# women's urinals

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-urinals/422059>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [October 9, 2007, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-urinals/422059 "2007-10-09T05:13:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![soyperiodista](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@soyperiodista](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soyperiodista)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-urinals/422059/1 "2007-10-09T05:13:54Z")

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I am a student at the University of Oregon, and I live in an older residence hall. The second-floor women’s restroom has two women’s urinals. The other women’s floor doesn’t though… I wonder why.

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**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-urinals/422059/2 "2007-10-09T05:28:36Z")

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You’re sure they’re not bidets?

ETA: Apparently not. Didn’t realize it was a reference to one of the columns. [Here’s the link.](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_255.html)

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**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-urinals/422059/3 "2007-10-09T16:02:46Z")

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Somewhere out on the interwebs are instructions for women on using urinals, even thru the fly of your jeans. I read it years ago, and haven’t found it again.

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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-urinals/422059/4 "2007-10-09T16:47:09Z")

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At universities, housing gets shuffled around sometimes, and men’s floors become women’s floors. This happened at the U. of Evansville for a couple of years while the new women’s dorm was being built. The urinals were the subject of jokes and confusion.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-urinals/422059/5 "2007-10-09T19:13:05Z")

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The closest men’s room to my office, in the engineering building, has a women’s urinal in it. From context, it’s pretty clear that it’s a urinal, but I wouldn’t have known why it’s the funny shape it is without the Straight Dope and similar websites.

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-urinals/422059/6 "2007-10-10T01:17:57Z")

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[A picture of a women’s urinal.](http://www.urinal.net/texas_am/) Odd that is it is at another university; bastions of progressivism, I suppose.

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**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-urinals/422059/7 "2007-10-11T04:45:17Z")

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My Og, is that a cup holder? Why don’t men’s urinals have cup holders?