Locker Room Nudity

I agree totally. I love to work out and had so many gym memberships due to my business travels. Every one had open community showers. About ten years ago it started to get ridiculous. Young guys (early college) were showering in their underwear. Just crazy. I have never had an issue being naked around other dudes. Most men used to be like that. My dad is a Marine and said they even hung out naked in their barracks. Previous generations went to the watering hole together and got naked. I have even seen vintage WWII photos of GIs playing softball naked in the Pacific Theater. The attack on masculinity has become absurd over the last 10 to 20 years. We are all men and have the same body parts. There is nothing to be ashamed of. Being naked together does not make you gay, either.

 

You’re about my age. Do you remember the old American Fitness? They had them in my area of the country back in the 90’s. Being naked was totally fine in the steam room, sauna, shower, or the locker room. I think that’s the main reason a lot of guys showed up there LOL. The thing with me is that when I’m naked around other people I get an erection. Back then my boner might draw a few stares or second glances but I don’t think anyone had any problem with it. In a similar setting today I’d probably get kicked out or maybe even arrested.

 

Getting a boner, especially post work out, is not an unusual thing. I have seen plenty of semi's in the locker room and showers. We are all guys and nothing wrong with that. Our T levels are very high after working out. It's not the other guys turning you on (at least it's not for me). It's just natural.

 

I enjoy being nude with other men in the men's locker room, sauna and jacuzzi.

 

I would say I enjoy being nude but am a bit self conscious of my body. Not really in shape and not super well endowed. I’m sure no one cares but I guess it’s just human nature ‍♂️

 

Only thing I've found surprising was the beer league hockey locker rooms. They tend to be co-ed, depending on whether you're playing A, B, or C level. But in those game where there are women playing, I was initially a little surprised when a good many of the women changed along with the men... and a few of them showered with the men as well. Needless to say, all the men showered for once, and the women didn't seem to mind the arousals.

 

I don’t think I’d shower in that situation but unless there were creepy guys I would change with them

 

Wasn't going to add this, but different cultures have different norms on this. I was stationed in Germany while I was in the military and spoke pretty fluent German. They have mixed sex saunas, and I used to go to them fairly often. One of the advantages of experiencing and enjoying other cultures. On one such occasion, I was sitting on the bench on my towel, speaking with a German male friend in German. Three American officers' wives came into the sauna, saw us and heard just a small bit of our conversation, and one of them immediately told the others she wasn't ready for this, They all left together. My friend left a few minutes later. A few minutes after that, they came back, and the discussion they had had was to the effect of 'enjoy the scenery, our husbands will never know'. Obviously assuming I was German from having heard my previous conversation, they assumed I didn't understand their conversation in English, which among other things involved their concerns about their husbands finding out, and their observations of my anatomy, which were surprisingly detailed. Had to try very hard not to be aroused by that, but was successful at repressing my urges. In keeping with the expectations of the sauna, they also sat clothing free on their towels, but cross legged for the majority of their visit.

 

It’s a rookie mistake in Europe to assume English would not be understood

 

After years of not belonging to a gym. I joined a new one that just opened. It has a lap pool. A therapy pool and a 20 foot hot tub to name just a few things there. One thing that I noticed is the large amount of cell phone use in the locker room. Even though there are signs all over the place saying that phone use in the locker room is prohibited at all times. Of course the reason for that is that every phone has a camera . And you don't want some jerk taking pictures. And you really don't know if the person is taking pictures or not. But holy crap if you say something to someone while they are using their phone !! " I am not a sick pervert " . And to be honest, that is exactly what you would expect a pervert to say.

 

I've thought on this a lot ..

in 1965-69 in HS there were sports (football track).. then appointment to West Point (I resigned).. then LA Co FD 'hotshot'.. then US Army; Stateside & Vietnam..
I don't recall EVER considering cock size relative to others.. not even during the 1970s.. I think it was watching porn in late '70s when the focus on size = prowess made me start comparing.. but I was never kicked out of a bed or refused a return engagement (i've 300 partners before marriage in 1980).. my wife certainly never complained.. so I brushed it off - kind've..

no rational reason to think about comparing.. I have what I have.. more than 'average' but not a howitzer or a Derringer..


