<p>Doing an objective study on this subject is close to impossible. To do it properly, you would need to randomly assign kids to single sex and coed dorms at the some college and report those findings. If it is by request, that brings in another factor.</p>
<p>There are coed dorms, and then there are truly coed dorms. My son’s dorm is coed, but the girls’ rooms are clustered at one end of the hall, with the boys on the other. That is a whole different story from having the rooms randomly assigned for males or females. Also the bathrooms are single sex at his college. </p>
<p>I was in an all girls’ dorm in college, but the ways the dorms were configured, it was not difficult to go from the boys’ houses to our part of the dorms. They were all connected and no one policed them. I liked having an all girls area, would hate to have to share bathroom facilities with a bunch of guys, but like the fact that female zone was not cordoned off limits to guys. There are some dorms out there that are too coed for my comfort these days.</p>