Shewee portable travel device for women has the editors wide-eyed with wonder
As the editor of a magazine with 120,000 subscribers worldwide, I get a lot of mail. Most of it is electronic these days, so parcels by post tend to be something of a treat. And the one that came this week from Yourincontrol Holdings of Kimberley, British Columbia, was the most delightful package I’ve received since a reader mailed me a piece of what he hoped I could confirm was fossilized lynx poop.
Yourincontrol is the Canadian distributor of the Shewee—a sample of which the makers included in the parcel. According to the accompanying press release, “The Shewee is an ergonomically designed, molded plastic device that allows women to urinate while standing up, and without removing clothes.” The narrow, 17-centimetre-long funnel device looks rather like a small tool used to plant delicate seeds in the garden.
I’m having so much fun showing this around to people, I haven’t been able to bring myself to take it home to try it. The reactions are exquisitely amusing. Amazement. Disbelief. Horror. Feminist triumph.
“I blush just looking at it,” said Assistant Editor Shanna Baker, when I asked if she would like to blog about the product.
The inventor, 29-year-old Samatha Fountain—I kid you not, her name is Fountain—says the idea for the Shewee came to her while she was backpacking in Europe.
“It struck me how much easier it was for a guy to go to the toilet in a place where there were no facilities or nowhere to squat behind, so I came up with a way of effectively urinating like a man.”
I can’t testify as to the effectiveness of the Shewee, and we generally avoid editorial endorsements of products, anyway. But should you decide to buy one ($14.00 plus tax online at www.shewee.ca), please, pretty please, drop a comment here to let us know how it works out for you. 
April 6th, 2009 at 5:59 am
Dear Anita,
Wow - Shewee is all the way over in Canada now?!
I live in the UK and bought a Shewee about 4 years ago now. When I bought mine they only had them in white, I bought it from an Outdoor show where I met the inventor - what a lovely lady! - and I believe that they were a tiny company then so it’s great to see that Shewee is now in Canada.
As I said, they only had them in white when I purchased mine so when I forgot to take my Shewee to a festivall, I just had to get myself a pink one too!
I have found the Shewee to be a total lifesaver - it’s great at festivals for those nasty toilets, it’s great for hiking which I do a lot of, and I always leave one in my car for those times where you just don’t think you’ll be able to make it to the next services!
Anyway, I just wanted to say that it’s great Shewee is getting so well known. It’s such a great product and I would recommend it to any woman. - it feel strangely liberating weeing standing up! Make sure you give it a quick practice at home first though.
x
April 6th, 2009 at 6:06 am
I bought a Shewee last year. It was just awesome! Thanks Hazel