And more importantly: Do you read on the throne? If so, what? Only in your own home, or at work, too?

I've actually never really thought about this. I guess I just sit up and push. My legs are pretty much together. I know I have to take my shoes and pants off to do it because if my feet are too high or my legs are TOO close together it becomes harder to push anything out.

I don't know if it has anything to do with culture. However, it does reflect my personality. I am very picky about my pooping position when I think about it, which reflects my tendency toward OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder).

For the last few months I've started to wonder if I'm actually pooping the wrong way. Regardless of my diet, exercise regime and drinking habits, I'm cursed with messy poops that are leaving my bunghole consistently chafed and bloodied. My modus operandi is legs wide, leaning forward with elbows planted on thighs, magazine in hand. Why has it been ages since I pinched one off cleanly? Do I have my legs too far apart? Should I be leaning back instead of forward? Or do I need to load up on fiber and other things to pack my poop more firmly? Help!

Feet: shoulder width apart, flat on floor.
Head and shoulders: slouching forward (but this is always true)
Forearms: resting on thighs
Hands: clutching reading material.
Prick: tucked between legs, pointed down, ready to fire
Bomb bay door: relaxed and opened for business
Attitude: chipper

Feet: tippy toes
legs: close together
lean: if it is coming out okay, I sit straight up. if not, I will lean forward. if that still doesn't help, I 'rotate' (lean forward, then sideways, backwards, side, forward etc.)
arms: resting elbows on thighs

I don't read when I poop, but I tend to think more clearly. I've had quite a few epiphanies on the toilet. lol

I'm with Logjam, comfortably seated with the daily paper, no worries, no stress, just me, my bowels, and Dilbert.

I've fond feelings for Bildepump. He's self-deprecating yet bold, experienced yet doesn't take himself too seriously. In short a good chap and, I'll bet, a great drinking buddy. But please be clear that he is not literally "with Logjam, comfortably seated with the daily paper..." When I enter the stalls, I go in single file, and I'll bet Bilgepump does, too. (Not that there's anything wrong with it!)

RATS!!! My subtle ploy has been discovered!!! Shot down again!!! Weel, guess I'm still serching for a poopin' pal. :)

"Doing it wrong", you are probably not drinking enough water. This can cause sticky, messy poops that take forever to wipe no matter what you do.
Also, if you are on medication this may be causing. Some vitamins, such as Calcium, have been known to cause such problems as well. Try cutting back on some of the vitamins if you are taking them and drink more water.

Hello! I'm new to this posting shit, can't spell worth a damn, and wouldn't know an HTML tag if it slapped me in the face, so don't be surprised if this pops up looking like a message from another planet.

As to the question of how do I poop, I think the way anyone poops, leaving out the reader or non-reader bit, depends more on their size than anything else. I mean, I'm five four and can't help thinking I would perch, by necessity, differently than someone shorter or taller. Plus, when forced to use a new comode-just moved recently-one is likely to experience the need to alter one's once familiar position due to variations in the height of the toliet, how close it is to a wall, how stable its foundation-god, but I hate those loose rocking types-, etc. I can promise you, even as expert a shitter as Flapping Colon sounds to be, that rotating maneuver would have to undergo a certain amount of modification in my new bathroom to avoid Flap getting a bruised left rib or elbow due to the ridiculously dump placement of the toliet paper hanger! My point being, do any of us really perch the way we do because of our character or personality traits? Or are our individual styles shown more through the choices we make regarding entertainment, toliet paper, color of water in bowl, mood enhancing effects, etc. For example, if its at night, I leave the bathroom curtains open and the light off.

I find shitting by moonlight terribly romantic!

Don't you?

Having said all that, my personal perching preference is feet shoulder wide, leaning forward with forearms resting on knees, feet flat, and the resting of head on right hand for those occasional long hauls.

I'm a "silent" pooper. I just drop my pants and sit, feet together, lean slightly forward and let 'er rip. I don't usually read, as my poop sessions only last about 3-5 minutes or so.

An apple a day keeps the ExLax away!

Runninggrrl2 is on to something being "silent".
What about sound? Attitude? Expression?
Two styles for me...home or public
home...happy, relaxed feet apart usually reading

in public... tense, feet together and creating pressure(especially after a steak soaked in a-1) I try to sound like a trombone firing tennis balls at a pool. Sometimes its an almost empty mustard bottle sound....bummer
The snickers/laughs after are funny...:}(!)

I never read - I'd barely have started by the time I'd finished. Do people really spend ten minutes on the bog? As for pushing, straining or anything else - what's all that about? I sit down, slightly leant forward, it drops out, I wipe my arse and I'm done.

I sometimes experience the type that take ages to wipe though, and the diagnosis above seems fair. I don't generally drink as much water as I should.

I'm vegetarian and don't eat too much junk food, if that's relevant. Don't eat enough good food (fresh fruit and veg) either though.

I shit and never flush at work muahahahhaah...

My sessions generally last only a minute or two, so about the time I get comfy it's time to wipe. No time to read, watch TV, etc.

I once convinced a friend that he was doing it 'wrong.' I had him believing you were seated correctly if you were facing the tank (easy access to the flusher, place to prop a book, etc.). Some other friends went along with it, and he believed we all sat that way until he tried it and his pants got in the way. He wouldn't believe we all took our pants off to shit.

I know I could start now, but I am looking forward to my "Depends" days, in a few years, not having to be interrupted from a task at hand (mainly trying to remember who I am and what the fuck I was doing), to poop. For now, though, I enjoy the quiet respite afforded me by a bathroom break.

Folks, there is actually science behind the art of pooping. Has anyone seen that late-night infomercial for a contraption that is supposed to help you poop better. It's like a little pedestal you put in front of the toilet. They have all of these scientists on the program to convince you that shitting like a caveman (the modified squat) is the best way to poop. At $29.95, I'll take my chances. Happy pooping!

I poop with legs open and leaning forward, no reading material as I have to concentrate.

I would like to learn more about this backwards shitting. If you take your pants off, it might be wuite nice.

I'm with Logjam & Bilgey and does it ever stink in here!
Phantom, you can get a little rubbermaid footstool (like I use) at Wal-Mart for about 5 bux!!
Bilge, I have said for as long as I've been on this site that I can't wait to try/wear Depends. My main goal, though, is to not have to get up out of my hammock while I'm drinking beer in it.

i sort of sit with my feet apart, either flat on the ground or with my tippy toes slightly to toward the toilet (depending on how high the toilet is, i guess) but my knees together. and rest my arms on my legs. i really don't move around much unless i have a stubborn poop, then i wriggle around a bit to make it come out. i pretty much just sit how i'm comfortable sitting, and make adjustments when necessary.

i usually only read something if there's a newspaper or magazine in there already (usually at someone else's house). and that tends to make me stay on the toilet a bit longer than i really need to, cuz i'll get caught up in what i'm reading.

