40% of Japanese Men Sit Down to Pee
This is one of the most interesting Japanese survey I’ve even seen so far. I’d never imagine people would survey what you do in the toilet.
About 40 percent of adult Japanese men sit on the toilet to urinate — a staggering figure almost three times the number recorded in 1999 — according to a survey by Western-style toilet manufacturer Matsushita Electric Works Ltd.
The survey of 518 men and an identical number of women whose ages ranged from their 30s to 50s showed that the younger the man, the more likely he is to sit down while peeing instead of the traditional method of standing up.
“Women hate it when urine sprays, so there appears to be an increasing number who are asking men to sit down on the toilet when they have to go,” a Matsushita Electric Works spokesman said.
Matsushita Electric Works noticed the increasing tendency for Japanese men to sit on the toilet while urinating and started three years ago to accommodate the trend in such ways as designing toilet seats with larger holes.
The survey showed that 46 percent of men in their 30s sat while weeing, 38 percent of men in their 40s did so and 37 percent of men in their 50s also followed the trend. Matsushita believes mothers getting their young children to sit on the toilet when they urinate are also getting their partners to adopt the same practice.
Source: Mainichi JP
This is a question for the male readers. Do you ever urinate sitting down? I know I don’t do that unless I’m taking a poop at the same time as well.
EDIT: I think I’d just figured out why women make their men do that. While it improves accuracy, it also ensures that the toilet seat is kept down. (I just got scolded for leaving the seat up) =P
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Why go through all the trouble of having to go into a stall, turning around, pulling down your pants, sitting down, standing back up, pulling back up your pants, and then opening the stall door again when you could simply unzip, whip out out, jiggle, re-zip, and done?
Toilets are quite impractical unless you’re aiming to drop a turd.
Rejoice, the human evolution has taken a step further!
lol, you said poop
At home, sure. Why not? It’s cleaner.
In public washrooms, hell no.
Ah, the joys of not having to have the after-smell of urine on your underwear.
Seriously, why do we need to raise this question in the first place? It’s a matter of personal preferences.
LOL,
We both done the same article ^^;
Notice How I edited my picture of Shirufa to cover up her XXX ^^;
Haha .. not that there’s anything to see, technically. But I guess some people would get squicky about it.
I’m a sitter .. when I’m at home. Public toilets get the standing treatment, since it’s not my job to clean them.
Pretty selfish, eh? But I agree with the logic; sitting improves accuracy and cleanliness a hundred-fold. And nobody would ever be able to sneak up on you from behind.