On 2013-11-08, at 2:00 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> Marv: Given the new scientific findings about technique, it could become an
> interesting spectator sport, giving pissing contests a whole new meaning
> beyond the metaphorical...
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> You mean going back to the _original_ on which the metaphor was based:
> small boys in actual competition to see which could piss the furthest.
I have a more grandiose vision of it becoming an Olympic sport. :)
> Or wasn't it only a sport for _small_ boys?
Evidently not:
Pissing contests usually, but not always, take place between males. Sarah Miles, in her book Serves Me Right, describes a female pissing contest that she witnessed in Spain. This was a "distance" contest like the usual male ones.[6]
Havelock Ellis, in his book Psychology of Sex, describes a female pissing contest in Belgium.[citation needed] This was an "accuracy" contest in which women stood in a circle and attempted to urinate into a bottle, placed in the center of the circle. Women can, once they have learned the right technique, urinate standing.[7] A comic song from 17th-century Belgium is about a similar contest, aiming into a shoe, between three women seeking to impress a man.[8]
There is also some Irish folklore about female pissing contests. In the story Tochmarc Emire several women compete to see who can urinate deepest into a pile of snow. The winner is Derbforgaill, wife of Lugaid Riab nDerg, but the other women attack her out of jealousy and mutilate her by gouging out her eyes and cutting off her nose, ears, and hair, resulting in her death. Her husband Lugaid also dies, from grief, and Cúchulainn avenges the deaths by demolishing a house with the women inside, killing 150.[9][10]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pissing_contest