Ms Pance, you bring up a valid point, many times I catch myself reading the entire Sunday paper on the throne, only to find, mush to my dismay, when I try to get up, my legs have fallen asleep, usually resulting in my headlong dive into the bathtub, pants around the ankles, ass pointing straight up, as if to launch a Saturn V rocket from an undeground silo.

Legs: Together
Hands: holding free paper provided by place of work
Kinda squatting, due to lowness of toilet
See, I work at a school in theatre department. We have dressing rooms in back of theatre, and I make use of them becuase they have indevidual, one person restrooms cleand bi-nightly and kept locked. Therefore, they are even cleaner than my bathroooms at home.

Almost always with a magazine, be it either bunnyhugging topics or aquarium supplies or Calvin and Hobbes. Barefoot most all the time (don't like shoes, even in winter, but I keep my toes clean), usually on my toes because I'm not too tall.

However, lately, it's been "the move" because of some stress-related IBS, and we all know "the move". Just get there in time.

I will forever suggest reading The Journal Of Ass Production for Mastercrapper's Atlas pooping experiment. Funny. And, on topic......hugging bunnies since 1969

Hey! A new registered pooper: KeepOnCrappin. Welcome!

As for me, I crap flat footed, with elbows resting just above the knees. Reading or playing the GameBoy. Legs spread as wide as my underpants (around calves) will allow. Weewee aimed straight at the water.

Is wiping part of this? I sit up straight and lurch up to the left so I'm basically sitting on my left thigh, reach back with right hand and wipe AWAY from the ball sack.

I am glad this topic has been specifically raised. I feel it is very important that people who study poop should consider the way they poop in detail and pass on their own practical experience and details of their methodolgy to fellow poopers.

I do not poop in only one way, but as the mood takes me. The ways I go are:

Shitting
1. Sit leaning well forward with legs at shoulder width, or possibly a bit more. Pants around ankles. Allow elbows to rest near knees, hands clasped forward or arms laid across one another with each hand on a knee. Feet flat on floor. This is probably my most common posture.

2. Sit very straight and upright, stretching the back upwards so that the whole trunk is under stress. I do not sit upright with the back curved as when I am at rest, but deliberately stretch upwards. Legs apart, hands on knees. Sometimes I hold my tool down with my right hand (I am left handed). I do not generally hold my tool in the air above the loo seat, but let it hang down under its own weight. I have seen Japanese who do hold their tools up in the air as they shit. I like the tension in this posture; it is probably my favourite, even though not my most usual posture.

3. Sit straight up, knees pushed together, with the lags and feet pushed back under the pedestal, so that I am on my toes. Knees together, but legs flaired outwards at the ankles. Occasionally used for variety - quite satisfying. Beest done by thin people and I am rather heavy.

4. Sit upright, but with feet resting above floor level on a stool or chair, so my knees are pressing towards my chest. I may grasp my legs below the knees. I do not squat as such, but rest my bum of the pedestal seat. Seldom used.

Wiping
Normally wipe sitting upright, with my legs apart, raising my left buttock for access. I do not raise my whole butt off the seat and wipe with my butt in the air and my head down. I wipe using three layers of paper, forming a flat sheet, not scrunching the paper up before use. I make only one pass with each layer, I do not fold it and try again with the same set of sheets, but immediately discard it and make a fresh three layer sheet. I wipe from front to back. I do not look at the paper after the first couple of wipes, but when I think I am done I check to see there are no marks on the paper - therefore no skid marks!

Occasionally I wipe between my legs. I sit upright and place a three layer pad of paper over the arsehole and then pull it forward.

Less frequently still, I wipe standing up. I generally avoid this, as I do not want shit squeezed between my bum cheeks and spread all over my arse. I use this method only when I am satisfied the shit is dry and I have a virtually clean bum before I start.

I have been known to use two or more methods after a single shit, starting between the legs or from behind and then finishing standing up. This is mainly to enjoy the different sensations as I attack my arse.

I find this topic fascinating and have made a study of it over many years. I hope many PR readers will contribute detals of their crapping methods and we can perhaps learn if there is a most used approach to posture when shitting and to wiping. An interesting analysis might be to compare American habits (upright or foward to shit, stand or sit to wipe) with other countries' ways. It would be interesting to read how PR readers feel the different methods compare and the advantages or disadvantages of one posture or wiping method over another. I mentioned above the immmediate disadvantage of standing upright to wipe. Does this caveat apply to people who raise their butts of the seat, but do not "stand to attention"?

Every good wish to my fellow crappers -let's learn together and, perhaps, promulgate best practice shitting guidelines.

I grunt after evacuating each log. Usually something like "Oh, dear God," or "Jesus, that felt good!" Shouting out blasphemies while seeing Mr. Brown off to the coast is very a gratifying combination.

i dump like a champ! you know how brooklyn do son

How quickly the contributions to this thread have multiplied, in only two days since Thursday. It is now Saturday evening here and the contributons seem to have poured in. It demonstrates how important this topic is, particularly if you use open stalls, or often shit in company. One might identify the aesthetics of having a good shit - like a ballet - and the mechanics - ease of evaculation; ease and efffectiveness of wiping.

I hope it may be possible for interested parties reading this thread as it develops to tabulate the responses to this enquiry, so that trends in posture and wiping techniques can be assessed. Responses indicating changes in techniques (and the age at which they took place) would allow trends to be identified. I have always thought that as children grow into adults they often change from stnding to sitting when they wipe. Is this so? Are you now a sitting wiper, but were a standing wiper as a child? At what age did you change? Why?

Another topic is that of how religious minorities shit. The Hindu holy books instruct their adherents in the timing, posture and cleaning techniques to be used by the pious. Do Muslims shit according to rules laid down? Are Mormons enjoined to crap and clean in a particular way? Scientologists, Moonies? If new converts join a faith where they have to shit in a prescribed manner, do they get practical instruction, including a demonstration of the prescribed seating, squatting or wiping methods? A young friend who is a Hare Krishna convert said he had changed from sitting to squatting, but I did not ask him if he was given live demonstrtations of the correct postures and procedures. I met a German who squatted and stood to wipe. He said he was told to squat, rather than sit on the throne, whern he joined Hare Krishna, but, again, I did not ask him if he had received practical traiaing, with demonstrations of what was required.

Ah, well, there is much to discuss and much information to collate and I look forward to following this thread for some time to come!

English Gent--re: your question about wiping. I know that I was taught to wipe sitting, but on my own as an adult, I have developed a standing wiping procedure which I find quite effective.

At home or in a private, closed stall that has enough room, I always face the toilet, leaning forward just a bit. If the stall is too constricted, I would revert to a sitting wiping position. If the stall were open, I would face away from the toilet while wiping.

