From: chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim)
Newsgroups: rec.nude
Subject: Re: Coed Bathrooms on College Campuses...
Date: 9 Sep 92 09:36:24 GMT
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada

erno@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Erno Pena) writes:

>Coed Bathrooms on College Campuses...

>Is there anyone out here on the net that goes to a university or a college  
>where coed bathroom facilities are officially (or also unofficially...) set  
>up on campus? If so, could you please describe the facilities that are  
>shared, the general guidelines and rules that the residents follow, and any  
>problems that arise, or don't arise.

Simon Fraser University's co-ed residences all have co-ed bathrooms. No one
seems to have a problem with this, i.e., there is not a problem with a
large majority--or even a small minority--of people feeling either
threatened or excited about sharing washrooms with motos.

In the newer of the two residences, the urinals are in a stall of their
own (exactly the same as a toilet stall, except that there's a urinal
instead of a toilet.) Not a problem there. In the older residence, the
urinals are out in the open (in the past, that residence was segregated
by floor.) Again, this does not cause much of a problem. Usually, the
residence assistant makes a request to the men on the floor at the
beginning of the semester to not use the urinals, out of courtesy. The
urinals remain more-or-less pristine throughout the semester. If they
are used at all, it tends to be late at night, when no-one's wandering
around--after all, they *are* more convenient and quieter; this latter
property may be what makes them the more attractive choice in the wee
[pun intended] hours of the morning.

Of course, the occasional man gets "caught" by a woman unexpectedly
making an entrance into the bathroom. When this happens, the man is
usually more embarrassed than the woman (perhaps this is the real reason
why they don't get used more often.)

As for showers, they are each in a stall of their own, with a locking door
and a curtain.

A few of the men take some time to get used to the little bin next to the
toilet, but this is not a problem.

Exhibitionism isn't generally a problem, neither are peeping-tom incidents. 
(There have been reported incidents, but these aren't common.)

I won't describe the informal rules of sharing the co-ed bathroom, because
they are all pretty much covered in the list in the original post, and
they are a pretty accurate description of the situation here at SFU.

But you left out one.

In my experience, the biggest problem arising from co-ed bathrooms is
the continual battle over the toilet seats being left up or down.

-- 
Keith_Lim@sfu.ca   Simon Fraser University, Burnaby B.C., V5A 1S6, Canada
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"...she was no longer frenziedly drinking; now she was lazily, contentedly
licking, gently nibbling, caressing with her lips; I could feel her tongue
now tracing small circles around each still-bleeding--(ah, sweet flowing
life-gift of mine)--puncture, now flicking over and lapping up, now 
tickling in a line back and forth back and forth between the two wounds...."
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