Poll: Mixed Gender Showers
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I personally have nothing against coed bathrooms however i can understand why people may not like them. Hence why i think they should have separate ones and coed ones if they truly feel like having coed bathrooms.
And i'm also gonna add that coed bathrooms won't affect gender roles in any way. At best it might make people less prude.
And i'm also gonna add that coed bathrooms won't affect gender roles in any way. At best it might make people less prude.
That doesn't make it not work, it just makes it uncomfortable, and it's not even consistent *who* would be uncomfortable about it.Hardcore_gamer said:
I would probably get an erection from seeing an attractive person of the opposite sex, and therefore be a perv somehow. that's assuming there are no dividers between people of course. If there is, cool
I honestly don't know how to feel on this topic. At the dorms I lived in, each suite or room had it's own bathroom so I never had to deal with showering with others, not to mention that the dorms were male only anyway. It would probably be best if we got over nudity being a big deal, but at the end of the day I don't want to see other random people naked and I don't want them to see me naked. I plan to stick to private showering as long as I can and seeing as I'm past the point of living in dorms, I'm probably in the clear.
Why would coed bathrooms change our society's perception of genders? What kind of new lesson do you believe can be learned from regularly seeing eachother naked or pooping together?
It does sound like a good way to put women in dangerous situations though. Rape and sexual assault doesn't decrease just because availability and opportunity increase. The opposite happens.
It does sound like a good way to put women in dangerous situations though. Rape and sexual assault doesn't decrease just because availability and opportunity increase. The opposite happens.
I lived in a Coed dorm where guys and girls lived on the same floor. In theory we had separate bathroom facilities and the showers were not communal but the only thing separating me from some clueless idiot who apparently doesn't think the steam and sound of running water meant "occupied" was a flimsy curtain. No locks no doors just a curtain.
My campus is also one of the... rowdier ones when it comes to sports so every football season guys and girls alike would get completely hammered and the halls would get trashed. It actually got so bad once that the management actually had to enact a curfew because they were tired of cleaning up the messes. Before the curfew I was terrified to take a shower because tailgating went on all day and the number of times drunk frat guys made a pass at me while I was still fully clothed is alarmingly high. I didn't want to chance what would happen if the same drunken lout stumbled into the girls bathroom by "accident". Whenever I thought I could get away with it I used the handicapped bathroom because it was the only one with a shower that locked.
Even when football wasn't going there was always some stupid guy who got hammered and passed out in the wrong bathroom (to be fair this also happened to girls too). And I doubt that college students getting drunk and doing stupid things is a phenomena unique to my campus.
I'm a private person. I don't like being naked next to other people even other women. The idea of communal showers in general is not my favorite one but coed communal showers would be terrifying. I like having something solid between me and other people when I'm at my most vulnerable.
My campus is also one of the... rowdier ones when it comes to sports so every football season guys and girls alike would get completely hammered and the halls would get trashed. It actually got so bad once that the management actually had to enact a curfew because they were tired of cleaning up the messes. Before the curfew I was terrified to take a shower because tailgating went on all day and the number of times drunk frat guys made a pass at me while I was still fully clothed is alarmingly high. I didn't want to chance what would happen if the same drunken lout stumbled into the girls bathroom by "accident". Whenever I thought I could get away with it I used the handicapped bathroom because it was the only one with a shower that locked.
Even when football wasn't going there was always some stupid guy who got hammered and passed out in the wrong bathroom (to be fair this also happened to girls too). And I doubt that college students getting drunk and doing stupid things is a phenomena unique to my campus.
I'm a private person. I don't like being naked next to other people even other women. The idea of communal showers in general is not my favorite one but coed communal showers would be terrifying. I like having something solid between me and other people when I'm at my most vulnerable.
The long-term effect would probably begin and end with people showering together regardless of sex. I don't think such an act would make a perfect, gender-neutral society. Actually, I don't thinl gender neutrality = a perfect society, either, but I'm not opposed to it. It's just another way of life.
This.sextus the crazy said:
Back at my dorm, we technically had a "men's room" and a "women's room" on the floor, but since the floor was coed, the bathrooms very quickly became coed too. I used the men's room plenty of times, and guys used the women's room - it basically came down to "which one is closer?" and "are all the showers occupied?"
Like the woman writing the original article, I saw plenty of dicks. And as someone else mentioned, many of them were erect because I was naked or nakedish.
And you know what - big whoop. **shrug** No harm was done.
So yes, I approve of official coed bathrooms. Make em all coed, I say. Gender segregation only supports the idea that men and women are inherently different.
There is no option that includes my view. I like the idea of nudity being sexualized. Everything should be done in moderation for it to have the most effect. If you sit around all day eating the tastiest foods you can find, then food as a whole will be less enjoyable to you over time. Overstimulation of anything causes it to become more boring and normal to you, and I would rather not have that happen to the female form(nor visa versa.)
The genders are inherently different. You can argue that they aren't different in a meaningful way. Eg. we all strive for the same things, we have the same fears and desires, ect. But you can't argue that there aren't inherent differences. That's just plain silly.Bara_no_Hime said:
Err...the very fact you said "men and women" makes that sentence self-contradictory lol.Bara_no_Hime said:
Mentally we're not all that different (well, it's still being researched) but physically we are worlds apart, even the cavemen knew this 10,000 years ago
All the dorm bathrooms here are co-ed. Whoop-de-fucking-do. Nobody cares, but then again, it's a fairly liberal school (it's in Ontario, Canada). I have no issues with mixed bathrooms in res but in other public places, it's a little weird. I wouldn't want to whip it out for a urinal in front of a girl.
Hadn't considered that and it's definitely an issue. The washrooms here have locked stalls for the showers and, to be honest, I thought all dorm bathrooms were like that. I think that there should only be co-ed bathrooms if there are locked shower stalls. I understand how girls could get especially uncomfortable with the idea of sharing a bathroom with rowdy, horny guys.Raine_sage said:
This depends on the topic, it seems to be referring to something that is fine, communal bathroom. However, I voted no as my first thought was dirty and jumped to 'communal showers', which likely isn't the case.
I have experience coed bathrooms, it's really not a big deal.
I have experience coed bathrooms, it's really not a big deal.
Its all fine and dandy until someone gets a boner and as all guys know, you can't exactly control them 100% of the time.
