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As a scuba diver, we often spend 6+ hours away from toilet facilities, and good hydration is important. With a wet suit, you can just pee and it will wash out.
by Daviey 7y ago
As a scuba diver, we often spend 6+ hours away from toilet facilities, and good hydration is important. With a wet suit, you can just pee and it will wash out.
However, with a dry suit it is similar to a spacesuit. It is a pain to de-suit just to go for a pee (some of the old-timers have zips that allow them to pee above water, but it isn't very common.. and I prefer to pee underwater).
Many people use pee-valves which work in a similar way to the twitter thread. External catheters which are like condoms with glue inside, and a tube which allows the liquid to escape outside the suit.
Trouble is, I didn't know my "size". The medical company that makes them will post a selection of each type and a "sizing chart". The chart is a cardboard disc with cutouts that you can use to measure up against your body. For the same reasons as the thread, they use measuring in millimeters rather than t-shirt sizes.
A few days later, I was on a road trip with my daughter and the company called to see if I received the pack and was able to place a real order. I answered on hands-free and I was asked, "What size will you need sir?". How could I possibly answer that sat next to my daughter? :o
For female divers, the main option is a pad and glue. Sounds awful.
- mlevental 7y ago>How could I possibly answer that sat next to my daughter? :o i'm not trying to start a fight but i will never understand this. you're embarrassed to talk about your body in front of your daughter. what's the point? i remember my mom had a UTI and was embarrassed to discuss it with me when we were on a trip (so she suffered in kisilence). this woman whose body i literally was created in couldn't bring herself to tell me about something normal/typical about her body because of what? puritan culture? i will never get it. Edit: why am I getting downvoted? What have I said that's so offensive?
- Daviey 7y agoThis isn't related to a medical issue. This is reluctance to share with my child the specific size of my genitalia. You think that is peculiar?
- gameswithgo 7y agoyou are normal but normal is strange :)
- dingoegret 7y agoPeople like him will have you either running butt naked, flailing your mace or shamed for a modicum of modesty. The new Puritans are them
- Ntrails 7y agoI guess I feel like I'd be amazed if she hadn't seen you naked a bunch of times growing up anyway? Maybe my family was odd! I'd still probably not have the conversation for fear of embarrassing her and that seems fine?
- mlevental 7y agoYou had a phone call that completely perfunctorily implicated the size of your penis. As far I'm concerned that's about as uncomplicated as a medical issue - there's no allusion to anything sexual. To wit: do you use your mouth during sex? Would you shy away from answering how large a mouth guard you needed over the phone in front of your daughter?
- BubbleBoy420 7y agolol this site never ceases to crack me up. weirdos like OP never get old.
- tom_ 7y agoYou must do you, and may the repercussions for that be no more serious than a few downvotes. But as far as everybody else is concerned, this matter is, if not actually outright sexual, at least sex-adjacent, and therefore not an appropriate topic for discussion when one's children are around. (Your children will probably be grateful for this.) This might not be logical, but there you go. Something these things aren't. If you feel strongly that this is so ridiculous that things should change, then let nobody tell you that you are wrong, but I think you'll find that this is a minority viewpoint, and you'll attract few fellow travelers for your quixotic quest.
- shrimp_emoji 7y agoThe reminder that we have genitals is more unbearable than enduring excruciating pain in those genitals. Genitals, the stuff genital-adjacent like sex or waste-release -- it's all viscerally disgusting, particularly in the context of family members, and unmoors us from the sanitized, half-reality we have to live in so that we can tolerate each other comfortably. With strangers, though, it's mostly fine. It makes ironclad sense, just like everything else.