In Switzerland, it's no big deal to see a dude taking a piss. I can remember being in Paris and first bring introduced to the concept of the public pee. You see, there are very few public bathrooms in Paris. So if you gotta go, well, behind a parked car will do just fine.
But Switzerland is clean. Clean, clean clean. Clean as in no dirt. No trash. No public non-niceties. If you do see trash somewhere, it's gone by morning. The little nighttime trash elves take care of it or something.
But seeing a dude taking a piss must be ok. Here's how I know - every bathroom I've been in has done nothing to hide the urinal from an open door. In the US you've got double doors, or corners, or walls that block the view. In Switzerland, open the door, there's a bunch of dudes doing their deed. No big deal. I guess. It's ok to see.
Case in point ... bathrooms at work. It's a shared bathroom. Both men and woman. Common sink area with two separate rooms. One for women, the other for men. The men's room door IS NEVER SHUT. If you shut it, some other guy walks in after you and leaves it ajar. It's like closing it is hard or something. So everyone can see you doing your thing. As it were.
Example #2: the bathroom at Ikea. Opens up to full view of ALL the urinals.
Example #3: there are small nooks around the olde part of Bern for guys to pee. Not a toilet, just a corner with a "sort of" half wall.
So there you go.
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