Council plans toilets that spray users with jets and sound an alarm if they have sex Porthcawl in Wales is spending £170,000 on high-tech toilets that will make sure only one person is in a cubicle at a time.

A seaside town is seeking to dissuade public sex in toilets by installing water jets, alarms, and doors that automatically open when they detect more than one person.

The town of Porthcawl in Wales is spending £170,000 to upgrade its public toilets in a bid to dissuade drug-taking and public sex.

Under the high-tech plans, the toilets will be equipped with pressure-sensitive floors, to make sure only one person is in a cubicle at a time.

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If the system detects any “violent movement,” an alarm would sound and a water jet fired at the occupants, in a bid to end the illicit activity.

Enhanced safety features

The doors of the cubicles would also be rigged to automatically swing open if the sensors are tripped, depriving any couples engaged in sexual acts of their privacy.

Under the designs set out in town council planning documents, the walls and floors of the toilets would be coated in graffiti-resistant paint.

The documents stress: “Every effort has been made to make sure that the new toilet facility will enhance this location and be safe for the community at all times.”

Residents and visitors will have to pay an as-yet undecided fee to use the toilets.

Porthcawl town councillor Mike Clarke told the BBC: “Rebuilding the public toilets is an important element of Porthcawl Town Council’s ambition to ensure that Porthcawl is a great place to live, work and to visit.”

The construction of the new facilities is set to begin after the existing toilets are demolished in October.

False alarm fears

However, people on social media questioned the possibility that the floor sensors could lead to humiliating false alarms.



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One Twitter user wrote: “Weight sensitive floors to detect more than one user? What baseline weight are they using? I’m easily the weight of two teenagers, and what about people who need assistance? I have to go in with my kids.”

Another speculated: “If some poor old person falls over in the loo they will probably get a free jet wash at the same time.”