I went to school in Missoula and have been wondering about this for YEARS. I have a nearly identical photo on my old phone. It's the same in the women's room, though, despite the whole no-urinals thing. Thanks for the excellent investigative reporting, Dan!
The Museum of Modern Art in Stockhom has a miniature of the men's room with a camera trained on it. When men exit the men's room, they see a TV screen with urinals, stalls, and sinks that makes them think that the men's room is being broadcast to the public. It's a shock until you realize it's really the miniature men's room that's being shown on the screen.
"Privacy partitions", a.k.a. wanking blinds, plus a convenient coffee cup receptacle. Those helpful folks at Missoula International Airport think of everything.
I say that it is just another excuse to take a pee in the sink if someone is taking up the urinal and the toilets. It's a makeshift urinal. In Montana we often don't give careful thought to where we take a piss. It's nice to have a visitor that can do the research for us.
The men's locker room at my gym actually has a sliver of visibility into the area of lockers if you stand just right. I've never cared... not that I'm much to look at and want to show off, but I guess I'm just not that paranoid. If you're willing to strip down to whatever in front of total strangers of the same sex, total strangers of the opposite sex don't seem like a big deal, especially if there's barely any range to see.
The parallel here is this: what was someone really going to see in that mirror, some guy's fully clothed backs as they stand at a urinal? Like they didn't know guys peed? Unless someone intentionally turned around with their unit still hanging out, there's no way someone would see anything "relevant".
@16- Americans are so funny about things. In the far east public restrooms anywhere, the cleaning folks clean the restrooms, irregardless of gender or activities. It was disconcerting the first time it happened to me, but the little cleaning lady was 65+, so I figured she'd seen it all, and could care less about the backside of a pissing american and got over it.
But that was there, and this is in Missoula, MT, so we can't be offending delicate eyes with images in a mirror of pissing, clothed men's backsides....sigh.
This has been driving me slightly batty.
So, thanks, Greg, whoever you are.
The parallel here is this: what was someone really going to see in that mirror, some guy's fully clothed backs as they stand at a urinal? Like they didn't know guys peed? Unless someone intentionally turned around with their unit still hanging out, there's no way someone would see anything "relevant".
But that was there, and this is in Missoula, MT, so we can't be offending delicate eyes with images in a mirror of pissing, clothed men's backsides....sigh.