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<p>Not a very popular option according to the article.</p>
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What’s the advantage of two coed bathrooms versus one male and one female?
Proximity … if the existing bathrooms are pretty far apart then students are closer on average with coed bathrooms than with separate men’s and women’s bathrooms. The way to make single sex bathrooms as close as coed bathrooms would be to wipe out dorm rooms to double the number of bathrooms … and I doubt many colleges are trying to deduce the number of dorm rooms on campus."</p>
<p>I was in a small dorm but it was set up so that the west end was girls, the east end boys, and the 2 bathrooms were in the middle. Making both of them coed would have been pointless - it wouldn’t have improved access. </p>
<p>Thi isn’t a deal breaker to me or anything. But it just seems silly to me when no where else do strangers have coed bathroom facilities. Like I said, I don’t see gyms offering them.</p>
<p>Other than some student dorms, where else can you find shared bathroom and shower facilities?</p>
<p>I believe that some airports overseas have coed bathrooms</p>
<p>Yes - and while on vacation in Europe last summer I exited a stall in a restaurant “coed” bathroom and found a man using the urinal. Hahaha. It was a little awkward…</p>
<p>“Show me national data that the majority of collegiate women prefer to share a common bathroom and shower area with men.”</p>
<p>Not to speak for ucbalumnus, but what difference does national data make? At the school she was speaking of, it does appear that the majority of students preferred co-ed floors. Should they not be allowed to have them based on national preferences? Shouldn’t each school be able to meet their own students preferences if they are able to do so easily?</p>
<p>I didn’t see ucbalumnus state anything about students nationwide, just that students prefer co-ed floors. In answer to a question about why colleges would have them, that could very well only refer to students at a particular college. And in any case, I think that’s the only preference that should really matter. </p>
<p>In my observation, mixed floors are much less common in the South. So for anyone who has a strong preference against them, you might want to look more closely there.</p>
<p>LOL kennedy.</p>
<p>I was waiting at our local (big international) airport and saw several people trying to explain (point/gesture) to a gentleman who obviously did not speak English that our restrooms here is not coed. It was pretty entertaining.</p>
<p>D’s school has mixed gender dorms with separate bathrooms in the suites. The suite right across the hall is male. </p>
<p>On the other hand, S’s school has single gender dorms with rules (parietals) about the other gender visiting dorms within certain hours.</p>
<p>This was not a factor when choosing either school - but maybe it should have been since it definitely sets the stage for cross-gender interactions at school.</p>
<p>I prefer the more liberal approach - as do my kids.</p>
<p>jym626 - I hope the “coed” bathrooms at this school do not include urinals that are out in the open!</p>
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<p>Does it matter? In the dorms that I was referring to, no one was forced to have a coed bathroom; students who asked for a single gender floor got it. Obviously, most students didn’t find coed bathrooms objectionable enough to worry about, since most chose coed floors.</p>
<p>Where is your data (national or otherwise)?</p>
<p>?? What school, kennedy?? Can you clarify?
I did have a gag response to the post upthread about the water fountains that were previously plumbed for urinals! Gak!!</p>
<p>And apologies for my typo above-- too late to fix it. The restrooms in our airport *are not coed.</p>
<p>What do coed floors have to do with coed bathrooms? For the life of me, why do people keep mixing up the two?</p>
<p>Oh, I was speaking to the OP saying that I hope there is some privacy in the coed bathrooms at her kid’s college.</p>
<p>I know that the guy in the European coed restaurant bathroom seemed traumatized by the situation. I felt badly for him…</p>
<p>Just pointing out that at some schools coed bathrooms are an issue - at other coed floors - and at S’s college coed dorms. </p>
<p>I personally don’t have an issue with any of it and would not be concerned with coed bathrooms as long as they afford some degree of privacy.</p>
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<p>2 of 4 stalls in our coed bathrooms had urinals. no doors on those stalls so not open but not closed either. Had to walk by those two stalls to get to the closed ones with toilets on the far side. I always thought it was bit unfair that the men got to use all 4 stalls and us women only had access to 2. However, the 2 were rarely both in use so not a real issue. We had about 20 students who used this particular bathroom regularly.</p>
<p>So here’s a funny thought.</p>
<p>My boyfriend (for 3 years) lived on the other end of the hall and used the other bathroom. Thinking back, I would not have wanted to share a bathroom with him. The other guys in my hall, they were like brothers to me so no big deal.</p>
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<p>You are the one contending that students prefer shared bathroom facilities. The onus is on you. If you want to spout an opinion, fine, but don’t say it like it’s a fact if you can’t prove it.</p>
<p>Its probably that most dorms are now coed that one can surmise its not as big a deal to many students.</p>
<p>That’s different than sharing a bathroom and shower facilities.</p>
<p>Though often one comes hand in had with the other</p>