I firmly believe that the squatting position is the ideal position for evacuating. I always squat, never sit when evacuating. This is the way animals do it in nature - just look at a cat or a dog - and it is also the way everyone except royalty and disabled people did it up until the 19th century. When you sit, the colon is unnaturally compressed, which does not happen when squatting. The sitting position not only makes evacuation much more difficult, but it's also linked to several diseases, including colon cancer, appendicitis and inflammatory bowel disease. I strongly recommend reading this page on the subject.
[Previously, this post was a warning about how squatting on a toilet could be dangerous and the source of nasty accidents. Reading some of the comments has made me see how stupid and silly I was. The only evidence I had were three pictures - possibly photoshoped, possibly fake, taken from a gory-fetish website which I found by chance while searching for information about the squatting position. They showed a woman with an open leg, and it was claimed that she'd suffered an accident while squatting.
It is true that many public restrooms in Asia warn against squatting on the toilet, but maybe that doesn't mean all that much...
I now believe squatting on a toilet is reasonably safe, at least as much as driving a car at 100km/h in a busy road full of trucks, maybe much safer than that; maybe as safe as riding a bike next to a busy street, or perhaps even as safe as crossing a busy street with the traffic lights red...
I would like to offer my deep apologies to all those who have read this silly nonsense, though I know my apologies won't undo anything I have done.
It only shows my capacity of saying idiot things at times. Those pictures were so disturbing that I felt I had to divulge them so that what I saw wouldn't happen to anyone. When I first saw them I thought if I told people about the benefits of squatting - which I wanted to - someone might suffer a gory accident and this simple possibility made me panic.
I acted on impulse, not rationally.
I swear I never had the intention of hurting anyone, or of self-promotion.
Please forgive me. I promise I will never again post a warning without having sufficient evidence and without previously consulting other people whether I should post it or not. ]
Tags: evacuating, squatting
Permalink Reply by fruitsandnumbers on I place my feet directly on the toilet rim. I do not use the toilet seat.
Permalink Reply by Trevor Gates on Practice makes perfect :) If you've got "the squirts" UR not eating enough bananas..
I built a box that fits a 5 gal. bucket inside and has a removable lid. Make sure the box is well sealed so its "fly tight". The lid is just big enough to poop into so you can stand comfortably on the box. Use a jar to pee into so you don't pee into the bucket and stink things up :/ Use a handful of peat-moss,sawdust,or vegetation to cover up your excrement and to aid in composting. When said bucket is 3/4 full dig a hole and dump it in. Then plant a fruit tree.
Dump your pee on another fruit tree's roots and keep it in the cycle!
Permalink Reply by Trevor Gates on like fruitsandnumbers says.. "conventional" is perverted..
Permalink Reply by fruitsandnumbers on I'd rather say you're so much of a non-conformist that you got to s*** different. I'm not a non-conformist. I conform to Nature's Laws, not to silly social norms. Do as you wish, but you're the one who's losing.
Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman
Permalink Reply by fruitsandnumbers on It actually doesn't take all that much practice. I was able to do it without any difficulty from my first try. We ought to be able to squat for hours without feeling pain or tiredness or loosing equilibrium. If you cannot do this, then you'd better practice it. It is an excellent position to stay in.
Permalink Reply by Mary Elizabeth on I think there a MILLION other things to be more worried about in our world today, than the possible freak accident of squatting on a toilet and falling off or it breaking. How about pollution, the AIDs epidemic, violence against women and children, the destruction of our ozone, the human save trade, the animal slave trade?
I do love the openness and wacky conversations characterized by 30BAD discussions, but I don't think this should be anything to spend too much time worrying about
Permalink Reply by fruitsandnumbers on I agree with you entirely, Mary Elizabeth, but this has long ceased to be a post about 'the possible freak accident of squatting on a toilet and falling off or it breaking'. It is now a discussion about the health benefits of the natural squatting position over the unnatural but dictated by social norm siting position for evacuating.
My aim with this discussion is no longer to warn about the distant possibility of some freak accident, but rather to raise awareness among 30 BaDers to the fact that squatting is the natural and healthiest way of evacuating (and perhaps even among a more general public, since this discussion now ranks among the first places even in google searches).
This has been my main objective right from the beginning and, ironically, my mistake in giving so much importance to such accidents, which may not even be related to the squatting position, has contributed to raise awareness to the advantage of the squatting position over the siting position for evacuating. Maybe if I hadn't committed that mistake, this discussion wouldn't have hit over 3000 views by now...
But anyway, thank you for replying and pointing out once more my own silliness. Anyone who I may have offended has the right to curse me as much as they want. I won't be offended because I know I deserve it.
I don't understand how any of you manage to squat while standing on a toilet..? Are you superhumans? I imagine it's like having to get potty trained all over again. This is probably where me and the rest of 30bad will go separate ways. :P Even though I'm sure you're experiencing great benefits as you say you are, I can't argue with that, I'm just saying I'm probably a different case.
May I ask why you use the word "evacuate" in this situation? It reminds me of escaping from wars and fires.
Permalink Reply by Trevor Gates on Yes... We are superhumans...
Sorry that you didn't make it to superhumanism..
Truth is it does take a little getting used to but its easier than you think... I think...
Another "healthier" way to poop is to install a bar above your throne that you can just reach while sitting. You hold on to this bar while you are defecating(like that better than evacuating?) this takes weight off your colon and allows better elimination..
Anyway... Poop as you will...
Permalink Reply by fruitsandnumbers on I like your humorous and witty reply, Trevor.
Dreamer, you may want to try holding on to something while you cannot yet fully maintain equilibrium. Isn't there anything next to your toilet to which you could hold? This is a bit like using small wheels in a bicycle...
Permalink Reply by Rawbert on I don't understand why you don't understand..:)
It's just SQUATTING!!!
What difference does it make if you squat on a chair, table, tree branch, pickup truck or a toilet? None for me..
Permalink Reply by fruitsandnumbers on I'm certainly not a superhuman; I'm simply an ordinary human being just like you; and there's no need to be a superhuman in order to squat while standing on a toilet. Everyone who doesn't have some kind of disability should be able to do this. As I said before, the squatting position is one in which we should be able to comfortably stay for several hours. You may want to practice squatting on the floor and staying in this position while doing something else.
May I ask why you use the word "evacuate" in this situation? It reminds me of escaping from wars and fires.
Evacuate (tr. verb):
To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels (wiktionary);
To discharge from the body as waste (Merriam Webster);
Evacuate (intr. verb):
To excrete waste matter from the body (free dictionary);
To pass urine or feces from the body (Merriam Webster).
I could also have used the word 'defecating', but evacuating sounds nicer to my ears...
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