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'''Urolagnia''' (also known as '''urophilia''') is a ] with a ] on ] and urination.
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People with urolagnia often like to ] in public, or urinate on, or be urinated on by other people, and may drink the urine. The consumption of urine is ]. Some like to watch others doing these things. These activities are often described by the ]s "'''golden showers'''" or "'''watersports'''" (which should not be confused with ]s).
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'''Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales''' (born ], ])<ref>{{cite web | last = Wales | first = Jimmy | title = Wikimedia Foundation Inc.: Board of Trustees | url = http://wikimediafoundation.org/search/?title=Board_of_Trustees&diff=prev&oldid=406 | accessdate =2006-07-15}}</ref>
is the founder and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the ],<ref name="wmfbylaws">{{cite web|author=Wikimedia Foundation Inc.|title=Bylaws|publisher=wikimediafoundation.org|url=http://www.wikimediafoundation.org/bylaws.pdf|accessdate=2006-05-21}}</ref> a ] corporation that operates the free online encyclopedia, ], and several other ] projects. He is also founder of the for-profit company ], which is legally unrelated to Wikimedia.


As a ], urine may be consumed or the person may bathe in it. Other variations include arousal from wetting or seeing someone else pee their pants or underclothes, or ]. 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. For some individuals the phenomenon may include a ] fetish and/or arousal from ]. Watersports may also be used in a ] scene as a form of ], sometimes involving desperation until ] or infantilization, sometimes physical humiliation associated with being urinated on or pressured to consume urine. 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 May 2006, Wales was named one of '']'' magazine's 100 most influential people.<ref name=influence>{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1187286,00.html|title=Jimmy Wales: The (Proud) Amateur Who Created Misplaced Pages|date=]|accessdate=2006-04-30|last=Anderson|first=Chris}}</ref>


Urolagnia is sometimes associated with, or confused with, a sexual attraction to someone experiencing the discomfort or pain of a full ], a ] inclination. More studies are still needed on this topic.
==Personal life and education==
Wales was born in ]. His father was a ] manager, while his mother, Doris, and grandmother, Erma, ran a small ], "in the tradition of the ],"<ref name="qanda">{{cite web|title= Q&A: Jimmy Wales, Misplaced Pages founder|author=]|url=http://qanda.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1042|work=]|date= September 25, 2005|accessdate=2006-07-11}}</ref> where Wales was educated. There were four children in his grade most of the time, so the school grouped together first through fourth grades, and fifth through eighth grades.


==Health issues==
A 2005 ''Time'' magazine article incorrectly reported that Wales was ].<ref name="qanda"/><ref>{{cite news|title=It's a Wiki, Wiki World|author=Taylor, Chris|publisher=]|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1066904-3,00.html|accessdate=2005-05-29}}</ref> Strictly speaking he was not, but he did note that his schooling experience was "in a sense similar",<ref name="qanda"/> since his mother and grandmother were his primary teachers. The school's philosophy of education was significantly influenced by the ], and students had a fair amount of freedom to study whatever they liked. Wales has said that he spent many hours poring over the '']'' during this time.<ref name="newsweek1">{{cite news| url=http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6298340| title=It's Like a Blog, But It's a Wiki| first=Brad| last=Stone| publisher=]| date=]| accessdate=2006-05-20}}</ref>
In contrast to practices such as ], urolagnia is generally considered harmless, as the urine of healthy individuals is ]. However, a small risk exists if there is disease present, or ] of the ]. There may also be secondary effects, such as skin ]es in individuals sensitive to urine.


