
No, it’s not a shower chiseled out of a brick of gold (although that would be amazing). A golden shower, also called “water sports,” is a sex act that involves urine. This can mean peeing on your partner, in front of your partner, near your partner, or having your partner pee on/near/in front of you. No hard and fast rules here, except that it definitely involves pee.
According to Samantha Manewitz, a sex therapist with the Institute for Sexual Education and Enlightenment who specializes in working with alt-sex and kink communities, there’s often “a component of dominance and submission in the act of peeing on a partner or having a partner pee on you.” But for others, golden showers are just a fetish that gets them aroused and they don’t have any interest in the power exchange aspect of urinating in front of a partner.