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WHY??

I don't get the need for something like this. Another space-stealing item to clean because someone doesn't want to lift a lid?

Sit down and relax, gentlemen.

"One of the dead ends on the road to high-tech toiletry can be found in the bowels of Japan's National Stadium, the showcase of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Directly under the field along a low, dusty hallway lined with electric wires sits one of Japan's few remaining female urinals, several hundred of which were made by Toto between 1951 and 1968.

The female urinal, which rises out of the floor like a modified cone, is a Japanese invention meant to save time. It never caught on.

"Women just didn't like to use them," says Miyuki Matsumoto, a Toto planning official."

It's not about being lazy, or even about not wanting to clean a bathroom. It's about effective efficiency. For some of us, time is precious, and being on the go all the time forces us to be as efficient as possible.

I, for one, bought one for my home. It fit right in the half-bathroom, and the full bathroom, for the new addition I put in not too long ago.

Plus, who said that women had to clean the bathrooms? You don't see me making my wife clean the ones in our house. In fact, I've had to clean my own bathroom since I was 12.

There should be an urinal included in any home where males reside. It just makes sense.

I've been looking at urinals for awhile to replace a standard toilet in a small half bath off our dining room. The toilet looks functional somewhat in the space but then you try to use it (sitting) and it feels ridiculous as my knees almost rub against the facing wall. A neighbhor recently commented though placing a urinal there which would force female guests and family to use the bathrooms upstairs and that would be sexist.

But to me, it would also keep people from "polluting" the space near the dining room/kitchen. Sorry to be graphic but I think eliminating potentially awkward situations is good design.

the reason for something like this in the bathroom is water effieciency. the small flip down urinals use 2 cups of water to flush as opposed to a typical toilet that uses 1.5 to 2 gallons of water to flush. multiply that by a toilet being used roughly 6 times a day, 7 times a week, and so one and that's a lot of water being saved.

I vote yes, for the water-efficiency reasons cited.

In a house with three small boys, "point it down" is our morning mantra. Any parent in this situations knows the joy of cleaning urine off of nearly every toilet surface (and sometimes the wall). My husband and I have talked semi-seriously about adding a urinal, and after seeing some of these designs we might really be adding one.

I've been discussing this with my fiance for awhile. He thought I was kidding at first but I'm totally in favor of having at least one urinal in our future home. It makes sense from an efficiency standpoint and an enviornmental standpoint.

We here at the Mister Miser Urinal Company think our design is very pleasing to the eye and at $295.00 you can't find a better water saving Urinal product anywere in the world!
so "Greg" you stick to drawing "cartoons" and playing with "toys" and will continue to make the best water saving Urinal on the Market today!