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Q: This question may or may not have been asked before, but...
...yeah, just a matter of ingenuous curiosity, that's all.
At the public urinal, why do Chinese males unbuckle the belt, open the trousers and whip out junior when they take a piss at a restaurant, airport or supermarket loo? I don't get it. Is it a social conditioning thing? A Buddhist thing? Cultural? A school-taught thing?
I mean, all my life, I've just untethered the zip on my Levi's, let spring Trigger, have a slash, return horsy to the Hanes Corral, zip up, and I'm back to my seat or trolley, where I was a moment ago. (After washing my hands, of course.)
Why such an unusual peeing style? Never seen it anywhere else in the world. Weird...
I have to do it that way due to simple physics, why they do it is anybody's guess
Red_Fox:
You need baggier pants, old boy!
In any case, I'm wondering if it's a potty training thing, i.e. social conditioning that begins in infancy.
Anyway, doesn't matter. Just a cultural curiosity. Like peeing on the floor, for example. That one I really don't get.
royceH:
There'd be a lot less piddling on the floor if they gave the poor buggers a closer target.
I mean, it's hard enough for me to hit that little slot in the floor, so the locals have an even less likely chance of success. Of course, to hit the proper target they'd have to actually care whether they did or not.
Red_Fox:
@royce: Talking about wall-mounted urinals or troughs where the target is as wide as the deck of an aircraft carrier. And still it's like wading through a flooded street.
Nessquick:
@Fox, yeah, i know what you are talking about 
I would like to post some photo-documentation, but ... Noo, we are after lunch, right ? 
Probably a carry-over from toilet training. My kids learn the western way 'to go' from me and employ said technique when we're out and about. The wife and their kindergarten employ the 'pants at half mast' position.
Red_Fox:
So, like, are zippers a "new" thing in China? 5,000 or 8,000 years of whatever and zippers have been around for only a little while?
ohChina:
Yes modern zippers were invented by Gideon Sundback, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Sundback, a Swedish-American electrical engineer about 100 years ago.
Nessquick:
Do you have zippers in your country ? do you have ballpens in your country ? do you have screwdriver in your country ? do you have this , or this , in your country ?
Man, how many times I have listen this questions during my years in Yiwu from "translators" or shopkeepers
Coffee now ...
Sometimes this forum is so male-only oriented. Do you honestly think that les Mesdames here have any more noble manners in these private places? Mon Dieu.
royceH:
My sympathies are definitely with you, the fairer sex.
How you manage to cope with all these primitive private facilities I will never know!
haha I can think of two reasons:
1) You have to be very careful when "zipping up" because zips might hurt the skin of penis.. it hurts 
2) Many Chinese boys always wear sports pants that don't have zips when we are little. It became a habit.
