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(Bath)Room With an Anti-View: We're Not Sure We're Okay With This

Where: 710 West Main St [map], Louisville, KY, United States, 40202

This could be a Killer View, we suppose, depending on how you look at it. This is the view from the urinals in the public men's room at 21C Museum Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. And those are real people. And they could be you!

Alright, we get it. 21C is an art in a hotel that dually functions as a public art museum but its "gender-specific latent exhibitionist fetish features" within the lobby bathrooms are a topic we've discussed before, and now that we're seeing a real (read: non-PR) shot of the view from in the little boys' room, we're not so sure we're okay with this.

Allow is to explain what's going on here:

The men's restroom has a two-way mirror that allows users of a long urinal to contemplate passers-by outside the restroom. Both the men's and women's restrooms have tiny LCD screens displaying a multitude of different, open eyes in the mirror above the sink area that make washing up or primping a communal affair.

Dudes peeing in urinals while looking at us. Does that not make you a wee bit uncomfortable? Think about it. Really.

Anyway, rooms here start around $185 if you're interested in booking your own private bathroom without these exhibitionist features.

[Photo: gregverdino]