Unisex Restrooms

[stephen russell]

When I went to Glen eden some years ago I noticed Men & women extering seperate bathrooms-I say scrap the Gender restrooms (save for Guests to undress dress in cabins) & make em Unisex.
Both sexes use them.
Maybe add more urinals or urinal showers,
more toilets etc.
BUT Both sexes use the same space.
FOR ALL CAMPS & HOTELS, RESORTS A-Z.
Is this wrong.

Id like to see AANR camps site Changing rooms for Guests to change vs our cars.
Unless one knows a guest at AANR camp for home use.
Great PR & boost camp use.

Unisex Restrooms can have
o Mile long showers
o Sinks
o Massage table area
o Door to Central Sauna
o Acess to Pool
Beach, River, Lake
o urinals & toilets.
o Infant tables.
& even a Natural Birthing pool for those giving Birth????

Just an idea.

[stephen russell]

When I went to Glen eden some years ago I noticed Men & women extering seperate bathrooms-I say scrap the Gender restrooms (save for Guests to undress dress in cabins) & make em Unisex.
Both sexes use them.
Maybe add more urinals or urinal showers,
more toilets etc.
BUT Both sexes use the same space.
FOR ALL CAMPS & HOTELS, RESORTS A-Z.
Is this wrong.

Id like to see AANR camps site Changing rooms for Guests to change vs our cars.
Unless one knows a guest at AANR camp for home use.
Great PR & boost camp use.

Unisex Restrooms can have
o Mile long showers
o Sinks
o Massage table area
o Door to Central Sauna
o Acess to Pool
Beach, River, Lake
o urinals & toilets.
o Infant tables.
& even a Natural Birthing pool for those giving Birth????

Just an idea.

[MikeJB]

It would save space and money to have one set of restrooms for everybody and it would make it so that men and women are more comfortable being around each other and being nude around each other. It might be a little awkward getting used to it at first as some might not be quite comfortable with it at first and need time to adjust but eventually people would be okay with it and it would probably work out for the best. The idea of having two seperate rooms for men and women seperately is just silly.

[NudeWil]

Carolina Foothills Resort has a unisex restroom. It includes three or four enclosed toilet stalls, one urinal (not enclosed, but semi-private at the far end of the toilet stalls), two showers, and some sinks.

[pahjo2]

i don't see the need for seperate restrooms in a nudest park. i don't mind someone see me using the urnial male or female. in a nudest setting we really have nothing to hide. i think there should be stalls with a door or curtian of some kind for the other body function. the only problem i see is a lot of men were never tought to lift the rim, or stand close enough as not to dribble on the floor. my wife tells me this all the time when she a business has only one rest room for both male & female. i don't like to stand in someone else's dribble. please correct me if i'm wrong but surely the ladies
understand this. stay nude and stay happy---pahjo

[GMiller]

I am a nudist to the core, but in my opinion certain things shuld be done either in private or with the same sex, like going to the bathroom.
Ginger

[jon71]

Due to the Americans with disabilities act unisex restrooms are more common. The law requires that businesses of a certain size must have restroom facilities for physically challenged people. It doesn't however require one for each gender. Some business' to save money will just have one unisex with wheelchair access, etc.

[DoctorSurferDude]

I think probably one contradiction to that notion is that womens' poop doesn't stink, and they don't ever pass gas....their waste comes out in the form of fragrant flowers.

So why would they want to get stuck in the same bathroom with us guys? http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

[Naturist Mark]

At the Clubhouse at Turtle Lake Resort we have two sets of restroom/lockerrooms. One side is women/coed and the other is men/coed. Each has a gender specific portion, and a coed portion. The lockers and showers are in the coed portions. The toilet stalls are divided evenly between the sections.

The only urinals are in the men's room section, but other than that it seems like the gender specific sections are not used preferentially, just as needed.

Curiously the two campground bath houses formerly had a "women's" side and a "coed" side. Recently this was changed to "women" and "men". I have no idea why the change was made, as far as I know there wasn't any great clamoring for men only restrooms.

The outdoor open air showers remain coed.

