Category: In The News

This comes from an article from The Guardian newspaper (UK), The deadly truth about a world built for men- from stab vests to car crashes. The excerpt comes from the article about a long-time problem. WARNING! Some offensive content. In April 2017, the BBC journalist Samira Ahmed wanted to use a toilet. She was at…

Article from Men’s Health magazine. An innocent question from one guy’s wife led to thousands of men explaining themselves. By Philip Ellis An innocent question posed on Reddit garnered more than 5,000 replies yesterday, and also poked holes in the popular myth that all guys pee standing up.

This article first appeared online at Vice.Com: The Women and Men who Get Turned on by Needing to Pee By Layla Haidrani “Her shorts were totally soaked, and she was also wet way down the inside of her left leg. She could tell by my reaction that I was aroused.” Consider the most annoying things…

This news report from the BBC tackles an age-old problem- lack of proper toilets for females. The case of a Dutch woman fined €90 (£80; $105) for relieving herself in an alleyway in the centre of Amsterdam has turned into a debate about sexism. The Dutch capital offers 35 public urinals for men compared with…

We read this article in the UK Metro freesheet (c) Metro newspaper. It’s something that many women suffer from in silence- but it doesn’t have to be that way, says Helen Croydon. There’s a reason I used to wear black shorts when I ran. And why I dread sneezing. New research shows one in three…

We saw this in the Huffington Post (UK Version): Newcastle woman photographed relieving herself in the Tyne. A photo of a woman relieving herself into the River Tyne in broad daylight went viral after being posted on Facebook over the weekend. Arijus Dukstas uploaded the picture with the caption: “Happy Easter from Newcastle Upon Tyne”….

This was in the media this week. This is what UK freesheet Metro saw it. A job for naked Superman. Superman Henry Cavill accidently locked himself out of a hotel room while naked. The 32-year-old actor woke in the night needing the bathroom but opened the wrong door and ended up in the corridor. The…

This article was published in The Guardian newspaper(UK): Across the United Kingdom, poorly managed and maintained public toilets are being closed by local government and sometimes the buildings are sold off and converted into nightclubs, restaurants and other uses. This may be a concern to people who increasingly find it difficult to locate a public…

A Chinese university has installed urinals for female students in order to conserve water. However, since the use of the urinals requires the use of a disposable paper funnel, because of the female anatomy, the environmental gain may be questioned. Also, some of the girls apparently felt hesitant and shy about using the new facility,…

We recently saw this in The I newspaper (UK) on the ongoing problem of people peeing in the street: Urine Trouble: San Francisco’s anti-pee paint makes a splash- By Henry Austin People urinating in public are likely to hit themselves in the Californian city of San Francisco, where nine walls have been painted with a…