I went to http://www.restrooms.org/device-assist.html and ordered the TravelMate. It’s fantastic! I practiced about 4-5 times at home, and last night had a successful field test in a public restroom. I can’t wait to take it camping, and it’s going to be a lifesaver when I’m at the airport or have to use those Porto-San things.
It is just great - you don’t have to take off your pants, just unzip. You don’t have to concern yourself with what might be living on the toilet seat, and you don’t even need toilet paper!
**Strainger ** dared: “I dare you to walk up to a urinal in a men’s room and use it.”
Oh come on, Strainger – you KNOW that that will intimidate the men far more than it would AerynSun. In fact, those few times I’ve seen women use a men’s restroom, men don’t dare enter until they’re sure the women are out. I mean – you men have some of the most complex social rules for using urinals.
Yes vix, it is for real. You can buy TravelMate online and you’ll get it in your mailbox. I’ve tried this little penile substitute, and other than the fact that it could be longer, it works fine. {cough cough}
I think Cecil did a column on this many years ago, but there was once such a thing as the female stand-up urinal. I actually saw one in the mens room (!?) of the naval base’s airport terminal in North Island off San Diego. It looked like a giant porcelain eye-cup (as if anyone remebers what they look like). Female urinals were common in the days when women wore dresses, but fell into obscurity when gals started to trouse themselves and were required to sit (yet another example of women’s lib being a two-edged sword). As for this guy, Slith Tove prefers to micturate while seated at home, but adopts a stand-offish position when out in the big dirty world. I don’t think it’s a masculine/feminine issue worldwide - I’ve read that the Arabs always pee at the squat, and when Richard Burton was sneaking into Mecca disguised as one he blew his cover by peeing standing up, and had to kill his Arab guide to keep his secret. And this men;stand/women/sit is just a human race issue - cows and mares can do the standingest pisses and make the sudsiest suds you can imagine.
My son, when he was a toddler, took his diaper off and was standing in the kitchen (at least it wasn’t carpeted), and, as I watched in horror, pooped a long 'un, then stomped in it.
Hopefully his girlfriend doesn’t read these boards.
In my local pub, there is such a queue for the ladies loo, thAt they use the gents but this is such an eloborate troll that it is true or I want one anyway
Hey! I remeber something similar, probably the first generation, advertised in camping magazines in 1970. They have REALLY improved the design! The old one had a spherical cup that didn’t look like it got a decent seal and immediately went into a long, narrow tube. It was just made for major backsplash if you gave it anything more than a slow, steady flow.
Yes, it is real. If you don’t know why women would want to pee standing up, you’re not a woman who’s been confronted with atrocious airport/train station/Porto-potty toilets. Not to mention the problems of outdoor whizzing while camping or putting up with a full bladder on the longest stretch of exit-less highway you’ve ever seen.
Yes, I do raise the seat and put it back down after. If only women who hover would do this instead of pissing all over the seat! They are yet another reason to use the TravelMate.
As for using it in a men’s room, I have a shy bladder in the stalls of the ladies’ room! I don’t think I’d be able to. But maybe at the next baseball game, when the queue for the ladies’ is a mile long, and the men’s is practically empty . . .
But I do think I could write my name in the snow, if I had enough . . . ammo.