-Mark

[Naturist Mark]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by jon71:
Due to the Americans with disabilities act unisex restrooms are more common. The law requires that businesses of a certain size must have restroom facilities for physically challenged people. It doesn't however require one for each gender. Some business' to save money will just have one unisex with wheelchair access, etc. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Several years ago the company I work for remodelled our building. Due to ADA the restrooms had to become considerably larger, and consequently would only have a single toilet in each. Since they would only be used as single occupency restrooms I tried to have to them both designated unisex - less waiting. Total non-starter. To a woman every single female was unalterably opposed to using a restroom that men also used.

The really absurd part is, the people who CLEAN the restrooms all assert that the women's room requires far more cleaning than the men's.

-Mark

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Naturist Mark:

The really absurd part is, the people who CLEAN the restrooms all assert that the women's room requires far more cleaning than the men's.

-Mark </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Very true. I cleaned up after people for nearly 30 years, and the women were always messier than the men in the toilets and breakrooms.

[Tara]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Jon-Marc:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Naturist Mark:

The really absurd part is, the people who CLEAN the restrooms all assert that the women's room requires far more cleaning than the men's.

-Mark </div></BLOCKQUOTE>


Very true. I cleaned up after people for nearly 30 years, and the women were always messier than the men in the toilets and breakrooms. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>


This suprises me beacause when I was an RA in a co-ed freshman dorm, the men's room was FAR more disgusting than the women's. I used to go in there to put in air fresheners and the guy's bathroom always had toilet paper on the floor, toothpaste all over the sinks and mirrors, unflushed toilets and other nasty things. I'd go into the girl's bathroom and I'd find a vase with fresh flowers on the sink! Quite a difference http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Maybe it was just an age thing??? Perhaps it's young guys that are just messy in the bathroom.

Regardless of the messiness issue or anything like that, I really prefer having seperate men's and women's facilities. I wouldn't freak out if it I came across a unisex bathroom, I'd use it and survive. But for my own personal comfort level, I'd just rather use a women's rest room. There are just certain things I would not want to deal with in front of guys.

I prefer separate toilets but couldn't care less if the showers are separate.

[Abhijith]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by pahjo2:
the only problem i see is a lot of men were never tought to lift the rim, or stand close enough as not to dribble on the floor. my wife tells me this all the time when she a business has only one rest room for both male & female. i don't like to stand in someone else's dribble. please correct me if i'm wrong but surely the ladies understand this. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

m sorry but i dont know many men who like standing in it either...

[Sauna]

In Croatian nudist centers the restrooms are unisex and I do not see anything bad in it. The toilets have naturally their doors

[Jeff Brooks]

Ihave always been angry about how nasty men leave public restrooms. I wonder if women are as bad? When I was in banking there was a guy that always wore a 3 piece suit, never a hair out of place, lots of colone. Someone that you would think would leave a restroom clean. One day I was in the restroom and he came in as I was leaving. Just as he left the restroom I had to return to get a paper towel as someone had spilled coffee. You would not believe what this GQ guy had left the tolit looking like. I let him know I knew what he had done.

J

[dan t]

The only resort Ive been to the restrooms were mens and women, but the shower's were unisex and they were verry clean.

[krcNY]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Jeff Brooks:
Ihave always been angry about how nasty men leave public restrooms. I wonder if women are as bad? When I was in banking there was a guy that always wore a 3 piece suit, never a hair out of place, lots of colone. Someone that you would think would leave a restroom clean. One day I was in the restroom and he came in as I was leaving. Just as he left the restroom I had to return to get a paper towel as someone had spilled coffee. You would not believe what this GQ guy had left the tolit looking like. I let him know I knew what he had done.

J </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I used to clean office buildings to pay my way through school. I need to tell you....The women are much worse than the men. I hated cleaning the ladies rooms.

Men miss and the floor needs to be mopped extrememly well.

Women if they missed any of the cans in the stalls or by the sinks, they just leave it. It is just nasty. I am not even going to get started about stockings and personal garments.

When we go to department stores and so on where the restrooms are cleaned regularly, they are pretty decent. Women seem to be the ones cleaning them and clean them more often and leave the mens room to the end of the day. Of course I think the mens room gets less traffic.

[krcNY]

On that note.....I also think the ladies room should have a short urinal in the handicap stall for us moms who bring in the little guys. All of our toilets are too tall for them. I got to the point I would drag over a trash can for them to stand on....and yes I would wipe it off and put it away when we were done.

[nakednudists]

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
I would have to say that there is some things that a man should do in private, as in dropping the kids off at the pool. I would be quite embarrassed if I was in the stall dropping a bomb, and there were three females that came in there and knew I was taring it up in there. http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif Like somenone said earlier, some things should be kept in private for each gender.


