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Not to sound like crazy weirdos, but we’re rather fond of urinals. In terms of easy, no frills ways in and out of the bathroom, they don’t come much more utilitarian. Of course, that’s not to say that they nullify any likelihood of bathroom awkwardness, but they come pretty close. Or rather, well-designed urinals come [...]

In the cine-essay The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, popular Lacanian cultural critic and philosopher Slavoj Žižek makes the point that toilets are a rather loaded symbol, a kind of terrifying portal to some secret and disgusting underworld and cultural subconscious that we know exists yet want desperately not to think about.
Following that logic, bathroom signs [...]

Remember that Rob Schneider film Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigalow, in which Schneider’s home aquarium expert is left in charge of a vacationing male sex worker’s massive fish tank? No? Well, you’re lucky, but suffice to say that within the context of that film, the palatial fish tank served as another symbol of the mustachioed sex [...]