comfy, got a fancy TOTO bidet; just a better experience.

I've shit one singular time in a "public" toilet in the past 25 years besides workplace bathrooms, and Porta potties while camping. Workplace or Porta potties both have hand sanitizer which I take copious amounts of on my way in, drip off my hands onto the seat and wipe it down with TP. Rub the rest of the sanitizer on my hands, and eviscerate myself with the equivalent power of 10 men's shits in 30 seconds.

I dont get the problem. I standing while i pee and clean my toilet.

The splash always reaches out of the bowl, even if they're just tiny droplets.
Next level: stealth peeing

I can't sit. There's a kink in my tubing somewhere that closes off when I sit. Then I stand up, and I always have to turn around to finish anyway.

And if the bowl's not elongated, I end up...touching...the water or the bowl, and that creeps me out.

You may wish to consult a Urologist about that. (Seriously)
If I had done so earlier in my life, I might not have needed 3 prostate surgeries and now I need to self cath 2 to 4 times a day. And I can tell you, needing a cath will really put a crimp in your social life............
Ah the old “witches kiss”, always a gross feeling

As a trans woman I never liked public bathrooms before transitioning. I've rarely ever used urinals and peeing while standing seems always messier, even if outdoors. In a toilet stall where you can sit, you can always also use toilet paper. (And especially with a penis you don't have to sit down completely, you can squat over the seat of it is too dirty.) When peeing while standing don't you all get a bit of pee in your underpants?? And people who pee standing while on a toilet with a seat (be it at home or visiting someone) are just disgusting. And I don't know any fellow Germans who stand while peeing at home. One generation up it was still very different. I guess this is one of the outcomes of feminism that taught cis men to be responsible for their own mess. If you never had to clean your urine of the toilet or floor you had hardly any incentive to pay attention. Glad this has somewhat changed.

When peeing while standing don't you all get a bit of pee in your underpants??
100% of the time, if you pee standing up and the pee lands within about a meter of you (you're not peeing off a cliff or off the side of a boat, etc), you will get splashback on your body and clothes. Every single time. It's simple physics.
When peeing while standing don’t you all get a bit of pee in your underpants??
No?
And there’s nothing disgusting about peeing to stand at home? That sounds more like a cultural problem such as being circumcised or the toilet shape/how much water the bowl has which varies by country.
It’s heaps pretentious to say it’s a feminism thing because I clean my house and have zero issue with the toilet or mess made from standing.
- Do you live by yourself?

"If you sprinkle when you tinkle be a sweetie and wipe the seaty."

My favorite was always
"We aim to please, you aim too please"

How do you not know?? Lmao

yeah all I thought maybe people with a catheter.
Or they're fish or something.

As always, Australia is deeply conflicted on the issue.

Nice and even across the board

The toilet, generally.

Anywhere they aren't animals or who have partners/roommates that make them clean the base of the toilet/walls themselves because piss splashes.

After having an exploratory done after getting stabbed, I started sitting all the time because since then, every time I pee standing up it's uncomfortable and get piss shivers. When they pull everything out, it never goes back quite the same and I guess this is part of the "Well you're doing this now" part of the rest of my life.

The piss shivers are messy at a bowl and really fucking awkward when at a urinal.

I am sure this could be, or have been, fixed with a procedure, or some form of treatment/phsyo, but it took no time at all to realize pitting (pee AND sitting lol) is just better, and didn't really think or go back to the old ways and practices of expelling my liquid waste.

Germany doesn’t add up to 100%

A bunch of 'em don't. Looks like they truncated instead of rounded.
- Germany for example adds up to 101% though, that would be impossible if they had truncated. Most likely they simply did round to full percent.
- Error bars

I’ve always been a stander just for comfort and convenience. I thought that was part of the Born Male Benefit Package, that the multiple daily pee trips don’t have to be a whole production with taking off pants and sitting down. If people sit down for comfort or to rest, then that’s all good too.

And on the cleanliness angle, I share a toilet with my 6 year old son. We are not the same’d.

Mexico knows what's going on.

If we aren't allowed to play around with our pee stream, what even is the point of having it come out of our penises?

never sit to pee

Do they sit to shit but stand to pee? In the same visit?

It says it's about the times you only go to urinate, not to also poo. And I can't think of a reason I'd ever sit in that case
- About 60% of the time, I have to shit at the same time as I pee even if I didn't feel anything beforehand. It's like my bladder acts as a dam for my bowels. It's just safer to sit most of the time.
It says in the graph title.

Damn Mexico... no wonder it always looks yellow that shit must get on all the camera lenses.

Literally, legally insane people. One of the greatest joys of life is to pee while standing.

only if you don't have to clean it up later. Nobody can pee standing up without making a mess. if you think you can you've never cleaned your toilet yourself.
It's not really the standing, it's the freedom.
Try peeing in the middle of nowhere. No aiming, nothing to worry. Feel the pain of the world flowing out of your body. Embrace the world.

The whole point of having a man hose is not to sit or squat. Now if you don't know how to piss without making a mess, that's another issue.

Well, the whole point of a 'man hose' is for reproductive purposes, but maybe you haven't figured that out yet.
Make sure to aggressively piss in the loudest way possible to assert your dominant masculinity. If Carla’s roommate on the other side of the house can’t hear you, you need more kegels.
How reductionist. You ignored that you have a brain, too. This comment section discusses the topic if you're unaware of reasons.
Ya REAL men always stand and get piss every where.
Grow up.