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Dutchess_III's avatar

Why do guys seem to always have to pee ON something or IN something?

Asked by Dutchess_III (46827points) June 12th, 2017

Had 4 year old Kale here. He was playing in the back yard. Suddenly he hiked up his shirt and ran clear across the yard to a tree. Although his back was to me, it was pretty evident what he was doing!
I thought, “Why didn’t he just pee where he was? Why did he run clear across the yard to a tree?”
My son did the same thing when he was little and discovered he could pee standing up. He wanted to pee everywhere. Outside he always chose a bush or a fence or whatever to pee on.
Why?

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gondwanalon's avatar

Objects like a tree or bush offers a little privacy.

Coloma's avatar

An old neighbor of mine would complain that her husband would pee off the balcony of their 2nd floor game room and was killing her rose bushes from peeing on them. LOL
I don’t know, I haven’t had a lot of experience with the motives of what men like to urinate on or in.
I guess they could piss on their campfires to put them out. haha

Unofficial_Member's avatar

It’s instinctual, they have to mark their territory lol. Just kidding!

I think for human kids they most likely learn from observing other people, most likely older kids, who happen to have learned how to pee properly like a gentleman. One thing worth noting too, is that when we potty train our kids sometime we also automatically train them to pee in the potty, and of course we teach boys to pee in the potty and girls sit on it, kids learn to associate quite fast.

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

To keep the pee segregated to one location. To keep from accidently walking in it. Men practice this learned behaviour by peeing in an urinal. Great Question.

Dutchess_III's avatar

My son didn’t care who saw. He just wanted to PEE!!

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

NSFW . If men have a full bladder then they can write their name in the snow.

elbanditoroso's avatar

Heck, I was out in my back yard this weekend, didn’t feel like coming in, so I whipped it out and watered (well…) a 1’ x 1’ section of my back yard.

How do you spell relief?

NomoreY_A's avatar

I don’t always pee on something, if I’m in a field in the boonies with no cover, I just pee on the ground. You got to go, it’s no time to sweat finding daisies to water.

Dutchess_III's avatar

I’ve written my name in the snow! It was a train wreck but I did it!

NomoreY_A's avatar

@Dutchess_III Brrrr.. helluva a way to catch shameownya, getting artistic like that in cold weather.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Loll! Young and drunk!

Strauss's avatar

@elbanditoroso How do you spell relief?

D-E-A-D_F-L-O-W-E-R-S!

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

We’re hounddogs, man. We’re claiming territory. It’s primal. We don’t even realize why we’re doing it. It just feels better than peeing on nothing at all.

kritiper's avatar

Because we can!

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

Target practice.

djbabybokchoy's avatar

I would pee on a tree if I could.

johnpowell's avatar

I like making patterns. Or seeing the rate that pee spreads or absorbs. Pissing on snow is clearly the best since it becomes a game to see how much snow you can melt.

I have a story about peeing.

My mom kills nearly every plant she touches. There is only one plant that she has not killed. It was this six foot tall tree in our dining room in a pot.

When I was about six I would just pee on the tree in our dining room. The tree thrived. I did that until I was around 9 and was caught. After I stopped peeing on the tree it died about a year later.

I think I was the only water/nutrients it got.

kritiper's avatar

@johnpowell A most interesting tale!

rojo's avatar

Peeing on a flat surface is somewhat boring. To spice things up we like to have a target or, as others have said, write poetry if the surface is flat and dry. If you have a rock, you try to get the entire surface coated. Why? Because you can, maybe, if you’re lucky, or talented. If you have a urinal in front of you, you try to “Clean the pan” (soak the entire thing) if it is empty or try to concentrate the stream and wear a hole through the urinal cake if one is available.

The challenge, mainly the challenge.

stanleybmanly's avatar

Of course a little boy is going to be fascinated with the opportunities to employ his equipment. I mean who’s going to pass up writing in the snow or shooting bugs out of the air? And of course there are distance contests. Some of us never outgrow the “marvels” of childhood.

gondwanalon's avatar

Perhaps its a primal instinct to mark ones territory.

elbanditoroso's avatar

Why does it bother women so much that men can aim their pee?

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

^^LOL. Women can aim their pee. It just takes a little more finesse.

Coloma's avatar

@Espiritus_Corvus haha…my friend and had to pee so bad coming back from taking their boat out last weekend. Pulled over and ran for a long driveway hidden in the trees off the highway. She was squatting sideways above me on the edge of the driveway and we were laughing as our streams crossed and made a small converging river running all the way down the hill about 25 feet. haha
Nothing like a few beers and a boatload of water to make the bladder swoon in transit.

Her husband who was driving and his friend were dismissing our urgency , telling us we could wait, no, we cannot, pull the fuck over NOW! haha

NomoreY_A's avatar

As my old pappy used to say, never argue with a woman who has to go.

gondwanalon's avatar

One time while traveling in a car, my badder was so full that urine started backing up to my kidneys. When my kidneys started aching (about a #9 pain) I told my wife to pull the car over NOW! I got out of the car and started peeing in front of all the passing cars. I didn’t care who saw me.

Strauss's avatar

When I was on shore leave in the Philippines, I heard about one of the local “hostesses” could out-distance any man with her stream.

LuckyGuy's avatar

As I watched one of my neighbors walking her male dog I noticed he too lifted his leg and aimed at something . I wonder if the act is so primal it is genetically encoded in our DNA. We do, after all, share a common ancestor 200 million years ago.
i wonder… are there other mammals besides dogs and humans that aim their pee?

Dutchess_III's avatar

Good question @LuckyGuy. For what it’s worth, my two female dogs don’t aim. The Shepherd, however, walks. Walks and walks. I have yet to figure it out. On the rare occasions that she’s peed in the house, always on the kitchen floor, she covers the entire floor with pee as she’s traveling along. We call it Dakota Lake. She also does it when she poops.

@Strauss I don’t think so!

@gondwanalon At least you could turn your back to them and pretend you’re just admiring the sunset! Women are at a real disadvantage, with their entire backsides exposed and legs spread. Some jerks would view it as a sexual invitation.

Strauss's avatar

@Dutchess_III I never witnessed it, but I understand there’s a (NSFW) technique that’s unique to the female physiology.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Oh, the rumors! We are more amazing than any of us thought.

Pinguidchance's avatar

Alimentary my dear what’s on.

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