One
highly controversial topic is the when & if men should sit down to
urinate. In Germany, men are being shamed into it by a gadget (Toilet
Ghost)… a voice-alarm that is triggered when the seat is lifted.
Millions have been bought by wives and girlfriends who are tired of
cleaning up after ‘stehpinkeln’ (word for a man who ‘stands’) / in
protest, the German men use the word ‘sitzpinkler’ (wimp) for a man who
‘sits’.
[Note: Because
fragmentation of a stehpinkeln’s urine stream causes particles of urine
to dissipate and the further the urine stream has to travel increases
the dissipation radius, it’s virtually impossible for even the best
master of eye-hand coordination to not leave
evidence behind. So, if there’s no urinal to use and you’re indoors,
good manners dictates sitting down (especially if you’re not home where
you have an understanding with whomever cleans the toilet and bathroom
floor). However, if you’re in a high usage public restroom where the
seat is splattered from previous misanthropes, you raise the seat and
the ‘stehpinkeln rule’ applies.
Note: The biggest furor seems to come from insecure men who feel feminized by sitting.]