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Wondering about toilets
Indrid Cold
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I wasn't sure where to put it, I picked here because of laws.
I began wondering this earlier:
Why are men's and women's toilets (still) supposed to be completely separated? Most of the toilets I've been in don't even have urinals any more, so I gather there isn't much of a difference if any. And even if there had to be urinals, they could simply be in a separate room of the toilet, having the cubicles and washbasins still in the main part.
Also, the few places with urinals excluded, I've never seen anybody with his pants down outside a cubicle (and I suppose the same is true about women's toilets).
So what purpose does separating toilets serve? Unless I'm mistaken, it's not just the norm but required by law; why?
I began wondering this earlier:
Why are men's and women's toilets (still) supposed to be completely separated? Most of the toilets I've been in don't even have urinals any more, so I gather there isn't much of a difference if any. And even if there had to be urinals, they could simply be in a separate room of the toilet, having the cubicles and washbasins still in the main part.
Also, the few places with urinals excluded, I've never seen anybody with his pants down outside a cubicle (and I suppose the same is true about women's toilets).
So what purpose does separating toilets serve? Unless I'm mistaken, it's not just the norm but required by law; why?
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Disgusting, isn't it? :mad: Being a bloke it infuriates me the lack of courtesy and hygiene some men display.
Franki, let me assure you that the gents toilets are usually no worse than the ladies. You should see the ladies bogs in here after a Friday night. I don't think men are worse at washing their hands than women are, to be quite honest.
If they could invent a door handle that puts 20,000 volts through you if you don't wash your hands, I'd buy 10.
After working in pubs/bars for over 5 years let me assure you that ladies toilets can't even compete with the rankness of mens. Ladies toilets used to take about 5 minutes to clean of a morning, where as the mens could be scrubbed for an hour and you could still smell them outside. We even had to stop putting toilet roll in the mens because it'd be all over the floor after about 5 seconds, along with the constant puddle of urine.
Apparently it's because men turn into rapists in toilets.
Curious. What exactly do you discuss there?!
In its own right, the NUS LGBT Campaign is the major campaigning organisation for LGBT students in the UK so conference obviously sets the direction for those campaigns.
So policy can relate to anything that affects LGBT students. New laws around pornography, the implications of the Goods and Services Act, provision of healthcare to L/B women, mental health support for the trans community, the implications of various funding models on estranged LGBT students, monitoring sexual and gender diversity in FE and HE...
It's as broad as you like.
Maybe our men are really clean and our women are dirty scrubbers
They have to be private cubicles but I don't think they have to have private basins.
Eh?
I'll second Kermit's suggestion for a door that zaps you with a lot of volts if you don't wash.
Then again, people could use that to steal; you wait until someone's out of the cubicle but before they wash, grab their bag or wallet or whatever and run. They won't be able to follow you out...
Not to say that women only leave the smell of daisies and rainbows in the toilet, but the fact that they have to sit when peeing (with exception of the very skilled girls, which are few and far between) and many men seem to follow the same trend when peeing as a little child when working on a coloring book: the more area you can cover, the better, it usually results in disastrous results on men loos, especially in facilities that serve alcohol.
Haven't seen a single unisex loo over here, but like shyboy said, many swimmingpool/spa changing rooms are shared. Especially the ones in the spa, as you are supposed to be naked then anyway.
There's already an alternative - it's the Dyson Hand Dryer - whenever you find a loo with one all the men wash their hands so they can test it out .. :thumb:
P.S. Sundissential (club event) had unisex toilets.
Well you can't put 'Chicks with dicks' can you ??
I bet all this unisex toilet stuff is so straight people can start cottaging
well, the wellness areas, which they charge you a bit extra to use, with saunas, steam bath, etc. do have that policy, yes.
The regular pools "outside" that area are only usable in bathing suits.
Do they have a well endowedness area ?
One of my old work places had three working toilets (out of five) for a floor of around 60 females. Not nice.
yes, most certainly. They get extra preheated seats in the sauna and reserved seats in the jacuzzi right by the jets.
If there are washing facilities available I'll always use them.
However being men we're lucky enough to be able to hav a slash anywhere. If get caught short and have to go behind a bush or something I don't suddenly get a panic on about where I'm going to wash my hands. I don't piss on my hands and cocks not dirty either.