Urinals and unisex bathrooms

[Necro8617 123]

Kind of a piggyback off my least private urinals thread.  Have you experienced unisex bathrooms with urinals anywhere? Obviously not in the United states.  I have noticed though,  urinating for men isn't regarded with the same level of privacy in other places. Once in Germany We stopped at a rest stop on the side of the freeway and naturally people went to use the bathrooms. One of the girls noticed right away that you could see the urinals in the mens room from the hallway very clearly. It was a trough type. She was excited you could see and spread the word to various girls on our bus. Just then several more buses pulled up and the men and boys began to file past. Like at the concert, the girls gathered outside. I remember one girl blushing crimson as one of the guys she was riding with on her bus stepped up to the urinal and pulled out his penis.

I asked one of the girls if she liked to see, and I remember her saying "there wasnt any view like this back home!" and when someone told her she shouldnt be looking she said "why, I dont get to see dicks everyday you know." All of this was said while she was laughing with a smile on her face. Another girl remarked "I cant believe you can see their SCHLONGS" with emphasis on the "long" part of the word. A 3rd commented the German boys were mostly uncut, I cant remember the word she used to describe it.

[oliver2 4,418]

First one I remember: a youth hostel in Switzerland. There were unisex toilets with cubicles, and one or two urinals out in the “public” section, with the expectation that guys would pee in them with girls walking by and seeing

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I have used unisex toilets in England.   They fall into three categories.

- Single user bathrooms that only have a WC and a sink within a single lockable room.
- Multi user bathrooms that have several WCs in individual cubicles with communal sinks outside of the cubicles.  It is quiet fun to go in there to pee and to hear the sounds of ladies peeing in the next cubicle and then go and wash hands next to them.
- A slight variation on the single user bathroom that was in a place where I visited for work on a customer's premises.  The outer door had the symbol for male and female toilet, but inside was a urinal, a WC and a washbasin.   However, there was only the one door and the theory was one occupant went in, locked the door and selected the appropriate facility.  The idea was that if you used the urinal then you saved water on flushing.   There was nothing to stop two people using the facilities at a time except the etiquette which said that you locked the door when you went in.  I was very tempted to leave the door unlocked in the hope that a lady walked in and used the WC, but I didn't because I was there for work and well known to the people. Also, if a woman had walked in, the chances of her actually proceeding to use the WC whilst I was there was pretty slim.

I have used a unisex toilet in a cafe in France where you walk in the door, have a row of three urinals immediately, then go to the right and there were three cubicles.   So anyone going to the cubicles had to pass the urinals with the only privacy being that the person using the urinal had their back to you, but you could get a side view as you passed.   I never really understood why they didn't put the urinals beyond the cubicles so that they were semi hidden and you didn't have to walk right past them. 

[cornerstone 89]

Hey man, thanks for starting this topic, it's definitely one of my favorite pee fetishes.

From what I recall, I had 3 instances of using "unisex" bathrooms, none of them were too exciting to be honest. Two had no female encounters and the other didn't really do anything for me.

The first story is where I had real encounters with another woman in the bathroom. This happened in China where I was part of a tour group, mid way through the trip, we were dropped off for a bathroom break. The bathroom they had there was a unisex bathroom but there were not urinals, it's basically a women's bathroom but unisex. I used a stall next to an older woman who I did not find attractive. I don't even recall hearing her pee, I just peed, washed my hands, and went about my business.

Second is a what-used-to-be unisex bathroom, it's marked as a men's bathroom on the outside but inside, there were stalls that had signs with a "female WC" icon, indicating these are reserved for females. This happened in Korea and from what I've heard unisex bathrooms used to be very common in Asia, it was actually the norm over there even but that's just from what I've heard not sure if it is 100% true. Anyway, like I said, it was a 100% men's bathroom so no real encounter here.

Last story is an actual unisex bathroom here in the US. It was in a dorm of a college that I was visiting. I stayed for a few nights and used it couple times, no girls have ever came in and used it while I was using it. The dorm had 3 bathrooms in total on the floor, a men's, a women's, and a unisex. I asked another student who was actually living there to see if any girls ever used the unisex, as expected, he said not that he had seen or encountered.

[speedy3471 10,655]

I have never used or even seen a unisex bathroom before. Iam sure they exist here but I don't work in the city or a office building. I don't recall seeing them at a shopping mall either. 

I for one would find it hard to concentrate on the job at hand if a women were to walk into the room as I was at the urinal hahahahaha 

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10 hours ago, cplhiggins said:

Sometimes I think either the French are all massive pee perverts, or more likely they just don't care!

