I absolutely hate it because i have zero need to accidentally see someones junk and even less so getting mine watched… is it so hard to put the screen everywhere?
Why are there so many urinals without privacy screen between them?
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I absolutely hate it because i have zero need to accidentally see someones junk and even less so getting mine watched… is it so hard to put the screen everywhere?
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You’re that guy in the changing room that tried to cover his whole body with a towel while getting changed for sports right?
Just don’t look
Eyes front, look up and down.
Scared of weiners, huh?
We’ve all got the same equipment. Just don’t look.
Hang ups over hang downs..
Tell me about it.
When I’m having a shit, I do get some judgemental looks.
It’s seriously not that big of a deal dude.
Because nobody cares.
I think most men don’t care so the builders don’t see the need to add extra costs
Who cares?
Screens are for women
Before our society became so isolated and antisocial; two men would enter a urinal and if one notices the other was struggling, you’d lend a helping hand to his gland and help him bare his heavy load.
So we can compare the junk of the guy standing next to us, duh
I have the same frustration with those bathroom stalls where the walls are nearly 2ft off the ground and ceiling, with a huge gap in the door.. Cheap owners saving money on materials and making bathrooms an uncomfortable experience all round
Are you young? If so, you might care less as you get older. The bigger issue is that the screens help you pee less on your neighbors. When I was in school (many years ago), we had urinals right next to each other that went from chest high down into the floor. We also got our jeans and legs peed on a lot. I much prefer a partition of some sort, but the lack of one doesn’t put me off. Most people are trying not to see anything or acknowledge the presence of other people.
My best advice would be to not think about it. If you have a nervous bladder, wait for a stall.
As to the reason, I would assume cost.
Don’t listen to all the big manly men who work 12 hours at the ball-crushing factory and don’t care if someone eyeballs their piping. I am also rather uncomfortable with having to whip it out next to the customer service manager at a Wendy’s and I would love screens. I usually piss in the stall, we don’t have to bond over our wieners to be men.
At the maker space and art gallery where I volunteer, the men’s bathroom doesn’t even have a urinal. Literally just the fucking metal trough.
When you grow up, you’ll realize it doesn’t matter.
Unless you have a hard on, I don’t think anyone can accidentally see your dick. And even if anyone does who cares!
You’d really struggle at one of those piss troughs in some bars.
Or just do like every other guy and look straight forward, do your business, leave.
I’m not sure that the premise of what you’re saying is true. I’m not in the business of looking out for it, but the ones I use at the office and the gym all have dividers.
Since it doesn’t affect you then why do you care if a screen is in place?
I hate that it’s so common to have urinals without some form of decent privacy. For the pee shy guys we don’t stand a chance.
It is likely a cost of materials [increase the businesses profit] issue. If regulations do not require it then why install dividers. Zero labor cost to clean and repair materials that do not exist.
I think it’s cuz it’s cheaper to not install dividers for urinals.
I just use the stalls.
If you have pissing anxiety like many guys do just count the chrome, count all the chrome pieces of the urinals plumbing you won’t have to worry about anything after that.
At Oktoberfest while pissing in the ” pig trough ” you will get covered in splash back from randoms while pissing shoulder to shoulder and wearing lederhosen and you just become number to it or others seeing your junk.
Tell me you’re from the US without telling me you’re from the US…
Oh boy, you would love the big trough (with a drain) men had to piss into at this festival I attended. 🤣 It was technically “inside”, but doors were open at either end. You just picked a place to stand and then you’d whip it out.
do you want to have conversations with others through a wall between the two of you?
so uncivilized
“Nice watch bro” 😂
Its called having room to share the urinal, cross streams and the like. Have fun with it! And remember it’s 2 shakes at the end or you’re playing with it!
I feel like the newer the restroom, the more likely the presence of screens. The only thing worse than none is having to piss in one of those long open trough-style urinals, though they’re usually installed at sporting events where I’m sloshed enough not to care.
Because it’s cheaper to install and maintain. There’s also through urinals. Stalls exist.
Maybe, just don’t look. Or use the private stall if you can’t pee in public. It is ok. Nobody is forcing you.
The screens are a nice touch… but it’s honestly not that big of a deal to me.
Less surface to clean. Less cost. Most men are accurate enough and mind their own business. It is usually one of guy or drunk guy that accidentally pisses everywhere. Or one asshole kid who thinks it’s funny to mark their territory.
Plus how large are these partitions you can’t look over them anyway? What do they actually do?
Stall doors with no gaps are a much bigger issue in my opinion. If gladly get rid of urinal partitions to get full doors and no gaps on stalls.