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Posted by D. Lerious on :

Here in America, some colleges, at least the ones I visited have all female or male dorms, or have one floor male anther floor female. I heard that some actually mixed. What is the sitation in the college you go to and how would or how do you feel about males and females living together on the same floor? I would be rather uncomfortable with it, I much prefer same sex dorms.

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

I roomed in all sorts of dorms, and in one dorm we shared a floor with the ladies (1/2 and 1/2, separate bathrooms).

Quite frankly, if the girl wasn't in MY room, I didn't CARE about her location.

It did make things easier on my RA, though, whose girlfriend was the girls' RA for that same floor.

I remember coming home one night at about 2 AM, when the floor was silent. I went into the guys' bathroom, and could hear the shower running. I heard a distinctly unmasculine cough. Once I got back to my room, I heard the bathroom door open. I peeked out, and there were the two RA's, sneaking back to my RA's room.

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

Well, if you really want to, you can dig through the Flameboard and look for a topic posted by Monty about his latest rant... He gives some comments about coed dorms there.

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Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :

Free coochie.

'S all I gots t'say.

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

My dorms have alternating male/female rooms as you go down the halls.... on one end of the hall is female, down a ways is male, etc. Its quite nice, and much better mix of real life.

You don't walk down the street and see only men, do you?

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

thank god for that.

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Posted by Curry Monster (Member # 12) on :

Well, if that were the case, medical practitioners who work in the neck straining industry would be out of business. And dark, dark glasses would be in.

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

OTOH, you don't want down the street and hear people having sex in the area next to you, do you?

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

*puts on shabby raincoat*
Only if they let me watch.

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Posted by Fructose (Member # 309) on :

Non-Co-ed dorms isn't going to solve that. Sex will happen either way. Just turn up your stereo. Won't hear a thing. Unless you are into that...

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

Good point, Liam... My roommate and I had that problem... Thing was, they would open their window before doing it.

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Well, at least they're letting the whole block see.

One way to stop it - if they do leave the window open - is to go to a flat across from them, and take a few pictures. I'm sure they'll stop when they see the snaps all over the student union message board.

Blackmail would work there too.

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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

Get a good tape recorder and tape one of their "sessions".

Then play the thing back to them (preferably right after said session ends) LOUDLY. If they object, just explain that since they seemed to want the rest of the world to know what they were doing, you just decided to help a little.

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Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :

The editor of a magazine that a friend of mine is assitant editor for wrote an article on the different types of college roommates using his own experiences. One of them was the "dance/theater major." This one was named Seymour, was 30 years old, & had his "friend" Alex over all the time. Fine, whatever.

So one night, to quote Louis, "I drifted off to Sleep Land, population one. I was awakened by a loud grunt & woke up to find full-blown sexual intercourse between 2 men right in front of me."

Ouch.

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

I think Baloo and Liam have the right idea.

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Posted by David Sands (Member # 132) on :

At Mary Washington College where I was an RA for three years, we had single-sex dorms, alternating floors, and a few floors of alternating suites by sex. One year I was in an alternating floor one (which could have been bad since men are geerally more destructive when it's just them around), and my last two years on floors with both sexes. My own expereince was that when they lve together and have some minor degree of maturity, mixed floors are a better way to prepare college students for the real world relationships and proximity they will face. However, so many other factors are involved in that outcome, you can't judge how someone will turn out based only on that one aspect.

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Why's the fac that men are "more mature" when sharing with women a good thing anyway? And why's it good that it prepares you for the real world?

Uni isn't about preparing for the real world. It's about about having the perks of being a kid and an adult at the same time. You don't ahve parents around. You can get pissed, shag till your bits fall off, play golf in the kitchen, and not care, because you'll be out of there in a year.

At uni, you should sit back and enjoy your life. After all, once you've finished, it's 9-5 for the next 40 years,

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Posted by Mikey T (Member # 144) on :

Hmm...I'm trying to avoid the all male college dorms when I go to college next fall. It would become boring being surrounded by men all the time... well not really. But who would I talk to about fashion, show business, and guys?

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

And you'll have no luck throwing dinner parties either.

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Posted by Mikey T (Member # 144) on :

If I'm in an all male dorm, I wouldn't be throwing a dinner party. It would be another kind of party with lots of alcohol...

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Ah.

A Tupperware party.

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Posted by Mikey T (Member # 144) on :

No Sol, why would I throw a Tupperware party with guys?

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Because if you're in an all-male dorm, you can't throw a tupperware party with girls, can you?

Duh.

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