Pooping in public restrooms - Yes or no?

I love pooping in public restrooms PROVIDED they are the family type restrooms (one room/one toilet) where I can have complete privacy. I refuse to do my business in a restroom that has adjacent toilet stalls.

Just cant do it unless its an emergency

Any time i know I'm going to travel, I give myself an enema just so I will not have to use a public facility. I probably do not use a public facility for a BM once in Five years. A prime reason to use enemas.

NO

Absolutely. I love doing it as long as the toilet is clean. Having people in a adjacent stall don’t bother me. I’ve always wanted to take a 3qt enema hold it. Go to Walmart and use one of there toilets To expell 😁

There was a time when I had a severe attack of diarrhea. I don't know what I ate, but I had bad cramps suddenly hit me, then the urge to poop. I was in a grocery store and I rushed to the restroom. The “private” family restroom was occupied, so I struggled to hold it all in while I was waiting. (There was another restroom with multiple toilets/stalls, but I refused to go there!) The person was in the family restroom for at least 5 minutes. Every minute that went by seemed like an eternity. I finally heard the toilet flush and I was glad that I was going to get to relieve myself. Then, the person washed her hands. She sure took her time doing this, so it seemed like it. Meanwhile, it was coming out in my panties.

Finally, the door opened and she left. When I struggled into the restroom, more came out in my panties. I pulled down my pants, sat on the toilet and let loose. I think that anyone near the restroom could have heard it coming out into the toilet, even with the door closed. It was loud, especially the bubbly farts that followed the initial wave. I was in there for at least 15 minutes, pooping until I felt like there was no more. My soiled panties were resting halfway up my ankles and I could see the huge mess I made in them. After I was done, I wiped. It took a lot of toilet paper, because the runny stuff was all over my butt.

I didn't want to toss my messy panties into the trash. Who would want to see that! Ewww! So I wrapped them in several paper towels and put them in my purse.

If i can mostly-comfortably handle way to home or hotel - definitely no. If not. And if the restroom is clean, private and comfortable - i'll definitely use it.

If it nor clean, private or comfortable - i'll use it only if it total emergency. Sometimes forest is much better than some objects of public infrastructure.

By saying private i mean that it at least has walls without transparent windows on all sides (not silly partitions) and lockable door.

And one thing more. I totally hate the squatting toilet design. Too sore knees. Too big belly.

@R_J_LLex Clean is a must!

Those pre-emptive enemas sure eliminate many concerns about finding acceptable toilet facilitites while out and about.

It's no big deal. Everybody does it. Everybody knows what youre doing behind the door. You learn to deal with it in the military. In my younger days in the military, it was common to encounter open side-by side toilets. Even today, there's the odd one.

I only poo in a public restroom if I really, really can't hold it any longer. As others have said, I very strongly prefer the ‘family’ type restroom with full privacy and a toilet and wash basin. Once locked in I ALWAYS ‘sanitize’ the seat completely with either an alcohol wipe or hand sanitizer and some toilet tissue.

While on this topic, I really prefer the toilet seats in some public restrooms to the ordinary home ones. For me, they are far more comfortable and fit my bum better, Also, they usually have an open front seat, which makes peeing easier.

Here us a pic of one of my favorite seats:

https://ibb.co/wsqBYS3

I find it very comfortable and relaxing and almost makes pooing a joy. I like it so much that, on occasion, I like to sit on one to pee also.

I poop in public TOILETS (yes, TOILETS) when I need to. I still wish they had cisterns about 10 feet high and long chains to flush like they used to have when I was a child. Why don't those exist any more?

I don’t mind pooping in public restrooms if they are reasonably clean. But I hate gas stations and worst of all, port-a- pots. If I am traveling, or going to an outdoor event, I often give myself an enema before leaving to avoid pooping somewhere like that.

If you gotta go, you gotta go!!!! 😜

Only in a real emergency!

Only in a very dire emergency would I. So far, never had to😃

Never had a problem if I needed to use a public restroom. Didn't do anything special before a trip to avoid having to.

BUT - Porta Pottys and campground toilets can be REALLY DISGUSTING!!!! I'd prefer to shit in the woods with the bears!

I often have issues with needing to go urgently, especially after eating, so using whatever is available is just a part of my life now.

No way unless it's a true emergency

Yes. If I have to go, I will use the public toilet that is the nearest and available for use. I have even, on very emergency cases, used the nearest corn field. It is better than messing myself.

@MissStress

Using a public toilet is different for men and women.

For many men, sitting on a toilet seat doesn't happen every few hours. Most able bodied men pee into a urinal. It's different with the elderly or disabled, but true in general. Men generally don't sit on a toilet seat more than once or twice a day, and, if they have a regular poo schedule things can be timed to poo pretty much at home.