I think it was my response to watching porn flicks/reading erotic stories that put the suggestion in my head..

strange..

 

I think it is a trend that probably started in the late 80s or 90s. As others have noted, before then it was normal for boys and men at school or at gyms to shower naked in a shared facility.

 

Putting women in charge changes how things are done. Men build systems to suit men; women build systems to suit women.

 

Im going to the community center 3 days a week for water aerobics and we all shower fully nude together every time afterwards in a fully open shower room. It feels great!

 

well... I'm naked under my clothes..

 

My wife and I were at the nude pool at Ventana Inn in Big Sur when a woman was on her phone talking incessantly. She was fully clothed and sitting on a lounge chair when I walked up to her fully naked with my dick at eye level and said " excuse me, but this is a no cell phone area." She looked up and saw my dick in her face, turned red and was stunned. She ended up hanging up her phone and sat there looking at me for a while. As I walked away, the others at the pool were laughing - my wife said "that's my man!'"

 

The false modesty of the younger generation has become the main reason for the body dysmorphia that is so prevalent in that group now. They are happy to send sexy obscene photos of themselves to anyone and everyone, but to go naked in a locker room
When we were at school in the UK in the 1970s, if you didn't get a shower after sports, the teacher would physically throw you in, regardless of what you were wearing. A shower wasn't optional!
When I was in the RAF, modesty went right out of the window. Now we live in a world of body shaming and false modesty brought on by the religious conservative fundamentalists.

 

Let's face it - we all look. I strip when I get to my locker - after a work out - go shower and never cover up with my towel. Because I'm both intact and usually smooth I get looks and the occasional stare. It doesn't bother me.

 

If you want to understand these negative changes, you cannot avoid dealing with the topic of moral panics in the U.S. Tragically, the influence of these American moral panics does not end at the national border.

Philip Jenkins, Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child-Molester in Modem America (Yale University Press, 1998).

1 Creating Facts
2 Constructing Sex Crime, 1890–1934
3 The Age of the Sex Psychopath, 1935–1957
4 The Sex Psychopath Statutes
5 The Liberal Era, 1958–1976
6 The Child Abuse Revolution, 1976–1986
7 Child Pornography and Pedophile Rings
8 The Road to Hell: Ritual Abuse and Recovered Memory
9 Full Circle: The Return of the Sexual Predator in the 1990s
10 A Cycle of Panic

Philip Jenkins, Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America (Oxford University Press, 2006)

“Philip Jenkins asserts that the period from 1976 to 1986 marks a distinct era in America’s political and social development. Popular fears, aroused by perceptions of threats to the most basic realities of life, family structures and gender roles, and neighbourhood and community, were exacerbated by US military weakness and international decline. The result was a nation under siege, consumed by fears of child abusers and kidnappers, drugs, terrorism, rising oil prices and serial killers. While such fears were utilized by politicians and aggravated by the sensationalist reporting styles of television news, Jenkins contends that they stemmed from a rejection of the values of the 1960s, based on optimism, tolerance and national strength. Conservative political victories during this era were most marked when they built upon existing public concern and discontent, for example in relation to crime and justice. Reagan’s war on drugs was, therefore, an outgrowth of a national attack on 1960s liberalism. […] Jenkins seeks to move beyond what he describes as the common historiographical distinction between political and social or cultural history. He intends, moreover, to challenge the prevailing historiographical emphasis on the role of conservative activists in bringing about political change. Conservative political victories depended, rather, on the Republican Party’s ability to relate their messages to existing social anxieties. ‘‘ Conservatives were not so much peddling fear as taking seriously the fears that were already widespread, and doing so in a way that encouraged acceptance of other parts of their agenda’’. “ (Sandra Scanlon, Journal of American Studies)