<p>didn't know my thread would cause such heated debate.</p>
<p>i completely agree with the principles of co-ed bathrooms, and i'm not necessarily saying "OMG I DONT WANT TO BE IN TEH COED BATHROOMZ."
i was just curious as to how it worked. thanks for your posts, Weskid.</p>
<p>The college bathrooms aren't public; after a while the few students sharing them begin to feel somewhat like brothers and sisters. But if your home life has been segregated, the switch to co-ed at college may be too much of a shock.</p>
<p>Imagine two people brushing their teeth side-by-side, wearing a bikini and trunks, respectively (pun intended).</p>
<p>Okay, I have one more thing to say (big surprise!). ;)</p>
<p>My D doesn't have any brothers and I'm sure that's one of the reasons this seems so weird to us.</p>
<p>would you be naked in a single-sex bathroom?</p>
<p>A lot of us were, in the PE showers from 7th to 12th grades!</p>
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<p>but there's never going to be a time when anyone will be FORCED to have a co-ed bathroom ... you can always request a single sex one if you have reason ... schools are required to accommodate for religious beliefs, etc.</p>
<p>in any case, they add to the culture of the school, and if you don't agree with it, your kid probably shouldn't go to that school anyway...</p>
<p>Wait.. what does gay rights have anything to do with having co-ed bathrooms?
Is that saying that since homosexual people get to ogle at people they might be interested in single-sex bathrooms that we should give heterosexual people the same opportunity?</p>
<p>I mean to tell you the truth there's no real benefit to a co-ed bathroom - I mean do girls REALLY want to use the same toilets that guys are using?</p>
<p>Yeah, plus, I don't think anyone wants to awaken to the fact that girls fart, at least before they're married.</p>
<p>Yeah, no one is forced to have co-ed bathrooms. As a hall, we chose to have them. And it worked. And Vossron is right, we all felt like family. It was a small hall, and we were all friends, and it just seemed kind of stupid to bother with segregated bathrooms.</p>
<p>Regarding the comment that guys make the bathroom messy, we all (both the guys and the girls) found that the co-ed bathrooms actually stayed cleaner than the single-sex ones that we'd all used the year before. I think that we were all probably on our best behavior. I've heard from some of the guys that it was nice not to have a bathroom "code" anymore. The concept of having very strict, unwritten rules about bathroom behavior was new to all the girls, but every guy seems to know all about it.</p>
<p>Yeah, like man law #1, never use the urinal next to one being used if you can avoid it.</p>
<p>"Wait.. what does gay rights have anything to do with having co-ed bathrooms?"</p>
<p>Nothing at all. If one purpose of separate bathrooms was to prevent sexual mingling, the presence of gays renders that purpose moot.</p>
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<p>It’s less a “gay rights” thing than a “queer rights” thing. Some people of non-heterosexual sexual orientations do find single sex bathrooms uncomfortable (because of the assumption of a lack of sexual attraction that is incorrect), but the main issue is for people who don’t fall along the standard gender-binary — pre-op transsexuals, transgenderd people, genderqueers, etc. That’s why I haven’t been calling them “co-ed” bathrooms; at my school, at least, they are called gender neutral bathrooms for a reason.</p>
<p>well the only co-ed bathroom there is at our house is the one downstairs and its only the toilet. upstairs theres a mens and women bathroom with the showers and toilets and stuff.</p>
<p>Ok, maybe we should have single sex bathrooms labeled Men, Women, and Other then...
Just like when they ask for gender on college apps.</p>
<p>Have not filled out a single app that gave the "Other" option...</p>
<p>i'd assume it's mostly really liberal LACs that have the other option anyway unless Bob Jones is trying to screen applicants who might be "other"</p>
<p>^^Haha! That's funny!</p>
<p>^^ Agreed, sort of like when President Ahmandinejad of Iran said "there are no gays in Iran" when asked.</p>
<p>Yeah...that you "know" of!</p>
<p>He meant there are no openly gay people in Iran, and for the most part he's right.</p>