re: #312 Guanxi88

No, the water closet was the best adaptation available at the time of the older technology (the chamber pot). It was never perfect by any means.

Male urine is best (and most efficiently) handled by the standing posture and the urinal. Use of the toilet bowl (better suited, by far, for those discharge functions that necessitate a seated posture) is a mis-use of the technology; the proof of the mis-fit of the technology is obvious from this very discussion.

But let’s look at this from an economical perspective. A common household consists of both sexes (or is a smaller dwelling which is rented and where the owner of said property wants to maximize income by ensuring that the property is appropriate for 100 percent of the market). Installing both a toilet bowl and a urinal would make no economical sense since the toilet bowl is in fact appropriate and useful for both sexes, even if it requires some minor behavioral modifications for the males. Hence in a free market economy with rational players we would have 100 percent market penetration of toilet bowls and men would sit when they pee.