Seat up ... seat down?

Who sits on the porcelain when voiding as opposed to using the fold down toilet seat? Why I think is obvious...

Seat up less cleanup ,and the cooler seat offers a contrast to having a very warm enema inside of me when i sit down

Are you serious?!?

Seat down! (Because I’m not a big fan of falling into my toilet.😱)

If I’m sitting, it’s on our heated seat. I’d probably be surprised if anybody intentionally raises the seat to sit on the porcelain, but then there are a lot of things people do (or say they do) here that are surprising!!!

@Iris1858 Exactly!!

Seat down definitely.

Seat up? Are you crazy? Total mishegas to even think about keeping it up. If I want to eat, get laid, continue breathing and keep my genitals for the near future it has to stay down!

Over the years, I've become a seat up person. Much easier to clean up, although a bit cooler in the winter months!

Seat down, that way it's not splashing out and all over the seat.

Seat down! It’s not that hard to just wipe the splashes off of the underside when you’re done.

Seat down! It’s not that hard to just wipe the splashes off of the underside when you’re done.

Seems more practical to me. Unless yore into messy cleanups!

Toilets, seats and lids, and bidets are cleaned, sanitised and freshend after every flush. Routinely, seats and lids are removed and soaked in bleach. It's so easy to keep everything immaculate.

Seat down! I hang low and need all the separation from the bowl water I can get to avoid dunking my balls. Brrrr!

The seat certainly must be down! When I am in a public place finding the seat up, I always put it down reminding suitable others that I returned the toilet to its coed form.

Seat down. For as often and as long as I sit on the toilet, I like comfort while I'm there. Plus, I always take off my pants and underwear and put my feet up on my 'squatty potty' bench.. If I tried doing that sitting on the rim my ass would be submerged in the toilet lmao.

I would like any lady seat down on my face

Seat down!!

I've never heard of sitting on the porcelain.

By the way, my husband sits down (on the seat, not the porcelain) even to pee. He had a TURP (surgery to reduce the size of an enlarged prostate) and sometimes he still finds it difficult to urinate. Standing, even with good aim, sprays a little pee on the top of the porcelain. When he sits, everything goes right in the bowl. More importantly, he can relax all the muscles instead of using some to stand which can tighten up the muscles that then hold back the pee.

With all the urological problems I’ve had, SITTING to pee is THE ONLY WAY TO GO. There’s no mess and it is very relaxing, too!

I sit on the seat to pee. In public restrooms, stand to pee because of the lack of cleanliness in the restrooms. If I have to poop, then I carefully wash off the seat and dry it before it before I sit on the seat.

It's so much easier to sit instead of having to aim for the bowl and avoid splashing on the bowl.

I've had TURP surgery (prostrate reduction surgery) because it was difficult to pee with an enlarged prostate. And for all those years with an enlarged prostate, I had to push and strain to pee. well, all that pushing ruins the elasticity in the bladder. The bladder becomes like a balloon that has been blown up and overstretched and becomes kind of limp. So without any elasticity in the bladder, I have to use the surrounding muscles to push the pee out. However, the advantage of sitting to pee is that I can relax and let the pee just flow out, I suppose, with the help of gravity.

I am not fussy. I plop my arse down on the seat and do my business here there and anywhere.

Last time I sat on the porcelain I fell in. Didn't try that trick again.

It's hard to be the perfect dainty lady but I manage somehow.

I had three older sisters and a fastidious mother and so all four females in the house made certain that I knew to lift the toilet seat when peeing and to put it back down when finished.

But it wasn't until I got married that I learned why it was necessary to put the toilet seat back down.

My wife explained it this way:

"Imagine getting up in the middle of the night to pee. You make your way in the dark, not wanting to turn on the light because it will completely wake you up so you can't get back to sleep. When you go to sit on the toilet, your muscle memory knows to relax the legs at the right height for a gentle landing on the toilet seat. Now, if some jerk left the seat up, your legs find out too late that the toilet seat is not there. They completely give out at that customary stopping height and they cannot recover in time to prevent your butt from dropping into the much wider open porcelain bowl and the water it holds for flushing.

"And the jerk probably didn't flush."

I had three older sisters and a fastidious mother and so all four females in the house made certain that I knew to lift the toilet seat when peeing and to put it back down when finished.

I was the baby (and only male child) in our family. I had multiple older sisters and this issue never was discussed while I was growing up. There were never any rules about how a seat should be placed when finished. It's funny how everyone grows up in a family thinking how things should be never knowing that other families do things differently. When it comes to the toilet seat issue it seems that the only fair placement is to always have the top lid down.

I had three older sisters and a fastidious mother and so all four females in the house made certain that I knew to lift the toilet seat when peeing and to put it back down when finished.

I had two older sisters and was warned to lift the seat if I was standing, and then put it down. We had a basement bath that only the three of us used. A couple of times I stretched Saran Wrap across the porcelain and put the seat and the lid down!

We made our kids put the lid down so the dogs wouldn’t drink from the toilet.

I normally stand to pee, but if I get up in the middle of the night I sit down - on the seat - to pee.

I will admit that there were some times when I was in an uncertain state of mind when I happened to plop my hiney on the throne and the seat was up.

Not fun at all., Glad I have somebody who leaves the seat down.

Not fun at all., Glad I have somebody who leaves the seat down.

My sub sits to pee so the seat never is up. Glad he grew up with that habit. No cold porcelain for this gals bum.

I live alone so the seat is up and down. Mostly down lol.

Leaving the seat up is uncivilized.

Seat down is the rule in our household. It is just a matter of being considerate to others. Denise

Guess I'm not the only one that's been forcibly trained by family women.....Now that I'm a widow and live alone, I've found out, at my expenses, that if I don't put down the seat, my hanging apparatus dangles in the water...soonnoo...SEAT DOWN guys!!!!