I’m just going to say if you have ever thrown your back out and it was extremely painful to sit, you learn to either pee straddling the toilet or in the shower.
I’m the mother of 3 boys and I guess I never knew that - really? I’M THE ONE THAT CLEANS THE SHOWERS!!! I find this gross for some reason. Maybe just because I’ve been oblivious to this…plus now that I think about it, my husband pees the first thing he does when he gets out of bed, why would he have to pee again in the shower 5 minutes later?
When rafting in the Grand Canyon, outfitters take toilet receptacles for “#2”, but all urination is expected to be done directly into moving water. There ware a few places where the water was too swift to wade out waist deep. I learned that you can pull your bathing suit aside and aim . The river guides divide bathroom areas - “skirts up, pants down”. So ladies pee upstream and men downstream, with a judicious amount of underbrush between.
Just asked my 25 yo son if he has ever peed in the shower and his answer: “GOD, NO! That’s disgusting!”
I will confess to a huge sigh of relief, even though we do not share a shower.
Finally deciding to join in:
I am the only person in my family who takes baths. I do not pee in my bubble baths.
Although I’m not squeamish about such things, I am not asking the rest of my shower taking family about peeing in the shower. To be honest, it never entered my mind they might be doing so. But I don’t really care.
Since I’m a country gal, I’ve peed outside. I encourage the men to do so, because local wisdom says it keeps deer out of the gardens. If I really believed that, I’d make a point to always go outside.
edit: I am not sharing my southern pee stories after all. no way. Instead I’m writing them down for the grandchildren.
garland, #59: when women squat, the stream is straight, in my experience at least.
Definitely a difference between peeing in the shower in running water and peeing in your bubble bath and stewing in it. 
I’m constantly amazed how many bathroom threads we’ve had on CC.
My mother taught me to only use my flowing infill faucet to wash
my face in a bathtub. Once the faucet is no longer sending clean water out the spout, its nasty.
Back in 1966 Alexander Kira, a professor of architecture at Cornell, wrote an amazing book called *The Bathroom[/] based on seven years of research he’d done on the subject. It’s full of photos and drawings of the various things one does in bathrooms. (He would have approved of the squatty potty by the way,) but the reason I’m bringing it up is because of this joke:
The previous page has photos of men and women showing that the winning posture for a woman is to turn her back to the line.
Somewhere on CC there’s a pretty funny thread about bidets.
I was just reading a scary book and was afraid to turn out the light. So I found this thread again. After a few laughs, I think I can fall asleep peacefully now. Lol.
Yeah, me too.
If you do it in the shower, you don’t need to use toilet paper, so it saves on that too.
Only if you’re a woman. My husband tells me that no man ever uses toilet paper after urinating. (This disgusts me. Peeing in the shower doesn’t.)
It ruins the finish on the toilet bowl if you habitually don’t flush. In my house, which has very thin walls, we followed a policy of not flushing during the night (except for #2) for years to avoid waking other people up. This eventually ate away at the finish on the bowls of the upstairs toilets, which then had to be replaced because they looked horrible. The downstairs toilet, which is not near any bedroom and was never used during the night, did not develop the same problem (which is how we know it was caused by urine).
Shake and squeeze is normally good enough for a man, but you do risk some leakage a few minutes later. Another trap avoided in the shower!
I was born and raised in a very rural area. Urinating in the woods was a common occurrence. In the shower either then or now no way. That is disgusting in my opinion. What could be the logic or motivation to do that? Go to the bathroom before or after you shower.
The logic? Washing with soap immediately after urinating in the shower is certainly more sanitary that walking out of the shower clean, then urinating in the toilet and using paper to dry but not really clean the area.
It normally saves a toilet flush, and is efficient in other ways too. We send other bodily fluids down the shower, including after sex, so what’s wrong with a little urine?
For your entertainment – the bidet thread.
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/235233-bidets-p1.html
I pee in the shower. Sometimes the flowing water makes me feel like I have to. Sometimes, if I have to go before i get in the shower, I think this will save water by not flushing.
I really do not understand why people view this as disgusting. It is actually cleaner, You only wipe with paper after peeing in the toilet. In the shower you use soap to clean yourself and your feet, if necessary.
Seriously, I can’t even imagine why people would not pee in the shower if they have to go. The shower washes it away probably more than a toilet does, you wash with soap and water, not paper and it saves water by not flushing.
Some folks here are pretty squeamish. Pee is clean. Peeing in the shower is a good thing.