<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by DoctorSurferDude:
I think probably one contradiction to that notion is that womens' poop doesn't stink, and they don't ever pass gas....their waste comes out in the form of fragrant flowers.

So why would they want to get stuck in the same bathroom with us guys? http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

[nudeM]

Posted by DoctorSurferDude: <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">I think probably one contradiction to that notion is that womens' poop doesn't stink, and they don't ever pass gas....their waste comes out in the form of fragrant flowers. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>.................................................. ...............................................

Very funny. http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif I always thought that, but since becoming married (25 years ago), I quickly changed my mind. http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

One of the many secrets that have been proven wrong. http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

[PascoDoug]

Well, I just went to see a movie last night at a nice theater here in Tampa. I can't comment on the ladies restroom but the men's room was totally disgusting - every toilet was splatterd with and full of urine (or worse). Why is it so diffcult to aim straight and flush after you are done? It would be nice if they'd invest in those auto-flushing toilets but even those can't solve the problem with accurate aim.

If it weren't for the fact I was about to explode I would not have used the facilities at all. They should have some sort of "911" service in public restrooms to summon cleaning personell. lol

By the way if there are any other "Firefly" fans here you must go see the new "Serenity" movie. It's an excellent continuation of the tv series. Even if you are a sci-fi fan and have never heard of Firefly it's worthwhile. **** (that's four stars - not a bleep )

[naturalmanwa]

As a retired plumber, I can say that the toilets of both sexes can be equally disgusting. The point is that if someone is not comfortable doing their thing around the opposite sex, it shouldn't be forced on them.

[David77]

When I wes at Turtle Lake Resort a few years ago, and went to the restroom in the camping/trailer section, women would freely come into the restroom and walk behind men at the urinals to get to the commodes with doors.

I could understand why men and women who are husband and wife, or friends, would want to shower together in this restroom.

However, I wondered why some women came in singularly to use that restroom when the one marked "Women" was under the same roof. Amazing! Did they just like to "do their thing" with the men, or was the women's restroom too "cluttered"?

I finally got used to the fact that women were coming into the restroom and could view me urinating.

[David77]

Some states have laws that state that a facility can not be licensed unless there is both a restroom for men and a restroom for women. Nudist resorts must meet numerous state inspection standards (for health, hygene, sanitation, accomodations, safety, etc.) before they can be licensed and allowed to operate. These state requirements are one reason why there are not more mere unisex restrooms.

[Nudony]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">I finally got used to the fact that women were coming into the restroom and could view me urinating. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I could have sworn I've posted on this topic not too long ago...

I'm a fairly private person; as a matter of fact, I'm the kind who will shower in the furthest corner of the room with my back turned to the entrance. So I was quite dismayed when I found out that the bathroom at a resort I was visiting was unisex. It only took three or four sessions for me to be totally comfortable urinating as women walked by. Take it from a very shy dude: you get used to it very easily.

[Nu]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by David77:
When I wes at Turtle Lake Resort a few years ago, women would freely come into the restroom and walk behind men at the urinals to get to the commodes with doors.

However, I wondered why some women came in singularly to use that restroom when the one marked "Women" was under the same roof. Amazing! Did they just like to "do their thing" with the men, or was the women's restroom too "cluttered"?
</div></BLOCKQUOTE>


One possibilty is that the "womens" restroom was completely occupied with possibly a line-up and the women sought relief in the next best thing.
I have noticed that at many sports events or concerts, there is always a big line-up of women at the washroom door.
At times like that, I am glad I am a man; but I can sympathize with the plight of the women.

[Sauna]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by David77:

I finally got used to the fact that women were coming into the restroom and could view me urinating. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

This is very common in restaurant restrooms in Japan.

[luvnaturism]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Sauna:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by David77:

I finally got used to the fact that women were coming into the restroom and could view me urinating. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

This is very common in restaurant restrooms in Japan. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

It happens also in public restrooms in France. Many countries don't bother with the visual obstructions at restroom entrances that prevent people outside from seeing in.

In Japan I never observed women entering the men's side to use the stalls, but the female attendant might well be in the men's side cleaning up while the patrons were conducting business as usual.

Japan was also my first experience of restrooms and locker rooms that any passer-by could easily see into. What I realized is that you don't have to worry about blocking the view in a culture where no one will bother to look.

