I used one many times in the standing position (I'm male so you get what I mean) without any problem other than many were a bit unclean. I am old enough to remember the days before sewerage back in Australia and have also used many hole in the ground toilets in the bush so this was no big deal. I then had to use one in the seated postition,well what would have been in the seated position if there was a seat. I had been avoiding this for as long as I could because my knees after many years of playing basketball are not great. I really struggled and can only successfully negotiate one if it has a handrail to support myself and to help me get up. Luckily I can usually find a throne....

I'll go first. I first saw a squat toilet in the Beijing airport and decided I could wait he 2 hrs for my flight and the 4 hr flight to Guilin to use my 4 star western toilet waiting for me,,stupid me,,didn't check for door number 4,,surprise Ted,,you won a trip to a western toilet.
Well peeing is easy in them..My knees are shot, I need knee replacements, I can not squat and get up. The first time I used one was in another hotel room,,I sat on it,It was clean,still hard to get up. I used one waaayyy out in the boonies, an outhouse, no door and a hugh bucket of water for flushing. I did manage a squat. My fear was the really musical poops that can't be aimed.Hey no problem.
I remember women peeing standing over my toilet and aiming. I was amazed. I've never seen that before.

I have not waited to come to China to used squat toilets. There are so many all over europe...
And if I have the choice (as it happens often in China) i'll choose the squat one rather than the seated one.

I have been here for almost 3 years... never used them and never will

I think you guys need to stop the bitching. I like squat toilets. The squatting position relieves stress on my back, makes it easier to go #2, and is actually scientifically proven to be healthier for you. No joke. It also keeps you from getting your butt cheeks on a germ infested toilet seat. It's also given me the best leg flexibility since my football days. Enjoy it!

One of my female Colleagues’ asked me the other day if i had trouble sitting on them as well.........she has be here a year.

i first used one in south of spain and thought what the hell is that different from chinese as was more like a large round hole, found a stall and tried sitting on it and edging of it to a fail. Travelled through the desert where you go anywhere so now not so much a problem, but there s alwaysa that "you beauty" feeling when you out in a restuarant or somewhere and you stumble apon a western toilet

The first time... I actually took my pants off and hung them on the door (didn't trust my aim).

lmao i missed the 1st time and 2nd and 3rd and havnt used one sinve

First time I used a squat toilet the walls of the particle were stained with dark brown hand marks.

It was about a year ago, near Hangzhou where they grow all that expensive Dragonwell tea. There were no Western toilets, and at that time it was the worst one I had seen. Now I have seen much worse, so I suppose it wasn't that bad of an experience. I avoid them as much as possible, I'm still afraid that something horrible will get on my pants. I have to say, the worst one I've used was at a train station in Jinhua. They weren't even individual toilets, just a trough with slowly moving water went underneath all the stalls...

I'm still getting used to the ones on the trains...  looking down between your feet and seeing railroad ties and rocks zip past is still a bit unnerving...

Yes, I went to the cinema with a girl I really liked but my stomach was still getting used to all the chilly in the food here. After sweating through the movie I couldnt take it anymore and when to the toilet when she went, to my dread there was only squatters... it wasnt so bad, I was just worried that i would sh*t all over my trousers. Thank god i remembered to take some paper in my back pocket. I took such a long time I think she assumed I had fallen in.

I have been here for four years. It was almost a year before i had to use one.  However, I had "trained". Meaning, that I would squat as often as possible (plug in my computer, pick up my shoes, etc) to get my knees into shape. It was rather difficlut at first but after a few weeks of squatting I was fine. So, when "that day" came that I had to use the squat toiled I was ready! Almost woked fine! My only mistake was that I fogot to take my mobile phone out of my pocket so in I  experienced the slow motion surrealistic horror of feeling my phone slide out of my pocket and "plunck" down the deep dark hole below.
Now, I use them no problem, BUT I remembver to remove all valuables that may slip!