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This is the great debate that never needed to take place, this is never going to happen and if it did it would do more harm than good. Ive already been peeped on by a homo while trying to take a **** in a mall in Boston, make it coed it will be double trouble.
Last summer I was at a Lady Antebellum concert at an outdoor amphitheatre type concert venue with lawn seating. The womens bathrooms lines are always ridiculous and mens not so bad, some women were actually going in the mens bathroom, but then security came and was at the door trying to prevent women from going in. There were no problems/lewd behavior as far as I saw and security was still trying to stop the women from going in, so no I don't see bathroom sharing anytime soon in this country. Still to backwards, nudity/sex phobic. We are in the dark ages compared to Europe.
I see no valid reason why it would not happen. However, this country is chock-full of irrational, uptight pearl-clutchers (both male and female) who will keep things the same. Black and white, right and wrong, light and dark; this is how they see the world, irrational as it may be.
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I don't think coed same-time use will happen much unless they do away with urinals and force males to **** in toilets. That may very well happen, though.
When that happens there will be a problem with men who refuse to lift the seat and will **** on the seat. That's a problem now anyway and its disgusting. I imagine women will refuse to use such places.
Have you seen women's restrooms? They are much, much worse than men's restrooms. They insist on hovering, which results in various messes being sprayed where they don't belong. They already **** all over the seats themselves.
As a man, I'm having a hard time trying to understand why men would get so hot and bothered by using the women's restroom. The last place I want to be is the room where women are peeing, farting, pooping and changing tampons.
To that end, I greatly appreciate having different restrooms.
And vice versa. I doubt any woman would want to be in a stall next to a man while he is doing his business.
I assume you are male and have never been inside a women's room. There is totaly privacy because each toilet is separate with a door on it which can be closed. Don't think male urinals.
In all my 65 years of using public restrooms, I have never once seen a woman in full view on the john. Never. This is why it would not matter if a transgender person used a women's facility. NOBODY see anything behind closed doors.
I am a 48 year old male and have been in plenty of womens restrooms. I work in facilities at a Hospital. I don't know any women that would want a man in their restroom even though it is as "private" as you profess.
Many newer buildings, where I also visited the bathroom facilities, I have noticed a trend toward having several single-user unisex bathrooms over the older style multi-user gender specific facilities. This trend addresses many issues simultaneously -- the transgender issue, some religious concerns (Muslim burqa wearers, for instance, often need more privacy), needs raised in the AMA/wheelchair access circles for more space/privacy, respecting issues of security that many women may have about mixed-gender multi-user bathrooms, as well as simply being more efficient for users (i.e. no need for lines to form at women's rooms when an empty men's room is right there waiting). My own personal favorite reason for liking these individual facilities over any kind of multi-use facility (gender-specific or not) is simply not having to listen to other people's...let's just call them "digestive malfunctions"...and then, a few seconds later, having to deal with the piquant bouquet of pure evil wafting toward my oh so delicate schnoz....<br />
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These kinds of facilities, however, do tend to attract more vandalism in certain venues (such as parks and athletic stadiums), often provide space for prostitution and casual sex to occur more readily, take up a lot more square-footage, and are more costly to clean, maintain, and build/retrofit. All in all, though, I find the benefits far outweigh the added detractions and would personally prefer a trend toward individual-use public facilities rather than toward mixed-gendered multiple-use ones.
I've found that most single occupancy restrooms are gender-specific. Why is that?
I'm not a fan of single occupancy restrooms. I find that, ironically, they offer less privacy than multi-user restrooms, since there is always a line to use them, so there is no way to discreetly enter and exit.
I seriously doubt it. If for no other reason, I believe neither party would be pleased with the perceived prospect of unwelcomed straight on straight leering. I imagine social media and polls would reflected that as well.
As for homosexuality and leering in the bathroom, I don't think the majority ever consider this for some reason or another. Besides, the issue isn't merely of leering but of safety. The overwhelming amount of non prison rapes are straight males raping women. Straight men are much more likely to rape a woman than a homosexual man or woman to rape a straight man or woman. No reason to incite the urge with confined spaces were people's private parts are exposed.
Of course maybe I'm overestimating how sexual people are. But I believe the media perception and gender roles still lean far toward men being 'dogs' than women being 'dogs'.
I'm not saying co-ed bathrooms couldn't work, but I think the above is the reason we won't ever see them in our lifetimes. Patriarchy screwed co-ed bathrooms over...
Rape isn't about sex. It's about power and control. Seeing someone's junk isn't going to increase their possibility of being raped.
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Are you asking me specifically or anyone in general?
Since there was no quoted post, it's assumed that Annie is asking the question of anyone.
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Many newer buildings, where I also visited the bathroom facilities, I have noticed a trend toward having several single-user unisex bathrooms over the older style multi-user gender specific facilities. This trend addresses many issues simultaneously -- the transgender issue, some religious concerns (Muslim burqa wearers, for instance, often need more privacy), needs raised in the AMA/wheelchair access circles for more space/privacy, respecting issues of security that many women may have about mixed-gender multi-user bathrooms, as well as simply being more efficient for users (i.e. no need for lines to form at women's rooms when an empty men's room is right there waiting). My own personal favorite reason for liking these individual facilities over any kind of multi-use facility (gender-specific or not) is simply not having to listen to other people's...let's just call them "digestive malfunctions"...and then, a few seconds later, having to deal with the piquant bouquet of pure evil wafting toward my oh so delicate schnoz....<br />
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These kinds of facilities, however, do tend to attract more vandalism in certain venues (such as parks and athletic stadiums), often provide space for prostitution and casual sex to occur more readily, take up a lot more square-footage, and are more costly to clean, maintain, and build/retrofit. All in all, though, I find the benefits far outweigh the added detractions and would personally prefer a trend toward individual-use public facilities rather than toward mixed-gendered multiple-use ones.
That does seem to address all the modern issues of who gets to pee where.
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We did in many clubs in the 1980s.
I went to a club in Deep Ellum in Dallas, and spent some time in the two bathrooms. They were marked differently, but I never did figure out which was which. People of all genders were in both, and few were there to actually use the facilities. Floor to ceiling stalls, nice sofas, even people playing cards. It was almost like a VIP section.
And yes, numerous people of all varieties were going in and out of the stalls at the same time.
I see no reason why public bathrooms should be segregated by sex. Sure, it might be awkward were a woman to observe a man's genitalia while he used a urinal, but the obvious solution is to simply eliminate urinals and have private stalls for everyone. I'm a guy myself, but I dislike urinals, and never use them unless I absolutely have to.
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