There are a lot of good points brought up!

I didn't think about the height of the toilet or it's stability. Definately something to consider when we analyze the way we crap!

Wiping is interesting too. I don't remember if I wiped sitting or standing as a child, but as an adult I mostly wipe while sitting. Sometimes I have to stand and bend forward to get it all when it's like paste. I hate that kind of poop. I go from front to back, examine it, if it's not too messy I will fold and wipe again--otherwise I get a new wad of paper to wipe with.

I bought a container of wet wipes for those messy shits, as I was preparing for a colonoscopy nearly two weeks ago. It actually burned. I would have been better off just using regular TP, but that is a post for another time. :)

Cheers!

I am so proud of my daughter's work being published (flapping colon). However, this is a bit more than I really needed to know about her! Still proud nonetheless.

I tend to shit with feet bent, toes inward, legs apart, elbows on knees, back arched to push. I will use a wet wipe if it was a flaming acid poop, or a pasty poop. I hate it when you can't get it clean with the TP, dont want to drag that around in the panties all day.

English gent, I love your comments. The detail, while eloquent, always (length-wise) borders on the obscene.

And as far as shit-position, I put my feet shoulder-width apart, and I bend over slightly; however, that's usually because I'm reading. I only shit once every 2.5-4 days, and when they come out, they're usually nice firm logs with minimum-to-nil muddiness, so it really only takes me a minute.

However, if I have time I end up in the can for like half an hour or so. We have a great one, too; we live in a really really nice upperclassmen dorm suite, so it's four of us to a huge bathroom (myself + 3 unusually clean young men; I have not once found pee-splatters on the seat, for example) with a really comfortable toilet that could probably flush a donkey, it's so powerful.

In addition to a great toilet, we have amassed quite a library in our bathroom. The content rotates, depending on what we're all reading/would recommend to each other at the time; right now there's a variety of magazizes, from GQ to Runner's World, books on Chinese empresses and Druids, collected Dan Savage advice columns, Harry Potter, and a book that looks really interesting called "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" that looks really interesting, and "THEM: Adventures with Extremists".

So, yeah. My pooping position almost always involves reading material.

Many thanks to the Widowmaker for his kind comments. Is it only the length and not the content that he considers obscene?

Some recent sightings:

A Chinese of around twenty sat up very straight with is knees wide apart, making little explosive farting sounds as each log emerged. When finished, he stood up facing the toilet roll holder to wipe. He used the paper as sheets and wiped downwards (from back to front).

A slightly older Japanese sat up very straight with his knees wide apart. He wiped from a sitting position, pushing the paper downwards from back to front.He did not raise a buttock to gain access, but pushed the paper straight down his bum crack. I have noted that when most Japanese use a western pedestal type loo they shit leaning well forward - sometimes with their backs almost horizontal - and wipe by raising one buttock and pulling the paper forward with their hands along their thighs. I have never come across one who wiped himself between the legs. I know of two who hold their willies up in the air whilst shitting; one wipes standing up and the other sitting down.
I once came across a Japanese who sat backwards on the loo - facing the wall. He sat very upright and, presumably, first took off his pants and trousers. I don't remember how he wiped.

A tall Englishman in his twenties sat up stiffly to attention, with his knees pressed together. He put his hands on his waist and gently rocked forward and backward to induce action. When he had finished he stood up to wipe, using the paper in sheets. He wiped from the bottom upwards - from front to back.

A very well dressed teenage boy sat upright to crap. He sat with his legs parallel, rather than splayed outwwards. When he had finished he stood up, but did not move his feet and instead swivelled his waist round through a quarter of a circle to reach for the paper. He continued to turn round as he applied the paper in sheets, rather than as a wad, to his bottom, looking down at what he was doing. First, though, he took a small piece of paper and dried the end of his willie.

A dark skinned caucasian twenty-something shat with his body lying on top of his thighs, so that his body was almost horizontal. When he had finished he raised his body a little way and wiped sitting down. He pushed the paper downwards along the arse crack and therefore did not raise one buttock for access. He screwed the paper into a wad before using it.

Two young Dutchmen on a group trip to England shat at the same time - odd how when one person wants a dump, his friend or colleague also needs one! Both sat with their kneess wide apart leaning forward, with their elbows resting on their knees. One cradled his head in his hand as he dumped. When they wiped they both lifted their butts off the seat and put their heads down below their knees with their arses in the air. One wiped by pushing the paper downwards - rear to front - and the other by pulling it up - front to rear.

Always interested to learn about posture and wiping methods.

A young Polish man has been crapping in my john. He always sits in exactly the same position, vey well forward, with his arms crossed on his knees, one hand resting on each knee. He looks downwards all the time the turds are flowing. Then he sits upright and pulls off a long piece of TP. He lifts his right buttock for access. He folds one end and wipes from front to back, folds the paper and repeats the wiping. He manages to get about three wipes from one long sheet and then repeats the process with another sheet untl he is satisfied his arse is perfectly clean. He has quite a small bum which is not as wide as the wooden seat. His trunk is extremely hairy, but his thighs are not.

Have we really got a mother-daughter team on this thread -- Flapping Colon and Who Shat in the Hat? If so, that's amazing.

It would appear so Logjam, Who Shat in the Hat is definately a name she'd use... Mom--you didn't have to post the way you poop. It's just weird to me. I doubt that anyone else minds though. :P Hey, you should get your ape to post on here. I don't think he ever really checked it out.

John Thomas and The Loo King,

Do you have open bathrooms or something? How do you know what these people are doing, and with such detail? In all honesty, it's a little creepy.

You're welcome, John Thomas, but I'm actually a she. :)

I was referring to the length, and I meant 'obscene' in the best possible way (somewhat facetiously -- as in, 'prodigious').

I echo Flapping Colon (which is a GREAT name, by the way), it is a little creepy that you remember the ins-and-outs of these various persons' postures so vividly; unless, of course, you just have an excellent memory for detail.

Yes, Widowmaker, I probably have an excellent memory for details; it may come from the job I did for twenty years before I retired - let's say "business intelligence", where I might be visiting a factory and noting details of equipment, manufacturing capacity and output - not the same - housekeeping etc, in order to size up the opposition. During the second world war there was a saying "careless talk costs lives". Careless talk is a prolific source of business information and the results would horrify the speaker, if he realised just what detailed analysis of his random comments and boasting might be possible. But you've got to have "an excellent memory for details". There are so many sources of information - in our case, shameless shitting, of course. Open stalls have been discused at length in these columns. There might be access to the new EU spy satellite Twatallite or to the Tardis of "Dr Who". New mobile 'phones provide covert pictures of all kinds. A fertile imagination helps! It all makes for an interesting mix to titillate our readers! .

