General / Off-Topic Unisex Toilets...

OldManKnott

OldManKnott
You can find these in central London now in the evening:

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The first time I used one I was a bit self aware but now I think they're lifesavers.
 

Solsticide

Solsticide
Jimblob said:
In the 1980's I was living in the Camden area of London and employed as a cleaner and belive me the Woman's toilets are a lot worse than the Men's, some people even refused to do them and many new start's never came back because of the state of them.
As for unisex loo's it's a passing fad just the usual young folk not being like old folk.
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Our cleaner at work says the same thing. I doubt it's a gender thing though, some people are just rank.
 

Le-Betz

Le-Betz
Parmo said:
The history of doing your stuff:


Practical problems need a mature outlook!
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'And what have the romans ever done for us?' :)

Really interesting documentary, however I'd like to add something:

[video=youtube;C-65mBQ7s_Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-65mBQ7s_Q[/video]

Certainly the most high-tech unisex toilet there is.
 

Robin of Spiritwood

Robin of Spiritwood
Yaffle said:
Ages ago I read a bit about toilet equality and design. I need to get out more.

Anyway, there's a problem we usually see where the Women have a queue, the Men don't. This is for several reasons, and they are a bit complicated and can be dealt with via design. Of course the unisex way is the most fair, but still.

1) Women take about 40% longer to 'perform' than men. This means they need more space to get waiting times to be even
2) Men sacrifice almost all privacy - many urinals you are hip to hip, literally. So men use the space more effectively - you could change women's toilet design to be a sort of sit-down urinal with no stalls to equalise it. Not many women would be happy with that.

Anyhow, I did have a point somewhere. So carry on.
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This problem is correctable with disposable funnels. They didn't seem to catch on, but they permit women to maintain a stand off posture and to use urinals designed for men, greatly improving speed and hygiene.
 

Rob At Work

R
Mad Mike said:
(also according to my better half, female public loos are often far far worse than mens due to some women refusing to sit on the seat....... (use your imagination of how that can go wrong!!!)
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Don't put yourself down Mike. It's 2018 and they wanted equality, so shes not better just the uver-rarf is now acceptable
 

verminstar

Banned
verminstar
Hardly a new thing, the club I most frequent fer a good night out has had unisex toilets fer over a decade, and very few people complain...thats one the most popular nightclubs in Belfast which some see as a bit stuck in the past. And yet here we are doin it the unisex way fer years and nobody bats an eyelid...nobody cares unless they just ultra shy or sober...mix of the two perhaps who knows.

Not seein an issue here at all...unless ye got something to hide or ye cant/wont move with the times and yer stuck in another timezone ^
 

Robin of Spiritwood

Robin of Spiritwood
This is the product that let's women use male urinals/stand at lavatories.

Philosophically, the trend towards simple restrooms for everybody is essentially a secular movement. It's rational since it reduces resources required for business services, lowers costs, speeds up construction time, etc. On a personal basis, I strongly favor secular values spreading and seeing traditional values fade.

Perverts are not found in unisex bathrooms, which we have in all our homes, they are found in the sources of the traditional values: the churches.
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
Robin of Spiritwood said:
This is the product that let's women use male urinals/stand at lavatories.

Philosophically, the trend towards simple restrooms for everybody is essentially a secular movement. It's rational since it reduces resources required for business services, lowers costs, speeds up construction time, etc. On a personal basis, I strongly favor secular values spreading and seeing traditional values fade.

Perverts are not found in unisex bathrooms, which we have in all our homes, they are found in the sources of the traditional values: the churches.
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lets be honest tho.... no one is going to want to use a "public go girl" are they, and combine that with the fact that most ladies out at a club with a small clutch purse are not going to carry their own with them... its not like a camping trip imo.

so what will happen is that there will be a massive queue for the few toilet cubicals that there are. I am not against the idea of communal toilets (in some clubs i have been in they essentially are anyway as women use the mens to jump the queues......

What i DONT want to happen however is having to queue up for 30 mins to go for a slash, just because we cant have urinals in a shared toilet.
 

Vasco Sapien

Vasco Sapien
I don't think Unisex toilets will ever be mainstream. Trendy... but trends come and go.
Someone will always cross a line and someone will always complain and expect protection.

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Robin of Spiritwood

Robin of Spiritwood
Mad Mike said:
lets be honest tho.... no one is going to want to use a "public go girl" are they, and combine that with the fact that most ladies out at a club with a small clutch purse are not going to carry their own with them... its not like a camping trip imo.
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Well it hasn't caught on, perhaps for those good reasons? Somewhere I read that there are paper cup like versions that are dispensable from machines in the toilet, but never seen those myself.

However the problem is tackled, people need to be comfortable with the idea. Life is stressful enough without this basic stuff adding to it. Obviously, since the total number of people who need to relieve themselves is unchanged, a drop in service points is going to make queues longer.

So maybe there really isn't so much economic benefit from going unisex. We would need to probably double the stalls in those bathrooms to accommodate the people that used 2 single sex ones.
 

Jenner

I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
Jenner
Vasco Sapien said:
I don't think Unisex toilets will ever be mainstream. Trendy... but trends come and go.
Someone will always cross a line and someone will always complain and expect protection.
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Eh, I wouldn't be so sure. Bathroom etiquette (as with all etiquette) is fluid. It has been different in the past and will be different in the future.

You are right that there will always be someone willing to cross a line, but those kinds of people are not likely to be encouraged by unisex bathrooms... just as they are not likely to be deterred by the opposite.
 

Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
In Paris now they install the "Uritrottoirs" which are dry toilets.

These are otières coupled with a flower box, now recycle the urine of Parisians and visitors to grow plants.

"It's interesting", says a British tourist. "We do not have that kind of thing in England because it's forbidden to pee in public."

:p

https://imgur.com/a/cYKWMnc

[video=youtube;V-bkPMSQCno]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-bkPMSQCno[/video]
 
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