Going to Tokyo and every toilet being a sing-along butt rinser made me realized western toilets are barbaric.

Except for the ones where you have to pay, I can do without that.

maybe you can't make the doors fit the stalls properly because you don't use the metric system.

It would be delightful if this phrase started appearing on affected bathroom walls.

No man, you don't get it, I was told that a foot is much better, because that's 12 inches and then 12 can be easily divided by 2,3,4,6

As if you couldn't just work with wood sizes of 12 or 24cms....

Ever used a trough?

It’s almost like that

They should replace dividers with mirrors so we can look at other men's dicks while pissing

I feel like you don't need that much intimacy when pissing but maybe that's just me.

It also feels somewhat ironic that US hosts/makes the largest amount of porn

It's because of the puritanical shame- without those gaps, people might (gasp) have sex in bathroom stalls instead of doing their business as god intended.

I think it's because bathrooms are cost, and so they got enshitified early to discourage costumers from using them.

No its not a profit saving thing. It makes no difference cost wise to save a few cms of wood. Its intentionally designed that way. Go to any other capitalist country than America and you won't see gaps.

You'd be surprised.

I've worked a couple places where the stalls were like that. There are fixtures they can add to the gaps to cut them off.

Also, places that have all-gender group restrooms typically install gapless stalls because of obvious reasons.

Really? That's what I'd expect even in a run-down public toilet in a train station over here in Austria.

It always baffles me that this is considered a luxury in the USA while in Germany (and I assume most of Europe) this is the absolute standard. Stalls where the door doesn't lock properly or where the indicator on the outside is faded so that you can't reliably determine if it's occupied are already considered signs of bad maintenance. Gaps that you can look through without pressing your face right against them would be a "nope, I'll never visit this place again" level scandal.