pee fear!

[spiff]

Does anyone else suffer from 'pisser's paralysis'? i.e. you're DYING for a pee but when you go to a pub toilet and get to the front of the queue,you can't actually pee? i usually make a lot of loud coughing and spitting noises. Failing that,i actually PRETEND i've just done a wee (shaking the non-existent drops off). PLEASE say i'm not alone in this!!

[Quizmonster]

Your problem is known as paruresis or 'shy bladder syndrome'. Check out the scientific website at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstrac
t/98515829/ABSTRACT

[Quizmonster]

Click also http://www.paruresis.org/ Once there, there are other headings to click on for further information.

[Azimov]

Nope, this never happens to me! I reckon that only men who have sex on a regular basis ever experience this phenomenon. Perhaps it is related to the same phenomenon that causes men with huge members to hide away in cubicles to pee! Perhaps not!

[quattro]

No you are not alone we all do it from time to time go straight to the sit down ones and if you are really bursting empty your bladder the first time then try to relax your muscles round your bladder area and see if you can empty some more out .It means you have longer to wait till you take another visit and go through it all again.

[jjf2003]

I cannot pee in front of other people. I always go into a cubicle. I see nothing wrong with this.

[melandraf]

Definatly a "man Thing". Think it is because you are intimidated by the other blokes there seeing your male-pride. Try using a cubicle.... will the privacy help...? i may be barking up the wrong tree completely but you know we are all sometimes embarrassed over these seemingly 'little' bodily function things. You are not alone.....

[incitatus]

i used to get this as a teenager. but as i turned into a semblance of a 6ft3 gorilla i dont get it much anymore. It is a confidence/threat thing. I know because my arrival at a urinal tends to induce it in other people, even in mid flow. The thing is to relax and think about other things.