I think that you are right that they just don't care.  They are so used to it that they don't really take much notice.   I'm sure that some ladies still enjoy seeing the men peeing at the urinals and some men enjoy listening to the girls peeing in the stalls, but it happens all the time and is the accepted practice, so most people are not embarrassed to use the shared facilities and don't worry about the fact that other people can see or hear them any more than a girl might be concerned that someone might look at a her bum in tight leggings whilst walking in the street.  They just see it as normal.

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5 minutes ago, Alfresco said:

I think that you are right that they just don't care.  They are so used to it that they don't really take much notice.   I'm sure that some ladies still enjoy seeing the men peeing at the urinals and some men enjoy listening to the girls peeing in the stalls, but it happens all the time and is the accepted practice, so most people are not embarrassed to use the shared facilities and don't worry about the fact that other people can see or hear them any more than a girl might be concerned that someone might look at a her bum in tight leggings whilst walking in the street.  They just see it as normal.

What a great attitude too.  If only more parts of the world were less hung up.

Incidentally, you've just reminded me - at high school in northern England there was a girl in my class with French parents - I remember well because I spent the best part of five years fancying her, but believing she was way outside my league.  Somehow it came up in discussion and brought up that as a 'developing' teenage girl, when she was in the bath her two older brothers would walk freely into the bathroom whenever they needed to. So I guess the French attitude isn't just limited to peeing in front of others.

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On 10/7/2020 at 6:53 PM, cornerstone said:

It was in a dorm of a college that I was visiting.

That has made memories of my experiences at university halls of residence spring to mind.   We had alternate floors of male and female rooms.  Each floor was a corridor for between 10 and 20 rooms depending on the location in the building.   The smaller corridors had a combined toilet and shower room - you went through the outer door from the corridor, then found two cubicles and two sinks and then beyond that was a shower area which was a single shower with changing space just shielded by a curtain from the toilet area.   On the larger corridors there were separate rooms for the toilets and showers.  The toilets consisted of an outer door leading to a room with three cubicles and two sinks. 

Although the floors were dedicated to either male of female, if you went to see a friend on a floor of the different gender then it was commonplace to still use the toilets on that corridor rather than go up or down stairs to reach a floor of your own gender.   The toilets weren't labelled as male or female, because they changed which corridors were used for which gender each year depending on demand for accommodation.  The rules did state that you should use the facilties on a floor that was designated for your gender - however plenty of people ignored this due to not being bothered to go up and down stairs when there was a toilet just there.

Many a time I used the toilets on a girls floor and and enjoyed hearing girls peeing in the next cubicle.   Also, many a time on my own floor girls visiting would use our toilets and if I spotted one going in then I would often time my own visit to co-incide so that I could hear the girl peeing.  I heard some lovely varieties of pee from delicate hissing to thunderous peeing into the water. Also some nice sighs of relief - especially if a girl came barrelling in, slammed the door and immediately started peeing.   The toilets on the smaller girls corridors were best because there were several times when a girl would be in the shower whilst I went in to use the toilet and although I never saw anything too explicit, I could see the shape of the girl behind the shower curtain and liked to enjoy the imagined image.   Also once when I was washing my hands a girl came out of the shower wrapped in a towel which only just covered her from breasts to bum and that was quite a nice vision.

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2 minutes ago, gldenwetgoose said:

What a great attitude too.  If only more parts of the world were less hung up.

Incidentally, you've just reminded me - at high school in northern England there was a girl in my class with French parents - I remember well because I spent the best part of five years fancying her, but believing she was way outside my league.  Somehow it came up in discussion and brought up that as a 'developing' teenage girl, when she was in the bath her two older brothers would walk freely into the bathroom whenever they needed to. So I guess the French attitude isn't just limited to peeing in front of others.

My family were like that - we all used to have no qualms in leaving the bathroom door open or someone using the toilet when any one of us was in the shower or bath.   Even when my sister and I were teenagers.  It carried on until I went to university. 

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And the university halls post has reminded me of another (tame) experience - towards the end of my first year of Uni I moved from the college allocated shared victorian terrace house to a student flat a hundred yards from the main buildings.  It was a two story building that probably used to be a shop or house, but a builder had converted it by dividing up into 10 bedsit rooms, five on each floor. I had an upstairs room at the back, a box cupboard really but it was enough.

When I got the key I popped in to drop a few things off first thing in the morning before lectures. Coming out of my room and just locking the door I heard one of the doors to the shared shower/toilet room shut just behind me. Wanting to create a good impression I said a cheery hello - turning around to face a stark naked young lady. Slightly curvy with huge breasts, wild curly brown hair (at both ends) and a bubbly smile.  She said later there was normally nobody else about in the mornings...

