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| Why do French men pee on the street? | |
| 2025-06-15 | |
| [BBC] Every year, Paris tries new, 'revolutionary' methods to stop men from peeing outside. In 2018, red flower pots equipped with urinals, allowed men to unzip and relieve themselves right on the streets of the French capital’s iconic Ile St Louis. The following year, another short-lived urinal project tried to make fertiliser out of men’s pee. Of course, public urination is a problem in most big cities, and public restrooms are an essential service, especially for people experiencing homelessness. Yet many street urinators in Paris are offenders of opportunity rather than necessity. The city has even come up with a name for it: 'Les pipis sauvages', or 'wild pee'. In her first column for the BBC, Daphnée Denis investigates why Paris is so prone to public urination: is it a historical, sociological or psychological issue? What is the real reason behind this habit?
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| Posted by:Skidmark |
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| Posted by: Frank G 2025-06-15 17:13 |
| #5 Up until a few years ago it was though that urine was inert, with no bacteria. It is now known that there are plenty of bacteria in the bladder system, hopefully the bad gut bacteria that we all have, to some extent, are purged before making it into the bladder system. |
| Posted by: Fairbanks 2025-06-15 16:40 |
| #4 Guys have been peeing wherever they happen to be for the last 100,000 years. It is a guy thing. It is even commemorated in a famous poem. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening By Robert Frost ... My little horse must think it queer That I would stop and pee right here Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. ... |
| Posted by: SteveS 2025-06-15 12:45 |
| #3 French President Macron Travels to Greenland to Back Danish Ownership of Island |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-06-15 10:08 |
| #2 ^^ And they can? |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2025-06-15 08:36 |
| #1 Because they needed to pee? |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2025-06-15 08:20 |