Towel for privacy, huh? I don't know if those designers have ever peed before, but you kind of need to keep an eye on what's going on down there while peeing or there could be a mess... especially if you're peeing in an unfamiliar setting like, I don't know, peeing into a golf club!
I'm not satisfied with those answers. Just because walking the plank or boarding a ship by force didn't happen all of the time doesn't mean it didn't happen some of the time. Even if something only happened a few, memorable times, it's not a myth.
That's like saying "most websites don't post articles about pirates. Thus, if someone told you that you saw an article about pirates on Neatorama, they were lying."
That's like saying "most websites don't post articles about pirates. Thus, if someone told you that you saw an article about pirates on Neatorama, they were lying."