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Would You use a Co-ed Public Restroom?

Are you okay with co-ed washrooms?

  • male - yes, I'm okay with co-ed washrooms

    Votes: 32 61.5%

  • male - no, I'm not okay with co-ed washrooms

    Votes: 8 15.4%

  • female - yes, I'm okay with co-ed washrooms

    Votes: 10 19.2%

  • female - no, I'm not okay with co-ed washrooms

    Votes: 2 3.8%
  • Total voters
    52
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[Not sure if this should go here or SO, but trying it here since it may have sexual undertones, and is about gender/identity]

I saw an article about this sort of thing picking up steam in a part of Europe, and I asked a few IRL friends if they would. It seemed like a no-brainer "yes" for some, while others seemed offended to even answer.

Would you use a co-ed public restroom?

Assume that both rooms have been combined, so you could not just choose your gender as an alternative. Sinks, stalls, urinals, etc. Anyone can come in and go about their business. Would you do it, and why or why not? Would you care if your SO did?

I totally would. We are all just people, after all. I might feel a bit weird at first about a GF doing it, but I would think I could learn to be totally fine with it. Just a gut reaction, but I would adapt for the greater good.

I want a serious thread that does not get closed under the potty humour rule. So please answer without killing the thread.
 
Yes, why the hell not? I mean shit, if I have a female fire team partner and she needs to use the bathroom in the field, I stand there and provide over-watch for her.

I'd have no probs with my S/O using a mixed gender restroom, and frankly I don't even understand why it's an issue at all. I don't look at guys cak's in the bathroom and no one does it to me either, not even in gay clubs. So I don't see why straight men would do it girls or vice versa.
 
One of the clubs that I go to has co-ed restrooms. It is a gay club, mostly gay males, but that doesn't really matter. There are straight and gay guys, straight and gay females - lots of people there. I've never had a problem with that.
Two of the other clubs I go to, there are often males in the females washroom. One is because no one really cares and the other is because there aren't signs so you have to go IN to the washroom before you know if it's male/female.
All the music festivals I've been to, they are "co-ed" washrooms.

I guess I can't even see why this would be an issue.

The ONLY thing I don't like about it is that males don't need to sit down on toilets and females do, thus the toilets are not always clean, and that is disgusting.
 
rangrz said:
Yes, why the hell not? I mean shit, if I have a female fire team partner and she needs to use the bathroom in the field, I stand there and provide over-watch for her.

I'd have no probs with my S/O using a mixed gender restroom, and frankly I don't even understand why it's an issue at all. I don't look at guys cak's in the bathroom and no one does it to me either, not even in gay clubs. So I don't see why straight men would do it girls or vice versa.
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Do you guys have single-sex restrooms when not out in the field? I swear I saw something online about a part of a military having co-ed ones, and there being some controversy.

Back in college, we had a de-facto standard in out building that women could use the men's (but not vice-versa). Girls were in there all time time, people fucked in the showers. But still, a lot of the girls went to the women's room to do anything beyond piss, and I admit that I did wait for any girls to leave before I dropped my breakfast. But I was young back then, and wouldn't care now.

I could see parents potentially not wanting their three year old girl in a stall next to a old dude. Would you let your little kids partake?
 
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heaven forbid the government regulate how we urinate and shit. next we will need police to ensure compliance at the sink with 15 seconds of VIGOROUS scrubbing.

I think public wastes too much funding on the regulation, building, maintenance, etc, in order to provide public places to deal with body waste, be it gender, age, disability or racial segregation, or mixed.

I think if people want to poop in public I shouldn't have to fund it. Piss in a cup or poop in a diaper but don't make me pay for your washroom.
 
would put an end to cottaging unless... it caused a cottaging renaissance for straight people ala dogging

as for taking a shit- the less chat the better. also say you don't like peeing at the urinal BUT all the cubicles are in use by women (i'm on a lady dominated course and apparently there is always a que because-and i quote from a girl- "woman take ages doing god knows what") what then?

to me it seems like laziness on the part of organizations- lets just have one toilet and one member of staff to look after it.

when i worked in an airport in the uk once a woman shat in the sink of the ladies toilet possibly thinking it was a
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when there is a change for no obvious benefit always FOLLOW THE MONEY!
 
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i probably wouldnt mind in most instances.

my only concern would be related to location (eg. late night in a downtown park) and those who use restrooms as public venues to shoot drugs and or sexual predators. i wonder though if the percentages of those instances would decrease due to bathrooms being co-ed?

