Before I went to college (a loooooong time ago) I had my own room at home, which I think is pretty standard for teenage males. Then I suddenly was sharing a very small room with one other guy. The showers were communal, no privacy at all. The only real privacy was the toilet stalls, I guess, unless you were lucky enough to have a roommate with whom you could negotiate some kind of privacy time-sharing on the room.
Did you reduce the number of times per day? Did you have other coping strategies?
I don’t dare share any personal stories, but it was a pretty open “secret” that all the guys in my dorm used the shower. There were already lots of reasons to wear sandals into the shower, but…well, that was one more.
Yeah I might have snuck one or two in “under the radar” when my room mate was asleep (he was a deep sleeper who talked a lot in his sleep). Most of the time I just planned it around his schedule so if I knew he was going to be gone for a while due to classes or whatever, I’d take care of business as part of the routine.
Don’t think I ever used a public area like toilet stalls or showers. They were all individual/private stalls though, so I could have.
Spent 4.5 years in the dorms for undergrad. Typically I just waited until I knew my roommate would be out - at classes, partying for the evening, or gone home for the weekend.
Shower stalls and toilet cubicles wouldn’t have worked, as the dorm I was in didn’t have doors on either.
What’s the problem here? In college, I had girlfriends, who needs to go solo? The only problem we had was finding dark spots at night that weren’t already occupied by other couples. And that was before co-ed dorms, too.
Yeah, I was going to say that I think open/communal showers in college dorms are a thing of the past at most schools, and have been for a while.
Answer me this college masturbation question, though… A girl I knew always complained that at least once a week the guys in her dorm would get together in a living room (these were like dorm apartments) and watch porn. What I could never figure out was…what would they do then? Call me uncreative, but I thought the point of porn was to get off. She said they didn’t watch with girlfriends, and I highly doubt this was a prelude to a group masturbation session. So what would they do? One by one run to the restroom to “take care of business,” to the full knowledge of everyone else? Watch porn but not masturbate? (Unlikely: these are 18-19 year old guys, remember.) I could never figure it out.
When I was in college (I was in my late 20s and did not live in a dorm, BTW), I worked with a guy who had a roommate who was a lesbian, and one evening, he came home and she and several of her very butch friends were watching a lesbian porno movie. He had no idea any such thing existed, and I did tell him, “If people do it, someone’s filmed it.” He asked me if straight women ever got together to do that, and I replied that I hadn’t, but some of my friends said they did that thing as a joke - watched it on fast forward, that kind of thing.
And my first go-around in college, when I did live in a dorm, was in an era where sex toys weren’t as easy to get as they are now and not really talked about except as gag bridal shower gifts, and I had a roommate who had a boyfriend who lived off-campus, and she spent several nights a week at his place.
Any odor from ejaculate would be lost in the olfactory assault that is a collection of 18 year old boys in charge of their own washing and laundry schedules.
