Urolagnia

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Urolagnia (also known as urophilia or undinism) is a sexual fetish in which participants derive sexual pleasure from urine and urination. Urolagnia is sometimes associated with, or confused with, Omorashi.

"Kisses!", a controversial urinal

People with urolagnia often like to urinate in public, or urinate on, or be urinated on by other people, and may drink the urine. The consumption of urine is urophagia. Some like to watch others doing these things. These activities are often described by the euphemisms "golden showers" or "watersports" (which should not be confused with water sports).

1 Variations
2 Other practices
3 Health Concerns
4 Notable urophiliacs
- 4.1 Alleged urophiliacs
5 Depictions of Urolagnia in the Popular Arts
6 See also
7 Notes
8 External links

[edit] Variations

As a paraphilia, urine may be consumed or bathed in. Other forms of urolagnia may involve a tendency to be sexually aroused by smelling urine soaked clothing or body parts. In many cases, a strong correlation or conditioning arises between urine smell or sight and the sexual act. Some are aroused by the sound of either a male or female urinating into a receptacle (one designed for urination, or not). To many of this persuasion, the louder the noise, the more arousing. In BDSM, a submissive may be urinated on or forced to hold their urine until incontinence as a form of humiliation. In some cases, a person is aroused by merely staging situations where others can either witness that person wet his or her clothing or smell his or her urine scent. In Western nations, the term is sometimes broadened to include all fetishism for wetting oneself, seeing another urinate in their pants/underclothes, or wetting the bed, often leading to a crossover with communities for diaper fetishism and infantilism. Though arousal by this kind of accidental wetting is more accurately described as omorashi, such fetish communities outside of Japan are relatively small and significantly less prevalent than other groups dealing with urine. As a result, such communities are often absorbed by those interested in urolagnia.

[edit] Other practices

Some people drink large quantities of their own urine as alternative medicine. This is not the same as urolagnia. Some believe that some or all urine therapists may be urolagniacly motivated, as a sort of apologism or promotion of the fetish, whether the connection or even the fetish itself is consciously realized^{[citation needed]}. Similarly, urolagnia may be formed based upon appreciation for the perceived health benefits of urine therapy, as may happen with other health-related obsessions^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Health Concerns

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Drinking excessive liquids without urinating in extreme cases may result in death from water intoxication. One of the first signs of water intoxication is swelling. Other symptoms of hyponatremia are nausea and dizziness. If one experiences these symptoms and suspect water intoxication, stop drinking more water and seek medical attention. Eat some food to replace the electrolytes(salts) that are being diluted by the water [2]

For hundreds of years, the general belief was that famous Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe died after holding his urine in a very important dinner. Recent investigations have suggested that Tycho did not die from urinary problems but instead from mercury poisoning: extremely toxic levels of it have been found in his hair and hair-roots.

[edit] Notable urophiliacs

Havelock Ellis - British sexologist who was impotent until at age sixty he discovered that he was aroused by the sight of a woman urinating. Ellis is also notable for his attempt to prove that the painter Rembrandt also enjoyed the practice, claiming that it explained the golden tones in which paintings were suffused, and arguing that Rembrandt's picture "Bathsheba" originally depicted her urinating.
Ricky Martin - Singer. Gave an interview with Blender Magazine in which he stated that he enjoyed giving "Golden Showers"^[1].
Shirley Manson - Lead singer of the popular rock band Garbage. Was quoted in an interview as saying "I hate boys who are frightened of pee and shit and menstrual blood… I want a man who will let me pee in his belly button"^[2]. The Garbage song "When I Grow Up" contains the lyrics "Happy Hours/Golden Showers"
Annie Sprinkle - Multimedia performer and advocate for female sexual enjoyment. Her stage name is derived from her abilities with urination, notably the ability to turn herself into a human fountain.
Ashley MacIsaac - Nova Scotian Fiddler and singer. In 1996 he spoke with a Maclean's interviewer mentioning his sexual life, including his underage boyfriend and his taste for urolagnia. In 2003 he told an interviewer for the Montreal Mirror that he loves to have men urinate on him. ^[3]
Tommie John - Not to be confused with the baseball player, John is a notable urophiliac in the porn industry. Generally considered the most famous "golden shower fetish" pornographer.
Anton Bird - American entrepreneur, publisher, and writer, enjoyed "going down the yellow river" with longtime girlfriend Annie Lalla who he met at Burning Man.

