Thinking about peeing

[beetiger]

I got Rhys a potty, since he's been really interesting in flushing the toilet whn I use it. I took off his diaper and put him on it; he promptly hopped off, stuck his head in it, and peed on the floor. Not sure what to make of that.

I've been thinking a lot about gender-neutral bathrooms these days. I was at a performance of the Vagina Monologues last weekend, and the bathroom situation was just silly -- lines down the hallway for the women's room, and no one in the men's room. I couldn't get any of the women to hop overto the other side, though I suggested it to several. Part of it is the cultural taboo, I think, but part of it is just...the urinals.

Urinals are weird. We don't have them in bathrooms at home. Women's rooms don't have them, and generally they don't have extra stalls to compensate. I would think that standing with your genitals exposed in a public area would be really odd. So, why?

I have to know.

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Comments

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

In my experience, the line in the men's room stops, at the closest, about ten feet of the way from the urinals. Guys just do not want to risk being accused of looking at each others' cocks. They're programmed with a lot of dick-size insecurity, and a lot of queerphobia. And fear of being seen as queer.

I casually used urinals my entire male life, and yet never used this to have a sense of where my dick stood in the grand scheme of dick size. TMI: Everyone who's ever held it and expressed an opinion has said that it's thicker than most they've encountered, and a functional if unremarkable length, but I never learnt that myself through observation in public bathrooms.