(April 14, 2016 at 3:30 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Unisex bathrooms are the simple solution.
If all restrooms were unisex, no one would have to declare their sex in order to pee. It would also curb the hysteria over transgenders who merely wish to releive theselves. Simple.
Unisex restrooms would also solve a number of other social difficulties including: adults who need physical help in the restroom, but whose primary caretaker, or companion for the day, is of the opposite sex; parents or other persons looking after children of the opposite sex; and people looking after retarded people or people with dementia who are of the opposite sex; persons cleaning restrooms used by the opposite sex.
Unisex restrooms would also even out the line between the mens and the womens rooms. Urinals could be partitioned off from the main room to allow men (anyone with a functioning penis in this case) to do their business with the usual speed.
It would be considerably cheaper in buildings where more than 60 or 70 percent of the people using the building are of the same sex.
Many college dorms already have unisex restrooms without incident. Many business have made single stall restrooms unisex already. Portland business are building with single sex multi stall restrooms already. So far the sky hasn't fallen. There is no sudden uptick in sexual assault.
Why not go unisex?
I don't have a problem with the idea but then I'm not a woman. I can imagine there might be some protest against the idea after a few sex offences on women, by men occur in unisex restrooms.
Sexual assaults, incidents of voyeurism probably won't significantly increase but I imagine they will be much more easily carried out.
Also just thinking about the toilets in my workplace, I think some women may want to go back to having their own toilets once they've heard the noises of a guy taking a real loud dump in the stall next to them and the mental scarring that can cause.
And to say there's been 0 incidents in college dorms with unisex restrooms is probably not true.
I searched a little and found this article and in general I just find it difficult to believe that if all these college dorms have unisex toilets there won't be any incidents.
https://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2015...ge-campus/
This isn't to say I'm totally against the idea at all. I'm just saying it's really easy for us to all talk about it on this forum and laugh at the idea that anyone would be weird enough to commit acts of voyeurism or rape in a bathroom and how we wouldn't do anything of the sort. But sex offences will happen in these unisex toilets just like they happen in mostly male toilet areas now, to what degree it would happen I don't know.
Sorry but men are just weird, myself included. Just type in toilet voyeur cams into google and look at the extent of the results if you don't believe me.
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