Remember that thing about Berlin and female urinals - I think the consensus was a woman would never use them?
I can't say I spend much time thinking about urinals 
but a couple of things occurred to me yesterday as I was walking through Soho with a colleague (en route to a client meeting).
I thought that those dog awful pop urinals only appeared late night. But yesterday we were trying to dodge afternoon crowds and I passed very close to a man using one - I was not expecting that! Anyway, a "bleurgh" escaped from my mouth and my colleague said "well not bleurgh, they are a great idea but they need to make some that women can use".
And I said "hang on, do you mean you'd use one without a door?" (I should say, apologies if it makes me a pearl clutcher but I think it's revolting that they don't have doors and also they could have used the space for pop up loos that everyone can use but anyway)....
and she said "yes. I drink pints. I could make a lot of use out of those if they made them differently, they just need to change the design a bit and women can use them. I've peed in the street in desperation".
so there are women that would use them. Then again, I don't know if it makes me hugely old fashioned that i would like people of all sexes to just do their business behind a door.
on the sociological aspect, I find it really grim that we've reached a point of busy-ness and overcrowding in city centres that makes this necessary but what was wrong with a little set of public loos that could just be used by everyone? I did initially realise that men peeing in doorways on Friday and Saturday nights was a problem, but if these pop up urinals are just going to be in use all day, then we're effectively saying "hey guys, you can pee here in front of everyone, don't worry about finding a loo".
does anyone else find that grim? I don't want to go on my office lunchtime walk and find myself walking past banks of open urinals.