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I think separate rooms for male/female will soon become a thing of the past. The world is beginning to wake up to how silly and non-inclusive it is to split people this way.

Although, I do see some issues with the more open parts of a men’s bathroom, ie. the urinal. With some sort of wall/partition though, those facilities could easily be fit into a gender less bathroom. Even troughs or other communal urinal solutions could work in that situation. 

Has any dude here ever had the chance to use one of those public outdoor urinals? If so, how was it?
 

They’ve had a couple of them downtown where I live. It’s in quite a busy area and they’re quite out in the open so i hadn’t really thought about using them. Until last week, when I was walking downtown and really needed to piss, so I walked up and use one. It was actually pretty awesome to just be able to pee on the street like that!

im curious to hear you guys’ experiences though!

14 hours ago, Beach Bro said:

Glad that you overcame your fears.  I was urinal shy many years ago, and it gradually went away.  I'm now leaning in the other direction.  I like it when I use a trough in a room with an open door and people outside can look in and watch me pee.

Yeah! I’ve walked up there to use that same trough urinal three times since then. It is quite nice to use now that I’ve gotten over the fear of it. Usually I’d sit down near for a few minutes and wait for another gentleman to go in, so I can join him at the trough 

On 9/1/2020 at 7:17 PM, Ms. Tito said:

Would you guys be comfortable with a decently endowed girl standing next to you peeing in a trough urinal?

I honestly wouldn’t mind at all taking a pee in a trough urinal next to you. You’re welcome at the troughs anytime :))

10 hours ago, oliver2 said:

Clearly they aren’t expecting guys to bother to aim too carefully. I don’t know why the bowls on the wall design is now more popular than troughs & porcelain walls - maybe for privacy, but urinals are never very private.

On the pier at, I think it was Portsmouth, there used to be a wall urinal and the drain was just a hole in the pier floor with the sea underneath. You could look down and watch your piss falling into the sea.

Yeah, that’s what it was like in the locker room at my school. Big communal shower (that’s never used) with a recessed tiled wall at the back of it, which was the locker room’s urinal. It gets a lot of use, and I had managed to use it a few times over my senior year. It was great, super efficient in terms of space and capacity. Regardless, I’m surprised they don’t have more urinals of that style around nowadays. That was literally some of my only experience with a trough urinal lmao

5 hours ago, Pronto said:

How bout a movement to bring back the troughs? Might solve a lot of problems in our society today!

I actually totally agree! I feel like if I was exposed to the use of troughs through my entire life, I would have had less irrational anxiety issues surrounding my body throughout my teens years. And if you think about it, it just makes sense in terms of efficiency to have a urinal trough in busy areas such as schools, stadiums, parks, etc. 

I’ve noticed as a 18 year old male, the era of trough urinals being common place in public bathrooms has long since faded away. I would hear stories of these forgotten relics and wonder how they would have worked. These days, everyone my age and beyond is so obsessed with privacy and individuality, we have completely forgotten that we are all just men, with the same parts down there as any other boy or man.

It’s completely commonplace for guys (at least my age) to go their entire lives using stalls in public, or not even bothering to use the bathroom in public at all, out of fear of having that privacy broken. And hey — if you value that and and have anxiety around the potential of having your genitals seen by others that share the same type, all the power to you to use the bathroom wherever you feel comfortable.

In fact, I was one of those people for the longest time. Through my first 4 years of high school I refused to use anything but the stall at school. I wouldn’t even go near the urinals because of their lack of dividers and privacy. It didn’t even occur to me that I could use them. But in my last year of high school, I realized: what’s the big deal? I couldn’t let my fear and anxiety control me like that. I’m not sure if it was how I was raised amongst my peers or what, but I had let this completely normal thing of using the urinal at school get to my head.
 

In my last year of high school, I finally said enough was enough. I challenged my anxiety of being seen or going around others, and decided to use the urinal one busy lunch hour. And yanno — it was great! I could finally use the bathroom as it was intended for a guy. I was quite proud that I had managed to get over such a irrational fear. Although those were still just individual urinals (quite close, however).

I have vague memories of seeing trough-style urinals when I was younger, although I never remember using one. I obviously couldn’t imagine myself using something with that lack of privacy in earlier years, but as I was going through my last year of high school (this year), my mind continued to wonder if I could, now that I had gotten over my fear of at least going at school. So I decided that next time I came across one — I’d just say fuck it and give it a shot.

That brings me to this summer. My friends and I were hanging out at a park in the evening. A while in I needed to take a pee, so I started heading toward the public restroom in the park. This park had a small restroom building, and was quite old (maybe ~40yrs) with a men’s side and women's side, obviously. On my way, I remembered that that washroom was one with a single stall and — you guessed it — a trough urinal! It was about an 6 foot wide indented section of tiled wall with a trench and drain at the bottom to catch the urine falling down the wall. 
 

It was a hot summer evening, and I really needed to pee! So I decided to give it a shot rather then hassle with the stall as I normally would. But, as I entered the bathroom, I noticed and older gentleman (maybe late 50s) already stood towards the far corner, making use of the urinal. In that moment I needed to make a decision. Was I still going to use it? Fuck it. I stand walk up, towards the wall, unzip, pull out my unit, and just start peeing like no one was around for miles! Even tho the older gentleman was no more than 3 feet to my right, using the same wall as I was. We both just looked straight ahead and observed the silence. He finished off about 20 seconds before I did, stepped away and left. I walked away soon after.

After that event, I realized that these super awkward troughs I had always imagined for through my life were really not a big deal at all. I could use one of those things any day. I knew the man beside me would be respectful and keep eyes to himself, just as I did. After all, we were both men and that’s the mutual respect we have for each other. It’s nothing special, we both have the same parts and are at the trough for the same thing. I guess trough urinals are just one of those places where a silent, mutual understanding like that is made. There’s nothing weird about it. It’s a place where men of all ages co-exist in doing the same thing — going pee. Looking forward to the next time I see a trough urinal so I can have an experience like that again. Being able to get over those fears I had has been such a weight lifted from my shoulder.