Why do Europeans like to use open toilets in the streets? Why are they reluctant to go to specialized public toilets?

Countrymen who have been to Europe know that there are fewer public toilets in Europe and it is difficult to use them, and free public toilets are even more rare and harder to find than pandas. Why does Europe, a rich and civilized, people-oriented country, so neglect the basic needs of foreign tourists? Why doesn't the government build more public toilets?

Europe's open-air toilet culture

Talking about Europe's open-air toilet culture, we have to start from their religion. The early Catholic Church regarded "water" as an unlucky thing, and they believed that water would cause the pores of the skin to dilate, so that viruses from the outside world would be immersed into the human body with the water. Therefore, the ancient French had a natural prejudice against water. Therefore, not only the toilet cleanliness problem, the most serious even to the bath problem. French perfume is also very famous, the purpose is to cover the body without bathing to bring the odor.

Besides the religious influence, since indoor toilets were expensive and inconvenient at that time, most people could only choose to solve the problem directly on the street. Over time, open-air toilets became a local European culture, and in the mid-19th century, France's sewerage system was too inadequate to deal with the fecal matter in a timely manner.

Because of the lack of a sound drainage system, local residents in order to maintain the cleanliness of their homes, the way to deal with the excreta more simple and rough, directly from the window to the street. As a result, the smell of urine wafted through the air across half the city, and Paris was even dubbed the "City of Pee and Shit". The plague that ravaged Europe for centuries afterward was also linked to poor hygiene conditions and practices.

The origins of street urinals in Europe

The people of 19th-century Europe retained a vice - public urination and defecation - and this "feat" once covered many cities in the smell of excrement, including major cities such as London and Paris, Paris and other large cities. Finally, in the spring of 1830, the city government of Paris, France, decided to install the first public **** urinal on the main road.

These open-air urinals were separate from each other and from the surrounding buildings, making them easy to erect and dismantle, as well as providing a lightweight public ****ing space. Thus, in the decades that followed, open-air toilets grew rapidly in France. At one point in their heyday, there were more than 1,500 urinals on the streets of Paris, which came in all shapes, sizes and configurations.

To this day, the vice of open defecation has not disappeared from Europe because of advances in technology and civilization. Internal French data show a clear figure - 40 percent of French men urinate and defecate frequently, and that's the kind of "frequently" that can be captured on Google Street View. So the habit still exists. So for as long as the habit exists, the open-air urinals will continue to do the heavy lifting.

Indoor public **** toilets are expensive and inconvenient

The rich continent of Europe, rich Germany, the refugees are exceptionally generous, you can throw tens of billions of euros, tolerant tolerance to accommodate, pay high costs to foster real and fake refugees, but the toilet charges this iron law, but no one can shake.

Europeans are used to solving the "import and export business" in cafes and gas stations. As for the cost of drinking a cup of coffee two or three euros, for them, a piece of cake, and is the minimum consumption. But for domestic tourists, the European public toilet charges from 40 euro cents to 1 euro ranging from the convenience of a time equivalent to 4-~8 yuan, at least two or three times a day to go to the toilet, not a small number.

Toilet charges, Europeans are used to. After all, a cup of coffee two or three euros, for them is very cheap, and, the next time you pass by the cafe, the receipt is still possible to use.

Dozens of euro cents for Chinese tourists earning yuan, which solves the cost of internal emergency is a bit high, after all, toilets once, 4 to 8 yuan, if you go three times a day, how much money is needed? Chinese people to Europe are mostly tourists, in the rich and civilized Europe, toilet civilization is still difficult for Chinese people to accept.