Gender Wars: The Shower
In the war over the question whether gender differences are nature or nurture, some of the more important skirmishes take place in domestic settings. For instance, the disagreement whether it is more "natural" so keep the toilet-seat lid up or down. This particular question is outside the scope of this meagre posting, although I note in passing that our household has no contention over this issue: there are some advantages to the gay lifestyle, and this is one of them.
Another question that seems to be a major discriminator is this: whether it is "natural" to pee in the shower.
Most guys that I've talked to about it (at least, the ones who stuck around when I asked), think it's perfectly "natural". After all, you're standing there, and all that running water is giving you ideas, and it's, like, all running water that's instantly going to wash everything away anyway, so where's the difficulty? (Let's set aside for the moment the bigger question of guys' propensity for peeing in unusual places.)
(These guys, by the way, can make this all seem perfectly normal when — let's face it — a whole bunch of them have otherwise very unusual peeing rituals. For those who wouldn't be arrested for attempting to do so: observe guys at urinals and their unusual habits. For instance, the ones who can only pee into running water and have to keep flushing; the ones who seem to be having a race and try to flush so that they'll stop peeing the moment the water stops running; the guys who can't stand to touch the valve handle and so execute a kung-fu maneuver with feet or elbows in order to flush; the guys who insist on flushing before they can start peeing. On and on and on….]
Anyway, the women whom I ask for enlightenment all exhibit a strong ick reaction to the very idea, and think the whole thing is "unnatural".
Now, what's that all about?