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This is the male public bathroom at Celestial Heights in Ho Man Tin, Hong Kong. The room boasts a positively luxurious 27 square feet of floor space, into which eight urinals are squeezed. Eight urinals, with less than six inches separating each one.
There are some obvious problems here. The first is purely physical: with a full quota of users, men are going to be touching shoulders and backs while they’re at their business. Nobody wants to touch another man while urinating; it’s just not right.
Second comes psychology. This room is a living hell for anyone with paruresis. Paruresis, in case you’re not familiar with the term, is a phobia in which the sufferer is unable to urinate in the presence of others. This is a high-pressure bathroom, no question.
Sure, urinal layout isn’t necessarily easy, but someone really dropped the ball here. What I want to know, though, is whether this is the most socially unacceptable restroom in the world. Let me know if you’ve found better worse. [BWG via Geekologie]
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Putting all those urinals in there is making it more crowded than it needs to be. These kinds of places usually just have a gutter running along the walls at below-the-waist level.
Also the urinals are fully subscribed and you are using the one on the far wall, you aren’t leaving till everyone else has emptied their bladders. Bad times.
Wouldn’t it have been far more sensible to just fit a trough urinal? Even if you had one each side there would be more room to move then there is now.
Don’t cross the streams!
I wonder if the ladies loo is the same? They’d have to space it just right to make sure the knees mesh…
It would be useful for the groups of girls that love to go to the loo together.
I doubt all the stalls could be used at the same time, the two on the end look they’re a bit too close to the ones at the end of the rows.
whilst not quite so bad, the urinals at my college do rival this. in the classics block, which I spend most of my time within, the two urinals are impossible to use simultaneously without the other person touching shoulders with you. the problem is, if you make the attempt to use the other one (and don’t have the experience of how uncomfortable it is), it’s almost impossible to back out without making the social situation of whipping your wang out beside another man even more awkward.