The main dangers are the high ] and ] content. The high salt content usually does not pose a problem if the urine is sufficiently diluted and not consumed in mass quantities. The effect of the high salt may be mitigated by drinking some water after consuming urine. The urine may be diluted if the person whose urine will be consumed drinks some water (or diet soda, see below) an hour or so before the act. Many people into ] drink beer before the act because it dilutes any unpleasant chemicals in the urine and beer short circuits the normal excretion of liquid, stimulating the body to excrete more urine than it normally would. ], on the other hand, makes urine stink in about 40% - 79% of people.<ref> provides the following citations (accessed ] ]):
===Preparatory school and university===
# Mitchell SC. Asparagus and malodorous urine. Br J Clin Pharmacol 1989 May;27(5):641-2.
After eighth grade, Wales went to ], a ], which was an early supporter of computer labs and other technology for student use. Wales has said that the school was expensive for his family, but that education was regarded as important. "Education was always a passion in my household … you know, the very traditional approach to knowledge and learning and establishing that as a base for a good life."<ref name="qanda"/> He received his ] in ] from ] and started with the ] finance programs at the ] that he left with a ] in finance.<ref name="qanda"/> After that, he took courses offered in the Ph.D. finance program at ]. He taught at both universities during his postgraduate studies, but did not write the ] required to earn a Ph.D.<ref name="qanda"/>
# Richer C, Decker N, Belin J, Imbs JL, Montastruc JL, Giudicelli JF. Odorous urine in man after asparagus. Br J Clin Pharmacol 1989 May;27(5):640-641.
# White RH. Occurrence of S-methyl thioesters in urines of humans after they have eaten asparagus. Science 1975 ];189(4205):810-11.
# Mitchell SC. Food idiosyncrasies: beetroot and asparagus. Drug Metab Dispos 2001;29:539-43.
# Mitchell SC, Waring RH, Land D, Thorpe WV. Odorous urine following asparagus ingestion in man. Experientia 1987 ];43(4):382-3.</ref>


Since ]s are excreted in urine, consuming artificial sweetener before urine play can lend a sweet taste to the urine. Drinking diet soda, or other beverages containing artificial sweetener, before urine play will have the dual effect of diluting the urine and sweetening it. However, if the taste of ] is detected in an individual's urine, and it is known that artificial sweetener has not been consumed, this may be a sign of ] and a doctor should be consulted. Despite this, however, drinking urine is not generally recommended as a test for diabetes.
==Career==
In 1994, Wales went on to became the Research Director at Chicago Options Associates a ] and ] ] in ] which he did for six years.<ref name="qanda"/><ref>{{cite web |author=Wikimedia Foundation Inc. | title = Board of Trustees | url = http://wikimediafoundation.org/Board_of_Trustees | accessdate = 2006-07-15}}</ref> In 1996, he founded a search portal called ], which also sold adult content until mid-2005. He was asked in a September 2005 ] interview about his previous involvement with what the interviewer, ], called "dirty pictures". In response, Wales described Bomis as a "guy-oriented search engine", with a market similar to ].<ref name="qanda"/> In an interview with '']'', he also explained that he disputed the categorization of Bomis content as "soft-core pornography": "If ] movies are ], it was porn. In other words, no, it was not."<ref>{{cite web|first=Evan|last=Hansen|title=Misplaced Pages Founder Looks Out for Number 1|url=http://www.wirednews.com/news/culture/0,1284,69880,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2|accessdate=2006-07-14}}</ref> He is no longer actively involved in the company.


The participants should use caution or avoid drinking urine if one or both of them are taking ] or mineral supplements or medication, since many of these are excreted in urine.
In March 2000, he started a peer-reviewed, open-content encyclopedia, ] ("the 💕"), and hired ] to be its editor-in-chief.<ref name="qanda"/> While Wales was CEO, Bomis donated over ]100,000 (primarily through salaries and providing free Internet access) to ] and ], and continued supporting them into 2002.


Urine of persons who are ill, or regularly take medication, should generally not be consumed - in special cases ( e.g. chronic illness of the partner), a medical doctor should be consulted to clarify whether the urine of the chronically ill or medicated person may be consumed without endangering one's health, or not.
===Misplaced Pages and the Wikimedia Foundation===
], ], during a shooting break of a documentary film on Misplaced Pages created by French-German TV station ]]]
{{main|History of Misplaced Pages}}
Using a wiki to create an encyclopedia was publicly proposed by ] on ], ], and Wales worked on setting one up, starting it on ], ]. Misplaced Pages was at that point a ]-based site intended for collaboration on early encyclopedic content for submission to ] for peer review, but Misplaced Pages's rapid growth soon made it the dominant project and Nupedia was mothballed. Sanger dropped out of the project in 2002, posting a resignation on his Misplaced Pages user page.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Larry_Sanger|title=User Page|author=]|accessdate=2006-04-12}}</ref> He has since criticized Wales's approach to the project,<ref>{{cite web|author=]|title=Why Misplaced Pages Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism|publisher=]|url=http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/30/142458/25|date=]}}</ref> describing Wales as "decidedly anti-elitist".


==Some common variations of urolagnia==
Wales later took issue with this description in a C-SPAN interview,<ref name="qanda" /> describing himself as not anti-elitist but "perhaps anti-credentialist. To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work, I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor."


