<p>I don't think co-ed bathrooms there is a lapse of "rules"
college students are young adults and young adults have been fornicating for centuries.
My daughters school has co-ed bathrooms and for the three years that she was in the dorms, I never noticed any impolite behavior-</p>
<p>Now I admit this was a relatively small dorm- in a dorm with many more people, it is more difficult to know who belongs there and who doesn't- but I actually liked the co-ed floors I thought they were safer than single sex- because anyone who might come in ( presumably a man) who was looking to accost somone ( I grew up while Ted Bundy was hanging around), would soon find that there were men on the floor.
And as far as I know the only women that my D even knows that have recently had babies is one friend that she went to high school with, and a woman who is married that she worked with last year.
They do have baskets of condoms on the shelf below the bathroom mirror so I presume they are being used ;)</p>
<p>I know that most colleges have them these days, but the whole coed bathroom thing grosses me out. H and I went back recently for my college reunion and stayed in the dorms. H had a fit because we were all sharing the hall bathroom . I guess we're just old fuddy duddies......so be it!</p>
<p>Sid19, I would love to see a study like that, also to include drinking/drugs. I think some of the drugs/drinking is kids' self medicating to loosen up in the coed dorm world which, in my opinion, is stressful to live in day in and day out with no lights-out policies during one of the largest lone transitions of your life (and coed bathrooms - yucky and terribly daunting I would think for a large portion of the late adolescent population).</p>
<p>At least in the old days if you were sneaking to "Auntie's house" it was your own decision and you were not forced to go along with your roommate for an all night party if you wanted to sleep.</p>
<p>Hence my post on ideas to try to control dorm partying.</p>
<p>My son has no problem with the coed dorms and bathrooms. He said privacy is respected and as far as he knows no one has complained or expressed any concern. With 40+ people sharing one bathroom, he said he's usually the only one showering. </p>
<p>They have an unofficial rule that you don't date or get involved with anyone on your floor (floorcest).</p>