OTOH, a woman has to pee every 4 to 6 hours at least, so sitting on a public toilet is much more common. Some women get around soiled seats by ‘hovering’ to pee, but I suspect hovering to poo is much harder.

In other counties, people squat to pee and poo, but they are raised to go that way from childhood. Some believe that the position to use the squat toilets enhance pooing. The few times I've used one, when I got into the correct position, it was had not to poo.

I avoid it not because of privacy concerns or because I think it is embarrassin, but because of the inability to clean up properly. I like to shower right after or use a bidet to make sure I am very clean down there. Using TP is not going to achieve that. Even baby wipes are not foolproof. But I do travel with some of those always just in case

@Sean

Some women get around soiled seats by ‘hovering’ to pee, but I suspect hovering to poo is much harder.

To poo in a cornfield or ditch is a practice in hoovering. It may not be easy, but I've done it out of necessity.

@MissStress

Hovering to poo is certainly not impossible, and I never said it was, but for those of us that have used a western style toilet since they graduated from the potty, it's not easy. While the position is very conducive to a prompt, full poo, the position is hard on the leg muscles.

There are a couple of local public restrooms that have toilets with seats like this:

https://ibb.co/ZGc5zht

They are very comfortable for me and, actually, it's almost an erotic experience to poo there, after a thorough sanitizer wipe down of course.. LoL.

I think I finally lost my hang-ups about pooping in a public restroom when I was in the 11th grade. I found I could ignore the taunts from the room's pissers ("Is it comin' out yet"!?) OK.

I had a very memorable poop--twenty minutes--on Friday of finals week. Summer term, 22 years old. I was devoting the major share of my energies to doing decent in a couple of “solids”--PE and Science. I had just come out of my science final, and despite doing a good term paper for extra credit, I bombed the final. So, feeling that familiar tug from behind, I skulked over to the nearest men's room to stew. Would I or wouldn't I squeak by with a “C”? I had a rich enough imagination to forget what I was doing and simply daydream. I thought about, among other things, last night's great rerun of “Fawlty Towers”--the one where Basil has some luck at the horse races and has to deal with a haughty deaf lady….so that cheered me to some extent.

I'd also taken a folk-dance class that term, and it being PE, I was brought back into contact with those old freshly-washed towels smell….my latent homosexuality.

When I was a kid, our school had squat toilets (not uncommon in France back then, easier to clean). I hated using them for pooping. I think that was one reason why I got constipated, I would not say frequently, but it was not rare. Constipation largely receded when I went to junior highschool, which had seat toilets.

Lesson learned - go poop in public restrooms. It's not healthy to retain waste.

@Pecan_nutjob , I think we should start a club.

When I was grade-schooler & middle-schooler, I caused my family endless consternation by holding it all in during class time, then getting off the bus and hurry uphill to home, where I made a beeline to our bathroom and plugged up the john!

@JONW I recall having to use the squat toilet because I could not hold it. Diarrhea, perhaps due to withholding.

My mother fought my constipation using prunes, paraffin oil, and glycerin suppositories. I was told not to “strain” and instead seek mom's help.

@Pecan_nutjob

The reason your school had squat toilets may have been due to lingering Moorish influences in France. I saw a similar thing in Spain about 50 years ago in rural areas, both water flushed and simply a slot over a pit. I'm not so sure about being easier to clean tough.

On this topic, my middle school had automatic flushing toilets. The seats were black, open in front and back, and were nomally at about 45 degrees to the horizontal. When someone sat down, the toilet flushed briefly and when the person arose the toilet flush for a longer time. There was some kind of mechanical linkage between the seat hinge and the flush-o-meter handle.

You mom was correct about not staining, but IMO wrong about using suppositories to make you poo if you had constipation. Suppositories don't soften poo… they just make one push out the hard poo which is just as bad for getting hemmies.

The other things she gave you would certainly help.

A mineral (paraffin) oil, in the right dosage, certainly softens poo and makes the inside of the bowel slippery so when you squat, the poo almost cannot be held and slides right out. The trick is to give a big enough dose to work, but small enough dose so you don't leak stinky oil.

Prunes have a well deserved reputation for being laxative, largely due to their high Sobitol content. Yes, they have a good amount of fiber, but that's not what makes someone poo. Sobitol is a poorly digested sugar, because we don't have the proper enzymes, so undigested sugars pass through into the large bowel. There it's party time for the the colonic bacteria and they release gas and irritating compounds and the person soon starts farting and pooing.

@Sean I don't know about Moorish influence. I think it was just that public facilities were often built with budget cleaning in mind. You can use a squat toilet even if it's unclean because your shoes only touch the facility.