(Men) do we sit down to pee at a shared Toilet (Isakaya)?

38 comments

1. There are almost no diseases or sickness you can get from sitting on a toilet. Just sit down and pee when asked…

2. who’s gonna stop you

3. Is that a Japanese style toilet there?
   If so, Japanese people will not sit down.
   But they also do not finish their business while standing.
   First, please step over the toilet to your crotch.
   Then, squat down.
   Do not touch your buttocks to the ground.
   Japanese people defecate in that position.

4. My wife is Japanese and she asked me to sit down and pee before to avoid splashing a few years into our marriage.
   I don’t know about you but peeing while sitting makes me feel emasculated. I refuse to give away the little power I have left since she already controls my paycheck 😂.
   Ever since then though (10+ years ago), I realized what a troglodyte I was and now I wipe the toilet religiously. Even when we go outside as a consideration for others because I would not like to sit on someone else’s pee, nor have to smell urine permeate through the walls because of splashing.
   I also lift the seat and wipe under it. I have unfortunately touched pee from others because of this, but I rather do that than sitting 😂

5. Just sit down bro lmao

6. I honestly can’t remember the last time I peed into a normal toilet standing up. That’s what pissoirs are for. I might be the exception here but I always found it weird to pee standing up into a toilet meant for sitting down.

7. Idk, I just put up the seat and clean if there’s spillage. There is no toilet police watching you unless the owner installed a spy cam. But by that point you have bigger problems.

8. I stand and shit.

9. I saw someone vomit into a sink in an izakaya and leave the tap turned on. Started to overflow

10. When you sit on a toilet, does your butthole start to push involuntarily? Asking for … myself

11. U.S. women are all sitting, do we seem like a less hygienic gender?

12. Yes I do , I doing always sit down now as well because I saw and I don’t feel well at too dirty wall on the toilet room When I lived in sharehouse in Japan.

13. Definitely a woman drew this, not a man

14. Men stand to piss. So long as there is no splash, I don’t see what the problem is.

15. I hover over the toilet no matter what it is and just release then walk out. As long as most of it gets in the toilet I don’t see the problem.

16. I almost always sit down. Especially at home because I clean the toilet and no matter how careful you are, you can’t control splashes. So I do it in restaurant toilets too unless they’re really filthy.

17. No, we don’t.

18. Sitting down is ridiculous. They should meet guys half way with a sign that says “You’re not as big as you think you are, stand closer!” I’ve seen that sign all over Germany and it seemed effective.

19. Nope. Just clean off the seat if you spatter.

20. People get drunk and can’t aim properly sometimes.

21. While living in a share house, I had the displeasure of realizing that one of the men in the home was using our floor’s shared toilet from time to time. I make it a habit of putting the lid down when I flush, since I’m not a fan of spraying a fine mist of fecal matter all over the room with each flush. So I noticed when the lid and seat were left up… I also noticed that there was urine splashed on the floor… right where I could step in it when I use the toilet.

    So I bided my time, and when the owner of the home was talking about bathroom maintenance, I brought up within earshot my concern that the toilet was “splashing the floor” when the lid was left open during a flush. The guilty party perked up, and since that time, it wasn’t an issue.

22. I do know a lot of men do sit when they pee in their own home especially in the middle the night. But they don’t usually do that in public in the US. But I guess it’s more understandable in Japan as the public toilets are actually clean and tidy. I wouldn’t mind if they politely ask just like this sign suggests.

23. My Japanese partners have always sat down to pee. A friend told me (Japanese woman) that all ‘well bred Japanese boys’ will sit to pee

    Exceptions are urinals or public toilets that are dirty

    My workplace recently sent an email with a similar note to all staff lol

    Izakaya is probably trying to keep it clean

24. That just means no peeing in places not the bathroom

25. We recently put another bathroom off of the master bedroom at our house in Yokohama. No ofuro, just a toilet so I don’t have to walk down the stairs at night. I wished I’d put in a urinal instead. Women are starting to have their way about men sitting to pee. Again, it’s time for the home urinal to become fashionable and for men to rise up!

26. In some Japanese households, sitting down to urinate (for males, too) is common. It’s to minimize splash and get the toilet dirty.

27. Where’s that “be a man” meme dude when you need him

28. Hell no. It just makes me pee more manly when I see that sign.

29. It’s common. Standing is more likely to splash pee on the seat and/or floor. They see sitting as more hygienic, even if you’re pressing cheek with the previous user.

30. F no

31. I mean women do it. I promise you, your butt won’t fall off if you share a toilet seat with another man.

32. If you’ve cleaned restrooms with urinals before…you’ll get it. I’d wipe the walls and floors around the urinal and my wipes come out all YELLOW. Standing up and peeing is convenient but it actually splatters so much around the urinal, including the nearby floors and walls. You’ll be just fine sitting down on a shared toilet. If you don’t like the idea, you can make four medium-length toilet paper columns and place it on the toilet seat as a makeshift flushable toilet seat cover 🙂

33. It is supposedly more common than I realized and in some countries surprisingly (to me) a high percentage of men sit to pee regularly: https://today.yougov.com/society/articles/45713-where-world-are-men-most-likely-sit-down-wee

34. Okay, slightly off topic but about toilets in Japan. How do the pubes get on the top of the urinal? (thick black pubes too….)

35. They’re out of their f’ing minds…

36. Either you have a complex about pissing sitting down, or a problem with respecting simple rules. Just take a load off and relax man, it’s not gonna eat you.

37. Where I used to work, that’s how people would shit.

38. The more intriguing question is are they putting in sensors to enforce it?