# Women's Urinals

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-urinals/285718>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [January 20, 2005, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-urinals/285718 "2005-01-20T14:46:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![RobAtl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@RobAtl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobAtl)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-urinals/285718/1 "2005-01-20T14:46:37Z")

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Perhaps the decline of women’s urinals is due in part to the confusion over how they are to be used. Cecil states ([http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1\_255.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_255.html)) that a women should “straddle while facing the wall.” The instructions posted near Texas A&M’s urinals state “back up to the HY-SAN” (brand name of urinal). See [http://www.urinal.net/texas\_am/](http://www.urinal.net/texas_am/) for more details and pictures.