What's your stance on coed bathrooms?

In the college dorm I lived in, the showers were not only coed, but completely communal with no partitions or screens of any kind. Some people were pretty awkward about it but no one really complained. Pretty soon everyone had seen almost everyone else in the dorm, of both sexes, naked. This didn't lead to any real problems, no one got raped because of it or anything, and ultimately it probably made us feel less awkward about ourselves if anything. It was also probably a valuable lesson in body image acceptance, there were deformities, people of different weights, freakishly large penises, comically small penises, large breasts, flat chests, hairy bodies, clean shaven bodies, bubble butts, flat asses, and so on. If anyone liked what they saw, they at least had the courtesy to not do it in the shower. If anything, it just made it easier to see the human body as non-sexual. There's plenty of people opposed to it though, which is kind of disappointing because I had no problems at all with it in my experience.

They're horrible and need to be banned 97
I don't really care 95
They're healthy and should be used more often 284
Bah, hygiene is for snobs 18
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Comments ( 23 )
  • chubbawubba69

    I call BS on this story. If it is true I am going back to college wherever you are at.

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  • I would be a bit creeped out at all the guys looking at me naked...

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  • mateo

    i have a penis and i will show it and all its slightly above average sized glory to the world

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  • bananaface

    Well I would be mortified at the thought of it, and although the way you describe it makes it sound like a great thing, I just don't think I'd have the confidence to do that, and that's coming from someone who is happy with their appearance:S

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  • lease

    Everyone in your dorm is going to see everyone else naked at some point - believe me. I can see it being an emotionally challenging thing for some people....and a whatever thing for others, especially if you've ever played team sports.

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  • karmasAbich

    I think its good to be around others who are naked. Everyone feels more comfortable with there body image.
    I say its healthy

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  • yellowsunshine

    My dorm had coed bathrooms, but there were partitions. That was fine. I can't imagine a coed communal shower though. I don't like communal showers when they're just female either.

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  • I have bad dreams where the bathrooms are coed and I didn't like it, so I'm not sure I'd like it in real life either.

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  • wigsplitz

    I like to go outside.

    In a creepy way it would turn me on if people were watcching.

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  • SoccerStud88

    just have sex in them

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  • Darkoil

    Man they sound good, although I'm usually like a sex crazed maniac in the morning so I would probably try to mount any hottie that I saw naked.

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  • Angel_in_a_Glass_Dress

    Were they SUPPOSE to be coed open showers or were people just showering in the open?

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    • karmasAbich

      Do you mean, supposed?

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      • Angel_in_a_Glass_Dress

        maybe. that's one of the ones that never seems clear to me.

        but anyway, which is it? are they coed for real or are people just showering in the open?

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        • karmasAbich

          Yeah I was thinking that too. I'm not sure which it is. Lol sorry

          I think it was coed for real.
          But you do have a valid question. I obviously can't say for sure, but i believe it was suppose(d) to be coed

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  • DabidB4

    Not seeing the Co-Ed showering thing working so well but to each his own. At least in the toilets they should add Hand Bidet Sprayers because they are always going to run out of Toilet Paper, plus it makes cleaning the toilet itself a breeze with the powerful spray. See bathroomsprayers.com.

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  • jethro

    Really... What college do you attend. I seriously doubt this is true.

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  • EpicPanda

    At first I would think it would be awkward to get a boner in front on everyone,but I'm pretty sure the rest of them would too.

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  • FireVixen

    At least you can bring your partner in the bathroom and have a little fun without getting those looks XD

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  • dwe

    What school is this?

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  • not_brian

    I'm very skeptical on the whole co-ed gang shower thing but one dorm I lived in used to have three bathrooms per floor -- one male, one female, and one coed. The showers and toilets all had individual stalls though.

    I preferred the co-ed one becasue it was rarely used and so much cleaner than the male bathroom. Especially on weekends when the housekeeping/cleaning staff weren't around.

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  • joybird

    Sounds as awful as our mixed sex hospital wards.

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  • i am the prude who would shower in her clothes

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