Here's How I poop. I recently bought some wireless headphones. I slap on some KISS (...get the "firehouse", cause my ass is red as fire...), close the door, switch on the blacklight (my house looks like a nightclub/Spencers store), then hit the throne. The whole ordeal takes like 5 min. I'm so used to my bathrooms layout, that anytime I'm away, I'm uncomfortable. The sink is on the right of the toilet, and I have to rest my arm on it. I lean slightly to the right because it seems to ease the turd out better. BTW, I have to strip totally naked to shit, I dunno, the clothes feel uncomfortable. I have to flop my c_ck over the seat (I'm part Italian), legs spread, and there u have it.

legs:spread
prick:aiming down ready for use
feet:sometimes on tippie toes somtimes on flat
posture:sloching
hands:NOT holding anything to read
i think much better on the crappa

I'm really perplexed by these standing wipers. Feet, shoulder width apart, lean somewhat forward, always take my pocket PC with me, have thousands of ebooks and games so if I have a great deal of business to transact with the porcelain pod I'll be entertained. Wipe through the legs, in public always flush with foot.

Hahahaha! LOL! I also flush with my foot when I poop in a public place---that's hillarious! Furthermore, when I poop in a public restroom (esp. in a Wal-Mart) I wrap the seat in toilet paper, just like an egyptian mummy. I also place t.p. in the toilet water so to prevent dirty toilet water rebound splash.

^^^
YEs i do the same at wal mart.

The Widowmaker, thanks. The other name that came to mind was too long for me. "Colon Flapping in the Wind" so I just used Flapping Colon. Another good one would have been "Passing Wind", but I don't fart much. ;)

I'm not entirely sure how I poop in stores. I'd rather wait if at all possible, to get to a clean facility such as my home bathroom. At school: I really lean into it. I don't cover the seat or anything, by the time all that is done, you'd have plenty of germs on your hands from the toilet seat and such anyway that it would just be a waste of time...besides, you really think a thin piece of paper will keep germs from invaded your butt cheeks?

Speaking of germs...there are less germs on a toilet seat than in your mouth, at least that's what I learned in biochemistry. At any rate. Back to public pooping.

I lean into it, hands on knees, feet shoulder-width apart, and sometimes give a grunt. For some reason I am usually a little constipated in school--which means I often lift my butt just as the poop breaks off to avoid that cold splash.

I place my bum towards the back of the loo seat, lean as far forward as possible, both legs backwards and on tip toe, chest very close to my leg to achieve a near horizontal position.

Each exciting turd is accompanied by a slight sigh. In times when things are not moving smoothly-slight push accompanied by exhalation, then contract and release sphinster muscles three times. Repeat procedure till movement is felt and experienced.

When evacuation feels complete, I squat to finish off. NEVER under estimate the power of the squat, we will be amazed how much is left inside in the sitting position.

Sit down for wiping. Left leg forward, right leg backward on tip toe. Right bum slightly raised. I do not wipe, but press till I am clean. At home, I wash in the bidet. In public, I carry in wet paper towels. In loos with only cloth rolls to render wet wipes impossible, I fold paper several times and place in my crack. I do not like skid marks.

Frequency: post breakfast and mid-afternoon(usually triggered by swimming). Morning movement is usually less voluminous than that of the afternoon. Reason: All-bran cereal at breakfast. At times when afternoon exercise is not possible, coffee does the trick.

Lesson learnt through experience: the near horizontal position can create a mess as the turds hit the back of the loo seat. Solution: fold paper several times and place at the back of the loo seat. Do not lean back to avoid smearing.

By the way, I am very impressed by the thorough knowledge of poop procedures observed by English Gent and John Thomas. I, myself, am an expert of sorts as I grew up in a boarding school with no doors and six loos in the room- three facing each other. As a shameful shitter. I used to go in the middle of the night when no one was there. However, I got used to the idea and the bonding that took place in this rather compromising but necessary and pleasurable position.

Hmm. I stand when I wipe and it's not any less clean than wiping sitting down. I stand up, reach back and wipe front-to-back. Then again, I'm pretty small and my butt cheeks aren't like, floppy or anything, so I'm generally blessed with clean poops.

An apple a day keeps the ExLax away!

I always recommend a sitting posture, where the back leans forward at 45 degrees to the vertical. If a patient can manage to do so, it is even better to sit with the body horizontal over the thighs, as this is the nearest a European caucasian can generally get to squatting. By far the larger part of the world's population squats, but to be comfortable it is necessary to keep the feet flat on the floor. For most Europeans this is impossible, as the muscles are too inflexible. Southern Europeans may squat habitually if they come from countries where the "Turkish squatter" is common - Greece, France, Italy, Yugoslavia etc, but even many of them will prefer a pedestal toilet, if one is available and will use it conventionally. Some will squat on a pedestal toilet, as if they were at home. Followers of Hare Krishna and eastern religions are instructed to crap in a squatting position and I have known just such a vegan whose bowel movements were very smooth, partly due to his diet and partly due to the posture he adopts for evacuation. He generally wipes between his legs whhilst still squatting, but when he shat conventionally on a pedestal, ten or fifteen years ago, I think he wiped standing up. I knew a German Hare Krishna follower who squatted to crap - his butt actually touched the back of the seat, I think, but his legs were drawn up tightly to his stomach. He climbed down from the pedestal to wipe from a standing position. He stood up quite straight to wipe and did not lean forward at all, as he put the paper between his cheeks.

I'm usually online whenever I'm making a doot. Sometimes I set my 2.5 inch color TV on the towel rack so I can listen in on the tele. I also read my magazines in there. Mostly, though, I'm surfing the web. I talk on the phone in there, too.

I can't figure it out! Almost every time I dookie I have to wipe like 30 times. Maybe I don't drink enough, but maybe, just maybe, the poo is getting tangled in my ass hair? Has this ever been a problem for anyone? If so, how did you fix this baffling situation?

There's always shaving, of course. If that's too drastic, you could try soap and water. And toilet paper quality is very important.

I use paper towels.

On positions. I sit legs apart with my back very straight - anus pointing due south. I only need to push a little, and then it pops out! I enjoy producing logs - splendid sensations - but often produce soft and unsatisfactory dollops. What is the answer to this? Diet? Advice please.

Just throwing this idea out there, but... you could always go and get your butt waxed. If you have the means, you can get laser hair removal on your crack too.

It all depends on the shit. If its diarheea usually I sit straight up legs somewhat together. If it's a log without constipation I am more relaxed and may even lean forward and lay my head on my knees. If I am severely constipated I usually am rocking back and forth on the toilet, possibly some foot stomping to help with gravitational pull and my posture is somewhat rigid.

