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The topic of peeing in Chinese culture started in another thread but deserves its own. China has a unique and interesting culture around peeing and bathrooms that is often very different to the west. This thread is to discuss those dynamics including: * The origins of this culture * Chinese openness to public urination seeming from cultural traditions and societal conditions * Urination in popular culture, myths and media * Toilet and bathroom designs * Forward streams in the population and their interpretation * Cross cultural comparisons with the west and other Asian countri

@kitty and mimi Thank you for sharing this fascinating Chinese cultural phenomenon. It's interesting that the bias to women squatting is so prevalent that multiple skits would be made about it. I wonder how aware young Chinese men are of women's pee habits? It's unclear to me if female pee in public frequently enough in China that their pee styles would be observable and known. Public peeing seems to be the norm in youth but I'm unclear if there is public peeing when people go out partying or have events like you would see in Spain or other parts of the EU.

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niceguy1 I have no cultural explanation for what you saw. Very strange. I'm not sure why you did not see anything in Madrid. In Malaga there may have been more foreign tourists than locals. As you mentioned, it was also not the season for being on the coast.

Done. Please share your academic research here when you are done.

Woodstock would have been amazing.

I don't spend nearly as much time in Spain now as I did growing up but what you described sounds totally plausible. I have personally witnessed public peeing like this around hot spots within the last decade. It is also interesting that Spaniards often don't mind peeing on hard/built surfaces like the storefronts or entry ways you mention. Given what I experienced with nannies encouraging me to pee in places like that, I guess it just continues into adulthood. Some of the Spanish public peeing videos also show this brazen peeing. I believe the culture still supports peeing in public in u

@Johnny20You should go to Dolores Park and see if the outdoor urinal still exists. https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-open-air-urinal-san-francisco-20160128-story.html

These were not designated nude beaches. I don't really remember ages but I think without a suit until maybe 8 or 9 for both genders. Topless for females was all ages. Its not quite as frequent any more but you still see this attitude in Spanish and French beaches. There was/is also a lax attitude towards changing in public that went even older. If we were going to a fancy beach club with food, drinks and service we would change in their changing rooms. Otherwise we would often change in the open on the beach or beside the car with no attempt to hide with towels etc. like you see in the US.

@sophie I think its great that you drop a Kleenex. I'm curious, would you do that out of convenience even if you were not trying to mark the puddle? Did you learn to use and drop a kleenex from someone growing up or pick up the habit from your involvement here? I think the tissue thing is really interesting and culturally dependent. I've noticed in the US where girls peeing in public is less accepted and expected girls don't often carry kleenex to wipe because they don't plan for peeing outside. In EU (France, Spain and Germany) where outdoor peeing is more normalized, so is carrying tiss

I love to leave a puddle. I've loved this since I was young and the nannies would help me pee in the city on a wall, sidewalk, car park etc. As I got older I remember having some choice about where I would pee and saying I needed to pee somewhere where they would probably let me leave an interesting puddle. I always loved that in the France and Spain they had no problems with leaving pee puddles wherever I choose even if it was a somewhat fancy surface like a marble storefront. Somewhat related to this my female cousins would have pee races growing up. They often choose to pee on an incli

It's interesting you mention swim suits in your youth. Just like I have mentioned witnessing different cultures around peeing in the US vs. EU when I was growing up, I also noticed different cultures around dressing and nudity. In the 70s ad 80s in France and Spain I remember many kids going nude at the beach or to swim. Nudity for older people also seemed accepted. Many moms even went topless. This was a stark contrast to many places in the US.

I see. That makes sense.

Another dimension to this topic is forward streams. I dated a Japanese girl who had a very forward stream. She complained that western public toilets were gross and did not make sense compared to Japanese squat toilets. Western toilets are designed for sitting but no one wants to sit on a public one, so they try to hover. When she hovered her stream often went forward over the front onto the floor. With a Japanese squat toilet she did not have to awkwardly hover or risk touching anything and they are designed to catch a forward stream.

@Louise france @beachmom I appreciated your content on mister poll. I think this is a much better interface for posting, reading and interacting with the community. Perhaps you can recreate some of the topics from the old misterpoll here and get everyone's fresh take on them.

I had a girlfriend who knew my interests and describe peeing on a bathroom floor. She said she and her two girlfriends had gone to a hot club and the bathroom line was long. When they got inside one of the stalls was massive so they all went in the stall. One of her friends took the toilet first. But instead of waiting for their turns she and her friend just squatted on the floor in the large extra space in the stall. She said there was a drain but they still flooded the floor. She also told her friends that I would have loved to be there to see this. She described this whole incident to me wh

The horse drawn carriage origin is interesting. I wonder if it was common to pee on/through carriage wheels? That seems like it would offer little cover, as the wheels had wide spokes and the carriages rode high on the wheels, with the wheels often protruding beyond the end of the carriage. Unless you were extremely close to a spoke it would probably offer little cover and at that point quite a bit of splash back. Perhaps the point was to pee between the spokes and end up under the carriage? At that point your pee is going the same place as horse pee. That would explain why it would be more p

I find it interesting when girls do this. Its obviously going to create more of an inconvenience and mess for the residents than if they just peed in the street, on the sidewalk or between cars. I've seen girls do this in entry ways where the puddle even ends up going under the door. That's sure to smell for the residents. Its interesting the girls value their convenience and comfort more than the inconvenience of the residents.

Was anyone else taught to pee on automotive wheels/tires or witnessed others doing it? Where does this idea come from? Where did you learn it? What do you think of this today? This idea has always been bizarre to me. The time I spent growing up in Spain and France the nannies (mostly in Spain) would often encourage us to pee on wheels/tires of cars and trucks. This included the family cars, random cars on the street in Spain, trucks at the farmers market etc.. I can distinctly remember looking at the steel wheels and tires of many old 70s-80s cars while wetting them with my pee with a nan

Agreed. I don't think many truck drivers would care. Next time, perhaps just encourage her to go in between the doors.

That's not the future. That's just a plane ride away to most of the world where it is.

I once saw this at a house party. The party was packed and so were the bathrooms. I was with some girls looking around and we opened the laundry/utility room door. There were two girls inside. One girl was sitting on the counter with her ass over the utility sink peeing and anther was squatting over the cat box. Both were pretty attractive and looked as though they might be in the adult entertainment industry. The one squatting had on a short pleated skirt and a tight black sweater. She had her feet on either side of the cat box in a wide squat where we could see her shaved pussy and the vigo

@Geepee9 I've heard people doing this but its never really made sense to me. Where would you dump the potty? If you're dumping it outside, why not just skip the potty step and go straight to peeing outside? My wife's sister tried to convince her to carry a potty in the car but she dismissed the idea. Why get a piece of plastic dirty you have to clean and carry around? Why risk a spill or getting the car dirty when you can simply pee carside? The OXO potties without liners are also funny. I see lots of people using them beside cars etc. and the pee just goes on the ground under it. Somehow

No, never. I don't think my wife ever did either.