[yoga guy]

privacy is always a good thing when one is doing his or her own business, regardless of who might be present.

[David77]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by luvnaturism:
It happens also in public restrooms in France. Many countries don't bother with the visual obstructions at restroom entrances that prevent people outside from seeing in.

In Japan I never observed women entering the men's side to use the stalls, but the female attendant might well be in the men's side cleaning up while the patrons were conducting business as usual. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

In the public restroom outside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, there was an oriental women attendent in the mens restroom. This women, when she saw that I did not understand what she asked me in the French language, then asked me, "Pee Pee"? I wondered why she needed to know - inquiring minds need to know? She gestured toward the backs of the men urinating. I should have said "No, poo poo", but I said, "No, toilet".

Then I started into the stall on the left, which upset this woman, and she yelled and gestured to the stall on the right. So, I guess, to keep the peace with this nosy, aggressive toilet attendant, I went to the right.

It had standard public restroom lavender toilet paper, so I guess if anyone stole the role of toilet paper, the lavender paper police mob would have plain evidence when they catch a toilet roll thief.

[Naturist Mark]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by yoga guy:
privacy is always a good thing when one is doing his or her own business, regardless of who might be present. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Privacy is still available in unisex restrooms. The toilets are in stalls with doors.

As for the people who are disturbed by the thought that people will know what they are doing behind that door - might as well hold it until you fly home. It hardly matters what sex the person who can't see you in the bathroom is.

-Mark

[luvnaturism]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by David77:
In the public restroom outside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, there was an oriental women attendent in the mens restroom. This women, when she saw that I did not understand what she asked me in the French language, then asked me, "Pee Pee"? I wondered why she needed to know - inquiring minds need to know? She gestured toward the backs of the men urinating. I should have said "No, poo poo", but I said, "No, toilet".

Then I started into the stall on the left, which upset this woman, and she yelled and gestured to the stall on the right. So, I guess, to keep the peace with this nosy, aggressive toilet attendant, I went to the right.

It had standard public restroom lavender toilet paper, so I guess if anyone stole the role of toilet paper, the lavender paper police mob would have plain evidence when they catch a toilet roll thief. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

In France, as in much of Europe, there is usually a small fee to use the restroom. I wasn't in the facility you describe, but elsewhere in Paris there was a two-tier payment system: it cost more to use a stall than to use a urinal, probably because of the added cost of keeping toilet paper in the stall.

So probably the "oriental lady" wasn't being nosy; she just needed to know how much to charge you.

I also found in Paris that the men's stalls were separated from the women's. Is it possible that you were trying to enter a stall on the wrong side?

[MikeJB]

They really should have survellance at some places where they can watch the bathrooms to catch people who mess them up by overflowing the toilets or writing graffiti on the walls so that they can catch these people in the act and punish them for doing that stuff. I know that some would feel uncomfortable with survellance in the bathrooms because it supposedly invades their privacy but unless the bathrooms can somehow be watched its hard to nearly impossible to catch these people in the act. It really boils down to a question of what you value more, your privacy or your health. I would rather know that im going into a clean bathroom that is monitored to keep delinquents out rather than going into a dirty one which is unkept because nobody watches it out of fear of invading someone's privacy. It would be alright as long as you get professionals to monitor the cameras who are mature and responsible and wouldnt misuse them and make sure theyre not using them for voyueristic purposes. I dont wanna get sick because of flith because the guy next to me doesnt want a camera in his face.

[NakedGary]

[Quote by "Jason Lee"]
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">is it acceptable for a man to get an erection in a unisex restroom or unisex shower block ?

are there times when erections are unacceptable ? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>


1. = No, especially if someone else is sharing the restroom or shower block.

2. = Yes, Always in social nude recreations venues.

[fre2bnude]

Well I know here in the UK the mens public toilets are always pretty basic and messy apart from the ones that are manned and you have to pay a small fee. It's worth the fee to be able to walk into a place that doesn't smell like an unattended stable. Having said that my wife has told me the digusting state she's found the ladies toilet stalls in on many occasions, so the girls don't really sound much better than the boys on average, at least here in the UK.

