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You'd be surprised.

No its not a profit saving thing. It makes no difference cost wise to save a few cms of wood. Its intentionally designed that way. Go to any other capitalist country than America and you won't see gaps.

It also feels somewhat ironic that US hosts/makes the largest amount of porn

It's because of the puritanical shame- without those gaps, people might (gasp) have sex in bathroom stalls instead of doing their business as god intended.

All you need to know is that toilet stalls in the USA (and Canada) have huge gaps around the doors, unlike other countries. You have to carefully position your head so you're not making accidental eye contact with people outside, and somehow relax knowing everyone can see you taking a shit.

I've worked a couple places where the stalls were like that. There are fixtures they can add to the gaps to cut them off.

Also, places that have all-gender group restrooms typically install gapless stalls because of obvious reasons.

Really? That's what I'd expect even in a run-down public toilet in a train station over here in Austria.

It explains why there is the debate about which toilet to use for trans people. They can see the other sex naked. It would not be an issue if the doors didn't have gaps.

I’ve always believed that the whole stall concept was developed by some kind of pervert.

I mean, even when they grant proper visual privacy, that’s just one of our five senses. You can still hear and smell what’s going on next door - and I swear in some cases just about taste it.

To me, “privacy” means all senses.

Not to mention having weirdos peek over the top of the stall, which has happened.

Going to Tokyo and every toilet being a sing-along butt rinser made me realized western toilets are barbaric.

Except for the ones where you have to pay, I can do without that.

Hold up.. you mean to tell me that there were stalls available for pooping even though as an American I've been taught my whole life that those gaps exist so people don't do sex in them?!!?!?

Yeah, being literally as cheap as possible is the main design driver for poop stalls with large gaps. Very forgiving installation, so the cheapest possible labor can put them in to inconsistently built bathrooms with cheap parts using the least amount of materials on the cheapest hinges with the cheapest paint and cheap replacement parts when whatever is in there fails.

Also cheap to repair when it breaks.

Also, some amount of gap at the floor level means the whole room can be sloped down to a single drain when a toilet backs up instead of being contained in a single stall. That is also cheaper.

Ever used a trough?

It’s almost like that

they explains why everyone in Europe is dead by suffocating in public toilets.