Paruresis A.K.A bashful bladder, bashful kidneys, mental cloggery, stage fright, pee fright, urophobia, pee- shyness, the slow dribbles, creeping pee-pee, public piss syndrome, shy bladder syndrome is a social anxiety disorder that affects 7% to 14% of the population.
When experienced in the context of a public urinal, most of the fear is caused by the fear of embarrassment of not being able to pee. It's a silly problem easily solved by a simulated pee sound (SPS)
The actual product be a coin-sized-button-triggered- speaker which plays a recording of urination in progress. Alternatively it could be an app triggered by a special key word. Of course the key word has to be carefully selected to avoid accidental SPS discharge during a key meeting. Unfortunately I'm having trouble coming up with something that meets the following criteria:
- Appropriate to say while standing beside someone else at the urinal
- Unlikely to be said in any other social context.
- Repeatable without sounding too weird (for situations when speech recognition doesn't pick it up on the first try)
I'm hoping you can help with that part.-- ixnaum, Jan 29 2014 I admit this is better Rushing_20Water_20Belt_20Buckle [ixnaum, Jan 29 2014] Dangle_20Dongle [FlyingToaster, Jan 29 2014] running water - Japan http://www.youtube....watch?v=FppQxi8dp00 [not_morrison_rm, Jan 30 2014] bird song - more Korean stylee https://audioboo.fm...oilet-with-birdsong [not_morrison_rm, Jan 30 2014] (Lone Ranger voice) "Easy, big fella..."-- normzone, Jan 29 2014 .... as soon as I posted I saw this is already half- baked ... will leave it on here for a while just to lead people to the superior idea (linked)-- ixnaum, Jan 29 2014 oh, thanksalot, [ix]; I just had to mfd my own take on it.-- FlyingToaster, Jan 29 2014 //You do realize, if the Institute of Psychourologists ever finds this place, they are going to have a fucking field-day.
This shows the merit of not deleting these just yet ... until Psychourologists have a chance to go through this.-- ixnaum, Jan 29 2014 ... now I feel the urge to bake this.
- MP3 recording of urinating ... check
- reliable/convenient/fail safe way to trigger my cell phone to play the MP3 ... not so much-- ixnaum, Jan 29 2014 this is so baked in East Asia it's a tooth breaker. Japan tends to sound of rushing water, South Korea goes for birdsong at 120 decibels,,-- not_morrison_rm, Jan 30 2014 random, halfbakery