I sit naked with a magazine or book. Newpapers are too cumbersome. I also like to smoke on the pot.

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Butt firmly on bowl, wearing a tee shirt(you do NOT want to get your shirttail caought in the crapper, expecially a WHITE dress shirt!) to continue, feet shoulder width apart, and flat on the floor. If Im on my toes, I might lean forward and bump my dome on the ground which would ruin my whole crapping experience. Reading material at the ready, better yet, best to have the magazines already in the bathrooom. Mad Magazine is my book of choice. Coffee on the sink to aid in the process, just in case I need it, and the house phone too so I dont have to get up. I love to take my business calls in the bathroom, kinda an inside joke.

Feet on the floor, sort of under me a little, knees apart where they naturally go, computer on lap, and leaning forward slightly. I finely tweak my stance based on the consistency of the poop.

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I'm the only geek I know who has to flush twice. Or who clicks on links in people's sigs.

A friend is staying with me for the weekend. Afer breakfast he pooped and again before he went out at 11.30.

He used to sit well forward a couple of years ago, with his elbows on his knees. Today, he sat upright, with his trousers and underpants half way down his legs, but not round his ankles. He pushed his willie down with two fingers, as it was touching the underside of the loo seat. When he leaned forward to poop in the past he did not need to push his willie down. He sat with the outside of his thighs more or less parallel - i.e. with the inside of the thighs gently spreading apart down to his knees. He sat in the "rest" position, with his back curved, not stiffly to attendion. His feet were flat on the floor and his legs drawn back a little towards the pedestal. When he had finished he quickly jumped up, took some toilet roll and stood to wipe his arse, with an "upward" movement (from front to back). He bunched the paper, rather than using one or more sheets. He did not pull the back of his shirt up as he wiped, but held the front of his shirt up by using the hand holding the toilet roll, pressed against his stomach. I trust we shall both poop together tonight before we go to bed.

Haven't given this much thought. I usualy sit leaning forward with my legs slightly apart, and my lower arms and hand resting on my legs.
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It's not nice to fool mother nature.

Knees together, feet apart
Helps it echo when I fart.
Hands atop my balding head,
Bearing down my face turns red.
This is how I shit you see,
Just don't ask how I go pee.

PLEASE get me more medication.

Good poo-etry AC. I forgot to mentio that I keep my head up while I am going.

If I have trouble pooping, I find it helpfull to grab the sides of the toilet bowl, and sit straight up.

I don't think that culture has much to do with the position of the individual. I think that it is a matter of prefference and comfort.
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A man who farts in church, sits in his own pew.

i sit on the toilet and spread my legs apart. i have my feet flat on the ground. I rest my arms on my legs. usually my legs start to get numb in this position so i will have to move my leg a different way every now and then.
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gabrielle

I shit with my legs closed so i can aim my dick in to the bole. some times i lean a bit forward so the air does not get compressed.

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If you have to shit you shit. But if you are not close to a shiter shit by a tree but if there is not a tree go in a bag and if there is no bag shit your pants

This depends on many factors. For example the morning dump is taken after FOUR glasses of ICE COLD water which causes the dump to practically slide out your ass. I have to be cautious because a few times I have actually broken a loaf off and it fell to the floor. Fortunately in those instances the small dookage hit the area rug which I was able to readily wash. Of course there is the usual cramping with having had the ice cold water so when I do let it go it hits the toilet with the greatest of ease. THat for me is the best dump of the day. Very little pushing and still a HUGE SHIT. At night its a little different depending on the kind of day it has been. I usually stick to high fiber so still easy pushing legs together a lot of farting. I have to watch the pubic hair on my schlong because you dont want it to redirect the piss out the side of the bowl. Minor inconvienience.
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The Thunderous Crapper 63 Enjoying home toilet advantage since 2004!

It all depends on the time of day, size of the poop and the venue. I'm a sophomore in college and very rarely do I poop in the dorm room which I share with two others. On many mornings, I poop within an hour of having my coffee in the student center. If it's been only a day, I barely get my panties down and touch the seat before it comes. I start wiping after about 10 seconds and wipe squatting. I just don't like to sit on a public seat longer than necessary although the wipe for such a soft stool usually takes two or three minutes. If I have two or three day's worth to release, it takes me longer. I will often spread my legs as wide as necessary as it comes out--sometimes even getting off the toilet paper if I've put seat liner down. (I don't know why it is but I refuse to sit directly on black seats; white seats are okey with me though). Again, I will wipe in a squatting position and because I have a lot of hair, the wiping becomes a longer chore. When I get up to wipe, the automatic flusher goes off and I've had some girls in line for the stall get pissed because it takes me so long to wipe. When it's been four or five days, I will need to sit for three or four minutes and sometimes longer. Today, I was at the county office complex paying a parking ticket. I had to wait at least 10 minutes for an open stall because several of the courtrooms were in recess and once I got in, I found that I had to make the choice of sitting directly on the seat and then having wiping paper or using the wiping paper for a seat cover. I selected the former. Although it took about 10 minutes to come, and it was so large that I had to stand up twice to initially get the head out, it was complete and I only needed to use three or four panels of toilet paper. But I didn't hear the old lady who came in after me thank me for the unexpected paper I had left her.

My fiancee and I were shopping for appliances at Sears yesterday. He excused himself to use the mens room which was within a few feet of the washers and dryers were were looking at. He came out upset after a couple of minutes and excused himself to use the bathroom in the main mall. At first, I was wondering if he was getting sick, but I told him I would wait there for him. A couple of minutes later I couldn't help but seeing what the problem was: a father was coming out of the restroom with a girl who looked like she might be as old as eight or nine! What I learned later was what spooked my fiancee was that he was on the stool of a two or three open-stall bathroom when the father brings the girl in. She goes into the adjacent stall, sits down, and with a mirror in front of the sinks, was potentially able to watch activity in the stalls. Apparently her father went to a urinal and nonchalantly was doing his thing. My fiancee came back about 10 minutes later from the main mall bathroom and complained that even as the only person in the room, and with stall doors, he was unable to crap. (He was finally able to go about an hour later when we stopped at a Kum N Go for gas.) I think it is outrageous that a father would bring his daughter into the opposite gender's bathroom, and with an open-stall situation to boot. I feel bad that I didn't say anything to them when they came out, but I didn't have the whole story then. Especially in larger places such as theatres and arenas, I've seen women bring very young (probably pre-school age or 6) boys in with them BUT NOT WITH OPEN STALLS AND SOMEONE USING THEM)! I use to think it was bad taking a poop at a place like an airport due to the long line waiting for the stall, but my fiancee has given me a new perspective.

