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Don't sit on the toilet. Period.

Resting squats fixed my knees.

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What type of toilet allows this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squat_toilet

that looks like a recipe for crapping in your pants... like seriously how would you not?? Do you need to depants before, uh, engaging??

something like half the world successfully defecates this way. The linked wikipedia article explains it in detail.

Pull your pants down to your knees; your knees are in front of you when squatting and your pelvis rotates, so the feces will land behind your heels. Maybe wearing very baggy pants there might be a problem, so don't do it if you're a teenager and the year is 1994?

the big baggy pants are coming back. viva la Jnco

Ah, these are sommon in parts of the middle east I've lived. I've always done a few minutes of slavic squatting a day just to make sure I'll never crap my pants if I find myself constrained to using one of these.

Downvoted to oblivion. That went over about as well as the time I tried to use one myself. Once again it seems I didn't know what I was stepping in...

Alternatively squatty potty to get your legs up gets you half way there.

I asked my kid to bring the litter box home from the school bathroom.

You climb up on it or what?

Yes, do it. It's doable if you're not a very large person. Just position yourself accurately so the output goes in the exit, not in front of it or behind it.

Or if you're in Asia, just get an Asian style squat toilet.

Sounds like splash central. Gross.

In a Western toilet with water in it, the splash is always there, whether you're sitting or squatting.

The only time there isn't any splash is in a proper Asian squat toilet, as it doesn't hold water. The output can be drained away as often as needed, again with no splash.

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