Moral Hygiene

So a while ago I posted a post about the ethics of teeth brushing and smelly breath. This post received some of the highest numbers of comments I've ever gotten and from new people too. This post seemed to stir something in people. I guess people are bound to be stirred by matters of hygiene. Hygiene is such a personal thing, yet there are societal standards we attach to it. We determine our own means by which to keep our own cleanliness and sometimes, when we feel our own means threatened we get defensive or when we see someone's means as less than our own we get offensive. Here is a dialogue to illustrate my points:

CLARENCE: Man, I tell you what. I have to shower at least once a day so I can feel fresh and dainty as a daisy with spring dew.
CLANCY: Clarence you can't be serious! I've never taken you for a dirty fellow but I may have to re-think that thought because one shower a day simply isn't enough to keep your self anywhere near as fresh and dainty as a daisy with spring dew. You'd be lucky to be as fresh and dainty as a mud puppy. I need AT LEAST three showers a day in order to maintain my level of hygiene. And sometimes I feel like that's not even enough.
CLARENCE: By George Clancy, three showers a day is just an out and out waste of water! Don't you know there are children in Tretikistan with no clean water? And here you are just contaminating it with your soap and sending it down the drain.
CLANCY: Well, children in Tretikistan should shower three times a day too.


....or something.

ANYWAY. To get to the point of this blog. I want to bring up another point about hygiene and I think this one may be even more controversial than not brushing your teeth in the morning.

I'm talking of course, about peeing in the shower.

I had a conversation with friends a while ago about the finer points of to or to not pee in the shower. I myself was surprised to find I was the only one in the group who had never peed in the shower.

To be honest, its not that I find peeing in the shower all together disgusting its that the thought to pee in the shower had never even occurred to me. For me it’s always been the toilet for peeing and other excretory business and the shower for lather, rinse, and repeat.

The group of shower pee-ers argued that shower peeing was not only un-gross and logical, but practical as well. Here are some of their major points:
a) Why waste time sitting on the toilet and all the trouble of pulling your pants up and down when you can just strip and take care of all your business in the shower?
b) Why waste water in the flush of a toilet since the water in the shower is going to be going down the drain anyway?
c) Why waste the toilet paper since you're going to be getting clean in the shower anyway?

Hm.

Ok, I'm all for stream (no pun intended) lining the morning routine. But I don't know if I can wrap my brain around peeing in the shower. I don't know if I could even do it. I'd get nervous and my mind would seize up and scream, "Pee doesn’t belong in the shower no more so than shampoo belongs in the toilet bowl!!"

Maybe I'm just crazy and too uptight about this.

Which brings up a somewhat less disgusting premise to tie in with the oral hygiene post....how do you feel about brushing your teeth in the shower? I know there are people that do it.

Hmmm...I must ponder this more....