To say it OK to pee in the shower?

[GingerNutMe]

So the question is, is it OK to pee whilst in the shower - proviso being you ensure you have washed everything away properly. The topic of conversation came up relating way back to one of the Big Brother series where someone admitted to regularly peeing in the shower.

One logic was 'well most families share one sponge/flannel/fluffy to wash their faces as well as all their bottoms and winky bits' ..........

Even if it does splash upwards, the shower will wash it right back down at once.

Is it disgusting to wash your bum in the shower?

@Sunnidaze wonder if your urologist sees a lot of people that puss themselves when they do the washing up

I'm quite capable of not peeing when I hear running water!! That's a bizarre argument.

I don't see anything wrong with peeing in the shower tbh. As long as it's just you in there 🤷‍♀️. I always remember this topic coming up with a friend some years ago. She was adamant that it's better to do that than to waste water using the toilet if you are already in the shower.

It's fine! It's just wee! Which presumably comes out of a person you either grew inside you, or someone you are swapping other bodily fluids with on the regular. It's hardly toxic waste.

Better for water consumption/the environment as well, as less toilet flushing!

I do sometimes wonder if people are soooo much more dirty/gross than my very average family. The things people find to fuss over? Sharing towels? Who cares?!

Remind me never to ask you lot if it's okay for me to shit in the bath 😂

@ReneBumsWombats hmm, I know. It's just not what I choose to do, I suppose. I don't like the idea of it.

Having said that I have a cat that occaisonly decides to wee in our bathtub. He doesn't

do it plug end either! 😮‍💨

Pretty much. It's a very common problem and requires significant effort to retrain yourself out of it. Not just my urologist, DH's said the same thing.

I always pee before getting into the shower.

However...

Sharing towels, flannels or sponges is gross.

Saying "winky bits" is even worse.

It's all disgusting. Do you share toothbrush as well?

In our house we don't possess flannels or any of the stuff people use to 'wash'.

Flannels are disgusting, along with loo brushes. Unless you use it once then boil-wash it.

Why do you need a flannel in the shower? We just put shower gel into our palms and use our hands to wash.

As for sharing towels- yuck.

No that's disgusting. I can't believe people do this.

You are all sharing your peeing habits with an OP who has only this thread to their name...

When I was a kid, my parents would share bath water as they had no central heating and the hot water was fired up by the boiler linked to an open fire.

My Mum would have the first bath followed by my Dad.

He always used to ask her if she'd wee'd in it.

I think it was a joke.

I wee before I shower, we each have our own flannel, sponge that thing that looks like a net curtain, and I can't stand people who don't flush after using the loo. That is vile. (But I use the shortflush for that)

I don't use a sponge or flannel it's gross and not needed. Sponges and flannels are bacterial nightmares.
I use hands and fingernails to scrub I also don't think peeing in the shower is am issue at all.

'I'm quite capable of not peeing when I hear running water!! That's a bizarre argument.'

@ReviewingTheSituation not bizarre actually. Both DH and I have had urological surgery and we've both been told this by our urologists. When my father was potty training, his mum used to make a 'running water' sound to encourage him to go to the toilet, and lots of people turn taps on to encourage their toddlers to go (but they stop when the toddler works out how to release urine). It's not a stretch to see that routinely peeing in the shower can cause a sense of urinary urgency when a person then hears running water.

YABU purely for the use of winky bits🤮

I do, but if someone is already in the shower I use the toilet, I don't like sharing.

Honestly, it wouldn't bother me at all, but I wouldn't do it myself. I live with three men who couldn't care less about face cloths and towels, so they all share. I have my own towel that lives on the bannister rather than the towel rail, and I put flannels in for washing BEFORE I have a shower/bath and get a clean one for me. If anyone is ill, I have some coloured towel/flannels (we normally use white) that can be used by the ailing individual.

Hand towels are shared, but again, they're white and I normally look at them and get a clean one before I dry my hands. I don't feel my standards are particularly high, but I'm regarded as a clean freak by aforementioned menfolk.

I pee in the shower and I encourage my family to do the same. It saves so much water if you do that instead of going to the toilet first thing in the morning.

I live in a very dry part of Australia and water conservation is a huge part of our daily life. Flushing the toilet is very wasteful - only really worth doing for a poo.

People saying it's disgusting sound really silly and precious to me. Different strokes!

How ridiculous the number of people who find this “disgusting”.

After having babies I couldn’t not wee in the shower for several months afterwards until I strengthened up. I thought that was pretty normal. If I’d tried to get out and go to the loo, I’d have been cleaning the floor too.

Yep this is unhygienic and I don’t think most people do it

Peeing in the shower 🤷‍♀️