Buy Or Don’t Buy

Picture this: you leave a bar with some friends, strolling up to the L train so that you can head into Brooklyn to hit another bar, when you’re suddenly plagued by an unshakable need to piss. You ask your friends to hold on, dipping down 11th Street between two parked cars, where you can whip it out on demand, as needed, to supply your kidneys with instant relief.

You’re zipping up (after shaking off), trying to avoid the yellowish flow, when you notice one of your female friends has just stepped between two parked cars, not too far from your own makeshift john. Walking back to your pack of friends, you find yourself admiring the pluck needed to squat between bumpers in high heels, only to have that admiration stripped away when you catch a glimpse of your friend relieving herself. There she is, standing proudly, shooting an arced stream out into the street that rivals any you could produce, without having to pull her jeans down around her ankles.

To shelve any unnecessary flummox such a scene might cause regarding friends of yours that are, unbeknownst to you, transgender or transsexual or the like, let us just imagine the girl you’ve just seen pissing as erectly as you do, is in fact your girlfriend.

She zips up her jeans, then shakes off. She puts something away in her handbag, then turns, and walks up to you, commenting sardonically on your unconcealed voyeurism.

Flabbergasted, you may choose to broach the subject immediately, or you may wait until you are loosed up by another couple round of drinks before asking what the fuck it was that you witnessed back there in Manhattan, on 11th Street.

The answer, a flexible piece of pink medical grade silicone that resembles a funnel one might use to add oil to a car engine, is a female urination device (or an FUD) called GoGirl. Basically, a woman just pulls her underwear down, puts GoGirl where it needs to go, aims, and diddles – all while standing up.

Makes you wonder whether Freud was considering differences in male/female urination practices when he started theorizing Penis Envy and Castration Anxiety. Regardless, the makers of GoGirl are offering women a product with a unique tip, and compact & mess free design that provides freedom from horizontal bathroom constraints. When #1 is calling, anyway. We are all still on an equal playing field when it comes to # 2.

Find out more, including where you can find GoGirl, at the following link:
www.go-girl.com

Image source: Mr Andrew Murray’s Flickr