Surprised shopper: yours is the worst possible case scenario! As a female, I have been embarrassed and, in one case petrified, when I have seen young creepy eyes FOCUSED on me betwen the stall door and partition. I use to be fairly liberal in dropping my underwear or jeans all the way down when I was on the stool but NO MORE! I had taken a full poop at a show at our municipal auditorim, only to discover there was no toilet paper. Seeing the eyes, apparently waiting for me to vacate, I asked if she could get me some toilet paper from a nearby stall, if one wasn't is use. She did and handed it to me through the door. How nice. I did my cleanup (I wish I could always remember to check before I sit down and yes, mom, I know I should probably cover the seats the way you taught me, but....)flushed, and was ready to turn the stall over to the next user who I felt had been rude looking in (but favors must be counted for something)when I was astounded! IT WAS A HE--about a seven or eight year old kid! I think I gave the kid in three or four seconds the look over that he had given me over several minutes. As I was washing my hands, a grandmother-type woman came out of her stall and started calling for "ADAM". Like Suprised Shopper, I now am more alert to the eyes looking in on me, and while I'm doing better checking the toilet paper before sitting down, I don't know if I ever will venture to open the door in a situation like that again. Parents that bring opposite gender "children" of that age into public bathrooms are CRAZY!

Who's Amanda to call single mothers such as myself "crazy" for bringing young children of the opposite sex into the bathroom. WE DON'T HAVE ANY ALTERNATIVES. My daughters are 8, 6 and 4 and my son is 7. Unless we stay at home a lot--and sometimes we have to because of a shortage of money due to the fact that my ex is not always diligent with child support--my son HAS to come in with his sisters and me!
First of all, Amanda needs to take responsibility for a large part of what happened. She should have wiped the seat off before sitting down and in trying to do so, she would have noticed the toilet paper missing. A lot of us would think she is stupid for sitting directly on a public toilet seat anyway. Also, one of the first things I've taught my girls has been to keep their clothing up as high as possible for less is being exposed. And I've taught them never to drop their panties below seat level. There are two reasons for this. They are exposing less of themselves to any peepers and less of their body is directly touching the toilet seat. I suspect by the time they are in middle school, they will want to fully cover the seat before sitting down. Also, Amanda, if you have a coat, you can also hang it on the hook offered on the back of many toilet partition doors. That can help cut down the amount of space available for those "creepy eyes" to look in on you.
Although I've never been dumb enough to sit down when a stall is completely out of paper, there have been cases where my wipe has been longer and messier than I could anticipate. In situations like that, when I run out of paper I simply get myself presentable, and go into another stall which has a sufficient amount of paper to finish up. I'M NEVER GOING TO OPEN THE DOOR FOR A STRANGER!
I've also taught my kids to get in and get out as fast as possible. That way there's less hostilities possible from those in line and by spending less time in a compromising position, there's less chance that they are going to see protuberant eyes through the cracks. My son hates going into the womens bathrooms with us BUT I'm convinced he's too young to go into the mens rooms himself. He would be traumatized greatly if he would have been in a position like that of Surprised Shopper (and when he does go in alone at single stall bathrooms like McDonalds, Barnes & Noble, etc, he says he hates the fact that many of the stalls are doorless). The bathrooms available to his second grade class are also doorless. Just last year I guy I was dating treated us to a professional football game and while the two of them were in the bathroom at the urinals, Steve had to correct Colin because instead of standing on his toes to get a better aim, Colin was letting his penis, scrape over the front of the bowl and touch the dirty water and pee in the bowl. Another reason whey he shouldn't be going in on his own.
It's my belief that children of the opposite sex when in the other gender's bathrooms, need to be taught cleanliness for themselves and respect for the privacy of others. The Amanda's of the world will always be a challenge for those of us with limited alternatives.

During my teen years I poop above the knees and rarely poop at bathrooms because I am embarrassed when someone catches me with my pants down so I leave it up everywhere and in bathroom stalls. But I now at the end of my teen years and starting at Poop for Peace day I will celebrate by pulling my pants and underwear down to my ankles everywhere even in public bathroom stalls since now I am no longer embarrassed to poop and someone sees my underwear and my pants down when I poop. Only in doorless bathroom stalls I will poop with my pants to the knees or above the knees. Closed door bathroom stall and other bathrooms I will pull my pants the old fashion way that most people do to their pants when they poop by pulling it down to my ankles. I will for now on poop for peace everyday and forever. I am no longer afraid and embarrased when someone catches me with my pants and underwear down to my ankles when I poop in home or any bathroom, espically bathroom stalls because everyone poops and it's universal that I will poop in peace by pulling it down to my ankles. That's the way I poop for now on and no longer above the knees and everyone should try to poop with their pants to their ankles at least once after their 18th birthday._______
-Sam aka bknightshadow

I sit leaning slightly forward, feet flat on the floor. My arms rest on my thighs, and I'm usually holding a newspaper or magazine. The way I do it works for me, because the shit always slides right out.

I tend to agree with Amanda. It makes it really difficult for us when parents bring children of the opposite sex into a public restroom with them.
I was between flights and I had to shit bad. The only stall out of about 15 in one of the larger mens rooms had no door. There were lines two and three deep for each of the other stalls and the occupant in the doorless stall was wiping, so I decided to wait for him. As soon as he left, I sat down and none too soon--another 30 seconds or so and I would have been cleaning out my pants. However, midway through the dump, a young girl about 6 or 7 comes in and stands directly near the doorway watching me. I don't know if she was just startled or what, but she basically kept her eyes on me and didn't take them off until I got up, flushed, pulled up my jeans, and vacated. She immediately went in and peed as I turned toward the sinks. Her father, who was using a stall a bit down the line,finally comes up and attempts to hurry her up. However, she seemed to take her own time and didn't seem deterred by the open stall and large number of men around. As far as I'm concerned, a child of the opposite sex should NEVER be allowed to use an open stall in the opposite gender's bathroom. It only invites problems. Pooping privacy is paramount to me.

I use my laptop when I'm blowing mud.

Let me get this straight, Ed. YOU selected an open stall in the mens bathroom and then you are upstet because a young 6 or 7 year old girl is standing there waiting and watching you. What do you expect? Her father is taking a shit in a stall down the line and she has to pee. Sure, maybe she should have waited for a doored stall, but at least she was being independent and not hanging all over her father. That's initiative on her part that should be awarded and not criticized. When my daughter was a couple of years younger than this girl, she would lean on me and DEMAND that I accompany her into the stall. That teaches her NOTHING such as self-esteem and confidence from acting independently. I say sit down Mary Lou and more power to you!

For the record I sit slightly forward n the seat, legs apart, leaning forward, forearms resting on my knees. I'm there for an absolute maximum of 60 seconds, then I wipe sitting down. I'm rarely messy, so that is quick too.

But my real reason for this post, is the open stalls thing. Living in England, where 75% of my dumps are in public/work toilets, I have never encountered an open stall. I just would not be comfortable with it!!

