The seat should be left down. The lid I don't much care about, but I prefer it to be left up mostly. I recall quite literally "falling in" to the toilet and getting my ass wet when the seat was left up. I had stumbled sleepily into the dark bathroom, hoping to not wake myself completely up at 3AM by turning on the light. Well, I certainly woke up.

My wonderful husband always leaves the seat down for me.

So who left the seat up?

So who left the seat up?

This was many years ago, before I had ever met my wonderful husband. In fact, thinking about it, I think it had been left up by my father.

My wife squats with her feet on the ceramic rim. She's quite happy if I leave the seat up.

I usually piss out the kitchen door anyway, so can't see what difference it makes.

Americans

I'm male and sit down to pee.

I have done it for over 20 years now.

I read an article about how the bladder empties better sitting down and decreases the chance for prostate cancer.

I thought I was the only guy that did that.

Could also be that we have equipment that not needs to be hold down to pee.

Gravity takes care of that.