Does the Girl pee in the woods?

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There are many factors that go into camping and a basic one that most everyone I have read forgets when writing is that guys and gals pee differently and thus peeing in the woods is very different. As many people know, guys pee rather easily in the woods. It is rather a non-issue.

Now with women, the physiognomy is a touch different. There are a number of websites out there devoted to helping teach women learn the fine art of peeing and pooing in the woods with minimal fuss and muss. The fact that this is a skill that needs to be taught to cisgendered people certainly implies that those of us who cross the great divide might have to relearn certain camping habits. Standing and peeing when you are no longer thus equipped leads to wet clothes and comments by friends. This of course led me to feeling the need to describe one of the techniques to everyone. Once I get snipped I am certainly going to need this skill and who knows who else might.

This has been a public service urinary tract message by your friendly neighborhood writer.

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thanks for the info

if, after i transition, (assuming I can) I ever find myself in the woods, that info will come in handy.

"You can survive a couple of weeks without food. You can survive a couple of days without water. You can even survive a couple of minutes without air. But you cannot survive for even a minute without hope."

Dorothycolleen

Yeah post 'em!

I would love to bookmark theseâ€”one never knows when it'll come in handy.

Hmph, ciswomen indeed.

There's this girl who runs

There's this girl who runs in a lot of races on trails who has an interesting technique.

She wears a running skirt with a built-in panty (knickers), or very short running shorts. She just reaches down with one hand, pulls the panty or shorts over to one side, and lets go! Always hits the dirt, not her shoes or legs. The guys behind her are gobsmacked!

Kris

{I leave a trail of Kudos as I browse the site. Be careful where you step!}

Last summer was my first time.

In the before time, I had done a lot of camping and hiking, so that part was like a no brainer for me. Then last summer, my roomate and I were out hiking and she just slipped behind a tree, squatted and did it about as fast as one of those fire bombing airplanes.

Well, my body chose that time to really need it, perhaps because of the power of suggestion. I almost panicked because I realised that I had never done it. Fortunately, I was wearing a skirt over my pants, so if I spotted then my skirt would cover it. Amazingly it was really easy, but you can not empty your bladder as well as sitting on the seat. It was however enough.

Now I wonder why a hose is needed?

Why not?

Good to be prepared.

The way I've tried so far is certainly less than elegant (involves an empty used fast food beverage container - sorry for TMI).

Janet

Mistress of the Guild of Evil [Strawberry] Blonde Proofreaders

To be or not to be... ask Schrodinger's cat.

Janet

Mistress of the Guild of Evil [Strawberry] Blonde Proofreaders

To be or not to be... ask Schrodinger's cat.

Personally, I hope never to camp again

Personally, I hope never to camp again or at least no further away from home than the back garden so that ensuite facilities are close by!! That being said I've always hoped the peeing in the woods technique that I saw demonstrated as a teenager in the movie Doc Hollywood would work when the time comes that I need it.

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

Have done it twice

Luckily for me the first time was not an emergency and I learned from it. I learned how to do it out in the sand dunes during a dune tour on Cape Cod, so talking about going to the sandbox! The second time was an emergency as the tea I drank lead to an emergency where I had to go behind a bush in my apartment complex as I could not get to my apartment in time.

Nothing like a trial by fire.

Kim

Peeing for Beginners 101

As a past park naturalist, post-op, my experience with needing to 'pee in the woods' is this:

HOW:
You squat, feet as far apart as you can manage. If you can't balance, face a small tree and hold on to it with one hand. Simple as that. It's no different for any woman.

WHERE:
Much more important is *where* you go.
- In a developed park, find a washroom and use it. There is no reason to spoil a hiking trail of just a few miles' length. Plan ahead, use the maps that are freely available to find them, and use the provided facilities.
- If you set up a wilderness campsite, you also set up a sanitary latrine according to the rules of the area.
- If you are in a wilderness area on a trail, move away from the trail a dozen yards or so to pee. To defecate, find a private spot *at least* a dozen yards away from any trail, dig a shell-scrape (shallow hole) and just squat.
- Always use 100% biodegradable paper. Cover *everything* with the loose dirt from the scrape. Never leave loose toilet paper behind, even if it's clean.
- If it's a pack-out area, you bring everything out, including your own waste, sealed in plastic.
- NEVER defecate in or at the edge of a waterway. Your feces may carry pathogens dangerous to others. And it's disgusting to spoil a waterway.

Follow all park, state and national laws and regulations. Despoiling a wilderness or natural area is the eighth deadly sin.

Michelle

little reality check

"And it's disgusting to spoil a waterway."

That waterway is filled with animal waste and carcasses. There's no point in adding anything on purpose, but no reason to worry about it much either.

Bigger reality check

Animal pathogens and environmental organisms: medium risk to humans.
Human enteric pathogens: HUGE risk to humans.
Michelle

As a camping woman I can tell you...

I 'go' into the woods and take my portable pottie. I am a camper but I am not a hiker... so when I go into the wild I take my stool with the built in toilet...

as for peeing... the real hassle is not getting any on your shoes or calves... cuz you pee on a leaf and it reflects (bounces) all over everything. You have to bend way over so the stream bounces away from you! Every girl out there will tell you that it just takes practice. *smirk* its also the reason we girls like to drink way less than men in the bush and pee EVERY time we pass an outhouse just to keep empty to avoid having to go in the actual bush. My mother constantly embarasses me by hanging out off the edge of the boat and ... TMI? tough noogies!

Dayna.

What's the problem?

Women have been around longer than toilets, so one assumes our ancestors did the same as we do when outdoors.

However, for those who want to stand and... there is always the Shewee and assorted other devices.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=she-wee&tag=goog...

Angharad