I wish it had been true??

[Claire Cook]

So this is maybe a bit different. I use a website that asks a number of security questions. One of these is the name of my college dorm, and one of the choices is the name of a woman's dorm. Whenever I see that I think "Wouldn't that have been nice" -- living in a women's dorm, as a girl. Has anyone else had a similar thought?

But -- then again -- if I had done, I wouldn't have married the wonderful woman I did...

[EllenJo]

Looking back now living in the women's dorm as a girl would have been a lot of fun. When I was in college I spent a few weekends in a girls dorm and had a lot of fun. However back in my day "Man On The Floor" was the rule and you had to be escorted and gone by curfew. Spending the night meant sneaking out the next morning. It was way easier to take a girl to my dorm room because the other guys didn't care. Hopefully times have changed by now.
Hugs
Ellen Jo

[Badwolf]

EllenJo,

It was almost a decade ago now, but not too long ago, the rules were still pretty similar at least in some dorms. Rules do seem to be a huge mix so different experiences for all at this point.

[DebbieL]

I went to a woman's college, and even though I slept in the co-ed dorm (there were about 25 guys in theater, choir, and nursing), I was always considered "one of the girls" and was free to come and go whenever I wanted. I was often invited to join the girls for hot cocoa. i was a virgin, but had a lesbian lover, and even after we broke up, it was clear that i was "safe" and really was "one of the girls".

I almost dressed up as a girl for Halloween, but chickened out and went as a clown instead.
I was afraid that if I wore the dress, all the girls would freak out and stop being my friend.
Silly me!
Deb

[Michelle789]

I always lived in co-ed dorms in college. It's far better than being in an all men's dorm, especially since most dorms were segregated either men's building or women's building. There were only 3 coed dorms at the time I was in college, out of like 40 dorm buildings.

[LelaK]

I wonder if many of those guys who used to go on panty raids wanted the panties to wear.

[Eryn]

I was in college in the '70s in Arizona and the idea of co-ed dorms was fantasy. Our dorms were pretty much like barracks.

My daughters are now in college and their dorms are like apartment buildings, with separate bedrooms, living room, balcony, and full kitchen. The apartments are gendered by room, so one's neighbors could be of the opposite gender. Oddly, this hasn't resulted in the rash of rapes or unwed pregnancies that the moral authorities predicted back in my day.

[Tania75]

My college days were of a boys dorm and a girls dorm, and I'm sure the only discussion in both dorms was about the people in the other dorm.
The biggest surprise of my college days was on my last ever day, when the boys dressed up in girls uniforms, and girls in boys uniforms. I've never had a better day at college, and as I had long hair back then, was given the full feminine treatment by the girls (the real girls).
P.S. Is this when it all started?

[Beverley Sims]

The closest I have come is playing womens basketball and lacrosse.
When I was younger this gave me the experience of living a woman's life, albeit briefly.
It was good practice for later on though.

[Kate Simmons]

I'm not so sure I would have liked rooming with a bunch of silly giggly girls.May have cramped my style. :)

[MariaA]

I don't think I would have enjoyed it so much. I have not been to college or lived a dorm life however I have lived in a co ed barracks and sometimes the GG's got a little annoying. Just my thoughts.

[Sometimes Steffi]

I was in a co-ed dorm, and i'm not even sure if there were any women-only dorms. The bathrooms weren't coed, bat even that rule was broken on occasion.

There are some colleges that permit co-ed within a room now, not just in different rooms. But you have to select it, you just don't get randomly assigned.

[sometimes_miss]

Has anyone else had a similar thought? But -- then again -- if I had done, I wouldn't have married the wonderful woman I did...
This is something that I try to keep remembering; a gay female friend once remarked to me that she was jealous because I had access to so many of the beautiful women which she did not. And she was right; while I may have to keep my crossdressing a secret, at least I do get to date some of those women, even if I know it won't be a permanent relationship.