{{facts}}
In mid-2003, Wales set up the ], a ]-based ], to support Misplaced Pages and its younger sibling projects. He appointed himself and two business partners who are not active Wikipedians to the five-member board; the remaining two members are elected community representatives. This move relieved him and Bomis from the increasing financial burden of supporting Misplaced Pages while keeping his leadership position.


'''Desperation''' - The act of holding one's own urine until the need to urinate is urgent, making another hold in their urine, or watching another person with a urgent need to urinate. This fetish sometimes originates from childhood memories of being or of seeing another needing the restroom. Arousal may be triggered by seeing the body movements or facial expressions of that person. It can also be heightened by the person saying that they have to urinate. The arousal from being desperate comes from the sensation of having a full bladder.
In 2004, Wales was quoted as saying that he had spent around US$500,000 on the establishment and operation of his Wiki projects. By the end of its February 2005 fund drive, the Wikimedia Foundation was supported entirely by grants and donations. Wales has become increasingly involved with promoting and speaking about its projects, and to this end, he travels to conferences and Wikimedia functions, such as "Wikimeets" and ]. The Foundation's travel budget was US$25,000 in 2005; how much of this total was used by Wales himself has not been published.<ref>{{cite web|author=Wikimedia Foundation Inc.|url=http://wikimediafoundation.org/Budget/2005|title=2005 Budget|accessdate=2006-04-12}}</ref> On ], ], he gave a talk at ]'s LongNow Foundation entitled "Vision: Misplaced Pages and the Future of Free Culture," where he discussed the philosophical underpinnings of Misplaced Pages, his support for the ] movement, and the difficulties the Wikimedia Foundation may confront as it grows in size.


''']ism''' - Seeing another urinate without the person's knowledge either through video taping by a hidden camera, or by lurking in locations where people are urinating or are likely to have an urge to urinate.
====Controversy====
While Larry Sanger referred to himself as the co-founder of Misplaced Pages as early as January 2002,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://meta.wikimedia.org/Wikipedia_and_why_it_matters|author=]|title=What Misplaced Pages is and why it matters|accessdate=2006-04-12 }}</ref> Wales says he has always called himself the sole founder of Misplaced Pages. The press frequently referred to Sanger and Wales as co-founders, but this began to change after Sanger's departure. For example, a 2004 '']'' magazine article stated that " created Misplaced Pages", without mentioning Sanger.<ref name="newsweek1" /> In 2006, Wales told the '']'' that "it's preposterous" to call Sanger the co-founder.<ref>{{cite web| first=Janet |last=Knott |title=Bias, sabotage haunt Misplaced Pages's free world| url=http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2006/02/12/bias_sabotage_haunt_wikipedias_free_world/?page=4| publisher=]| date=]| accessdate=2006-04-12}}</ref> Sanger has strongly contested this assertion, claiming that, in addition to developing Misplaced Pages in its early phase, he also had the idea of applying the wiki concept to the building of a 💕. It is undisputed that he also coined the name of the project. He has said: "I remember very clearly the evening when I got the idea for Misplaced Pages." He nevertheless ascribed the broader idea to Wales: "To be clear, the idea of an open source, collaborative encyclopedia, open to contribution by ordinary people, was entirely Jimmy's, not mine, and the funding was entirely by Bomis. (…) The actual development of this encyclopedia was the task he gave me to work on."<ref>{{cite news|author=]|title=The Early History of Nupedia and Misplaced Pages: A Memoir|publisher=]|url=http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/18/164213|date=]|accessdate=2005-04-18}}</ref> Wales has credited a Bomis employee named ] as the person who "initially came up with the idea to make the encyclopedia wiki-based."<ref>{{cite web|author=Wales, Jimmy||title=Edit to Misplaced Pages article "Jimmy Wales"|publisher=]|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Jimmy_Wales&diff=next&oldid=29849184|date=2005-12-02}}</ref>