Because I used to suffer very bad constipation, I changed my diet to improve the flow. This means I now shit every one to three days, and I always wait till I'm ready - really, really ready - to eliminate any harmful pushing or straining. Well, the more you need to go, the greater the relief - the 'aaahh' moment!! Well I don't know what my expression is like at the 'aaahh' moment - maybe almost orgasmic, who knows! It is a moment to savour - the feeling of intense satisfaction of having had a really good crap! I want to continue to savour that moment, and I just could not do that with complete strangers watching me!!

Am I really unusual in this?

_Hi Hamster, I agree with your first 2 paragraphs- quick, to the point, get it over with, clean up and get out (do the courtesy flush!). The other paragraph about holding it in.. I may be wrong but it just doesn't sound healthy. A healthy pooper may go 2 to 3 times a day. Don't bloat your colon. When you visit the USA, go and check out the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, and the exibit of the guy who had the giant colon. ______
Press on warts, who would buy those? -Well, hags mostly.

Thank you!! But do I really want to see that!!?? Perhaps mine is a bit bloated! I certainly get soreness. But if I push or strain, I get bleeding - so it's the lesser of the two evils! And I have had everything checked out - I was subjected to the delights of a colonoscopy last summer - OMG!!!

Either way, I just would not be comfortable pooping 'in the open' (well except in the woods!).

I'm a SWF,30, who learned a valuable lesson in high school when the restrooms were chaotic, the teachers were hassling us, and the stools were dirty. And some 15 years later it still works for me. When I'm in a public place, I hover to pee so the only time I have to sit down on the seat is to poop. Like some of the other posters, I wait until my "load" (a term a former boyfriend used) is ready, I go to the first available stall, pull down my clothing, sit directly on the seat with my legs spread almost as far as they will go, and I'm usually fully emptied within 30 seconds. Many years ago in high school, I sat down at the first sign that my shit was coming, and there was frustration on my part as well as those waiting, when I was taking up valuable time on the stool. Yesterday, I felt the urge while driving to work. I stopped at a Shell station, took my shit, and was pulling out of the parking lot while the song that was playing on the radio when I left was just ending. Timing is everything!

WBMB - that's cool! A challenge even!!! Will report back! I think I'm going to start taking my stopwatch around with me!!

Hamster, Nope...Don't do it. The timing poop thing will drive you crazy. Then you will have to have a "BEST" time. There may be others that will compete with you. Sorry keep the watch in your pocket.
Producing waste since 1967

I sit leaning somewhat forward most of the time, to get maximum leverage for pushing. If the turd is stubborn, I rock front to back, perhaps also side to side, but the need for that is quite infrequent. If I sit well forward on the seat, I have a better chance of being able to see the whole production when I'm done--not as much will have gone down the hole. I wipe by reaching around, then applying the paper from side to side as much as front to back, thus restricting the poop to a small area of the paper and making it possible to refold it. I have tried standing up to wipe but find it hard to keep my cheeks sufficiently apart to prevent staining them.

It depends on the dump. If its a two minute warning dump there isnt much time its just a sit down and lean into it dump with a TON of farting. If its a leisurely dump then I take the time to savor it I will usually lean forward with my legs together I wont lean into it as much because it is coming effortlessly. It is usually a cleaner neater dump not requiring a bowl brush cleaning afterward either. Reading material is usually present at this particular dump.
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The Thunderous Crapper 63 Enjoying home toilet advantage since 2004!

I formerly saw PoopReport as an entertaining site, that my younger brother (by 13 years) is being kept out of at his high school because it's in "bad taste." However, our parents are strict and since he doesn't want to leave a trail on his computer in his room at home, he keeps up at the public library after school or when he visits my apartment.

Both he and I have tried WBMB's advice and found that it works. When in public, holding your crap until you a certain it's works great. He says the doorless stalls they have at his school are less threatening and embarassing to him when he's only seated for two or three minutes. It must have been humiliating for him to have sat for 10 minutes or more in front of a bathroom full of guys before he could unload. As for me, especially when I'm in heavily used bathrooms such as an airport (I fly frequently because I'm in sales)or at the mall, I make sure I'm loaded and ready to fire before placing myself on the firing line.

As far as the hover peeing suggestion, I haven't tried it yet, but at work and other places away from home I deliberately wait a few minutes longer when I feel the need to pee. I'm no longer frustrated, sitting waiting for my flow to start, and knowing that there are several other women right outside the door waiting to see some movement from me and the door open as I vacate.

My problem is I always have to shit about 15 minutes before I have to leave for work, and since I like to read while shitting, I usually get involved in some item in the paper, and then the next thing I know, it's time to leave. Then I have to wipe quickly, flush, wash my hands, throw on my uniform, and head out the door. It's why I'm usually 2 or 3 minutes late for work every morning.

Rhonda's comment makes me both happy and sad. It's good that high schoolers read this website for advice, but it's sad that there are still parents out there who don't realize sometimes kids need that advice.

Sure we are a "pottymouthed" website with adult content, but over the years we've helped quite a few kids with bathroom issues. Whether they've been shameful or have had to fight administrations that wouldn't let them pee during class, Poopreport is here to let them know they aren't alone and have allies.

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www.daphneszoo.com

Rhonda - 'loaded and ready to fire' - I like that!! Good policy! I don't mind using a public crapper, but it's good to get on and get out asap. And also, if you are always ready to 'fire', that means no need for straining - and straining is bad.

I realize that excessive straining to poop is potentially bad--popping veins, etc. However, I believe we are made in such a way that some straining is supposed to be necessary. Our anal sphincter is a voluntary organ--it empties when we tell it to. If there were no straining or pushing, there would be no control, and our bowels would move when the rectum fills up, not bothering to wait until we push or strain. I just did my early morning b.m. I waited until it felt really ready--the turd was pushing at my sphincter so hard it began to hurt a little. Sitting on the rim for maximum projection, I leaned well forward and waited for my organs and my poop to settle into firing position. Nothing happened until I pushed strongly; then the poop came out in one quick impulse that ended with a loud sploot sound. I waited a few seconds, and a little pleeper followed; then I pushed some more to see if anything was left inside; nothing. Then I wiped. Finally I looked, and saw a C-shaped turd of maybe 6-7" blocking the hole in the bottom of the bowl and a much longer one folded over a few times near the front of the bowl and partly out of the water (smelly); I would say a 4 on the Bristol scale. I am most grateful that I had to push to get all that poop out; I would hate for it to have ended up in my pants.

MSG - yes, you are completely correct - a gentle push is needed. But there is all the difference in the world between that gentle push, and the straining some people do to get rid of a turd that just isn't yet ready.

