There are many reasons why men stay longer in the bathroom

In a scene of the film “This is 40”, Pete (Paul Rudd) claims he's using the toilet to stay calm on his iPad. “E know he's not coming out,” shouts out his wife Debbie (Leslie Mann). Pete says nothing and keeps standing on iPad.

According to a 2018 research conducted by the Pebble Gray toilets company, a third of the men in the United Kingdom spend more than seven hours a year in the toilet “enjoying tranquillity” and “avoiding stress”.

In view of this, Sam Hancock, a reporter who works frequency in the United Kingdom, conducted similar research himself.

I was curious and so I drew up a questionnaire of mine and sent 38 men 19-55 to ask for their habits when they go to the bathroom. 92% reported remaining 20 minutes or longer seated at the toilet from porcelain. A little over 70% said they had happened to stay 30-40 minutes. Six people admitted that they regularly stayed an hour in the bathroom. He writes in an article about Vice.

Hancock asked the same questions to women, and they all said they don't spend more than 10 minutes in the bathroom.

He explains that he asked them what they were doing in the bathroom for so long besides what is known, and 84% of men said they read on social networks, 68% watch videos and 62% read the news. Other options were to check email (49%) and watch an episode of a television series (24%). Others said they read books (14%) or call someone (.8%).

Others in the Hancock questionnaire cited as “rzen at”, others “relaximo” and “higien”. But the most common response, with nearly 80%, was that they went to the toilet “to stay for some time only”.

Psychonist Benjamin Jackson, questioned by Sam, said it is clear that men can rely only at this moment on the low levels of testosterone”, caused by pressures such as society, jobs and even sex.

Usually, he says, men tend to make <x0 mind-activity activities with the focus being carried out in solitude, such as watching a football game or reading news” in order to alleviate stress.

According to basic gender stereotypes, men prefer to think and act in these situations, while women prefer to feel and be”, Jackson says. “That's why speaking generally with friends is much more important for women. ”

63% of men who responded to the survey say that they deliberately stayed in the bathroom when they felt frustrated at work or at home. Why? Because they consider it a secure <x0space”.

“The cave is an important location”, Jackson says, “as long as there is no hole to avoid things. ”