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[Kurisu]

Sexlessness and sedentary urination both sad signs of modern times, says shrink

Experts say a growing tendency for Japanese men to sit down and pee could be a sign that the gender gap is closing and affecting couples' sex lives, according to Sunday Mainichi (1/27).

Shocking reports late last year showed almost half of Japanese men urinated while sitting down in their toilets at home, instead of standing to piddle as is customary among males.

A survey of Japanese men in their 30s to 50s by Matsushita Electric Works revealed that 49 percent sit down to wee, a staggering threefold increase on the 15 percent who reported the same proclivity when the company first conducted the poll back in 1999.

"A 2004 survey showed there was clearly a growing tendency for Japanese men to sit while urinating," a Matsushita Electric Works spokesman tells Sunday Mainichi. "In response to that, our company in 2006 came out with the industry's largest toilet seats to make it easier for men to sit down and relieve themselves in comfort."

Matsushita Electric Works says it believes the biggest factor behind men taking their weight off while whizzing is insistence from wives, who generally have to clean up if they spray. Experts, however, aren't as easily convinced.

"Speaking from a psychiatrist's point of view, being able to see oneself urinate the furthest possible distance brings joy to men in a feeling that stems back to the old days of hunting and gathering," shrink Katsumi Harima tells Sunday Mainichi. "Perhaps the trend we're seeing suggests the gender aspect of that role is no longer as strong as it once was."

Harima says the sitting tendency may also be the result of modern lifestyles that have been behind so many couples also becoming sexless.

Other experts point to the survey results that show the younger the man the more likely he is to sit down to pee, note that children nowadays are playing less outside and have fewer opportunities to go through the male rite of passage of showing buddies how far they can spray their urine, thus making them more willing to accept suggestions that they take a seat when they need to relieve themselves. Harima is not so sure.

"I'd say that space has more to do with it than anything else," he tells Sunday Mainichi. "There aren't too many homes out there that can afford the space to install a urinal." (By Ryann Connell)

souce: mainichi

[ellt9]

... lawl


wearign pink and now this


O_O... pretty scary

[Kurisu]

Seriously..it takes more work to sit down and go to the bathroom..and we're guys, less work is better!

I don't know what these Japanese men are thinking...lol.

[xdcfxs]

wow........that's sure........uhm.............intriguing..........