Pee Standing Up

I have to admit… I was a little puzzled myself when I saw my first Chinese public toilet. The first thing that went through my mind was: “Are those ridged areas for my knees or my feet on each side?!”

If you’ve never seen one yourself, here’s a great example sent in by one of our customers:

Step-by-Step Guide to Using a Chinese Public Bathroom

1. Preparation
   Make sure you have tissues, sanitizer, and especially your P-Mate out of your bags. Post up your bags on the hooks, and if there are none provided make sure you have your bags securely fastened (duct tape?) so they don’t fall or swing out while you are relieving yourself.
2. Assume the Position
   As I soon learned, the ridges on either side of the bowl are for your feet (not your knees). Here’s the trick: unfasten your pants/shorts and lower both your trousers and your underwear at the same time. You’ll have to push them just past your knees, to that spot that allows them to sit fixed in that position. At this point, your fanny will be hanging in the wind so-to-speak, and you should be in a squatting position.

   If you have a P-Mate, you can skip this step, because you will you will be able to pee standing up normally.

3. Re-Alignment
   Before you let it go, you’ll need to make sure that you are as low as possible and that your pants (especially if they are baggy) are tucked up and in a position away from possible splash-back.

   If you have a P-Mate, you can skip this step, because you will you will be able to pee standing up normally.

4. Let it GO!
   Hopefully this process will take longer than reading these instructions, because at this point your legs are going to start to get sore. If there is a wall or a door, use that to support yourself.

   If you have a P-Mate, this step will be easy, as you won’t be hovering over the bowl and feeling your legs shake with strain!

5. Clean Up
   If there is a basket next to the bowl, like the one in the picture above, your tissues should go in there. If there isn’t a basket, then you simply dispose of the tissues down the bowl itself.

During your travels, pee standing up with the P-Mate.

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In the immortal words of James Brown:

“This is a man’s world But it would be nothing without a woman or a girl”~ 1966 Though the depth or meaning of his lyrics may not have included the idea of women standing to pee, I venture to guess that at some point in his life he gave it some thought. Ironic given his history…

Historically, Women were taught the social mores of control…

…while men were afforded the ability to relieve themselves in a pee pot. Even today, if you notice in “developed” countries the men’s toilet is always the closest. One might ask, is that because they have less control in a real physiological way, are they stupid and get lost easily, or are they more deserving? I would venture to guess that it is more sort of a tradition carry-over that few people question.

Publicly peeing standing up is a natural expectation for men…

…women on the other hand must seek more shelter in order to be acceptable. Since BC 2500 we as a species have had toilets, but not until the early 1700’s in Europe was consideration for both Peeing sexes established. For the first time the designation of men’s & women’s separate toilets appeared in Paris.

Women who pee standing up will revolutionize all former social virtues.

Not only does the p-mate offer ultimate freedom, it begs to question our norms as a culture. For images of the soon to be past:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hlablue/512678242/

Ready to start standing while you pee?

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