<p>Does anyone know of a college in Pennsylvania that has coed bathrooms.</p>
<p>thanks so much</p>
<p>… why would you be looking for one?</p>
<p>I guess you’d have to look for colleges with gender-neutral bathrooms (typically for transgendered students)</p>
<p>. . . that’s the closest answer I can give you =</p>
<p>Someone asked the same thing kind of before and i think if guys and girls shared bathrooms it would be really gross. If you had to share a bathroom with 20 sisters it would be nasty. First there would be hair clogging the drain all the time and girls need tons of make up and stuff and they spend hours doing their hair and take up all the sinks. Also, i know that the guys arent allowed in the girls bathroom but what happens is sometimes the girls go in the guys bathrooms to make out with dudes and stuff in the shower cause thats where you go when you cant get your roomie to leave the room. So i dont know why you would want to have coed bathrooms. It would be wierd i think being in the same bathroom with a bunch of chicks.</p>
<p>^ pff yeah right, the reason we shouldnt have co-ed bathrooms is because of men! theyre gross ;)</p>
<p>There are colleges with co-ed bathrooms that aren’t specifically because of transgendered students. I got the impression that they were actually a lot more common than I would have guessed.</p>
<p>The transgender issue for some reason didn’t occur to me, so if I offended you by questioning why you would be looking for co-ed bathrooms I apologize.</p>
<p>Well what do they have 'em for then?</p>
<p>Just because, apparently. There were a few threads posted last year where people were arguing about whether or not they are icky. I got the impression it’s more smaller dorm buildings that are more likely to only have one bathroom per floor. My dorms, up until now (but now is irrelevant because my dorm is all female), have all had like 800 residents and four or five bathrooms per floor so in my situation it would make no sense unless it was gender-neutral housing. I do think we are going to have a gender neutral floor soon but we don’t yet.</p>
<p>The concept of it doesn’t sit well with me. I don’t have a problem with co-ed floors and even dorms but co-ed bathrooms… ew.</p>
<p>Yeah I don’t like it either. I don’t mind if they exist but I wouldn’t be cool with it myself. But I think part of that is in my school you aren’t going to know the vast majority of the people you share the bathroom with, maybe it would be different if it were the same ten kids I know well all year long instead of total strangers. Not sure. I was raised in a family where unrelated men don’t even see our pajamas, so showering in the same room is quite a stretch.</p>
<p>We’re definitely not in PA, but we have “Gender Neutral Restrooms” around campus, and they’re all single-toilet bathrooms with a lock, so god only knows that goes on in there haha</p>
<p>We have co-ed bathrooms in my dorm (8 per floor), but they’re all single, locking bathrooms with 1 sink, toilet, and shower. The whole issue of “what goes on in there” is not even an issue - it just doesn’t happen. Who wants to do stuff in a co-ed bathroom anyway? College bathrooms aren’t the most sanitary places.</p>
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<p>You’d be surprised. I mean, I knocked. No one responded. And “bam!” two students making out in the single bathroom across from my writing class in the basement. I knocked. I KNOCKED! And then I turned around and walked back to my class …</p>
<p>It’s not so much the possibility of two students getting it on, it’s more the fact that you just shouldn’t mix bathrooms with two genders. I’ve heard some horror stories of female bathrooms (used tampons lying on the ground, etc) and male bathrooms aren’t nice either. Combine them and you’ve got a recipe for disaster.</p>
<p>You shouldn’t believe all you hear.</p>
<p>My residence has mostly co-ed bathrooms and it’s not bad at all. Girls are not generally going to leave a used tampon out unless it was on purpose (and in that case, the “blood” may just be dye). That’s unsanitary and no girl wants to see that anymore than a boy wants to see that. The hair can be an issue and it does take a few weeks to train the newbies to dorm life that this is no longer their private bathroom and they need to respect that the space is shared with 15 to 20 other people. This goes for hair in the shower drain from girls and hair in the sink from guys.</p>
<p>It’s really not bad as long as people learn to be respectful. Probably helps our bathrooms are cleaned every weekday by professional staff.</p>
<p>Note that we have about four to five bathrooms per floor (works out to about one to two bathrooms per hall). Each bathroom can have anywhere from one shower stall to five shower stalls; one toilet stall to four toilet stalls (I’ve yet to see one with five), and one to four sinks.</p>
<p>You just learn to not care. Most of us walk down to the bathroom in just a towel anyways.</p>
<p>To actually answer the OP’s question: Swarthmore and Haverford both do, if I recall correctly. I think they both have all-gender housing as an option as well.</p>
<p>All-gender bathrooms in dorms are more common than one might think, but most schools don’t advertise them or anything, for obvious reasons (cough, this thread…) You might be better off coming up with a list of schools that you know you’re interested in, and then contacting them directly to ask about the bathroom situation – not Admissions, but whichever office is in charge of residential life.</p>
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<p>Yeah, that’s why I moved into all-female housing. That environment is not for everyone.</p>
<p>Precisely :). I was more addressing the “I heard X” postings. Co-ed bathrooms are not as bad as some make them out to be, but they are definitely not for everyone. Same with single-gender not being for everyone either. I think I’d go nuts with all female housing (although I would do almost anything for the AC you’ve mentioned your room has, Emaheevul07!). My best friend is male and hotels in the Santa Cruz area are far too expensive for him not to stay with me when he visits.</p>
<p>I could live with or without the co-ed, but it does seem more efficient how my residence building is set up that the bathrooms be mostly co-ed. We do have single-gender halls (which include single-gender bathrooms, of course), though, for those that request it and my university seems to be very good about honoring those requests.</p>
<p>At my dorm, boys are allowed in and there are no rules about them sleeping over or anything, there just aren’t any male residents. Otherwise I wouldn’t want to live here either, my fiance goes to another school and that would be a pain in the ass.</p>
<p>I go to school in PA. Girls aren’t supposed to use our bathroom on our floor but we always have lots of girls on our floor and they always use our bathroom. I even let my friends who are chicks use the bathroom if they need to go. Nobody on our floor seems to care. I’m used to walking into the bathroom in my towel and seeing a chick in there occasionally.</p>