A problem about public bathhouse. How do you see this?

China
January 29, 2013 4:31am CST
Today I went to the public bathhouse, and luckily it's only me in there, because although I go there I still hope for a little privacy. Maybe you are surprised to see one go to public bathhouse for shower, but this is really happening in where I live. And there's another problem. Once when I was there, I saw a mother take her baby boy together into the bathroom, in order to help him with the bath. But I feel uncomfortable about this! Maybe little kids don't have gender consciousness, and many girls feel okay, but anyway it's a boy! I cannot bear it, so I faced the wall all the time I wash, and did not leave until they finished. Suppose if you wash in a public bathhouse, would you mind parents taking their kids of another gender together with them?
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@vernaC (1491)
• Romania
29 Jan 13
In a place where I used to live when I was a kid, all the neighbors share one source of water and the place is big that we can take a bath there. When it's just kids, no problem about it with teenagers, they are going separating from boys and men but the adult women have no problems.
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@rog0322 (2829)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
30 Jan 13
Hi, Even during the days when water was a problem in my hometown, we don't have public baths. We usually go to the creeks or springs or beaches nearby and do our bathing there, no gender division but the females took a bath with clothes on, men only shorts and bare from the waist upwards. I was still a strapping teenager then with no malice in the world. With the improvement of our water system nowadays by the efforts of the local government, thanks to our dear Mayor Juliette T. Uy (yes she is of Chinese descent), we can have our own bathrooms inside the house, even next to the bedrooms and on the kitchen sink on buildings up to four floors high, very convenient with good water pressure 24/7 at very affordable rates at only P100 (USD2) per four cubic meter minimum consumption and additional P12 for every cu meter afterwards. The water source comes from a natural mountain spring 300 meters up, impounded on a holding tank holding a thousand cu meters, delivered via twelve inches pipes right to our doorsteps so we are assured of constant water supply of pure spring quality barring major breaks on the water lines. It is convenient, affordable and cost saving with no need for electricity or purification system to have a potable water system.
@besweet (9859)
• Ireland
29 Jan 13
Hello! We don't have public bath houses in my country, but I have been embarrassed once at the university gym when I was a student. I was taking pilates classes and they had public showers at the girl's bathroom. The toilets were in the same room with the showers and the showers are attached to the wall, without curtains. One day after my pilates class I opened the door without thinking that someone would actually take a shower and there was a woman showering who didn't mind very much when I walked in, but I was embarrassed and left without going to the toilet. It doesn't sound so bad because it was an "only girls" shower but it isn't right to put the toilets in the same room. It would be fine if I was going for a shower too, but walking in people showering when I just want to visit the bathroom is weird! In your case, I think they should have seperated the men's and women's showers. Is it allowed for women to enter the men's showers? Even if she wanted to come for her little boy, she should have waited outside.