[Pantyholic]

SI SA KET, Thailand (Reuters Life!) - A Thai school has taken a step towards helping transvestites resolve the dilemma of which restroom to use by creating toilets specifically for them.

The Kamphaeng School in Si Sa Ket, nearly 600 km (400 miles) northwest of Bangkok, has over 200 transvestites among its 2,500 students and many have been asking for a separate toilet.

"When they used male toilets, they would be teased. That's why they don't want to use it. They're a little scared so they would just go to female toilets with their female friends," school director Sittisak Sumonta said.

"When I saw that, I wondered if female students would feel uncomfortable or not."

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[Kimberley]

Well it has to be a good move (although a school with that many transvestites takes a little getting used to) but I was thinking about this having been invited to a lunch at a restaurant with some other mature 'girls' dressed and made up. So when I get to the restaurant clearly I won't be able to use the gents toilet but are any of the women going to object to a group of cross-dressers (I bet we are obvious to some customers) using the ladies?

[pervey]

That will depend upon the attitude of the clientelle of the restaurant. If its a GLTB friendly establishment, I don't see a problem. The other consideration is that if the establishment is small and only has a single fixture toilet then you're "home free". Haven't had the concern in years but then again it been years since I've been out and about while transformed.

[tiffanycd89]

I don't see any particular reason why toilets can't be, for lack of a better term, integrated.

I've seen quite a few cases where the ladies room is easier to accidentally walk into.

(I can't think of a better way to explain it than this, in the words of Doc Brown, please excuse the crudity of my model, I didn't have time to draw it to scale:

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Also, the high school I went to (for those in the UK or other countries, it's typically ages 14-19 going there) had a cafeteria that had easy access to the girls bathroom, but the boys had to walk about twice as far down a hall.

Unless they can figure out a way to make the mens/ladies room discrepancies that I have described above, I think they should (at least for restrooms that a majority of the people using them would be over 16) figure out some way of integrating them. The idea of a separate restroom is about as dysfunctional as a married couple still using separate beds. Granted it could be a optional deal, where if it's not implemented on a large scale within ten years, it gets buried and never spoke of again.

[lucyluke]

I've never really understood why we use separate toilets anyway ... something about the Anglo-Saxon fear of being caught naked by the opposite sx, probably.

[monicatrav]

lucyluke, on Dec 26 2008, 07:51 AM, said:

I've never really understood why we use separate toilets anyway ... something about the Anglo-Saxon fear of being caught naked by the opposite sx, probably.

Well , in the "Latino" world is the same shit. Boys and girls don't share bathrooms.

What i still don't know if it is for the fear of being caught or just an inquisitions attempt to prevent evern more lust ;-)


Mónica

[tiffanycd89]

I think it goes back to some ancient time.

At one time bathrooms didn't even exist, and then they probably made single person bathrooms, and realizing that women like to take more time inside (fixing themselves up, got to look good you know) they probably started separating them.

According to Wikipedia, it's actually common in the middle east to see separate bathrooms (as in, private homes) for each gender.

Well, at least more people can give you a good explanation of why we have separate restrooms than why we have daylight savings time.

[Pantyholic]

I think the Muslims are very finicky about their poo habits. The devout ones stand up to dump, and must not touch the pan with their bottoms. Hence if you ever need to use a public toilet in a Western Muslim area who will be lucky if there isn't excreta on the toilet rim, the religous principles being more important than the aim.
Also they like to spray their bottoms with water, the cleanliness part being also very important.
Probably the use of opposite sex toilets in the middle east is all part of these religious customs to do with cleanliness ie: women and their periods etc. I don't know for sure but it makes a bit of sense.

[badgerking]

I too have never fully understood the seperation, not in the western world anyway.

Is it because girls are scared we'll find out they fart and crap like normal people?

Or because people fear pee fetishists may never leave?

[mic091221]

I have never understood the seperation about going to the bathroom as well,,, as long as there are stalls,, then what is the fuss?

oh well,, will we ever get out of the dark ages?

[Denise]

Well for us in the USA most likely its that puritanical upbringing, but the only country I have ever been in that shared toilets, was in Korea, most of the bathrooms in country are unisex, except in the high tourist sections...and also as PH mentioned they are squaters no porcelain john to sit on, you have to squat over what looks like a sink thats set into the floor,..its different but was a bit of an adjustment seeing woman in the same room...but no worst then the public baths I guess


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