'''Clothes wetting''' - The person is sexually aroused by wetting ones clothing or observing another person doing so. Usually that person prefer to stage the wetting so that his or her legs (or other body parts) become soaked with urine. The warm sensation felt when urine trickles on body seems to be the key factor for pleasurable feelings. In many cases, that person is also aroused by smelling body parts that have a urine scent. Others get aroused by telling some people about when they lost control and wet themselves. Some prefer a particular type of clothing to urinate in.
In late 2005, a related controversy arose regarding Wales and the Misplaced Pages entry on himself. After ''Wired'' Magazine picked up on work from ], Wales confirmed that he had (visibly and under his own name) edited his own biography on Misplaced Pages, a practice generally frowned upon within the Misplaced Pages community and even by Wales himself.<ref>{{cite web|author=Wales, Jimmy|title=Jimmy Wales response in "Daniel C. Boyer on wikipedia" thread|work=wikien-l mailing list|url=http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=wikien-l&m=105999934110753&w=2|date=]|accessdate=2006-06-09}}</ref>


''']''' – Becoming noticeably desperate or wetting oneself with the express purpose of being seen by strangers. Practitioners have described going to public places such as a mall or a park. Some intend to create situations where others can see their wet clothing.
Wales's edits<ref>Jimmy Wales' edits of , , and , 2005.</ref> were in line with his view that Larry Sanger should not be considered a co-founder of Misplaced Pages. When some other editors undid his edits, Wales repeated them twice. His edits changed specific references to Misplaced Pages's origins as well as the description of Bomis. Wales said in the ''Wired'' interview, "People shouldn't do it, including me. I wish I hadn't done it."<ref name="wirednews">{{cite web|author=Hansen, Evan|title=Misplaced Pages Founder Edits Own Bio|work=Wired News|publisher=Wired|url=http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,69880,00.html|accessdate=2006-02-14}}</ref> The article said: "Wales has also repeatedly revised the description of a search site he founded called Bomis, which included a section with adult photos called 'Bomis Babes'."<ref name="wirednews" />


''']''' - British expression for an activity involving a consenting couple where the male partner watches the woman urinate otherwise undetected in a semi-public place, usually a toilet cubicle at a pub, hotel, restaurant, theatre/cinema, office, club etc. The strategies and tactics that are used to smuggle one of the couple into and out of the toilet undetected are almost or as important as the urination. The activity is done by itself or as a part of or prelude to other activities which many times involve sex.
====Motivations behind Misplaced Pages====
In an interview with ], Wales explained the purpose of Misplaced Pages by saying, "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."<ref>{{cite web|author=Wales, Jimmy|title="Misplaced Pages Founder Jimmy Wales Replies"| publisher=]|url=http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/28/1351230|date=]|accessdate=2006-06-07}}</ref> Likewise, in a December 2005 appeal for donations to Wikimedia, Wales explained his motivation for his Misplaced Pages work by saying "I'm doing this for the child in Africa."<ref>{{cite web|author=Wales, Jimmy|title="A Personal Appeal from Misplaced Pages Founder Jimmy Wales"|publisher=Wikimedia Foundation Inc.|url=http://wikimediafoundation.org/Personal_Appeal|accessdate=2006-06-01}}</ref>


===Other activities=== ==Other practices==
Some people ] as part of what they consider to be ]. This is generally not considered to be urolagnia.
Inspired by the success of Misplaced Pages, Wales has founded the for-profit company ] (separate from ]), which hosts various wikis and manages the ] project.


==Notable urophiliacs==
He was appointed a fellow of the ] at ] in 2005. On ], ], according to a press release,<ref>{{cite news|title=Misplaced Pages Founder Joins Socialtext Board|date=] ]|publisher=]|url=http://www.socialtext.com/weblog/051003wikiwales.html}}</ref> Wales joined the ] of ], a provider of wiki technology to businesses. In 2006, he joined the Board of Directors of the non-profit organization ].<ref>{{cite news|title=Creative Commons Adds Two New Board Members|date=] ]|publisher=]|url=http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/5840}}</ref>
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] - ] Singer. Gave an interview with ] in which he stated that he enjoyed "Golden Showers".
==Philosophical and political views==
Wales has been a passionate adherent of the ] of ]. When asked by Brian Lamb in his appearance on '']'' about Rand, Wales cited "the virtue of independence" as important to him personally. When asked if he could trace "the Ayn Rand connection" to having a political philosophy at the time of the interview, Wales reluctantly labeled himself a ], qualifying his remark by referring to the ] as "lunatics" and citing "freedom, liberty, basically individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them" as his guiding principles.<ref name="qanda" /> From 1992 to 1996, he ran the electronic mailing list "Moderated Discussion of Objectivist Philosophy".<ref>{{cite newsgroup|author=Wales, Jimmy|title=Re: Objectivism of Ayn Rand|date=] ]|newsgroup=talk.philosophy.misc|id=Bv1u8x.Bnv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu|url=http://groups.google.com/group/talk.philosophy.misc/msg/8c5e626c70a213f8?dmode=source}}</ref>


