So apparently coed showers are actually a thing:
http://jezebel.com/5431431/on-coed-bathrooms-and-showering-with-guys
For those who don't like 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After reading the article I started to think that mixed gender bathrooms might not be such a bad thing. It seems like if everybody did it, it would likely bring genders together and reduce gender segregation. Like, if people showered and crapped together people wouldn't get those weird misconceptions that the other gender is fundamentally better or more delicate or whatever. I know that people are gonna say that rape would be an issue, but I don't know if that would actually be the case. If people saw the opposite gender naked all the time it would probably desexualize nudity and wouldn't really be turned on by it. In fact, that might actually reduce rape/sexual assault.
Of course I understand that integrating that kind of thing would be a near impossible task, but I still want to know what you escapists think of the concept. Would it bring good or harm to society? Would it drive everybody into ravaging beasts of pure sexual energy bound on raping the first thing they see? Would it not really make a difference at all?