The Urinary Leash

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Interesting article in the Independent about the history of women's toilets, explaining how women couldn't stay away from home for long until public toilets were available to them.

How much smaller would our worlds become if we lose access to single sex toilets? And how many people are willing to accept Victorian standards of toilet access for women?

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/public-toilets-listed-status-urinary-leash-a9700826.html

IMO this has been the agenda from the word go.

True. But did either of you feel that that article lacked a conclusion? Or did my browser cut off part of it?

It still exists.

It’s not just a question of single sex toilets. Women just need more toilets.

Generally I can’t go for a quiet wee down a side street or on the side of the road without exposing my bottom.

(I think this is the reason that trousers didn’t become fashionable until toilets became widespread).

And that’s before you start considering periods.

Good point. I agree.

Women need public loos more the older we get. But I’m noticing I’ve started avoiding them, because I don’t want to risk being in an enclosed indoor space with a man who shouldn’t be there. It’s many years since I was attacked, but the current trend for mixed-sex facilities is stirring up a lot of bad memories.

I can just about handle the flight-or-fight instinct if it happens for some accidental reason, eg a man gets into a lift I’m in. I would walk out if a man was in the women’s loo when I entered it. But I now feel stressed when using a public loo in case he’s standing by the washbasins when I leave the cubicle.