Situational Morality of Bathroom Nudity.

The article discusses the situated strategy used by dormitory residents to maintain their moral identities in two bathroom situations requiring nudity. The two bathrooms have no partitions between facilities and no privacy when more than one person is in either room. Those girls with similar bathroom arrangements at home reacted to the situation as routine and taken-for-granted, and with little or no self-consciousness, while those with no prior experience either at home or in another dormitory found the situation foreign and were self-conscious. One girl stated that bathroom exposure contradicted her notion of the feminine role, while another stated that a favorable body image enabled her to function adequately in what might have been an awkward situation.