The problem with this urinal, which city officials call a pissoir (one of the few instances where a French word sounds uglier than its English counterpart), is that privacy-wise, it has none.

The shared core is separated by fold-out screens for privacy, and handles allow people to squat and pee in the open air without touching any part of the urinal. Part art-installation, part ...

It’s this nearly universal experience Evangelos Kranakis ponders in The Urinal Problem, a study about privacy and probability. “It’s a long tradition of trying to understand a problem and ...

The group says the urinal, which is out in the open and screened only with plants for privacy, "emanates offensive odors," ''has no hand-washing facilities" and "it's offensive to manners and morals." ...

Without anything to block a drifting ... “I don’t know how much is visible when men use the urinals, but I’m sure everyone has seen someone with wandering eyes … If women are given privacy, then men ...

Paruresis can be especially tricky for men, as urinals are not often designed with privacy in mind. In 2010, researchers at Carleton University and Wesleyan published a paper that described the ...