This toilet is found at King Henry's Hampton Court Palace. This is probably one of the most comfortable toilets around, but as far as sanitation probably-not. It would have definitely not been the most fun being the servant who had to empty it. Seems like during this time the toilet came to you instead of you going to it.
http://thatbackpacker.com/2011/06/25/king-henry-viiis-wives/
In Amsterdam there are public toilets that are very public and out in the open. They are available to men to use at designated places and even have signs around town that direct people to them. This says a lot about how people perceive what privacy is and how much they believe is needed.
http://citynoise.org/article/566
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| This is a ditch used as a toilet in Japan about 1300 years ago. This is thought as being one of the first type of "flushing" toilets since they would be built over running streams. Some ditches would also be made in houses and then water would be thrown in to run the waste outdoors. http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/hitech/toilet/toilet01.html |
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