Quote Originally Posted by Rubah Lapah View Post
That's a very interesting question, jesse.

*goes to wikipedia*

[edit- it was strangely quiet on the history of the urinal which leads me to believe that men have been sharing pee time and penis lengths with one another for millennia now and it's only recently that enough of them have decided they don't like the trend to even consider giving a private urination space.
Public sanitation used to be, well, public. You could just let rip almost anywhere, and it wasn't that big of a deal. People would even have a friendly chat while venting themselves in the street... though an old European text on etiquette mentions that it's customary "not to greet someone who is defecating".