Stop stand-up urination for men, Swedish politicians urge

[kevm3]

Stop stand-up urination for men, Swedish politicians urge - Your Community

A Swedish political party is taking a stand against upright urination.

At a county council meeting Monday, the Left Party, or Vänsterpartiet, tabled a motion that would require office washrooms to be genderless with a sit-down-only requirement, reported the news agency Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå.

For men who might refuse to comply, party representatives suggested a separate set of toilets clearly labeled for stand-up urination only.

Vänsterpartiet, known as a socialist and feminist organization, believes seated urination is healthier for men and more hygienic for both sexes.

Party speakers cited medical research they said shows men empty their bladders more efficiently while seated. Improved bladder evacuation reduces the risk for prostate problems, according to the party. It also helps men who sit rather than stand achieve a longer and healthier sex life, it said.

Viggo Hansen, a substitute council member who authored the motion, told Sveriges Television that that the move does not represent an attempt to meddle in the bathroom habits of citizens.

"That's not what we're doing. We want to give men the option of going into a clean toilet," he said.

What are your thoughts on this motion? Let us know in the comment section below.

Tags: POV

 

[Crakface]

How a freestyle urination into a toilet bowl less hygenic then a bunch of dudes sharing ass germs on the same toilet seats.

 

[Sinnerman]

would neg in real life

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

when i get up to pee in the middle of the night i sit down because i don't wanna turn on light...

 

[BlvdBrawler]

How a freestyle urination into a toilet bowl less hygenic then a bunch of dudes sharing ass germs on the same toilet seats.

I don't know about you but I usually stand as far from the urinal as possible to minimize splash-back. If you look around the floor of a urinal, you'll see there's a bunch of congregated piss all over the place. Just imagine how much piss is getting on your hands and clothes.

 

[WaveCapsByOscorp™]

haha, those crazy swedes...

 

[Crakface]

I don't know about you but I usually stand as far from the urinal as possible to minimize splash-back. If you look around the floor of a urinal, you'll see there's a bunch of congregated piss all over the place. Just imagine how much piss is getting on your hands and clothes.

I piss into the drain. You piss straight ahead or onto the toilet air freshener. NO wonder you look like you just walked through a light drizzle.

 

[WaveCapsByOscorp™]

i wonder how the ladies' room look in sweden if they're trying to minimalize the mess in men's bathrooms. usually the ladies' room in the US look terrible compared to the men's room...

 

[kevm3]

They pretty much want to turn men into women over there.

Here's another article:

From Townhall.com --

Young women in Sweden, Germany and Australia have a new cause: They want men to sit down while urinating.

This demand comes partly from concerns about hygiene -- avoiding the splash factor -- but, as Jasper Gerard reports in the English magazine The Spectator, ''more crucially because a man standing up to urinate is deemed to be triumphing in his masculinity, and by extension, degrading women.'' One argument is that if women can't do it, then men shouldn't either. Another is that standing upright while relieving oneself is ''a nasty macho gesture,'' suggestive of male violence.

A feminist group at Stockholm University is campaigning to ban all urinals from campus, and one Swedish elementary school has already removed them. Some Swedish women are pressuring their men to take a stand, so to speak.

Yola, a 25-year-old Swedish trainee psychiatrist, says she dumps boyfriends who insist on standing. ''What else can I do?,'' said her new boyfriend, Ingvar, who sits.

But I can think of another reason to ban urinals. They are a sexist waste of space and money.

Because bathroom architects give extra places for guys to go, enabling them to pee while they stand up, guys are in and out, with little time wasted.

Some employers think this helps productivity and as a result women get crude remarks made to them, like ''what took you so long?'' Sexual harassment like that makes some women shy about using the bathroom and, as a result, makes them more prone to have humiliating accidents.

The only reason we girls take longer to go than guys is because we obviously have to displace more clothing and then also sit. Guys merely walk up to a urinal, unzip and whip it out.

I, however, have to walk into a stall, lock it, turn around, pull down my pants (or hold up my skirt), pull down my panties, sit down and then - finally - I can pee.

Some might question that even if schools removed urinals from boys' bathrooms, what's to stop a boy from peeing into a toilet behind the stall door?

They won't if low ceilings are placed above the toilet, physically forcing them to sit.

(That's also not a bad idea by itself - stall ceilings - to give everyone, boys and girls, total privacy. It would stop the harassment of girls and boys at school from other kids standing on the toilet in the stall next door, looking down on the kid on the toilet and making fun of her/him, perhaps even taking embarrassing photos with a camera phone and emailing them around).

Or moisture sensors can be placed on the tile floor, sounding an embarrassing beeping alarm if a boy misses.

For school boys that are still defiant, teachers could simply assign a couple of girls from their class as restroom monitors. The girls would observe which boys' shoes were facing the improper direction.

Since there wouldn't be any urinals, just stalls with doors, the girls wouldn't see anything they weren't supposed to see. An offending boy would be given a warning. Repeat offenders could be assigned bathroom cleaning duties or be denied bathroom access.

Unequal restroom budgeting results in longer lines for women at concerts, ballgames, amusement parks. We therefore miss more of these events than men, despite having paid the same price for a ticket.

Due to the long bathroom lines, we also are more prone to having a humiliating accident.

If guys had to pull their pants down and sit to go, they'd be up in arms about the lack of adequate restroom facilities and more stalls would be constructed.

My answer to the average guy who is probably outraged at my support to ban urinals?

You've probably never suffered the embarrassment of wetting your pants while waiting in a long bathroom line at a ballgame or crowded club, as I have, and then had to walk back to your seat, totally humiliated, with everyone smirking or outright laughing at you.

 

[dr. pill biden]

This does not surprise me. I was just in Sweden a couple months back.

Feminism is DISGUSTING in that country. They make American women look like Asian brides. They have turned each and every Swedish male into the most snivelling, chumped out beta male and/or faggit (hard to tell with euros) you have ever seen.

 

[Crakface]

I think its obvious that europe is the heart of the beast. These ideas start there and then pump out to the rest of the world.

They are literally the heartbeat of the world.

 

[Cat piss martini]

gayest shyt i've heard in ages....

 

[BlvdBrawler]

I piss into the drain. You piss straight ahead or onto the toilet air freshener. NO wonder you look like you just walked through a light drizzle.

So you're able to magically piss straight into one of the drain holes without any piss hitting the chrome grate at all?

Breh step your piss-pressure game up that doesn't sound normal.

 

[Thebadguy]

How did the Vikings turn into such sissies?

 

[Crakface]

So you're able to magically piss straight into one of the drain holes without any piss hitting the chrome grate at all?

Breh step your piss-pressure game up that doesn't sound normal.

Yup. That or you piss into the corner so takes the turn like a waterslide into the drain. I hope you arent cosigning this legislation.