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"Sexist" urinals sell out

VIENNA (Reuters) - Four urinals shaped like a woman's lips were sold on eBay Sunday for a total of 5,343 euros ($6,877) after their owner removed them from a public toilet in Vienna following protests that they were sexist.

Designed by Austrian artist Rudolf Scheffel for the "toilet-bar Vienna" next to the National Opera, the urinals featured lips covered in red, orange or blue lipstick, a bright red tongue and gleaming white teeth.

The urinals were in the toilets for three years but raised an outcry in the run-up to Austria's October 1 parliamentary election when they were used by political party supporters attending rallies nearby.

Women's rights campaigners said the urinals were sexist and misogynist. The toilet's operator Gerhard Neuhold said on eBay they would be restored to their original condition before being delivered to their new owners.

One of the two red-lipped urinals proved most seductive in the auction, raising 1,510 euros from Austria-based eBay user "abv06." The other three went to another bidder in Austria, according to the eBay online auction web site.

Neuhold told Austrian tabloid newspaper Kronen-Zeitung that the amount was at the lower end of the range of his expectations. He will donate a quarter to a charity.

Apparently nobody remembers what the old ones looked like.



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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

Y'know, if it'd been me, I would've argued against this being a sexist toilet. I mean, c'mon. Those lips could very well have been mens lips. Really. I haven't seen them, but even if they were all 'sensual' and 'feminine', one could still argue for them being...well...effeminate men's lips.

Besides, really this isn't about women or men. It's about pissing in someone's mouth. Isn't that more a sado masochist issue than anything?

But that's me, and we all know I'm difficult.

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What is your obsession with this urinal, sir? I was just visiting another thread and came upon this pic from you.

I have to admit, that urinal WI found is ... well ... unique.

I posed for the sculpture.

__________________
Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

I didn't know you had a "tummy tuck." Personally, I think he went too far.