[edit] Alleged urophiliacs

Adolf Hitler - German Nazi party leader. Otto Strasser, an ex-Nazi leader with a grudge against Hitler, claimed that Hitler had an incestuous relationship with his niece Geli Raubal, and that Geli had once told him that Hitler liked to have her crouch over his face naked, urinating on him. No other source exists for this claim.^[4]

R. Kelly - R&B Singer, Songwriter and Producer. In 2002 a bootleg copy of a videotape was released to the Chicago Sun Times that showed an alleged Kelly engaging in many sexual acts including urinating on a then 14 year girl who is the daughter of an associate and niece of a former Kelly protege. It was announced during his ongoing child pornography trial that the tape will be played in public court. Opening arguments were scheduled for October 13th 2006^[5].

In the Canadian band The Hidden Cameras' song Golden Streams frontman and songwriter Joel Gibb appears to describe watersports. In the Hidden Cameras' live show for several years, yellow streamers were thrown into the audience to accompany the song. The song begins with what appears to be a description of the fear and discomfort the protagonist felt during a childhood episode of wetting himself on a cold winter's day, and ends in the triumphant recapture of the sensation in an adult homosexual context:

My golden wand waves down your golden rod
Our gold held high in sunny breezy sky
Then a stream of gold released from golden stone
erupts late at night and melts the winter ice

The golden streams
The golden streams

There are references to being urinated on in other Gibb songs from the same period. ^[6] Nonetheless, in recent interviews, Gibb has claimed that Golden Streams actually "isn't really about anything sexual - it's about building an architectural device to get to heaven using frozen piss." ^[7]

Brian Eno Experimental musician and member of proto New Wave band Roxy Music in his diary A Year With Swollen Appendices; The Diary Of Brian Eno reportedly describes his interest in watersports. Reportedly there is widespread belief based on the diary is that his song Here Come the Warm Jets refers to the topic [3].

[edit] Depictions of Urolagnia in the Popular Arts

This list is limited to those depictions that depict activities that fall under the description of urolagnia listed above or where the person who created it explicitly stated that it was his or her intent to create a depiction that falls under the above guidelines. All movie depictions are from the Patches Place "Pee Movie List" [4] unless otherwise noted.

Rockbitch - mostly female band featuring many sexual acts including urination as part of their stage act ^[8]
Hole - Alternative rock band featuring Courtney Love in a song "20 years in the Dakota" has a reference to "pee girl" ^[9]
Cat Chaser - Seattle-based goth/punk rock band that had a small but rabid following partially based on singer Cresta wetting her clothes during the band's performances ^[10]
MC Frontalot - Rapper credited with coining the term nerdcore hip hop. On his album Nerdcore Rising Frontalot has a song called "Yellow Lasers" ^[11] where the female lead, dressed as Princess Leia wishes to show the protaganist her "Yellow Laser Beams". He is less than pleased when he "got a steaming mouth full of yellow laser beam".
Diary of a Porn Virgin - 2005 British Television Channel 4 documentary shows porn star Sahara drinking large amounts of water, in preparation for a scene in which she urinates on camera for a long period of time.
Vice Squad - 1982 Movie. A hooker played by Season Hubley is approached by a man who asks if she does golden showers. She apologizes and says that she just used the bathroom, but the man replies "I've got $100 and a six-pack of beer." "You've also got a date with Princess Running Water," she replies, and hops into his car.
Flirting - 1991 movie. Thandie Newton uses the boys' restroom at Noah Taylor's boarding school (because there is no girls' room) and he pushes the door open.
Bitter Moon - 1992 Movie. Near the start of the film a character played by Peter Coyote tells a character played by Hugh Grant about the first time he drank a character played by Emmanuelle Seigner piss and how much it turned him on.
Final Cut - 1998 Movie. Jude Law hides video cameras around a house to secretly film his friends. Later people are viewing the film, and are shocked to find a scene of Jude's friend's wife noisily peeing into the toilet
Holy Smoke! - 1999 Movie. A man played by Harvey Keitel is trying to deprogram a woman played by Kate Winslet. The woman's efforts at seduction fail until she urinates down her leg.
Team America: World Police - 2004 movie, two puppet characters engage in a wide variety of sexual practices, including urolangia and coprophilia.
American Pie Presents Band Camp- 2005 Movie DVD version only. In a feature called "Rover Cam," the camera follows a cheerleader into the bathroom and watches her use the toilet. She then throws a tissue at the "rover cam," flushes, and walks out
Conversations with Other Women - 2005 Movie. After spending the night with Aaron Eckhart, Helena Bonham Carter excuses herself to go to the bathroom. He asks to go with her but she refuses.
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - 2006 movie, Borat played by Sasha Baron Cohen claims to enjoy watching ladies "make toilet," and shows off several pictures of women sitting on toilets.