Glastonbury: Did you find the Peequal female urinals?

[Daisydoesnt]

If you went to Glastonbury this year, did you find the Peequal female urinals? There were some near the Pyramid stage although there might have been others. Not smelly, hardly ever a queue, quick to use, oh and did I mention not smelly? They are nothing to do with me (this is not an ad) but having been dreading the thought of the disgusting Glasto loos they were a complete and utter game changer. They will be at other festivals this summer so look out for them!!

Women's urinal inventors

Hovering over a normal toilet is stupid. They are designed to be sat on. And it means there is wee everywhere for the next person.

I would use these. I can squat easily and need to wee very often. I hate queueing for 20 mins for a 30 second wee and dealing with filthy portaloos.

I hate having to time festival/ concert wees though.

I remember the interview in Woman’s Hour. Well done those women! I will be cheering for the innovation, funding, design and implementation and everything in between. We are not a nation of squatters but so glad that so many women got the concept and went with the flow, har har.

Sweet jesus some of the replies on here. You don't have to use them!

I think these are a great idea and would certainly try them out. Great interview with the 2 inventors on radio 4 woman's hour recently. I'm sure they won't suit everyone but great to have a quicker, cleaner option for those who would like them . Makes it quicker for those in the other queues too. An alternative design with a door would be good for places where they're not manned.

I would so love to have this as an option! So often just need a super-quick wee and have wished there was a separate set of loos just for this!

I love my fellow women but bloody hell some of them take a fucking age in the loo

French and Italian toilets used to be like that... everywhere in the 1970s! Unisex! So not a new idea. But nor accessible if you are a woman with a disability, altho there are lots of accessible toilets as well as RADAR toilets at Glasto. It was the first festival to have accessible toilets.. In 1982!

Surely this isn’t new. They sound just like the awful toilets we used to have to use in places like France. My heart used to sink when I saw them.

I have the exact same dream!

I never comment on things, but OP I feel so bad for you! Such a pile on!

The long drops at leeds a million years ago still give me nightmares. I felt so exposed and they were so gross. Honestly these look awesome and so much safer. I remember the floors in the long drops were just mud and had worn away. So the actual loo was so high I had to practically climb up, and it felt like a tall guy next door could see over. I’m sure my brain has built it up to be a bigger trauma than it was!

My tiktok fyp showed me these loos at the weekend - I saw several videos from the creators showing you around them - it gives a good sense of how private they are. In a normal situation it might not be my bag, but at a festival it would be a yes.

Eee it’s made my night reading some of these replies.

Never been to Glastonbury but have used long drops and these seem WAY more private than long drops. I wish they had them at the festivals I usually go to, the urge to pee while waiting for people who take a fucking AGE in the portaloos is awful. Pop in, piss and out. If you need a door or don’t like the idea of them then don’t bloody use them, getting hysterical over taking your trousers down and squatting is ridiculous.

As far as squatting in trousers goes it isn’t that straightforward and sounds massively impractical in shoes designed for mud. Most humans calf bones would position their urine emerging roughly above their ankle bones which is where your trousers/gusset are in a squat.

Feet reasonably wide apart so you don't pee on them, and pull trousers forward and out of the way.

You’ve never had an al fresco wee? You just pull them right forward out of the way.

I used them while I had a knee brace for a dislocation and honestly it was fine, didnt need any more squatting than a normal toilet would, just held the bar and sort of lean your butt out over the hole.
I took my non strapped up leg out of my shorts and held them out the way.
It was quick and easy I would use them again, felt suprisingly private for not really having a door

Sorry if I've missed the answer to my Q as not rtft...my bad.
Is it safe, as in, terms of getting a UTI to use, sure I read somewhere squatting doesn't empty the bladder fully?

I would have used them right up until the moment where it's made clear that men can enter...

So you have six half-naked women in a space with no doors, and anyone can come in? I'd be interested in seeing their liability insurance...

I think they look brilliant. Weirdly when I was younger I think I'd have struggled with them as I got serious stage fright and fear that someone might walk in on me. But these days I'm much older and after 2 kids a bit less sensitive to getting my bits out and a bit more in need of a regular wee, and I could imagine these being a godsend.

I've used squat toilets with no problem in countries where they're the norm - if you squat very low, nothing gets on your legs or clothes.

I wouldn't use these because of the lack of doors, and in this particular case, because they're effectively unisex.

I don’t think it’s been a “pile on” against the OP. Surely she’s just said “ I went to a Glastonbury and used these new no door squat toilets, I think they’re brilliant” and then people have responded with their own opinions? Personally I like squat-loos, but have only used them in hotter countries where clothes are less cumbersome. I would hate a toilet with no door and I can’t imagine it’s what most women would prefer. The “touch point” thing is slightly odd to my mind because everyone washes their hands after using a toilet so how dangerous is it to touch the door if you’ll be washing your hands a few moments later

@IIcouldabeenalawyer
You get uti's if you regularly don't fully empty your bladder, once or twice over a weekend would be totally fine.

Unfortunately, a horrifically high proportion of people don't wash their hands after using the toilet (c.f. many many previous threads on here) retching emoji

I always use a bit of loo roll or at a push my sleeve to touch the door handle, or otherwise antibac my hands afterwards.

I would ideally like a little invisibility shield so I could squat down in the middle of the crowd, without having to pick my way through five thousand people, just to do a quick wee. At my age, post kids, I can't go very long without drinking or weeing.

If they shorten the queues on the regular cubicles surely that's a win for everyone.

Men pee standing therefore in that position it does not encourage pooing, whereas a female squatting does.
In French squat loos you can poo and paper goes down the hole when it is flushed. Some flush the floor when you leave.

Do the English ones flush every time or like in China, because of water shortage in certain parts, flush every hour or so?

They sound like the French service station loos. Brill if you can do it without getting your knickers/trousers in the way!!

Not quite what was described.. no.

You have six people with their pants down doing a wee, and an attendent or two directing people to free cubicles. If someone starts doing anything OTHER than going in to the free cubicle they're pointed at and peeing in it, they'd be asked to leave.

The alternative, to remind you here, at a festival.. is a row of long drop or compost toilets with privacy panels that show the top of your head and your feet/ankles so anyone can look over or under and no attendant keeping an eye on anything.

I don’t think these ones flush at all. There isn’t any water involved at Glastonbury loos. The long drops and composting loos don’t flush.