Victory For Common Sense?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35912227

[Mamyalynne]

Always low on toilet tissue as well.

[jim360]

The one thing I can't help but noticing is that despite all those incidents, men have never been banned from using public toilets. Cases are, instead, dealt with as they arise.

[retrocop]

jim
If you are referring to the list of Historic cases involving misuse of public toilets then I have to say that men/women are banned from using them.
The last sentence I wrote on the list is not clear but it says one toilet,I know of in the New Malden offence of 1990 is closed.
So males/females who wish to use the toilets for the purpose which they were erected are banned, or in this case,inconvenienced.

[RandyMarsh]

yes, stiff penalties are needed.

[Peter Pedant]

O god can I chip in my two penny worth here ?

having had radiotherapy to my bladder and pelvis I have to go when I have to go and people tap me on the shoulder and say
'ere mate you shouldnt be paasing here
and I go like - where is the nearest men's bog ?
and they say without irony ( of course this is AB ) there is nt one !

and a passerby will chip in - he is still going and wont stop
and then .....

[Peter Pedant]

PS I dont do this in drag !
( I dont want to outrage the sensibilities of wallflowers such as retired policemen - shockable ? o god you wouldnt believe it )

[Mamyalynne]

Yes PP for medical reasons you can often get a card which tells folk you need urgent access (Hubby had one) problem is most people don't know the scheme so it doesn't always help.

[jim360]

I meant, legally banned. There is no law in place to stop men in general from using public toilets because some men have abused them in the past.

[Svejk]

There was always an unwritten law that 'normal' men & boys had to avoid certain public toilets which had reputations as homosexual 'hang-outs'.
I expect it's different nowadays.

[jim360]

Seems to me that this is exactly the point I was trying to make, though.

[retrocop]

PP
Me a shockable wallflower? Getaway with you. It seems I shock on AB but don't get shocked.Not me Guv.

[retrocop]

jim
//There is no law in place to stop men in general from using public toilets because some men have abused them in the past. //

There doesn't have to be a law to stop men using them because they are invariably locked up or demolished as a result of their misuse.

[sp1814]

divebuddy

As I've already explained - that has pretty much died out...because of the Internet, and changes in social attitudes.

I suspect you're still thinking about the 1980s or 90s.

(cf. Grindr)

[jim360]

"Do you think it would be OK for a man to use the female changing rooms in a store when buying (say) new underwear. Seems a fairly close parallel."

I'd probably be inclined to leave that one down to individual store policies. Or, perhaps (because, unlike in a toilet, one can always try these things on at home), if someone complained about it then I think it wouldn't be unreasonable for the person in question to accept the complaints and either come back another time or go elsewhere to try their clothes on.