[Sauna]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by fre2bnude:
Well I know here in the UK the mens public toilets are always pretty basic and messy apart from the ones that are manned and you have to pay a small fee. It's worth the fee to be able to walk into a place that doesn't smell like an unattended stable. Having said that my wife has told me the digusting state she's found the ladies toilet stalls in on many occasions, so the girls don't really sound much better than the boys on average, at least here in the UK. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Maybe you know the old joke

On the door was Gentlemen, but we went in.

[MikeJB]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">
For all of our sakes - please visit this website: http://ace.acadiau.ca/english/grammar/runon.htm
</div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Isnt this a bit off topic? This subject here is about unisex bathrooms, not grammar. I dont go around making comments on other people's grammar and so I just wish theyd lay off it with me.

[Boreas]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by MikeJB:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">
For all of our sakes - please visit this website: http://ace.acadiau.ca/english/grammar/runon.htm
</div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Isnt this a bit off topic? This subject here is about unisex bathrooms, not grammar. I dont go around making comments on other people's grammar and so I just wish theyd lay off it with me. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I think the point is that if you punctuate your writing better we will understand what you write better. That means we will be less inclined (maybe) to view your writing as gibberish.

[Jennifer1]

call me ageist if you wish, but i would not want to be doing a pee in a toilet with some old man just a few feet away from me doing a pee in a urinal, its just bad business, the ladies room is not just for peeing, its an escape.

Girls think of this, you need to do a poop, its bad enough if there is another girl in the same restroom, just think if there was a possibility a man could walk in, very embarrasing.

[nudetone]

Today I went to a farmer's market in PA. The line for the women's room was rediculously long. Women were instructed to use the men's room too. A shower curtain was used for the urinal area.

[NudeAl]

As I age I tend to realize we all have the same basic bodily functions, well for the most part anyway.

Even so I would be a bit embarassed to have to go and drop a duece in the same room as the ladies. I don't mind a bit if a lady wants to use our rest room and I could see myself going pee in the ladies rooom if there was no other option but there are some lines I will not cross.

[Boreas]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Jennifer1:
call me ageist if you wish, but i would not want to be doing a pee in a toilet with some old man just a few feet away from me doing a pee in a urinal, its just bad business, the ladies room is not just for peeing, its an escape.

Girls think of this, you need to do a poop, its bad enough if there is another girl in the same restroom, just think if there was a possibility a man could walk in, very embarrasing. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I am torn. On the one hand we all have the same functions, just different logistics. On the other hand, I have to agree with Jennifer.....i is an escape! I frankly probably wouldn't care as long as there are stalls.

A few years ago I was at a folk festival. There were men's and women's washrooms. I was in the girls....of course, and in comes this man, does his business in a stall and leaves. I doubt he even knew he was in the wrong spot. http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

I think this is something that will become a nonissue if it happens. Once everyone becomes adjusted who cares.

[Buff Man in MI]

One place I worked (non-nudist) had two single-user restrooms with a commode and sink in each, no urinals. The doors were not labelled and the males outnumbered the females 3 to 1 or at times 10 to 1. I was lectured one day by the bosses 34 year old daughter that I had just used the women's room and that if I did it again my employment would be at an end. The other room was in use at the time and I was in dire need. I simply apologized, and waited for the "women's" room to be in use one day when she had to go so I could lecture her.

[David77]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">When I said I liked, "Meatloaf", I didn't mean the man. I meant the entree! </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
You do not relish "beefcake", that is! http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[Mosquito_Bait]

I spent my entire undergraduate college career in dorms that had coed bathrooms. The toilets and showers were in individual stalls. Some of the bathrooms had urinals. There was some controversy over whether the urinals should be used. Some of the young ladies preferred that the young gentlemen use the urinals as they might otherwise forget to put the toilet seat down. Most of the young gentlemen were too shy to do this except late at night when there was little risk of a young lady walking into the bathroom.

In my experience, coed dorms are generally much more civilized than unisex dorms. In particular, the presence of young ladies has a moderating effect on the behavior of young gentlemen. There was much less rowdiness in coed dorms and the common areas, including the bathrooms, were kept much neater.

There also was no controversy from parents regarding the coed bathrooms. Parents lived in the dorms and shared the bathrooms during orientation week. They also periodically would use the bathrooms when visiting. It simply was no big deal.

My wife and I have visited several nudist parks that have coed bathrooms. Most nudist parks have open air showers. Once one becomes used to taking a morning shower in full public view, using a coed bathroom is a trivial matter.

