Should College Dormitories Be Co-ed Instead Of Same Gender? ........?

Most dorms are co-ed. Sometimes men and women are on different floors, or different wings. They don't share bathrooms. I was just in one new dorm complex that has bathrooms just like yours at home- shower, sink, toilet in one room with a door that locks. Think of it this way- kids who don't go to college are living in apartment complexes where there are both men and women. How is that any different?

They are where I live!!

What Sandy said, i think same genders would be better unless you're siblings or whatever.

having different genders may increase the chances of unwanted pregnancies and sexual harrassment

MANY college dorms HAVE been coed for more than 59 YEARS. either different floors have different genders. or alternating suites have different genders, i have friends who camped out for three days to get into Tulane's first coed dorm in the fall of 1972,. Irby. Tulane has at least two coed dorms. Irby and Pateerson, and i am not counting the dorms downtown for medical school.

No the showers and bathrooms in the dorms ARE NOT coed the University of Oklahoma has Coed dorms, but i don't know exactly how they are arranged since i have Not lived in University of Oklahoma dormitory. I've lived off campus once i started graduate school.

I'm with your mom. separate gender is better. co-habitation is too distracting. leads to sexual harassment, rape, attempted rape, molestation etc. when kids are among their own gender there's less competition, and less need to impress. (same reasons for uniforms in school). Peer pressure is lessened too. you're there to learn, not date. Parties can be given throughout the year where the genders can socialize.

(P.S. I liked how JK Rowling did it at Hogwarts. separate dorms for boys and girls within each house.)