Why do men and women have separate public toilets?

[Daisy]

Considering the chap who started this thread lives in England, I'd say you are wrong.

 

[Jplaya2023]

Considering the chap who started this thread lives in England, I'd say you are wrong.

Damn like i said i could be wrong though. *shrugs*

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

I can hardly bring myself to use a public restroom that's restricted to men.
I sure as hell don't want to see women in such a setting.

 

[Iceman]

I think this is only an American thing, i heard them cats in england share bathrooms and other places out there, i could be wrong though.

No, us cats also have separate rooms.

 

[Jplaya2023]

I can hardly bring myself to use a public restroom that's restricted to men.
I sure as hell don't want to see women in such a setting.

go in a stoll

 

[U.S War Machine]

I dunno maybe it's a break

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

go in a stoll

The stall hasn't been built that can protect me from sounds and smells and the filth that animals leave behind.

 

[Daisy]

The stall hasn't been built that can protect me from sounds and smells and the filth that animals leave behind.

Wear your sound-proof bubble.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

The only way to keep it sound proof is to make it air-tight and I keep passing out within a few blocks of my house.

 

[huskerwebhead]

I just don't ever see this happening. At least not any time in the near future. It's just not socially acceptable at the moment...at least not in the US.

Again if the size of the lavetry was designed to give access to multiple users with some sort of flow path (ie a single door for entry with another one for exiting, with stalls first on one side, urinals on the other side and taps at the end with tissues etc..) then there wouldn't be too much of a problem getting people in and out, especially if the space for 2 toilets was used for a single one (infact you wouldn't need that much space due to the duplication of some appliances).

For the most part, I'll buy this. But urinals just wouldn't work. They are just not private enough for a guy to whip out his junk and do his business. Do you honestly think it's appropriate for little girls to be standing in line watching guys do their business? I'm not so sure. And I can already see guys complaining about women taking up the sink area for "freshing up." I don't see that decreasing at all.

as for the perving, that's a risk us men take on a daily basis with other people taking sneaky peaks at your goods, it's not the end of the world.

True. But you see a guy enter/waiting a unisex bathroom and you may not think twice. But you see a guy enter/hanging out in a women's bathroom you know immediately something is up.

as for the stalls...perhaps they could be designed in manner where the doors are cubicals are as high as the room itself to not allow people the option of peaking over (with ventilation given from above). it seems at the very worst to be a simple design specification to overcome rather than deeming it completely out of the question.

This would never work. You're talking about closing these off so there could be no peaking? You'd have way too many people getting clostrophobia from that. Plus if you plan on taking them all the way to the ground to prevent peaking from below what happens when the toilet overflows? The water doesn't go anywhere? The open lower part of the stalls allow for drainage. Maybe I'm overthinking this.

It's not like anyone polices the fact that one sex uses one side and vice versa, if someone really wanted to perv on another person on the toilet, they would. Besides with the use of a busy unisex toilet, i doubt anyone would have the opportunity to such antics withouth more people being on the lookout (as good citizens hopefully).

I already touched on this above.

as for the smell,it probably comes with bad aim of men missing when aiming in the stalls, which is likely to cut down if they think a woman may enter that toilet straight after. It may actually help men (especially when drunk) to concentrate more on what they are doing.

LOL. Awfully optamistic aren't you? There are plenty of places that have small one person unisex bathrooms. They are just as messy as anyplace else. It won't influence anyone to be "neater" in there.

 

[black_dust]

No, us cats also have separate rooms.

Ive never see a cat use any toilets around here?

 

[Carter]

Because if a man heard a woman actually taking a filthy giant dump, his head would explode.

 

[War Lord]

We have separate toilets because I like my privacy.

 

[War Lord]

Because if a man heard a woman actually taking a filthy giant dump, his head would explode.

Woman don't take dumps.

They put their load in pretty plastic bags to be recycled.

 

[LEX]

Woman don't take dumps.

They put their load in pretty plastic bags to be recycled.

And use them to plant trees.

 

[War Lord]

And use them to plant trees.

All at 3 AM so that nobody ever sees it happening.

 

[Man-Thing]

because I don't want to drop a load with a girl in the same room as me.

 

[Holly Goodhead]

Because men can't put the god damn seat down.

 

[War Lord]

Because men can't put the god damn seat down.

We don't need the seat down.

Once you've been pregnant, you don't need it down either.

 

[Carter]

If I had my way, I'd remove the ****ing seat

 

[theoneandonly]

its because men would sexually assault the woman or vice versa

 

[Man-Thing]

that would suck when have to go #2 real bad though. I don't like going #2 in public restrooms, but sometimes (2-321) times a year I have to.

 

[Jplaya2023]

its because men would sexually assault the woman or vice versa

Lol so if thats the case have seperate, rooms for men and women because you can get sexually assaulted anywhere

 

[theoneandonly]

well yeah but there would be more chance if it were unisex bathrooms

 

[Whirlysplat]

I know it sounds silly but i don't understand why normal private homes only have one toilet area and in most public places, they have male and female toilets...




is there a genuine reason why this is and not some arty farty reason?

I don't see why in this modern era, why all establishments shouldn't have unisex toilet facilities.

I know a few bars that have open plan toilets.

- Whirly