[Fresh Air]

Are you kidding!? Have you seen the mess the women make out of the bathrooms? No thanks. http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Just kidding. I tend to think its because women prefer it that way.

Dan

[Naturist Mark]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Jason Lee:

any other differences between a coed dorm and a unisex dorm ? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Coed and unisex mean the same thing. How they arrange things like restrooms varies from place to place, it has nothing to do with the name.

-Mark

[Kenv]

I'm not sure about all ladies, but seperate bathrooms are the strong preference of my lady. And think about it, who wants less women nudists?

Having used uni-sex restrooms and showers in nudist resorts I've learned it's no big deal.

[richinoregon]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Sauna:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by David77:

I finally got used to the fact that women were coming into the restroom and could view me urinating. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

This is very common in restaurant restrooms in Japan. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
In fact, when I was in Japan (in the Navy), in the cultural orientation class, that is one of the things we were told we had to get used to (even on the American Bases). Women were the ones who cleaned the bathrooms and they would come in and clean up even if men were using it. We were told "you don't acknowlege their presence."

[xgsft]

Paradice Gardens has a unisex bathroom. It consits of four stalls, two sinks and counters. One shower area with three shower heads. I had no real issues using it.

[Rik]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Mosquito_Bait:
I spent my entire undergraduate college career in dorms that had coed bathrooms. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>Why do Americans say "coed" (short for coeducational) and "bathroom" (meaning a room with a bath in it)? Surely it's a unisex toilet!

http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_confused.gif Rik

[David77]

Rik,
You are luck that he did not use our term, "restroom". That would have really boggled your mind/sensibilities.

Although I have never been in a home in the UK, movies made in the UK show that there are bathing facilities, a wash basin, and a commode all in the same room.

This room is a place to eliminate bowel and bladder waste, as well as to take a bath. Therefore it is much nicer to call it a "bathroom" and not suggest "toilet function", an unattractive image of the waste process.

[Rik]

In the UK we use the word "restroom" which means a room to rest in! It's often applied to a room which workers might use to eat their lunch in.

Rik

[xgsft]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Jason Lee:
a shower area with stalls or without stalls ? http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_confused.gif </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Oh, should have specified. The showers are in the open.

[xgsft]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Jason Lee:
does Paradise Gardens Nudist Resort have a shower block with stalls ? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

No, it is just a room adjacent to the restroom with three showerheads, two on one wall and one on the opposite side. The room is completely open, no dividers or anything like that.

[Atlanta Runner]

Somewhat on this topic...one of the coolest watering holes in NYC is a place called Bar 89 (89 Mercer Street in Soho). One of the main attractions is the unisex bathrooms with clear plexiglass doors. Once you ever the stall and lock the door, the doors become opaque kind of like liquid crystal technology such that you can see out but people on the outside can't see in.

If you are in NYC, I would recommend stopping in for a martini and a quick pit stop to check it out.

http://www.worldsbestbars.com/city/new-york/

[OZJames]

JASON <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">drop the latch on the door and they become miraculously opaque. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

At least that's what you hope happens.

I used loos like these in New York a few years ago. It took a few c0cktails to give the courage to use one.

http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif <span class="ev_code_RED">JAMES</span> http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[Sauna]

A couple of years ago in the main national newspaper was artivcle of local restaurants and their restrooms. The point was that there are not enoug space in females restrooms and after some beesr girls have no other choise than go to men's side side and in urgency sit om the sink and pee there. You might know the situation after too many beers. There in the article was also photo of a girl sitting on a lavoire and peeing.

[UpstateNYBill]

A couple of the camps I go to, Empire Haven and Bonita Resorts have co-ed bathrooms. To me it's no big deal.

As someone who's been to many rock concerts and sporting events, where the men's room quickly becomes coed, you either accept it or you use the port a potty which I find vulgar in itself. I'd choose the coed bathroom.

[MJ_KC]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Rik:
In the UK we use the word "restroom" which means a room to rest in! It's often applied to a room which workers might use to eat their lunch in.

Rik </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
Personally, I would find a better place to eat lunch. LOL

[Weims4Life]

The really absurd part is, the people who CLEAN the restrooms all assert that the women's room requires far more cleaning than the men's.

