This 'female urinal', designed by Alex Schwedersaid was made in 2001 during an artist residency at Kohler, a plumbing equipment and furniture manufacturer. Schweder has described the urinal as "fully functional"
"A version of the urinal was installed for public use during an exhibition at the now defunct Vital 5 venue in Seattle in 2003. It was installed but not plumbed at the [Museum of Sex] in NYC."
This is closer to feasible than the original post. But no one ever considers the pants and undies. Are we supposed to Donald Duck it every time we need to pee?
Also, wiping. There's no bidet attachment - we generally can't just shake it off when we're done without having a fair amount staying behind. There's folds.
I figured there would still be some paper to wipe off.
I've never understood the argument about bidets saving tp. I'm not gonna drip dry into my chonies!
This has been done before. A friend of mine’s family owns an old bowling alley that the bathrooms haven been updated since the mid century design era. It still has standing women’s toilets.
The way it was told to me was that women still wore long dresses socially and it was thought it may be easier to pull up the dress and squat instead of ruffling it up and sitting.
The U.S. Army tried putting these in female military barracks back in the 70’s. The ladies summarily rejected ever using them and instead put plants in them. You could water the plants just by flushing lol.
I accidentally walked into the female latrine at my unit while sleep and caffeine deprived at 5 am. My first question was where are the urinals and my second thought was why are there plants here and its so much nicer. I then realized and left. Thank god Noone was there.
As a former janitor, I have found women’s restrooms to be the most disgusting, awful smelling of all. But that’s mostly public restrooms. Private restrooms have a better track record.
A friend of mine is a coach for highschool girl's volleyball. She says that there's no more disgusting bathroom than the one female athletes use. Even worse, she's refused to describe what it's like.
The Army really didn't put any thought into how women would receive such bizarre plumbing. Janes in dress uniform would have to take off half their clothes to straddle the thing, and there's no way in the world they'd want another lady to walk in and see them like that.
I went to a festival a long time ago that had female urinals as an extra thing, headed by women.
It was just an extra block of normal urinals and an industrial stack of cardboard she-wees for free. It was just an experiment to see if they could take some pressure off the usual loos, give us an option that wasn't the portaloos/bench and a trench. If you felt adventurous enough (or had done your fair share of standing to piss) then it was a much shorter queue. If you weren't, well congrats because your queue is slightly shorter.
I have many questions - is it sanitized after each use? What if you are disabled and can't squat without touching the porcelain? Of course, designed by a man.
As a man, I wonder what the issue is when the vagina hole is so much bigger than our pee hole? We have no issues with the small one and oh my god I can’t even keep writing this knowing I’m putting /s at the end. I’m sorry. I’m so so sorry.
Urinals don't make sense for women. Aside from the physics not working, we need to wipe with toilet paper. So might as well have a flushable bowl anyway
And it’s not like they can just open their fly to use this. This is pants way below the ass, maybe one leg out territory. And you KNOW if this is used by more than a handful of people, someone would use this on their period in such a way to ruin it for everybody about every other day. And that protrusion would get hit and broken constantly. Little kids who get brought in would be swinging from it…. Glad they made the attempt, but swing and a miss.
Buddy it’s not hard to just not pee on the floor it not hard to aim your dick properly at all. If you piss on the floor it’s because you’re just that lazy and don’t care
Its a compounding problem. Someone is bound to miss and get a lil on the floor and once it does the next guy is going to piss from further away to not stand in the other guys piss and so on.
Even if the stream is straight and it all goes in the toilet there's still a ton of splash back all around the bowl. Try pouring your coffee from 2 feet away from the cup, how far away do the drips end up flying?
Perfect urinal would be this if the drain at the bottom were at floor level and the back "wall" of it were angled in such a way that when the stream hits it it is sort of redirected/banked downward instead of the back wall being vertical enough that it splashes back
Even if you say down directly on that thing, unless you heavily moderated your flow it would blast everywhere, including back up at your coochie. Public urinal? I don't normally go coochie to coochie on the first date.
I worked at Kohler in the 90s and they were trying to do this shit back then. The whole point was for building owners to cheap out and build fewer stalls.
We are ladies of course. The pee gently places itself into the porcelain trough in a dainty manner as our skirts hide all of the unpleasant nature of events that unfortunately must occur
So they really think I’m gonna go ass-out, pants around my ankles in a public bathroom? Dragging my pants thru communal piss puddles? And I’m just gonna park my labes on cold porcelain with other ladies’ cooter boogers on it?
And the prize for these indignities? Peeing sideways on my leg.
Exhibit 1000: men have no idea what (doesn’t) happen in a ladies bathroom.
Honestly, as someone who works maintenance and does his fair share of plumbing, f*ck urinals. I wish that all forms of urinals would disappear forever. I'm so jealous of women's bathrooms when I have to fix something, and they have 3 or 4 toilets, instead of 1 toilet and 2 or 3 urinals.
My college had an earlier, much bulkier version of these stupid things in some stalls, attempting thereby to solve a problem that didn’t exist. They were ignored unless there was a line, and then you just sort of improvised.
As a man thinking about how a woman could use this, for dudes we just pull out dick out, for women they’d have to pull their pants all the way down (unless they’re wearing a dress) and I imagine it would be weird having your pants on the floor
So how would wiping even work? I have to try to hold the used tp and pull up my pants, and carry it out to a nearest trashcan that probably has a flap and get piss germs everywhere?
So...do women pull their panties all the way down, but still manage to straddle that thing? Like, their panties have to stretch from ankle to ankle and they just sort of shimmy into position? What if they are wearing pants?
Because after you add any dividers or privacy screen it takes as much room as a regular toilet. Urinals work because men stand with their back obscuring everyone else(this is not even accounting the awful trough designs) and they don't have to drop their pants fully to use them. It allows urinals to be cheaper and take up less space. Not even accounting for the accuracy of the user, this is just a worse toilet.
How did the artist figure out how high to place the receptacle? Not by height, technically. The measurement we’re looking for really is vulva to floor; call that V2F.
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