(April 12, 2016 at 1:09 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Perhaps the answer is for us all to stop having hang ups about our bodies and have a more European attitude. I went swimming at a pool in France, there was only one changing room and no booths. the French people just whipped their clothes off, while me and the future Mrs Plumb struggled to keep our English reserve with copious use of towels. Apparently she saw it as an ordeal but I think the French had the better attitude.
The wife, my stepson and myself visited Japan almost 30 years ago. We paid a visit to a park in Nara where little deer roamed around undisturbed by people. There we used a public bathroom which was unisex without partitions or cubicles of any kind. It felt like peeing in a crowed elevator with everyone looking up or away and acting nonplused. Of course I don't know from first hand experience exactly what it feels like to pee in an elevator, but I imagine it would be something like that.
