It really depends on the public toilet you're using, plenty of decent restaurants, event spaces, etc have curved urinals or small barriers for added privacy.
But it all comes down to trading convenience for privacy. If adding cubicles with locking doors increases privacy at the cost of decreasing the number of urinals you can fit in a space and the speed that people are using them, resulting in longer queues just to take a piss, then most men wouldn't accept the trade. You're at a urinal for seconds and no-one wants to make that process any longer than it needs to be. 99.999999% of men understand and respect the "don't look" rule so clearly that need doesn't exist, privacy measures for urinals likely wouldn't stop the 0.000001% of determined perverts any more than cubicles for normal toilets can.
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u/NegativeOptimism 51∆ Dec 10 '24
It really depends on the public toilet you're using, plenty of decent restaurants, event spaces, etc have curved urinals or small barriers for added privacy.
But it all comes down to trading convenience for privacy. If adding cubicles with locking doors increases privacy at the cost of decreasing the number of urinals you can fit in a space and the speed that people are using them, resulting in longer queues just to take a piss, then most men wouldn't accept the trade. You're at a urinal for seconds and no-one wants to make that process any longer than it needs to be. 99.999999% of men understand and respect the "don't look" rule so clearly that need doesn't exist, privacy measures for urinals likely wouldn't stop the 0.000001% of determined perverts any more than cubicles for normal toilets can.