We became really good friends and with her boyfriend who she shared their larger room with (sadly). She was a full on rock chick and wasn't averse to peeing where the need demanded, but alas my interest or confidence wasn't as developed as it is now so I didn't explore that avenue.  

Sorry to go off-topic there.

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1 hour ago, gldenwetgoose said:

turning around to face a stark naked young lady.

Well that's a great way to welcome you to the new accommodation.   Why don't more people do that?

1 hour ago, gldenwetgoose said:

She said later there was normally nobody else about in the mornings...

I bet more people would have been around if they knew the view that was on offer.  I hope you got to see it again at some point.

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4 hours ago, gldenwetgoose said:

What a great attitude too.  If only more parts of the world were less hung up.

 

They seem to have a great attitude. People here are so uptight about having proper bathroom for men and women it's ridiculous. It's refreshing to hear that some countries have a cool relaxed attitude towards life in general, including unisex bathrooms lol

[Geepee9 457]

When we were in Scotland a month ago, ALL the public toilets had reverted to unisex for 1 family group at a time, so on campsites and a castle we visited my wife and myself went in together, but only for no 2s as every pee we did was outdoors somewhere.

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I often go see concerts (well, not that much in 2020...) and one place I sometimes go had a bathroom for men, and one for women. They changed it to 2 unisex bathrooms, but there are no urinals in either. Just 2 stalls and a sink.

Anyway, I go in one of the rooms and there's 2 girls checking their make-up at the sink and one of the stalls is occupied by one of their female friends. So not wanting to look like a perv, I tell them I'll check the other bathroom. I do and it's the same thing. So I tell them just that. They giggle and I go in the vacant stall. I did not hear the friend pee, but I was listening to the 2 at the mirror/sink talk about mundane stuff while I was letting go in the toilet. They definitely could hear me pee!

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On 10/9/2020 at 10:41 PM, Geepee9 said:

When we were in Scotland a month ago, ALL the public toilets had reverted to unisex for 1 family group at a time, so on campsites and a castle we visited my wife and myself went in together, but only for no 2s as every pee we did was outdoors somewhere.

That reminds me of a family farm park that I went to early in the year, not long after the strong lockdown was lifted.   They had a toilet block that had always been one side for men and one side for ladies, each side having four cubicles and a row of sinks - no urinals.   Like your experience, @Geepee9, they had changed it to being each side is unisex but one family unit at a time, but the sign that explained this was positioned about 3m away from the door - the idea being that the groups of families queued 2m apart starting at the sign, where there was also hand sanitiser and waited for a family to come out before the next family went in.   Sounds great in principle, but practically it didn't quite work as suggested.

I observed from a distance for a while whilst others in my group were on one of the nearby rides and I was waiting.   I could see that if a queue formed then it would work, but it wasn't that busy, so anyone arriving didn't know if the toilets were in use, so would simply walk in and select a vacant cubicle.  Most people arriving to use the toilets were individuals anyway, not family groups.  

Also, there were some cases where a family group would arrive and being used to the previous arrangements, the males went in the left side and the females went in the right side.  This was especially the case if they approached from either side rather than the front and therefore missed the signage.

Later in the day, I picked a time when there was no queue,  I saw a lady who was maybe 30, blond hair and quite tall go in and walk straight into the right hand end cubicle which was visible from the door.  Immediately afterwards, a lady who worked at the park went in.  She was in her early 20s, dark hair, slim build.   I then walked in, the lady who worked in the park came out of the left hand cubicle and went into the second cubicle, which I thought was a bit odd.  Any way she saw me coming in, but took no notice as she closed her cubicle door behind her.  I went into cubicle 3 which was between the two ladies.   The first lady to go in was already peeing and I could hear her pee hitting the porcelain and a nice hiss.  I heard the park worker pull down her trousers and then I heard a quite powerful pee splashing and I heard her sigh in relief.  I guess she just had here break and was desperate.  She peed for a good 40 seconds.  Meanwhile the first lady had finished and I heard her pulling toilet paper and wiping.   I also started peeing as I needed to go and I also thought it would seem odd to them if they noticed that I had gone in and not used the toilet.  I heard first the 30 year old and then the park worker go out and wash their hands.  I came out of the cubicle and the first lady had left, but the park worker was still there.   I took the sink that was two away from her (social distancing) and started washing my hands.   When she left, I took a quick look in number 1 cubicle that she had originally gone into and back out and saw that the toilet bowl contained toilet paper and looked blocked.  She had obviously gone in there first and decided against it.