Naked people in locker rooms

[Badger]

At first glance I thought, OP is being a nit it's a locker room. But you're right, this shouldn't go on. The excessive walking around naked is bothersome.

[ncboiler]

In the Y locker room.

Situation 1. Old hairy man talking to another man. Both nekid. Old hairy man has his leg up on the bench while talking. Ball sack cannot be missed. Old hairy man was my divorce lawyer.

Situation 2. Walk into the locker room and two guys sitting on the couch nekid watching TV

Situation 3. Nekid man standing on top of bench leaning WAAAAY over to switch the TV that is sitting on top of the lockers.

Footnote: I'm no longer a member (No pun intended).

[Uncle Wimp]

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Whenever I go to the locker room at Bally's (Total Fitness, not the casino) about 10% of the people are walking around completely naked.

I know that this happens in locker rooms everywhere, but I cannot imagine myself being comfortable naked in front of so many strangers. If they just got out of the shower and needed to change into street clothes, I wouldn't mind so much (towel changing might be difficult for older folks). But I've seen wayyyy too many people shaving naked in front of the shower without a care in the world. There are times where I have to look at the ground or the ceiling to avoid seeing another man's unit.

Maybe if they all looked like Patrick Antonius it wouldn't be so bad, but the naked ones are oftentimes some of the least attractive people at the gym.

It seems that most of the naked people are over 40 years old... I wonder if that is significant.

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Maybe I'm the only 40+ guy to respond. I think the age issue is significant.
Back in the old days, a lot of men joined the military, where you showered together every day, like it or not.
When I was young, I had a gym teacher who said that if he had his way, we would all swim naked when we had pool. If you didn't show up with a swimsuit, you still had to go in anyway. I think it was equality kick, how we're all the same under our clothes. It was like it was a public shower in Japan or something. I, for one, am glad those days are over. We went overboard in the old days.
We were supposed to get over our bashfulness. And if you didn't want to take a shower in front of other people, you were some kind of sissy.
Everyone took a shower after gym class, and I remember even our gym teachers joined us sometimes. It was the old school attitude.
I notice now, after coaching basketball for a few years, that no one takes a shower after practice, they just go straight home.

[Isura]

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Whenever I go to the locker room at Bally's (Total Fitness, not the casino) about 10% of the people are walking around completely naked.

I know that this happens in locker rooms everywhere, but I cannot imagine myself being comfortable naked in front of so many strangers. If they just got out of the shower and needed to change into street clothes, I wouldn't mind so much (towel changing might be difficult for older folks). But I've seen wayyyy too many people shaving naked in front of the shower without a care in the world. There are times where I have to look at the ground or the ceiling to avoid seeing another man's unit.

Maybe if they all looked like Patrick Antonius it wouldn't be so bad, but the naked ones are oftentimes some of the least attractive people at the gym.

It seems that most of the naked people are over 40 years old... I wonder if that is significant.

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Maybe I'm the only 40+ guy to respond. I think the age issue is significant.
Back in the old days, a lot of men joined the military, where you showered together every day, like it or not.
When I was young, I had a gym teacher who said that if he had his way, we would all swim naked when we had pool. If you didn't show up with a swimsuit, you still had to go in anyway. I think it was equality kick, how we're all the same under our clothes. It was like it was a public shower in Japan or something. I, for one, am glad those days are over. We went overboard in the old days.
We were supposed to get over our bashfulness. And if you didn't want to take a shower in front of other people, you were some kind of sissy.
Everyone took a shower after gym class, and I remember even our gym teachers joined us sometimes. It was the old school attitude.
I notice now, after coaching basketball for a few years, that no one takes a shower after practice, they just go straight home.

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yeah, I always went home to shower when in school. there was always the weird dude who took one and loved to walk around after.

[Klompy]

It doesn't bother me at all to be in a community shower, but I agree it's really strange when the first thing someone does when they get out of the shower isn't dry off and put on some undies, or at least wrap yourself in a towel.

[The Yugoslavian]

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at the ymca the people who walk around naked are always old

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Or extremely ripped....at least at the one I used to go to.

Meh, standard line is to just be naked when you have to be (shower) and not naked when you don't need to be. Although I generally liked to just wear boxers when shaving/brushing teeth/etc.

Yugoslav

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Whenever I go to the locker room at Bally's (Total Fitness, not the casino) about 10% of the people are walking around completely naked.

