Secret Men’s Business 4: Clarendon Hotel, Surry Hills

23 February 2009 in Human Nature, Photography, Sydney by Stilgherrian | 7 comments

Photograph of the urinal in the Clarendon Hotel, Surry Hills, Sydney

It’s been too long since I’ve posted one of my urinal photos. Let’s fix that.

This image was taken last week at the Clarendon Hotel on Devonshire Street, Surry Hills in Sydney, after a particularly pleasant conversation with a couple of friends.

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Quatrefoil on 23 February 2009 at 11:38 pm

I love these pics — such voyeurism. And I love the shape of these urinals. I may feel the need to use them as design inspiration for some traditional handcraft project.

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Stilgherrian on 24 February 2009 at 7:20 am

@Quatrefoil: No worries, I’ll keep them coming. Indeed, I’m tempted to use “the good camera” rather than phone to get a much better series of images. That said, though, the grainy low-light style of the phone’s camera output adds to that voyeruristic feel, no?

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Quatrefoil on 24 February 2009 at 7:47 am

Absolutely – it’s the still equivalent of film noir.

Actually, I think there’s a coffee-table book in this project …

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Stephen Stockwell on 24 February 2009 at 10:26 am

@Quatrefoil: Shaped like vaginas to assist aim. In Singapore, they politely put a convincing image of a fly in the middle of the porcelain.

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quatrefoil on 25 February 2009 at 4:17 pm

@Stephen Stockwell: It’s more than likely that you have seen more vaginas than I have, but I have to say these don’t strike me as particularly vaginal. And besides I would have thought that the point of a vagina was not to encourage people (men, specifically) to aim at it from a distance. But far be it from me to be negative about other people’s practices or preferences.

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KeeKee on 26 February 2009 at 4:45 am

It’s got to be a man thing!! Is that all you guys have on your minds LOL!!!

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Stephen Stockwell on 27 February 2009 at 9:47 am

@Quatrefoil: Any receptacle that’s roughly oblong shaped, with a pointy end or two, has enough of a vaginal connotation for me. And of course the point of an actual vagina is not to encourage aiming at from a distance. But then that’s not what we’re talking about.

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