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A little context before you read this one (from the YouGov website);
In February of this year, Guardian journalist Sam Wollaston called YouGov out for our lack of data on how many British men sit down to urinate.
Kicking ourselves for this glaring omission from our Public Data archive, we have since conducted a 13-country study on men’s peeing preferences internationally.
The results show that British men are among the least likely to sit for a wee, with 33% saying they “never” do so – tied with Poland...
…it is German men who are the most likely to sit down to pee – 40% say they do so every time, and a further 22% do so most times. Only 10% say they never do.
Ironically, Germany is a nation that has a term deriding men who sit down to pee – ‘sitzpinkler’, literally someone who sits down to wee, but also used to imply a man is wimpy or effeminate – while also requiring them to do so in many places. Signs telling men to sit down to pee are common in German bathrooms, and standing to urinate is often seen as antisocial behaviour.
You can read the full article here.
I’m a wife, and the mother of sons, so you can appreciate my perspective, I’m sure.
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Pooh-Poohing a Pejorative Pee-Pee Name
I love a sitzpinkler
He’s less of a sprinkler
There’s not much to clean
If you know what I mean…
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