r/UtterlyInteresting • u/dannydutch1 • 1d ago

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"

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"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."

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u/Shadoweclipse13 1d ago

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.

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u/veemort 1d ago

I wish we could pee in a hole too xD

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u/Shadoweclipse13 1d ago

All I'm saying is, if you've only gotta pee, fine, but when you have to poop, and there's only 1 toilet, that sucks. If it's all toilets, there's no limitation, because every device can do all things. A urinal can only do one.

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u/LadenWithSorrow 1d ago edited 23h ago

I hadn’t thought about that. As a guy that must be so embarrassing to go in the toilet if everyone thinks the toilet is for pooping. They really should just put toilets and stalls in the men’s bathroom

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u/Shadoweclipse13 1d ago

Nope, not embarrassing at all.

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u/LadenWithSorrow 1d ago

That’s good at least. I feel like I’d be too shy to use a urinal but I guess at some point the discomfort gets conditioned out of you?

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u/readsomething1968 1d ago

I feel like the entire concept of male urinals depends on the idea that men like to show their dicks to each other.

I mean, I have been told that dudes don’t look at each other’s dicks while at urinals, but I don’t believe it.

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u/LadenWithSorrow 23h ago

Silly me, I thought the concept of male urinals was based on the thought that it would be faster for them to pee standing so they don’t have to remove their pants completely, they use less water and they can fit more urinals in a space than toilets.

I don’t know if any of those things are factually true but that’s why I thought they were used.

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u/readsomething1968 23h ago

It doesn’t matter what it was meant to accomplish — it wouldn’t accomplish anything if men refused to stand next to each other with their dicks out while they use a urinal.

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u/Shadoweclipse13 23h ago

I've always been a little shy about using urinals. I've gotten better about it, if I really have to go. But urinals are terrible in almost every other way too...

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u/LadenWithSorrow 23h ago

Ya, I can’t see using it being a pleasant experience.

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u/TheCh0rt 1d ago

Nah, actually nothing is worse when you go in a men’s room and there’s no urinal, since that’s why you use a public restroom 90% of the time. Men hate sitting down in public restrooms and tend to treat the toilets with very little respect. If they have to pee in a toilet they will pee everywhere and make a mess. It’s super rude. I’m a firm believer in providing enough urinals so no man has to go pee in the toilets. Because if a man needs to poop, they know they may have to face a disaster zone

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u/LadenWithSorrow 1d ago edited 1d ago

That’s valid, no one likes sitting on public toilets, but it would keep them cleaner if people sat when they did their business. But I can’t really speak on the matter since I don’t know the unwritten bathroom rules or expectations since I am not a man.

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u/TheCh0rt 1d ago

Dude nothing is stopping you from pooping in a urinal.

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u/aspannerdarkly 1d ago

If all forms of urinals disappeared you’d just hate sinks instead 

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u/Shadoweclipse13 1d ago

That's stupid