Excellent point, Jack. The more exposure to air and sunlight your feet get, the less likely you will develop any athlete's foot, so wearing sandals with bare feet is a great way to go, I'm sure (although I don't do that unless I'm in the tropics).

SINSULL - I have NEVER peed in anyone else's shower while visiting them! Geez. Gimme a break.

As for in my own place, I usually use a plastic bucket, then I dump the urine out in the toilet and rinse out the bucket (and the foot...one at a time) in the bathtub. I have noticed no stains developing in the bathtub. Also...I don't do this regularly, I pretty much only do it if there seems to be a bit of athlete's foot actually getting started, in which case it stops it. I would do it regularly, but I'm just too damn lazy and disorganized and usually in a hurry or whatever...so I don't get around to it until there's a clear and definite need for it. ;-)

These fears about getting stains in your bathtub are just plain silly, because there are plenty of other ways to immerse your toes in urine. I simply used the expression "pee in the shower", because it is a quick and simple way of saying it so someone understands what I mean, and because many people would probably opt to do that anyway sometimes. (regardless of whether they were doing it for therapeutic reasons or not)

Urine is not something people need to get all squeamish about. You don't want it getting in your clothing or your carpeting, that's for sure...but getting some on your body is not any kind of problem, and it's an excellent natural antiseptic.

What I'd like to know is what exactly is in the urine that provides those antiseptic qualities. Is it ammonia? Or something else?

The other crap about "golden showers" is something I totally don't get. I understand that some people find it erotic to see someone else peeing (or even peeing ON them)???? Well, that's pretty strange, to say the least. I find it about as erotic as reading the Latvian-English dictionary backwards from the letter "T" to the letter "J". Not at all, in other words. I can't speak for Spaw, though. I bet it drives him wild... ;-) I mean, hell, the man consorts with Weimaraners! That tells you a lot. Dogs will happily pee on anything.