...kytnism...:|
 
kytnism said:
i probably wouldnt mind in most instances.

my only concern would be related to location (eg. late night in a downtown park) and those who use restrooms as public venues to shoot drugs and or sexual predators. i wonder though if the percentages of those instances would decrease due to bathrooms being co-ed?

...kytnism...:|
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if you want to wait in a bathroom to rape a woman, do you go to one with just women, or one where other men might question your loitering?
 
Do you guys have single-sex restrooms when not out in the field? I swear I saw something online about a part of a military having co-ed ones, and there being some controversy.
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Depends on the facility in question. Generally not, but at some smaller facilities or even not busy areas/sections of big facilities/installations, yes. It's just not worth the public expense of building two bath-rooms and tasking more members to maintain them if it's only used lightly/infrequently.
 
If it were an emergency, of course. In any other situation: No. I don't like doing my business around other *men*, let alone women. If that makes me repressed or fucked in the head, so be it.

P.S.--This needs to be a poll.
 
I don't like public restrooms in general. If I'm in need of using the facilities, I prefer privacy.

I would be uncomfortable walking into a restroom and seeing 5 dudes holding their dingles at a urinal just the same way as I would with open female only stalls or anyone dropping a deuce. I at least need a stall door between my private business and the rest of the world.

I wouldn't feel awkward going out to wash my hands/apply makeup if there were men in the restroom's common area. I would hope that if people are doing drugs or having sex in the restroom that they have enough courtesy to close the damned stall door so I don't have to see it.

I don't have any issue using the same restroom as a male or a transperson. I also don't sit on public toilets without a seat cover at least. I have definitely snuck into the men's room if the women's room had a huge line and I really had to go. Also at gay clubs IME most people follow the rule of partying in the men's room and peeing in the women's room, regardless of gender.

At my office (of 5 - 3 males and 2 females) we have two relatively large private toilet/sink restrooms that anyone's free to use, and we're all responsible for cleaning up after ourselves/not leaving obnoxious odors. Likewise at home we have two toilets and two people live in my house, both female if it matters.
 
I think it's a great idea! It's catching on here (BC Canada) a bit, like I've noticed on some restaurants and clubs have genderless/communal toilets. They just make the stalls very private and obviously don't have open urinals or anything like a usual mensroom might.

And then there are quite a few places that just have a few self-contained bathrooms with toilet and sink in each one but no gender-specifying signs on the doors - surely NO ONE could possibly object to that?? You have complete privacy.

I think that having more genderless washrooms would also be a good way to make people who don't fit with the mainstream definition of "male" or "female" feel more comfortable - for example someone who identifies with a gender other than their biological sex, someone who is intersex, etc. There is a surprising amount of debate in some places about which bathroom someone should use. For example, some people are uncomfortable about a person who is biologically male but looks like a woman using the women's washrooms, and some are uncomfortable about such a person using the men's washrooms, and the person may be very uncomfortable if forced to use a particular one (in this case I imagine it being worse if they're forced to use the men's) or if other people give them a hard time. Some politicians in the US have actually tried to introduce legislation that would make it a criminal offense for people “to use the restrooms designated for the sex other than the one listed on their birth certificate". Which seems terrible to me. Some institutions (schools etc) in the US have banned people from using the restroom designated for the sex other than the one listed on their birth certificate as well. Having communal bathrooms that are for everyone would help eliminate at least some of the problems, aside from the fact that a vocal minority would still have a problem with it of course.

kytnism said:
my only concern would be related to location (eg. late night in a downtown park) and those who use restrooms as public venues to shoot drugs and or sexual predators. i wonder though if the percentages of those instances would decrease due to bathrooms being co-ed?
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People of the same sex as you can still use drugs in a single-sex-designated bathroom, are you saying it would be more upsetting if a person of the opposite sex was doing drugs in a bathroom? As for sexual predators, I highly doubt they care about a sign on the door saying "Women's". I think that if anything it might decrease those kinds of occurances.
 
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I have experienced a full co ed bathroom living arrangement (showers, open urinals, and stalls, all in the same area), in a camp work situation. It took a week to really feel comfortable doing the morning business in the stall next to the girls in camp. After a while though, I got over it, and it really helped myself and a few other guys, let go of some of their fear of performing bodily neccesities in public. It seems like a lot of people have the same hangups (pooping in public, standing to close at a urinal etc). Co ed bathrooms could go a long way towards normalizing these things that everyone does, but no one talks about...
 
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