] - Lead singer of the popular rock band ]. 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". The Garbage song "]" contains the lyrics "Happy Hours/Golden Showers "
==Awards==
], by '']'', a daily Internet ]]]
Wales received an ] from ] on ], ]. The ] awarded him a Pioneer Award on ], ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/14632|title=EFF Honors Craigslist, Gigi Sohn, and Jimmy Wales with Pioneer Awards|date=]|publisher=Kansas City infoZine News|accessdate=2006-06-05}}</ref>


] - ]-based ]/] rock band that had a small but rabid following partially based on singer Cresta wetting her clothes during the bands performances
Wales was the first person listed in the "Scientists & Thinkers" section of the ], ] special edition of '']'' ("The lives and ideas of the world's most influential people"), listing ].<ref name=influence />


] - ] 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.
==Published works==
* Robert Brooks, Jon Corson, and J. Donal Wales. , in ''Advances in Futures and Options Research'', volume 7, 1994. See also ].


] - mostly female band featuring many sexual acts including urination as part of their stage act .
==References==
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] - MTV star with his The Andy Milonakis Show admitted recently in an interview with ] that he liked the feeling of "Warm urine" on his chest during sexual intercourse{{fact}}. It is sometimes debated whether or not he was serious.
==Further reading==
{{Spoken Misplaced Pages|Jimmy Wales.ogg|2005-04-06}}
{{commons|category:Jimbo Wales|Jimbo Wales}}
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] - ] Singer, Songwriter and Producer. In 2002 a bootleg copy of a videotape was released to the ] that showed 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.
===News media===
*{{cite news|url=http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2003-06-30-wiki_x.htm|title=It's a Wiki world out there for the Web's groupmind|publisher=]|date=]}}
*{{cite news|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2005/09/26/focus4.html|title=St. Petersburg tech brain creates 'wiki' world with online encyclopedia|publisher=Tampa Bay Business Journal|author=Michael Hinman|date=]}}
*{{cite news|url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/18/wikipedia_quality_problem/|title=Misplaced Pages founder admits serious quality problems|publisher=]|author=]|date=]}}
*{{cite news|url=http://www.npost.com/interview.jsp?intID=INT00126|title=Interview with Jimmy Wales, WikiPedia Founder|publisher=nPost.com|author=Nathan C. Kaiser|date=]}}
*{{cite news|url=http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6298340/site/newsweek/|title=It's Like a Blog, But It's a Wiki|publisher=]|author=Brad Stone|date=]}}
*{{cite news|url=http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1136024385322320.xml&coll=2|title=Alabamian is brain behind Misplaced Pages|publisher=The Birmingham News|author=Joseph D. Bryant|date=]}}
*{{cite news|url=http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1962714,00.html|title=Misplaced Pages Chief considers taking ads|publisher=]|author=Rhys Blakely|date=]}}</div>


===Audio/Video=== ==See also==
* ] / ]
* ], ] - hosted by ]
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* Video of Jimmy Wales talk given at the Oxford Internet Institute - recorded ] ]
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* 40 minutes from a talk Jimmy held at Stanford on ] ] available as an avi in torrent form and licensed under the ] (]: , )
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* on Wednesday, ], ]
* 9 minutes, from Media Alliance event held in ] on ] ]
*, ], ]
* about Community & politics & future plans & other things, ], ]
* recorded ]], posted ]]
*, ], ]. Podcast by ] .
* for in San Francisco, ] ]
* on ], ], ]</div>


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Revision as of 23:18, 2 August 2006

Urolagnia (also known as urophilia) is a sexual fetish with a focus on urine and urination.

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).

As a paraphilia, urine may be consumed or the person may bathe in it. Other variations include arousal from wetting or seeing someone else pee their pants or underclothes, or wetting the bed. 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. For some individuals the phenomenon may include a diaper fetish and/or arousal from infantilism. Watersports may also be used in a BDSM scene as a form of humiliation, sometimes involving desperation until incontinence or infantilization, sometimes physical humiliation associated with being urinated on or pressured to consume urine. 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.

