Friendship Park in Chongqing (Photo : degine.blogspot.com)
Chinese men urinating in public in Chongqing have become viral online. The colorful street urinals are the main attraction of Foreigner Street, a free-entry urban amusement park.
There are four urinals on both sides of two stands, allowing eight men to answer the call of nature at the same time. The men are not totally exposing their private parts because there are plastic dividers shaped like arcs that shield the waist area of the urinal users, reported China Daily.
These British-style urinals are patterned after a similar park in Amsterdam. The urinal is near an entertainment complex, food court and cable car entrance. Chongqing Meixin Group, the park developer, said the urinals are its latest addition to global toilet culture display.
Other toilet features of Foreigner Street are the 2,000-person capacity toilet and commodes shaped like an Egyptian pyramid. The park also has canals similar to Venice in Italy, a tree house and a crooked pedestrian street just like Lombard Street in San Francisco.
But Yang Xiaoyon, from Chongqing Meixin Group’s planning department, acknowledges most park visitors would hesitate to use the urinals, except when the bladder could no longer hold the urine. There is a normal public toilet downstairs, but because it is a little far and sometimes crowded, some men use the urinals in the open.
Because China is a conservative country, the park developer opened a sex-themed display in 2009, but authorities shuttered it because they found the art works, such as paintings and sculptures, too explicit.
Besides Friendship Park, Chongqing also has the Liangjiang Xingfu Guangchang Park, Eling Park, Nan’an Binjiang Park, Sha-ping Park, Longtousi Park, Dongbu Park and Yueliangwan Park, according to eChinacities.com.
