Eeewww!

how do women use them?

some place more private. At a race track near us, the men walk passed the restroom building, through a hole in the fence and pee in the woods behind the chain link fence. On a hot night, sitting in the bleachers to watch the races can be a smelly thing as a result. Women stand in line at the building and take turns using the 12 private stalls inside and then wash their hands before going back out to buy something to eat when they get back to their seat. I have never been able to figure out the logic.

Versailles, where elegant guests peed in the halls for lack of toilets. Depravity at this or some other court even grew, or so I've read, to the point where ladies had servants shoving pans under their billowing skirts while they continued to converse up front. I'm inclined to think that couldn't have happened much or continued as long as these urinals already have, though. Surely they had balkers then also.

And that's what Seattle's got.

Cities teeming with people "hydrating" all day need public facilities.

But we're not going to be getting them, are we?

Can't provide anything that might attract the homeless!

Puh-lease.

I'd bet a gallon of fruit punch that these, um, facilities will wind up being known as Wankanators (R).

...called pissoires, IIRC, that men could walk into and relieve themselves.

Visually dicreet, but rather unpleasantly odoriferous, even in January.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pissoir

As always, women were left having to find an actual bathroom.