The Unfortunate Physics of Male Urination - Priceonomics
When men urinate standing up, pee ricochets off the porcelain beyond the toilet or urinal. This may come as news to you, but interior designer Debbie Wiener is familiar with this “splashback” problem.
“It’s a constant problem between men and women,” she says, and one that comes up frequently when she works with clients to redo their bathrooms. Women want a way to keep the toilet and bathroom floor free of splashing urine, and so does Mrs. Wiener. “I can’t walk into my bathroom barefoot!” she exclaims.
Debbie Wiener is a veteran of the interior design business, but she doesn’t know of a splash-proof toilet to recommend to her clients. “If there was one, I would consider buying it,” she says. “I’ve never seen such a thing in the trade magazines.”
Instead she recommends the same solution she has settled on in her home: towels. She keeps a drawer full of big, bleachable towels, and every day she puts a fresh one on the floor in front of the toilet. She has no solution to keep pee from splashing on men’s pants.
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