Although we don't know all the facts in Rhonda's case, she makes it seem like she waits until shittin' is a sure thing and then she seats herself for instant satisfaction. I guess it's just the way we've been brought up. I've been at gas stations, needing to crap when I'm paying for my fuel, and I hold it in until I get downtown to the office and in a much cleaner and less threatening situation. I've been at college football games with my husband and known that I should crap, but I hold it until we get to where we are going to eat and where the toilets are going to be cleaner. I also try to set a proper example for our 6 year old daughter when I tell her that sometimes she has to hold it in for a few minutes until we get to a lesser used and cleaner place. Also, we encourage her to sit and try to go at home before we leave. She has a much better chance of having a positive experience there and a lot more privacy. Last month when we were traveling for Thanksgiving we were nearly clipped on the interstate by a van that abruptly turned in front of us at high speed to take advantage at the last minute of a rest stop bathroom. My husband followed them in, and in addition to checking the road map and weather conditions, confronted the driver about the near-miss. Sure enough, the teenage driver said his girlfriend had to pee real bad. At what expense? Our daughter was bored and said she needed to go in to poop. I told her that we don't use such bathrooms and that we were only about 10 miles from our motel and that she would wait. And she did.

The most important point Cautious Chick brings up is that she requires her 6 year old daughter to go into the bathroom and try to go BEFORE they leave home to go out. Judging from the friends of my 7 year old daughter, parents are not teaching their children to do this as part of a routine. I, however, disagree with many of the other points in the posting. In nearly all cases, when I have to crap or pee, I get into a bathroom immediately. I was potty-shy as a child because, since my parents separated when I was 4, I was often with my dad and scared to use the ladies room on my own. I remember once when we were out sledding and he got upset when I complained of not wanting to sit on the cold seats. He literally dragged me into the mens room where there were boys--all from our neighborhood that knew us--sitting in open stalls crapping. Also, a couple of them were taken by surprise at the urinals when he brought me in. That experience led me to avoid conflict by holding it and later I had a series of urinary tract infections.

Now with our daughter, and my husband has been very supportive of this too, when she says she has to go, we don't try and second-guess the situation or rank restrooms on privacy or cleanliness. An I-70 rest stop is as good for me and her as a gas station, port-a-potty, or the large 30-stall bathroom when we're at a ballgame or airport. We sit right down, complete our task, wash our hands, and get on with the more important things. Parents like Cautious Chick are raising children with lots of problems down the road!

Mallory's Mother - I think you are being a little unfair here. CC said that she encouraged her daughter to wait for 'a few minutes'. I think children need to be taught that they need to be able to wait for a few minutes. It is forcing them to wait for hours - like happens at school sometimes, for various reasons - that will cause a problem.

But I don't agree with either of you about making children go and sit on the toilet before going out. Poops come when they are ready - they should not be forced. My parents did that with me. I found it a negative and miserble experience. I could rarely do anything 'to order' and felt a sense of failure.

Hamster -- What's wrong with a parent reminding a child to shit before he leaves home? My mom was a single parent so I was basically alone a lot in the summer and when school was out. Me and my best friend went to her one day and asked permission to ride our bikes down to the large public park about six blocks away from our home. I had to shit, but after about a half block of peddling, it became more urgent. Both he and I put our bikes down and walked into this very dimly lit and dingy antique restroom with pee on both the toilet seats and at least two craps in each bowl. I wiped the seat and sat down while he peed in the stall next to mine. I didn't like the open stall arrangement, but I had no alternative. A middle aged man diressed in business attire came in and smiled at me, went to the first urinal and then without flushing, turned around, approached me with his pants still open and while he was holding his organ still out, he asked my name and with his organ still out, started trying to get a conversation going. He was grossing me out so I called to my friend who was just finishing up and when he saw what was happening, we both ran to the door and got on our bikes. I rode several yards to the back of a recreational supply hut and finished pulling up my shorts. We rode about two blocks over to Seth's house where I finished my shit. It has been more than 25 years since that incident and I've bypassed several doorless stalls and held in some shits longer than I normally would to avoid such a situation again. My son is 11 now and I still remind him about shitting at home before we go out. Since I've told him what happened to me, he understands my concerns.

Hamster, maybe the problem is that your parents were unnecessarily hard on you and therefore you have a less than usual reaction to this topic. I made my kids pee before leaving the house all the time, and now they know to do it on their own. It's common sense. You never know when the butt pirates are going to come calling.

So, you don't make your kids do this, I would assume? I'm the same way with stuff that bothered me as a kid. For instance, I let them eat whatever cereal they want because I wasn't allowed to. Funny.

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www.daphneszoo.com

It is often normal for people to think that their parents raised them incorrectly in some way or another. We then compensate for these flaws (perceived or real) when we raise our children. This creates diversity, and furthers our advancement as civilized beings. Lets face it, our parents werent perfect, but we all turned out normal.....err

No I've certainly never reminded my son to take a poop, pee or anything else before he went out. I was quite sure that if he felt the need, he would have anyway. And I can never remember there being any problem with him needing to go whilst out.

But, again, a 'reminder' would be fine anyway. All I'm saying is that I think that requiring children to sit and try to go before leaving the house is wrong. I don't think you should ever 'try to go' - you'll go when you are ready!

You don't have to "try to go". You sit on the toilet seat and let whatever's accumulated in your bladder out. Nothing's wrong with that.

It's a good move when you've got tons of shopping to do and no babysitter.

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.....hugging bunnies since 1969
www.daphneszoo.com

I have a weird but effective pooping posture... I have to crouch on the toilet seat as if im pooping in the woods or something. so my butt is hovering over the toilet.

i personally like to sit leaned forward and try to break the ice with my asshole. Sometimes though it feels awfully shy so I lean to my left and gravity works it's magic. Sometimes it explodes out, leaving my asshole feel like it just got hit with an A-bomb. I find also, that if you sing while you poop, you use your diaphram to pinch out those large loads. This technique is commonly called "the poop tenor"..you'll find yourself hitting higher notes then you thought possible.

I sit leaning forward knees together with my arms wrapped around my stomach for some reason. I usually start off wiping sitting down then finish up stading up. I am a female so i always wipe front to back.

I have to stretch and lean side to side while sitting on the pot massaging my back, sides and abdomen to lift my colon up fascilitating a poop passage through the twists and turns in my colon. It is getting worse. Butt not bad enough to have the colectomy yet. I'm scared though because my quality of life is being affected much more frequently.
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...And their flesh like dung. Zeph. 1:17

I sit leaning forward as well, with my pants at knee level. I also have my word-find book in hand. I wipe standing up, that is much easier for me. I notice that leaning forward helps me with my shit by putting pressure on my stomach. Sometimes, I will sit back after the first wave is evacuated.

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In search of the ever evasive BM