This thesis addresses the topic of the experience of using public restrooms. More specifically, it deals with a comparison of social practices within men's and on the other hand, women's public toilets. The theoretical overview of the development of the terms private and public provides insight into how their understanding has changed in different contexts and how the concept of privacy has shaped the understanding of the human body and what comes out of it. In addition to the history of looking at the body, a historical overview of the development of public toilets was offered and its space, as a consequence of gender segregation, was presented as a space of gender performance. Finally, the conducted phenomenological research has examined the following two assumptions: (1) women often go to the public toilet together, while men go alone, and (2) men use public toilets solely to relieve themselves, while women use them as a private space for conversation and socializing. The aim of the study was to examine the similarities and differences in behaviors, rules, and habits within these two spaces and to explore what factors contributed to their emergence. Finally, the paper will offer insight into the hidden structures of meanings and beliefs from which said practices emerge.