Pooing in public loos - yes or no?

[samarrange]

Inspired by about half of the posts in this thread (which is basically on a different topic, but its OP mentioned public loos and things kept, er, moving).

It seems that MN is totally split on whether having a poo in a public loo (or, presumably, a pub, the library, the office, anywhere that isn't your home or your hotel) is either "the worst thing imaginable", or "completely normal, what's all the fuss about?".

These sort of threads are that ones that really open my eyes to how the world isn't equal.

Same with the ones where I discovered not EVERYONE had debilitating period pain.

I have issues with frequency and urgency. Seems I might poo in public loos in a normal day more often than some women go in their lifetime. Genuinely fascinated to think some people don't have to plan their lives around loo access.

I'd never leave the house if I couldn't poo in a public loo - even since my youngest was born I need to poo multiple times a day.

If I need to, I do. It's not something I have any hangups about.

If I need to go I need to go. If I'm about to finish shopping and get in the car for home then I'll hold on but otherwise doesn't bother me.

Like others, pooing next to a stranger is much less uncomfortable than next to a colleague! I will walk round the building to go to a distant loo if I need to go at work.

WTAF?!

I used to go to a lot of large DWP buildings as part of my work. Designated male and female toilets. There were signs in the female toilets about cleaning up your mess, leave the toilets as you would want to find them as they were every bit as grim as the male toilets. Used only by staff.

Better to poo in a public toilet rather than messing up your own toilet at home. Let someone else get paid to clean up any mess😂

She is setting herself up for serious bowel problems. That’s ludicrous.

For anyone with IBS, look up "low dose naltrexone for IBS".

I suffered for years. Tried everything and got nowhere but the naltrexone worked miracles. I'm not exaggerating when I say it's been absolutely life changing. Now I go once a day in the morning like a "normal" person and that's it.

To answer OPs question yes I would use a public loo for its intended purpose!

I used to have awful hang ups about this when younger. Not wanting everyone to hear me, worried about the smell etc.

Now I literally do give a shit (pun intended!) and actually wonder why people would hold it in all day just to wait. Surely making yourself constipated isn't good for your bowels/lower digestive transit etc?

Corks? Would your poo fly out your arse if you didn’t go straight away?? Aside from illness, not sure why people can’t wait until they get home.

As long as there’s loo paper otherwise it might be a bit grim

Yes. 💩💩

Why wouldn’t you..is this not what toilets are for?!

I am an efficient poo person. In, drop, one sheet, out <preen>

In my job I am routinely bothered by a person that does not believe work toilets are a place to poo. I have provided brushes, toilet cleaner, signs 🪧 on doors and air freshener, but it’ll be a cold day in hell before I will, as she constantly demands, tell people they cannot use a toilet for it’s intended purpose.

I find the idea of letting a poo linger in my colon longer than needed more repulsive than pooing in a public toilet!

You’re lucky that you have bowels that cooperate with this theory. Unfortunately not everyone is so lucky.

I wish the dirty b@stard who did a big shit in the changing rooms and wiped their rotten arse on a £120 dress had thought to use the many public toilets available in town.

It wasn’t the only incident either.

This was almost 20 years ago, in my student days and it still haunts me 😷

A toilet is for shitting
My body magically doesn’t need to poo while out and about and I suddenly feel the urge as I walk through my front door, but if I needed to go I would go.

For those of us with IBS/crohns/colitis etc it’s not really an option

Me too!! I’d never leave the house if I only went at home!

Don't be ridiculous, who is talking about shit 'flying out'? It's just a figure of speech. Constipated are we?

There are people who, apparently, go for days without a bowel movement because they aren't at home - even at their own GPs. They are the strange ones IMO.

Not by choice. But I am a morning person so only if my stomach is upset.

I worked with someone who never went anywhere but home. Including if she went abroad on holiday. Her record was 9 days.

I go as soon as I get up in the morning, so no need to do the deed while out. I don’t sit on public toilet seats and I don’t think that I could hover long enough to do a poo! 😂

I’ve often wondered why people wait until they get to work to go, although I suppose that if you’ve got a bowel condition you might not be able to help it. Bowel conditions must be pretty common though, as there’s always been an office pooper pretty much everywhere that I’ve worked!

Those people who just hold it in - it’s not actually healthy to do that…

I had a stomach ache on return from a funeral 4 hours drive from home. I knew I needed to use the toilet in the services but made DP stop at 3 services before I found a toilet which wasnt at the back of a shop and had plenty of empty cubicles so I could use the one furthest away from anybody else 🙈🙈