Hubby and I drove truck for six years together and I can tell you for a fact that women are pigs when it comes to using a bathroom. It wasn't just truck stop bathrooms either. During "that" time of the month they would leave smears all over walls and toilet seat, it is nasty. Women also pee all over the seats and never clean up after themselves, this comes from not wanting to sit on the actual seat and trying to pee hovering over the hole and not really making it. I never, ever sit on a public toilet seat without first taking a huge, and I mean huge wad of toilet paper and wiping the whole thing down before doing my business, I then have to spend ages washing my hands after. So, basically I really wouldn't care if bathrooms were unisex, men surley can't be as disgusting as women in this area and maybe it would show some men that there are some pretty nasty women out there and maybe we shouldn't always complain about mens toilet habits.

[puffledud]

My son goes to a college that has unisex/coed bathrooms. There are no urinals, but they have plenty of stalls and sinks. All of the showers have curtains. It's just like Mosquito_Bait described at his undergraduate school.

Never having visited a women's room I'm amazed that so many people have commented that they are worse than the men's room.

However, if having unisex/coed bathrooms would make people wash their hands afterwards I'm all in favor of it.

Cheers,

Dave

I've used co-ed restrooms, and while it seemed unusual I wasn't embarrassed. After sharing a bathroom with a spouse (especially the shower http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif), it's no big deal sharing a restroom with anyone.

[Bob S.]

Atlanta Runner, I remember seeing that, or a similar "toilet room" on Discovery Channel's Best Bathrooms a while back. A room with a clear wall that became opaque when locked. They mentioned that some people did not lock it correctly and everyone could watch them answering nature's call http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

Weims: "The really absurd part is, the people who CLEAN the restrooms all assert that the women's room requires far more cleaning than the men's."

Weims, on ABC's 20/20 this past Friday, they tested some germ myths. They found out that the women's public restrooms have more germs than the mens' rooms.

Bob S.

[David77]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">After sharing a bathroom with a spouse (especially the shower ), it's no big deal sharing a restroom with anyone. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

In my case at least, Jon-Marc's remark applied. That is, since one woman, my wife, regularly saw me nude and freely associates with me in the nude, and accepted my body without criticism, then I felt comfortable for all women to see me nude and to shower with me.

[grl66]

I wouldn't have a problem with them but I believe my partner would so I'd have to disagree with them.

Besides, where would the girls go for their chats? http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[fre2bnude]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Women also pee all over the seats and never clean up after themselves, this comes from not wanting to sit on the actual seat and trying to pee hovering over the hole and not really making it. I never, ever sit on a public toilet seat without first taking a huge, and I mean huge wad of toilet paper and wiping the whole thing down before doing my business, I then have to spend ages washing my hands after. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Similar comments from my wife after using public toilets here in the UK

[tinner666]

I can deal with unisex bathrooms. With open air showers all around, you get used to the 'side-effect' of unisex bathrooms. http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_cool.gif Frank

[sawdust]

Weims: "The really absurd part is, the people who CLEAN the restrooms all assert that the women's room requires far more cleaning... They found out that the women's public restrooms have more germs than the mens' rooms.
Bob S.[/QUOTE]

I work my way through school as a janitor both in high school and collage. At least during the 60es it was the female restrooms that were the worse to clean. They wrote on everything with their lipstick, never flushed and threw stuff all over the floor. Some of the things they wrote would make the guys blush. So much for their sweet innocence! Sawdust

My dad, who worked in a factory, told me that the women could also tell dirtier jokes than the men.

[fre2bnude]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">My dad, who worked in a factory, told me that the women could also tell dirtier jokes than the men. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Oh yes! I can really agree with that. When I was an apprentice electrician in the contracting industry we often had to work in factories and cotton mills. We often used to hear the young women talking among themselves and the language and the stories they told was enough to make your hair curl. It sure gave me a different view on the fair sex.

[Sauna]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Poolside:
I was a police officer for 8 years and I can tell you the womens jail was far different place than the mens. Their comments to me and the language used would turn my face red.

Poolside </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Men can never talk so dirty as women can do. I guess that jail is the worst place.
I remember when I was youger the gypsy women when they got angry they lifted their enormout skirt ang showed their genitals and said smell my c**t. Naturally they had no underwear. Females are when needed menthaly stronger than men

[Jason Lee]

is it ok to get an erection when using a unisex shower in view of other naked ladies ?

[shãybare]

http://clothesfreeforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_cool.gif
Depends on the cause of the erection. Normally no. If you are standing there stroking, then yes it is offensive.