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Worked in Japan for a year. The female janitors would clean the men's bathroom at any time, usually while many men were using urinals. At a Mountain hut on Mt F
by mattthebaker 9y ago
Worked in Japan for a year. The female janitors would clean the men's bathroom at any time, usually while many men were using urinals. At a Mountain hut on Mt Fuji, the men's urinal (more like trough) was next to a coed sink with only a 4 ft high divider. Many public bathroom had toilets or urinals easily visible when the doors were open, which were further often propped open. Most interesting experience, by far, was a urinal on the 4th or 5th floor of a high end shopping mall in Yokohama which was 1 ft from a floor to ceiling glass window overlooking the waterfront and a train station bustling with people.
I was pretty entertained by the cultural differences and thought immediately how none of these things would ever happen in the US.
- microcolonel 9y agoSeems pretty convenient too, if you want to walk to the urinals you don't need to touch any doors or go around any bends. Just go through the arch, take a whiz, and exit to the sink.
- dghughes 9y agoOld time bars in the US and Canada supposedly had trough urinals right at the bar where most now have a brass footrest. Googled it a bit. Now that I read up about it more it seems they were meant as spittoons for tobacco spit/juice but were often used as urinals too.
- vacri 9y agoI remember watching a b-grade Chinese kung-fu film. This side of the river had the master with six sons, that side had the master with six daughters. The second master really wanted a son and was overjoyed when his next child was a son. He was prancing about happily in front of his naked infant son, bent over and lightly flicked the baby's penis, then kissed it like you'd kiss a baby's cheek. It wasn't remotely sexual, fit in with the character, and was just a passing moment, but I remember sitting there and thinking "you'd never see that in a western film..."