US Cubicles

[quercusone]

Hi,


Why do they have this gap, which I haven't seen anywhere else?

THanks,

SDB

Don't Mind the Gap.

 

[pronatalist]

Don't peek though the gap. It's rude. That gap is there, so one can tell whether that stall is really occupied or not.

 

[rbkwp]

communal pooing?

Love it..not that i have a fecal fetish?

China and possibly many other Asian Countries
Not so much cubicles but pretty well open toilets ala open showers
Many in paddocks/rice paddies approx 8/12 toilets in each building
you walk in/squat/talk to your neighour over the wall (that is just high enuf to shield your bod)
Your wastes drop directly to a Water filled Trough
Immeadiately women scoop the Solids..and its pretty well placed straight away onto the paddy fields
WELL thats how it was .. and possibly still is some areas.
Vast Contrast to our training of initiallly 'sitting on a pottie'.. then using a cubicle'
(those days i noticed ..most had a cig in there mouth/but no toilet paper in the other hand/some had ordinary paper)
LOOK where China is To-day..ha
enz
(i actually use a 'longdrop' currently .. only as i live on an island)

 

[tom water]

What's to like? Eliminating bodily waste, is a bit of a private thing, and I wouldn't want to be "on display." However, what's the big deal?, everybody has to do it. Some of the old "communal" outhouses, with more than one hole, had no privacy partitions inside. So no doubt people must have talked to one another, while doing their business.

But one of the advantages of not having the partitions, more so with the communal showers, is that the big shower room is less confining, without all those extra unnecessary walls.

Want more actual privacy? Just go home then.

I quite liked it because I' a nosey bastard, it's that ok with you?

 

[B_Rob15]

Hi,

Sorry if this has been covered but I was in the USA a few months back and I don't get why all the cubicles there have gaps you can see through.

I noticed a few guys looking in the gap right at me when i stood up off the toilet - and no, they weren't looking to see if the stall was empty as there was at least 3 others empty with doors open on the way down to mine.

Why do they have this gap, which I haven't seen anywhere else?

THanks,

SDB

One possible answer may be found here:

http://www.lpsg.org/117804-public-restroom-sex.html
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[sdbg]

I think in many countries, people do pee with other people around them on the streets.

You're correct, Pronatalist, and we're not talking about third world countries. The Europeans provide facilities such as the ones pictured in the links below to deter people peeing on buildings and on the street. I'm amused at the thought of something like these in the U.S. Like other changes in life, we'd get used to it after a while and it would be no big deal.

Street Urinal

Street urinals | The columnist | thelondonpaper

 

[pronatalist]

You're correct, Pronatalist, and we're not talking about third world countries. The Europeans provide facilities such as the ones pictured in the links below to deter people peeing on buildings and on the street. I'm amused at the thought of something like these in the U.S. Like other changes in life, we'd get used to it after a while and it would be no big deal.

Street Urinal

Street urinals | The columnist | thelondonpaper

I wasn't speaking of people peeing around other people, because they have no manners. But rather, regions of the world that are so populous, and lack proper sanitary facilities, that people can't seem to find some empty field anymore to pee or defecate into. When there's so many people around everywhere, and no place to get away from them, it's going to be a bit natural, I would think, for several guys to line up and pee at the same time, people walking all around outdoors, so much so sometimes that ditches and streams flow with human wastes. The answer to that of course, isn't pushing condoms, but government reform, economic growth, so as to allow for more toilets, and less using the forest or the streets as a big public toilet.

In crowded urban environments, busy restrooms in airports or sports stadiums or theaters, I would think an efficient urine trough in the restrooms, is far better than peeing in the streets. It's not so much the privacy that's important, as it is to direct human wastes to be properly treated in more sanitary sewer systems.