Communal Showers

Communal showers are a single group of showers put together in one room or area. They are typically used in locker rooms, schools, prisons, swimming pools and barracks. Different variations exist, but a typical setup involves a row of showers heads along a wall. Communal showers are designed to accommodate multiple people showering at the same time, so efficiency and utility are the main focus, and modesty is not a consideration. They are designed with few to no privacy accommodations, typically featuring partitions at the most, but otherwise they are open and are meant to have multiple people showering in the nude. They are most commonly only in facilities where there’s no mixing of the sexes, but it’s not unheard of for them to be used by both sexes simultaneously. Historically they are more common and prevalent as a norm in facilities used by men, and less common in facilities used by women.

After hockey practice, the team stripped out of their sweaty gear and got into the communal showers to wash off the sweat and grime, nude as hell.

by Baresarkr March 10, 2024

communal condom

The communal condom is a singular condom that has been used and passed around a group of individuals for a portion of time.

You need to get the Communal Condom from Jeremy so you don't get your girlfriend pregnant tonight.

by Fregley Heffley March 14, 2024

Communal Democracy

A system where the central political and economic unit is the commune—a self-governing community that collectively manages its resources and social life. Communes federate with each other for larger projects. This model is deeply associated with anarchist and utopian socialist thought, envisioning a confederation of autonomous, directly democratic communities replacing the nation-state.

Example: The Paris Commune of 1871, though brief, was the iconic attempt at Communal Democracy. Paris was reorganized into a federation of wards, each with its own assembly, recallable delegates, and integrated military and administrative functions, aiming to create a decentralized republic of communes across France.

by Dumu The Void February 5, 2026

Communal Shayla

A very likeable person. Often by a large group of people who have an interest in the particular person, or "Shayla"

He is our Communal Shayla, we like him a lot.

by Pineapple185peaches October 22, 2025

Communal pho

A term used to describe a promiscuous Vietnamese woman

Your mum’s a communal pho

by Welsh Gimp November 30, 2025

Foundation for Communal Education

An educational project rooted in anarchist and libertarian socialist traditions, focusing on the practical and philosophical knowledge needed to build and sustain autonomous communes, intentional communities, and directly democratic assemblies. It teaches conflict resolution, consensus decision-making, ecological stewardship, and communal economics, emphasizing prefigurative politics—building the new society in the shell of the old.

Foundation for Communal Education Example: The foundation might operate a "Communal Lab"—a network of rural and urban land projects where participants learn hands-on skills in permaculture, off-grid energy, cooperative management, and horizontal assembly governance, embodying the education it preaches.

by Dumu The Void February 5, 2026