Discrimination, underinvestment, and sanitation concerns have led to a lack of public bathrooms, which has multiple consequences.
If a person has to go to the bathroom while out in public, it may be difficult to find a toilet without some sort of catch. Often, it’s in a coffee shop, a convenience store, a pharmacy, or another private building, so it’s not a true public toilet.
Temple University history professor Bryant Simon, who has studied and is writing an upcoming book on the history of toilets, shared more about how toilets used to be a big deal. "Beginning in the 1930s, 1940s, that early, public officials begin to complain about perversions," Simon said."They begin to complain about same-sex sex in bathrooms. As there are fears about gay sex in bathrooms, there's fear about people drinking in bathrooms. It's not a very popular city sort of thing to build anymore."
In 2018, two Black men were blocked from using the restroom at a Starbucks location in Philadelphia’s Center City. The incident prompted Starbucks to act as America's de facto public toilet. It changed its policy to allow people to use the restrooms at its more than 15,000 U.S. locations without buying anything.
"We ran a survey around bathrooms, around the importance of bathrooms and access to clean water with the Joint Office of Homeless Services, and a resounding amount of people answered that they had no access to public restrooms," Drake said."So we took forth on this initiative of placing throughout the city 172 port-a-potties."
"For everyone, for people with shy bladder, for people with incontinence, for people with bladder issues of different sorts," Soifer said."People who had health issues and families with children who often struggle to find a place."
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