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The Latrina: True Equality in the Roman Empire
Regarding the question of whether men and women bathed together in the Ancient Roman Empire, the answer is it depends. Sometimes they did and sometimes they didn't. It depended on the local customs, the inclination of the individual, and how and for whom the particular establishment was being run.
But there is one custom that men and women in Rome and it's sister cities did share communally - at the baths and elsewhere. That was the use of the latrina. This mixed gender - ah - activity - seems a bit odd by our standards - except perhaps for the California hot tub crowd. But that it occured seems to have been indisputably the case, and there have never been "Ladies" or "Gents" signs found at the various excavations of Roman public facilities.
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