Transparent toilets - your worst nightmare?

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That ranks with the nightmare of being naked at work!

Doesn’t it just!
This is what they look like (empty!)

Oh. Just no!

Why did I immediately think of those toilets on some trains with curved doors that slide round to shut themselves after you press a button and something lights up to tell you it’s locked, but which don’t provide the feeling of security you get when you’ve physically bolted a door yourself?

And while I’m on the subject of trains I do dislike that thing on the mirror in the cubicle, that has a smiley face and tells you to have a nice day or something similar.
It just makes me feel as though I’m being watched.

I went into a cafe here and the doors to the cubicles were clear glass. They changed colour on the outside but stayed clear inside.
I was desperate but really did not feel comfortable. I will be there again soon and have warned my friend I am going with in advance.

They do look very pretty.....but it’s hard to get our heads around the whole transparent thing!

Is the effect the same or different from the inside? Is it like the 'one way' mirrors, where the glass is a mirror one side and a window the other? I mean, how do you know for sure when you're inside, that the glass walls have become sufficiently opaque?

In any event, I would be anxious about the technology failing!

Think they would be very good for the UK. Once the door is unlocked it may be easy to see any damage, mess left with paper and everything else found in UK public conveniences. At times I shudder at having to use a public toilet anywhere. Been to Japan and the toilets I visited were spotless.

Frankly nothing would stop me going if I needed to! A nettle patch suits me these days. My daughter went to Japan, public (clean) loos everywhere. Wonderful. I went to Sweden - virtually none.

They are safe and gives assurance to potential users when it gets dark.
Because of the way the glass changes colour no one can see you except a silhouette. I worked at a company that had such toilets. After the initial surprise you get used to it. There was once installed near the Madame Tussaud a toilet with one way mirrors. The occupant could see every thing happening outside but no one on the outside could see in. Bit unnerving initially but after not a problem

I can imagine some folk will press their nose to the glass to peer in and see how it works. Now I’m picturing myself sitting on the throne with some stranger’s face trying to peer in ?

Oh. It just gets worse!

If you are desperate you won't mind!

I read this too. I dont like using public loos anyway but these would freak me out!!

I visited my sons new flat at the weekend. The hugely expensive houses opposite have bathrooms at the front of the house. The toilet is right next to the window which is sort of frosted.
Well you can clearly see people sitting on the loo and and we got a good eyeful of naked bottom when a chap got off the loo and worse. He didn’t wash his hands either.
A note needs popping through the door. It put me off my breakfast whilst sitting on the balcony

At the school where I work we have one way glass in the physiotherapy rooms. From inside the view is normal and you can see what is going on outside but you can't see in from outside so students having physio have privacy. I'd been working there for years before someone pointed it out to me, but I'm not sure I'd trust it in a public loo! I even sometimes feel insecure if I use one of the disabled loos in our department as it is so big, with a hoist etc to get disabled students out of wheelchairs, as you cant reach the door from the loo, even though I know I've locked it.

I visited a ladies room that was all glass, cubicles and windows floor to ceiling. It is a very strange feeling but got over my fear by waiting until my sister had been in the cubicle and was reassured that you can see absolutely nothing.

A definite no! I like my privacy and that's that!

Loads of my dreams have toilets featuring in them - or should I say nightmares! I hate public toilets at the best of times and my dreams are about toilets which are filthy, have no doors, are communal and open-plan! Not sure I would be happy using the Japanese ones!

We went to a posh hotel in India and the en suite had a huge, curved glass wall. In theory I could have sat on the loo and waved to my husband in bed. Fortunately they had provided a curtain which we firmly shut.

In a local big named chain restaurant, there is a full length mirror on the toilet door. I sit on toilet with eyes closed. Who wants to see themselves sitting on toilet, not me thats for sure

Most of the newer hotels have shower/loos with clear glass partitions, they do have a curtain you can close though. They do warn you to be on first name terms with the person you'll be sharing a room with!