Privacy Corner Urinals

There are some pictures of a new type of urinal floating around this week, supposedly urinals for shy men by Roca. The thing is, in the arrangement they are pictured, these are in fact worse, not better, for shy men.

Essentially, these appear to be corner urinals which do not need to be mounted in a corner. Thus when mounted in the middle of a wall, you are peeing at about a 45 degree angle to the wall. Which means that in a row of these, you aren’t looking at the wall, you are looking at the back or over the shoulder of somebody at the adjacent urinal.

The only way these urinals represent any kind of advance over standard urinals is if they are mounted in pairs, one facing left into a corner, and one facing right into a corner. Hopefully bathroom designers are aware of this fact, and employ these urinals appropriately - but I won’t be holding my breath.

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