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A few years ago, Nathalie Des Isnards was attending a music festival with her husband David, and planning to watch her favourite group.
Before the show, they headed to the toilets. "I spent 30 minutes in the queue waiting to pee," she recalls. Much to her frustration, she missed the first part of the concert.
Meanwhile David took just "two minutes", and saw the whole show.
"I was upset. I told myself, 'We're in the 21st century, something should be done about that.'"
She set about creating a women's urinal. The simple seatless basin she devised is housed in a cubicle with roof and door, designed for faster use but also privacy. "I was not a designer. I was a user first," says the 46-year-old.
A different but important engineering challenge.
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Are Female Urinals the Answer to Queues at the Loos?
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(Score: 2) by Immerman on Friday March 13 2020, @02:21PM
> The mechanics involved aren't a whole lot different between males and females. Expose yourself, and let fly.
Well - they are a fair bit different in practice since women don't have an easy-aim dongle. Men can discretely unzip-and-whip in a relatively exposed area like a urinal. If you're going to squat you need to pull your pants down around your knees, and some sort of handhold helps immensely to avoid pissing on them.
Dresses are obviously more convenient for the act - but they pay for it by being less convenient for just about everything else.