The Virtue Inspired by a Coed Bathroom

Last updated on: January 19, 2013 at 6:06 am by Joe Carter

The Virtue Inspired by a Coed Bathroom 2013-01-19T06:06:26+00:00 Joe Carter

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Wendy Shalit on modesty:

I first became interested in the subject of modesty for a rather mundane reason—because I didn’t like the bathrooms at Williams College. Like many enlightened colleges and universities these days, Williams houses boys next to girls in its dormitories and then has the students vote by floor on whether their common bathrooms should be coed. It’s all very democratic, but the votes always seem to go in the coed direction because no one wants to be thought a prude. When I objected, I was told by my fellow students that I “must not be comfortable with [my] body.” Frankly, I didn’t get that, because I was fine with my body; it was their bodies in such close proximity to mine that I wasn’t thrilled about.

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