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Special Report: The Toilets & Toilet Paper of Milan

Can you trust a black toilet?

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Leonora Epstein
May 06, 2026
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I used to adamantly believe that one could never trust a person in possession of a black toilet. After my experience in Milan, I might be changing my tune seeing as black toilets are everywhere there. Thus, black toilets + European city known for superior design must = some form of redemption.

Thanks to a postpartum bladder that is still very much postpartumy some four years on, I had to opportunity to experience many different toilets, toilet papers, and of course, bidets across Milan.

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