This is a toilet thought, please ban me mods.
Do people with a penis have a higher exit velocity of their pee compared to those without because of its barrel-like shape?
10 days ago by Fleur_ to c/showerthoughts
This is a toilet thought, please ban me mods.
Similar to the hose, your feeble attempts at restriction only make the stream stronger.
There is a fundamental pressure being restricted. IF she has a bigger urethra than you, she'll wreck you. If she has a narrow urethra, she might be in the same support group as Hank Hill.
Either way, the fundamental limit of how much pee can flow will always follow a basic function.
I used to think that women had larger urethras than men because female catheters are larger. A post similar to this one caused me to do a bit of reading though. Women's urethras are actually a little smaller on average. They can use larger stiffer catheters because their urethras are much shorter and almost straight. Men's catheters have to be narrower because they have to be flexible to go through men's longer curvier urethras.
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Because of the inverse relationship between velocity and diameter.
Not a urologist, but I've got a bladder issue that has given me insight on this topic that I've discussed with several urologists.
In short: yes, penis havers piss slightly faster than non-penis havers. But only on average.
All sexes have a urethra, the tube in which pee comes out of, penises just contain a few extra centimeters of urethra on average, compared to non-penis havers.
These extra centimeters, on average, allow the piss to naturally "cycle" around the urethra a bit more, leading to a naturally higher velocity on exit.
To answer your question, there is a device that measures the flow rate of a stream of urine. This device is placed into a toilet, looks like a portable fan, and is pee'd on to determine the strength and speed of your flow over time.
It's used by urologists to determine if you're peeing good or bad, but 100% generates accurate information on the velocity / speed of your piss.
Not intentionally, but I did very well on one of these tests, literally pissing "off the charts" which lead to several conversations with my urologist on who the best pissers out there are. (Horses, Swimmers, Etc). Eventually confirming that men do (on average) pee faster.
Technically, yes, haha
Sounds like way more than a few centimeters. ✋
Two dozen centimetres is nearly 9.5 inches.
Non penis havers
Can we PLEASE just start calling it men and wonen again? Yes, we all know what people mean, no, it's not meant to exclude, yes, trans men with a penis can for this just be considered men (wouldn't they want that anyway?), its all fine, and yes, this is really REALLY over complicating simple things.
It feels like people are walking on egg shells with words because dear god what if you accidentally misgender someone or use a word that makes 2 people in the world feel excluded? Peepee? Men. No peepee? Women. Simple.
Said it this way because I thought it was funny based on the way OP phrased the question as if penises were some kind of gun attachment. Not because of egg shells. It is just a joke. Should be fairly obvious now that I've pointed it out. And bonus: it's very inclusive and specific.
Honestly penis haver gave me zero friction, what's the issue exactly?
Like it just covers all cases and is explicitly about the subject at hand. Men and women is vague, full of exceptions.
My thoughts exactly, what about men that had to have their penis removed. Penis cancer is rare but a thing.
Please get some real problems to care about. Couple questions:
Mine is rifled.
Research like this deserves an Ig Nobel prize.
Your penis makes noise when you pee? The only noise I've ever heard is when the urine hits water/leaves/grass..
It sounds like a lawn mower in a kiddie pool full of spaghetti. Yours is silent?
Mine sounds more like me looking at how hot it is outside and thinking maybe later. Mostly quite, but a potential groan everyonce in a while.
Based in exp id wager you do not
Oh, hell no, imagine the cleaning!
A long time ago I read somewhere that the human penis is indeed rifled.
It's wrong. The stream twists because of the shape of the urethral opening.
Doesn't that count?
No, rifling is spiraling internal grooves. The urine stream twist happens because of the opening shape and water's surface tension.
I don't think it's a twist so much as an oscillation
Finally, a proper shower thought!
Time to harass my wife and compare speeds based on the sound of our pee streams. ✌️
Caution advised, I have just received a theory from one of your scholarly peers that a phallus may act as a scilencer thus making your method ineffectual. Perhaps pee upwards at a 45 degree angle and then measure the height of each stream to derive velocity?
I thought most mammals had basically the same time (where diameter scales with bladder size) from a full bladder. I'm not sure if I'm misremembering that.
You're so right! At least as long as you aren't so small that surface tension forms droplets
It works for shitting, not sure if the same applies here but it's possible
defecation duration is constant across many animal species – around 12 seconds (plus or minus 7 seconds) – even though the volume varies greatly
After 20 minutes on the toilet. "Oh."
pew, pew!
I have no idea but the next time I pee PEW PEW
Of course there are other factors (how full and how big the baldder is etc.) but I do wonder if the diameter of the pipe is smaller in a penis, and maybe less stretchy/flexible, compared to vulva urethra.
Big ol’ Pumpkin Head?
Mine comes all the way from my head so the pressure is intense.
"People with a penis" do you mean Men? 😂
I knew a guy who had prostate cancer. They had to take his penis off. It's quite shit of you to insinuate that he's not a man anymore.
Don't try and chase those goalposts around the field.
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The velocity is proportional to bladder pressure and inversely proportional to the square of the diameter of the urethra. The shape of the body parts outside the urethra is irrelevant.
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