I know that this happens in locker rooms everywhere, but I cannot imagine myself being comfortable naked in front of so many strangers. If they just got out of the shower and needed to change into street clothes, I wouldn't mind so much (towel changing might be difficult for older folks). But I've seen wayyyy too many people shaving naked in front of the shower without a care in the world. There are times where I have to look at the ground or the ceiling to avoid seeing another man's unit.

Maybe if they all looked like Patrick Antonius it wouldn't be so bad, but the naked ones are oftentimes some of the least attractive people at the gym.

It seems that most of the naked people are over 40 years old... I wonder if that is significant.

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Maybe I'm the only 40+ guy to respond. I think the age issue is significant.
Back in the old days, a lot of men joined the military, where you showered together every day, like it or not.
When I was young, I had a gym teacher who said that if he had his way, we would all swim naked when we had pool. If you didn't show up with a swimsuit, you still had to go in anyway. I think it was equality kick, how we're all the same under our clothes. It was like it was a public shower in Japan or something. I, for one, am glad those days are over. We went overboard in the old days.
We were supposed to get over our bashfulness. And if you didn't want to take a shower in front of other people, you were some kind of sissy.
Everyone took a shower after gym class, and I remember even our gym teachers joined us sometimes. It was the old school attitude.
I notice now, after coaching basketball for a few years, that no one takes a shower after practice, they just go straight home.

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I'll chime in here to back you up.

This attitude that men cannot afford privacy or whatever dignity it might convey used to move its way through our lives way worse than just showering all together, which is pretty minor(I'm still surprised to see individual shower stalls). The worst way it did was by making men's bathrooms really really suck.

It was common in the old days to have no doors on bathroom stalls, and even sometimes half-height walls, no walls, and sometimes even no proper seats, and non-flushing and therefore incredible stenchy open urinal troughs. That general lack of giving a damn about guys extended to the tendency to keep men's bathrooms very small, ill-supplied, and incredibly filthy in comparison to women's bathrooms. Basically, a men's bathroom used to sometimes be little better than what you would give a farm animal. Even mentioning it was basically pussyhood, as men were long after wartime treating each other as if we deserved nothing better than mere animal survival, which was more than good enough for the likes of us.

[tdarko]

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Maybe I'm the only 40+ guy to respond. I think the age issue is significant.
Back in the old days, a lot of men joined the military, where you showered together every day, like it or not.
When I was young, I had a gym teacher who said that if he had his way, we would all swim naked when we had pool. If you didn't show up with a swimsuit, you still had to go in anyway. I think it was equality kick, how we're all the same under our clothes. It was like it was a public shower in Japan or something. I, for one, am glad those days are over. We went overboard in the old days.
We were supposed to get over our bashfulness. And if you didn't want to take a shower in front of other people, you were some kind of sissy.
Everyone took a shower after gym class, and I remember even our gym teachers joined us sometimes. It was the old school attitude.
I notice now, after coaching basketball for a few years, that no one takes a shower after practice, they just go straight home.

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I have been in baseball for a little while now and myself and my teammates aren't over 40 but we obviously all shower after games. If there is a rookie/young guy, fresh out of college that is on the team they will sometimes not shower at first but we fine him until he showers b/c that is f'ing gross, especially on the road, we don't want his nasty, sweaty ass sitting on the bus w/ us for hours. Plus, how can you sit in your own stink, that is weird to me.

We all shower and we aren't bashful or anything but gyms are uber gay. We shower and then we go back to our locker and put our clothes back on like normal people--like you would if you were at home. Two guys sitting naked on a couch (no matter the age) or two naked guys just standing there chatting it up is f'ing weird and a level of personal space that I just can't comprehend. It has nothing to do w/ another dude seeing me naked (I don't care about that), it is that I don't think if Old man Harold went over to Old man Theodore's for a cookout or something and they played a nasty game of HORSE in the driveway and had to shower up--I don't think they would watch TV naked afterward b/c that would be gay and awkward and just b/c it is a gym doesn't make it ok.

[Rootabager]

Usually at the Y they are so hairy that you can not even see their junk.

This is really crazy at the Y. In the locker room there is a area with couches and tv and stuff. They had to put a sign you have to wear clothes to sit on the couch because so many people would just hang out there naked.

They also had a problem with gays coming into the sauna and jacking off. My rough ass marine buddy was in there hanging out and looked over and saw the guy jacking off so he just walked over and punched him in the face. Broke the guys nose.

[Claunchy]

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When I was young, I had a gym teacher who said that if he had his way, we would all swim naked when we had pool.

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That's pretty creepy.