kallipolis
Know thyself
paruresis
A shy bladder affects many people particularly, the reserved person..closing ones eyes, and imaging a waterfall spilling sheets of water can assist with urination....
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paruresis
If someone attacks someone while the victim is in the nude I would think that to be considered sexual assault no matter what the motive was.
Actually, I see at least 4 questions in your opening post, with this one the last:
The post you quoted addressed that question. Are you stupid?
Looking back to 'the 20th century', we were encouraged to punch perverts like you in the face and then kick in a few ribs while you were down on the piss stained floor.
If you can't allow your sick head to grasp the hygiene/sanitation angle, then consider those 'cock-blocking' dividers there for your protection, to keep you safe from getting bashed, and be grateful for them.
So, you're in bed at night, sound asleep, and you sleep naked. Some guy breaks into your home and starts going through everything you've got to find what he can sell for a few easy bucks. He makes it to your bedroom and sneaks around, going through your closet and dresser drawers. He knows you're there in bed. When he approaches your bed to get to your wallet on the nightstand, he steps on your shoe, loses his balance, and knocks something off the nightstand, waking you up. You yell at him and, in his panic, he starts to pummel the shit out of you with his flashlight.
Sexual assault. Yup.
By the way, not everything (such as partitions between urinals or male nudity in films) is due to homophobia. Usually it's just for privacy.
People have always suffered from paruresis, this just makes it easier for guys to concentrate on having a pissing without worrying people around them might look (you can imagine the past as some strange male nude festival where all the lads hung out with their dicks out, but I am pretty sure it ain't true).
Anyway why do you care about some partitions that make it easier for some? You out cruising toilets still?
No, I don't cruise toilets. What's up with your blatantly rude comment? You made an assumption about me which you do not know to be truth. I can assure you it is not true. I thought people on Topix were rude, like the straight religious bigots, but I can see that sometimes gay and bi men can be even more hateful to one another and their own community. That is a shame!
What's this fixation on public toilets.
Just live the dream.
^ Pretty much this.
The thread topics seem to be an unwavering yearning for a time of more public male nudity. The only reason that anyone would care about this is if they are A) An exhibitionist, or B) A voyeur.
Pretty simple.
For most ....ogling cock at the urinals isn't a thing.
I am sorry if it came across as rude (I don't actually see anything wrong with cruising and have done it - just it's a dead scene), but I mean it seems like you want a return to less privacy. In other threads you have talked about wanting to see more nude males. It feels like all of these threads are pretty much the same - you want to look at more nude men in public to get your jollies.
But the question is where was the concern of privacy back in the 20th century? Back in the day guys had no issue about pissing next to one another, skinny dipping, changing, and showering together after gym or being nude in a sauna/steam room/hot tub. So I can only assume it is motivated by a new form of homophobia that exists now but didn't exist before.
It's a pretty general basis for assuming a new form of homophobia. Partitions at a urinal are hardly grounds for calling homophobia. The world is a different place today. It may well be for security/privacy, to stop perverts from slyly videoing people taking a piss and posting the video on the internet, or it could be as sweet_taboo said, for hygiene reasons.
There are many reasons the world changes and things are redesigned. To decree it a new form of homophobia is definitely a knee-jerk reaction and a slightly odd one too.
I'm open to all those possibilities but just wondered if men in general were more self-conscious about their bodies because they are afraid of gays checking POSSIBLY checking them out since it is more known now that gay men exist than it was before.
Society is more prudish about nudity in general than before. As of 2012 the Coppertone Girl has even been covered up in the new logo after 60 something years of having the classic previous one. I hardly think that some pedophile is going to be getting off on the Coppertone Girl, a cartoon! I think people have gotten a little extreme and paranoid.
Also, children have grown up seeing the Coppertone logo and were not "traumatized" by the nudity. It's probably some religious fanatics and politically correct people bitching about it.