Urolagnia is sometimes associated with, or confused with, a sexual attraction to someone experiencing the discomfort or pain of a full bladder, a sadomasochistic inclination. More studies are still needed on this topic.

Health issues

In contrast to practices such as coprophagia, urolagnia is generally considered harmless, as the urine of healthy individuals is sterile. However, a small risk exists if there is disease present, or bacterial infection of the urethra. There may also be secondary effects, such as skin rashes in individuals sensitive to urine.

The main dangers are the high salt and mineral content. The high salt content usually does not pose a problem if the urine is sufficiently diluted and not consumed in mass quantities. The effect of the high salt may be mitigated by drinking some water after consuming urine. The urine may be diluted if the person whose urine will be consumed drinks some water (or diet soda, see below) an hour or so before the act. Many people into BDSM drink beer before the act because it dilutes any unpleasant chemicals in the urine and beer short circuits the normal excretion of liquid, stimulating the body to excrete more urine than it normally would. Asparagus, on the other hand, makes urine stink in about 40% - 79% of people.


Since artificial sweeteners are excreted in urine, consuming artificial sweetener before urine play can lend a sweet taste to the urine. Drinking diet soda, or other beverages containing artificial sweetener, before urine play will have the dual effect of diluting the urine and sweetening it. However, if the taste of sugar is detected in an individual's urine, and it is known that artificial sweetener has not been consumed, this may be a sign of diabetes and a doctor should be consulted. Despite this, however, drinking urine is not generally recommended as a test for diabetes.

The participants should use caution or avoid drinking urine if one or both of them are taking vitamin or mineral supplements or medication, since many of these are excreted in urine.

Urine of persons who are ill, or regularly take medication, should generally not be consumed - in special cases ( e.g. chronic illness of the partner), a medical doctor should be consulted to clarify whether the urine of the chronically ill or medicated person may be consumed without endangering one's health, or not.

Some common variations of urolagnia

Desperation - The act of holding one's own urine until the need to urinate is urgent, making another hold in their urine, or watching another person with a urgent need to urinate. This fetish sometimes originates from childhood memories of being or of seeing another needing the restroom. Arousal may be triggered by seeing the body movements or facial expressions of that person. It can also be heightened by the person saying that they have to urinate. The arousal from being desperate comes from the sensation of having a full bladder.

Voyeurism - Seeing another urinate without the person's knowledge either through video taping by a hidden camera, or by lurking in locations where people are urinating or are likely to have an urge to urinate.

Clothes wetting - The person is sexually aroused by wetting ones clothing or observing another person doing so. Usually that person prefer to stage the wetting so that his or her legs (or other body parts) become soaked with urine. The warm sensation felt when urine trickles on body seems to be the key factor for pleasurable feelings. In many cases, that person is also aroused by smelling body parts that have a urine scent. Others get aroused by telling some people about when they lost control and wet themselves. Some prefer a particular type of clothing to urinate in.

Exhibitionism – Becoming noticeably desperate or wetting oneself with the express purpose of being seen by strangers. Practitioners have described going to public places such as a mall or a park. Some intend to create situations where others can see their wet clothing.

Pussing - British expression for an activity involving a consenting couple where the male partner watches the woman urinate otherwise undetected in a semi-public place, usually a toilet cubicle at a pub, hotel, restaurant, theatre/cinema, office, club etc. The strategies and tactics that are used to smuggle one of the couple into and out of the toilet undetected are almost or as important as the urination. The activity is done by itself or as a part of or prelude to other activities which many times involve sex.

Other practices

Some people drink large quantities of their own urine as part of what they consider to be alternative medicine. This is generally not considered to be urolagnia.

Notable urophiliacs

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Ricky Martin - Puerto Rican Singer. Gave an interview with Blender Magazine in which he stated that he enjoyed "Golden Showers".

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". The Garbage song "When I Grow Up" contains the lyrics "Happy Hours/Golden Showers "

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 bands performances

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.

Rockbitch - mostly female band featuring many sexual acts including urination as part of their stage act .

Andy Milonakis - MTV star with his The Andy Milonakis Show admitted recently in an interview with People Magazine that he liked the feeling of "Warm urine" on his chest during sexual intercourse. It is sometimes debated whether or not he was serious.

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 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.

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Notes

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    4. Mitchell SC. Food idiosyncrasies: beetroot and asparagus. Drug Metab Dispos 2001;29:539-43.
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