Lowering Toilet Seats

Etikk i Praksis: Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics

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Bouke De Vries¹ 

[1]University of Zurich

关键词: Toilet seats;    Toilets;    Bathrooms;    Gender Inequality;    Urination;    Defecation;    Expensive tastes;    Stehpinkler;    Sitzpinkler;   

DOI  :  10.5324/eip.v16i1.4112

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Akademika As, Akademika Forlag

【 摘 要 】

Many people who stand to pee raise the toilet seat so that they have a larger target to aim at. However, if the seat is left in this position, any subsequent toilet user who defecates or pees sitting down will need to lower the seat. Some of us believe that this inconvenience should not be visited on those who pee sitting down, while others deny that there is anything wrong with leaving the toilet seat in the position that you used it. This article offers the first scholarly defense of the seat-down norm. In so doing, it shows that recent claims that this norm would be unfair and inefficient are unwarranted .

【 授权许可】

CC BY