Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/17/town-to-install-public-toilets.html
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Parents with babies or young children and people with disabilities requiring an attendant are just two of the reasons this is a terrible idea.
Anyway, any person who uses a public restroom is already going in with the expectation of sitting on a seat that countless strangers have already used to defecate. Is the idea of entering a room that someone might have had an orgasm in really that much more disgusting?
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How will they prevent orgasms of the solo variety?
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Door springs open to prevent sex from being performed, knocks innocent bystander over standing outside, possible broken wrist or forearm attempting to break fall. Lawyers are called, team that developed this project get the sack.
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Organized religion has been working on that problem for thousands of years with little success.
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Awarded Mile High Club, Solo Aviators Division.
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This whole idea will make lawyers orgasm, if no one else. So many opportunities to sue when things inevitably go wrong.
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There’s always a technological fix to treating people humanely.
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You know someones will just take this as a challenge.
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The story at WalesOnline has a floor plan. These look like nicer, more private, more civilized public toilets than I’m accustomed to in the US. If there were people getting it on in the next room they’d have to be pretty loud for an adjacent potty-user to even notice, I’d think.
Is that really such a terrible scenario? Do some people freak out when they stay at a hotel and realize that sex might be happening somewhere in the same building?
Everything I know about Porthcawl, I learned in five minutes with Wikipedia. It’s a holiday resort town. This talk of “rough sleeping” and “anti-social behavior” sounds very much like the council is trying to soothe fears that beggars and un-sheltered people camping out in the loo might scare away tourists. That’s lame and crummy in a way that is at least familiar and comprehensible.
Perhaps we can seek wisdom in the words our Our Prophet McCartney:
Why don’t we do it in the road
No one will be watching us
They’ve got sex detector robots watching the bathrooms though
Why don’t we do it in the road
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So…the loo becomes a looky-loo? /s
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So many things that could go wrong, so many blindingly obvious problems that are just ignored… it’s like someone came up with the concept and nobody had the courage to tell them it was a horrible idea. This is the Episode I of public toilets.
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And it’ll end up being someone’s fetish anyway…
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Yeah. What if your kink is being caught doing it in the dark in a public toilet and getting sprayed with water and being cold? The spectrum of human sexuality is vast, and beautiful.
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I really have to wonder how big a problem this really is? Who is having sex in toilets with any regularity?
Then again, I am always surprised by places I see used condoms lying around. Playgrounds, bike trails, outside of churches.
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What? When did people start having sex in Porthcawl?
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Or perhaps forego the tech and have one minimum wage attendant. He can bang on the doors and say, “What’s all this then?”
And if you still won’t stop having sex, he can personally spray you with the hose, as God intended.
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wouldn’t placing in the stall a simple poster of boris Johnson grinning have the desired effect?
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I really don’t like the idea of people doing horrifying things in my local public lavatory.
I’d feel much better if I knew they were just having sex in them.
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