Anousheh Ansari may want to reconsider her upcoming trip:

Zvezda has manufactured seats, suits and other personal equipment for every single of Soviet cosmonauts, including Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova who was the first woman to fly to space. Ansari as any other female member of a Soyuz-TMA crew requires a different bowl for disembowelment, Pozdnyakov. “This equipment is fit for answering both kinds of calls of the nature,” Pozdnyakov told Space.com in an interview on Thursday.

[Emphasis mine–Via emailer Adrian Reilly]

[Update at noon]

This part was cute, too:

A woman’s organism is different, that’s why we need to modify some of the life systems in the capsule…

It sure is. Vive la difference!