Caught short - half of Brits admit to peeing in the sea

Nearly half of Brits have admitted to peeing in the sea, according to a YouGov poll.

The survey asked Britons about the locations they had peed in, with options ranging from disabled toilets to showers, baths and sinks.

Nearly half (48%) admitted to urinating in the sea, while men and women were equally culpable with 49% of the former and 48% of the latter confessing to it.

More than half of Brits (54%) said they’d peed in the shower, with 22% saying they’d done it in a bath and 20% in a swimming pool.

When it comes to taking an outdoor wee in an urban area, 29% of Brits admitted to it, though men are much more likely to have done so than women (46% vs 13%).

Of those polled, 21% said they’d gone in a bottle, while 12% had even gone in the sink in their own home.

And it seems that not being in their own home didn’t stop some people, with 10% admitting to peeing in the sink somewhere that wasn’t their own home.

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Four in ten Brits (38%) admitted to using the opposite gender’s restrooms, while a further 77% made use of the disabled loo.

YouGov also looked at the way toilet facilities are divided between the sexes and the difference in queue lengths, finding that just 11% of men report having to queue for public toilets on a regular basis, compared to 59% of women.

According to the poll, 56% think it is acceptable for a woman who badly needs the loo to use the men”s toilets, while only 29% disagree.

The figures are almost the same if the situation were reversed and a man needed to go in the women’s toilets – 52% think this would be ok and 32% do not.

But Brits are less hospitable towards those faced with the dilemma of having to go in an alley or risk wetting themselves, with only around a quarter think it would be acceptable for either a man (23%) or a woman (27%) to weeoutdoors in a built up area, while 61-64% don’t think the risk of wetting themselves excuses urban peeing.

The poll also looked at ‘potty parity’, asking people what they think is the fairest division of men’s and women’s toilets in public areas: whether toilets of the same size that accommodated the same number of people, or female toilets that could accommodate more people than the men’s loos.

The public came down on the side of equally sized toilets by 47% to 37%, although the genders are split – men support same-size loos by 54% to 25%, while women back bigger toilets for their gender by 48% to 40%.