Women's urinals get scrapped in Salzburg

TheLocal ^ | August 12, 2015 | TheLocal

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• Women's urinals get scrapped in Salzburg

  Four hugely unpopular ‘women’s urinals’ at a Salzburg convention centre are finally being scrapped after 13 years of not being used. They will be replaced with conventional toilets, at an estimated cost of €21,000.

  When they were first installed the urinals were a talking point and were praised for their hygiene and water saving potential.

  However, it seemed women visiting Salzburg’s Kongresshaus never really get the hang of them and complained that having to hover over them in a “skiing position” just wasn’t practical. It was a common sight to see women running out of the toilet, thinking they had wandered into a men’s urinal.

  The manufacturers of the urinals said that when used correctly they are more sanitary than ‘sit down toilets’ as the user doesn’t have to come into contact with the seat.

  They also take up less floor space - having only a small partition wall between each urinal - and use less water.

[katana]

Urinals for women: My dormitory during my freshman year in college was Smith Hall, a multi-story slab of concrete and steel on W. 11th in Columbus, OH. It was one of several such characterless residence halls along the same street. They are all still there, and coed, but in my time most of them were all male. The all women's dorm I remember was the decrepit gothic style (rooftop gargoyles included) Mack Hall at the end of the street.

I and my several hundred companions in Smith behaved like we were the cast of Animal House (which hadn't been put on film yet) and caused so much damage and university dismay that after repairs Smith was converted for the following year to an all female residence. But they hadn't had the time or maybe the funds to convert the bathrooms and all of them included a wall of urinals. We were later told that the young ladies living there found them to be very handy for washing their hair without having to take a full shower. I don't think they ever tried the "ski position" referred to in this article.

[sportutegrl]

This reminds me of toilets I saw years ago in the Women’s restroom at LSU Student Union. Does anyone else remember them?

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

Where did this idea come from?,,women’s bodies are different than men’s. Women need to sit down to do all the functions. This seems to me like a “solution” in search of a “problem” which didn’t exist.

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It came from the same people who thought they could make a law forcing men to sit down to pee. If not the same country it was in the same region of Europe.

[katana]

In fact, there are times when there is a vas deferens between a man and a woman.

Thank you for one of the better chuckles I've had in quite some time.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Four hugely unpopular ‘women’s urinals’ at a Salzburg convention centre are finally being scrapped after 13 years of not being used.

I guess Rosie O'Donnell never paid a visit there.

[LouAvul]

they are more sanitary than ‘sit down toilets’ as the user doesn’t have to come into contact with the seat.

However, there's always that inevitable issue with standing in someone else's urine since, as we all know, a stream of fluid tends to splatter. Then we take that into our homes when we walk through the door .........

[GeronL]

Mooo mooo

line up and pee like we tell you!

That’s not sexist... nope

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[catnipman]

Might make valuable collector pieces because of their extremely rarity. Could mount one on your wall and fill it with Susan B. Anthony dollar coins and title it “An Ode to Failed Feminist Fantasies”.

[Charles Martel]

Why call them Chinese toilets?

In my first trip to Paris, 1969, in the middle of downtown near La Madeleine, I experienced such a toilet on Rue Duphot.

Paris has catered to the foreign crowd since before France was even a major colonial power, so it's not surprising that you'd see a squat toilet there. Outside of Paris, I suspect that was a rarity in 1969. Nowadays, probably more common (for obvious reasons).

[oldvirginian]

I had a talk with the doctor that did my hemorrhoid surgery.
He said the Japanese type hole in the floor toilet was the best and American, high seat toilets were the worst. From a purely medical perspective.

He advised me to find a toilet with the lowest seat possible.

Now visitors don't care to use my toilet because they feel like they are sitting on the floor.
I don't care, I haven't had to have surgery again.

[nomad]

And just how would they use it?

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