Singer Patti Smith had a job where the women’s toilets were in the open in a room and no one would pee during work. They were in agony by the end of the day. She named her first, very limited release album, “Piss Factory”. See, artists do need to experience pain.
A nearby plating shop had a small restroom connecting to the main work area. Several buddies of the owner got together and planned a prank. They had someone pose as an elderly customer with a cane who was blind and somewhat confused. When he asked to go to the potty and was directed to the restroom he stumbled around and pretended to not be able to find the door. The owner pulled the door partly open and pointed the guy at it. He fumbled with the door, spun around a bit and swung the door shut - *while he was still outside the restroom. * He poked around with the cane until it hit something in the shop. He then proceeded to drop his pants and do a hover while he shit in the shop wastebasket. All to the horror of the business owner. The others guys were in tears laughing. So that guy didn’t mind. At. All.
Also, a urinal uses much less water than a flush toilet. So having a urinal available saves money for the business that pays for the water, and saves water for the earth’s environment.
They actually redesigned the toilets near my office to remove the barriers.
The men’s room used to have two urinals, a toilet stall, and a sink. But the stall was too small to be ADA compliant. So they removed the barriers and one urinal, put a lock on the door, and made the bathroom unisex (with a sign saying to lock the door for privacy).
The woman’s room nearby was also made unisex, but that just involved putting a different sign. It had a single toilet and sink. It was several months before I realized men could use it.
There’s no female equivalent, since the “urinal and throne” arrangement is for a single user.
You mean, those people who got to consummate their marriages in front of witnesses? Way back when as today, famous people often have less privacy than regular citizens.
Painting with a bit too broad a brush there. There were widely varying customs regarding bodily elimination, before recent times. For instance, early ethnographers noted how certain Siberian hunter-gatherers would routinely walk wide off course on the tundra to relieve themselves, so no-one (including their own folk) could witness the act.