How open was your relationship with your college roommate regarding nudity and sexual issues?

Had a couple of different roommates in college in the mid 80's. 1st roommate introduced me to being comfortable with nudity, he was a sports player and from the UK, and from the introduction when I walked into the room he was nude, not obvious at 1st since he was at his desk reading, when he got up to introduce himself (we were blindly assigned as roomies) he was "swinging free" , he excused himself and grabbed a pair of shorts and slid them on - giving me the 1st shot of his nice muscular ass. He left them on while I moved my stuff in. As soon as I was done with moving in my stuff, I realized partially and understood his nudity, the room was in the upper 80's - A/C was not operating well. due to all the move in's. I stripped off my shirt and changed into a pair of International Male Onion Skin shorts (wish I still had them). He asked me at that point if I was ok with him being nude, I stammered a little and said it is your room too, so be as comfortable as you want, we are going to be in this space for the school year. He said good, but left the shorts on for the time being. I knew he was quite comfortable being less clothed in public when he went to claim the pizza he ordered in the lobby of the dorm tower (guys tower and girls tower) wearing the shorts he has slipped on earlier. Returned and offered the pizza to eat, stripping the shorts off. We talked about his comfort with the nudity and I said I was nervous about being nude and sporting a hard on. Don't worry about it he said, with that I said I want to see your cock, it's the 1st uncircumcised cock I had seen in person. He walked over and presented it to me to look and touch.
 
So I was thinking the other day, for those of us that went the college route or had roommates in other phases of adult life, what was your relationship around nudity and sexual issues with him (or her)?

If you wouldn't mind commenting on some or all of the below, I would greatly appreciate it!

Here are some specific questions I am wondering about things that (may) have happened:
  • Was it a big deal if you guys were in your underwear in front of each other? Did this happen often? Not a big deal, happened several times a day.
  • Was it a big deal if you guys were nude in front of each other in non-sexual situations (like going to/from the shower, changing clothes, etc). Did this happen often? Again, not a big deal, for me anyway, and it happened daily, several times.
  • Was it a big deal if one of you walked in on the other masturbating? Did this happen often? Not a big deal, i started out first hour I met him, told him how often i jerked off, and that i did it to sleep better at night every night, usually even if i got pussy that day and he was welcome to join me from his bed or step out for a few minutes.
  • Did you guys ever masturbate while the other was in the room, but not participating with the other? yes, starting day one
  • Was there ever an instance of you guys "experimenting" sexually together? If so, was it isolated, repeated a few times, or did you guys become a couple? Later in college experimenting did happen, not isolated but not like a couple either.
Here are some specific questions I am wondering about things that (may) have been discussed:
  • Did you ever discuss your masturbation habits or discuss your need to masturbate with your roommate? Yes, day onem, hour one
  • Did you ever "sexile" one other? No
  • Did you ever talk about what girls/guys you've had sex with? Yes
  • How detailed did those discussions get? Very
 
Was your roommate also a hockey player ? (I am assuming that you were/are based on your name). In my experience guys on hockey teams do a lot of homoerotic stuff together. As an example, one hockey team that I knew of decided to get even with a guy who disrespected one of their players by defacing his car - by having the whole team cum on his car.
Correct about us both being hockey players. I would say that hockey players do have that reputation, and it somewhat deserved. But don't take that too far. There were no gay orgies or the like. In my personal experience it was limited to rookie hazing involving beating off in front of the team/forced nudity. I've also heard stories from other hockey players about tying skates to a guys nuts and forcing him to walk like 50 feet or so. Not a big fan of any of that as especially the skates on nuts thing. Anything that could result in injury shouldn't happen. Beating off is less objectionable, but can still lead to emotional scarring if the guy is uptight about it. Not going any further into this as it isn't directly related to the thread.
 
My responses below apply to my freshman year, when I lived in a triple. I was closeted and dated women.
  • Was it a big deal if you guys were in your underwear in front of each other? Did this happen often?
No, it was not a big deal. Yes, it happened every day as we all slept in underwear. It was also normal to walk down the hall to the hall bathroom in either underwear or a towel.
  • Was it a big deal if you guys were nude in front of each other in non-sexual situations (like going to/from the shower, changing clothes, etc). Did this happen often?
No, it was not a big deal, and as with underwear was routine, but usually for briefer periods, on the way to or from the shower. Our towel hooks were near the door, but dressers and hampers in the interior part of the room, and it was normal to walk naked across the room. I was worried about erections at first, because this normalization of nudity helped me get over that in relatively quick dashes.
  • Was it a big deal if one of you walked in on the other masturbating? Did this happen often?
It never happened. I did it quietly in my bed and would use a wad of toilet paper that I would later discretely retrieve. The closest to being caught was once after dropping my shorts, I realized that there was a significant piece of tissue stuck to my dick. Not sure if either saw it, but I got to my towel very quickly.
  • Did you guys ever masturbate while the other was in the room, but not participating with the other?
Definitely not. I was completely closeted and heterosexuality was assumed.
  • Was there ever an instance of you guys "experimenting" sexually together? If so, was it isolated, repeated a few times, or did you guys become a couple?
No
Here are some specific questions I am wondering about things that (may) have been discussed:
  • Did you ever discuss your masturbation habits or discuss your need to masturbate with your roommate?
Not as much with my roommates, but with other guys on the floor.
  • Did you ever "sexile" one other?
Yes
  • Did you ever talk about what girls/guys you've had sex with?
Occassionally. I was sleeping with women at the time.
  • How detailed did those discussions get?
Not very
I'm not specifically looking for erotic stories (though I'm not opposed to them if you have a true one), more like what college/adult roommates are open with and discuss. I'm thinking about this mainly from an American perspective, because I'm American, but I welcome a non-American perspective too.

Note that there are two things I'm not looking for here: First, is anything underage - 18+ please. Secondly, I'm more interested in roommates who are NOT family members, so rooming whit your brother is not really the scope of this topic.

Thanks! :)
 
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I shared a three bedroom apartment with a few different guys my last three years of college. We each had our own room but only one bathroom. We had a rule where the bathroom was an open space unless someone is sitting on the toilet. This led to us often having someone in the shower while someone else was peeing, shaving, or brushing their teeth. We all saw each other naked relatively often. Boxers were common for the kitchen or living area. We weren’t gratuitous and no one was just naked for no reason or for an extended period but no one was shy or offended over it.

I was the only gay guy but totally closeted and thankfully never had crushes on my roommates. I never experimented with any of them and would be surprised if any did with one another. No one jerked odd in front of each other but we would joke about it and knew we were doing it behind closed doors, was just typical teasing over it.

A couple of the guys I lived with had serious girlfriends and one of them married her. She was over all the time and saw us in boxers on occasion. They were having sex but i didn’t try hard to listen or anything. Some of the guys would bring girls home but not a nightly event. We were pretty nerdy and would just play cards, grill, drink, and watch sports so we were pretty tame.

I had a couple of roommates in grad school and for a year or so after but it was a small house where we each had our own bedroom and bathroom. One of them was also gay and it was similar, underwear in the kitchen or living area for a few minutes was fine and I saw them naked occasionally but nothing major.
 
I lived with my college roommate for four years and we quickly became best friends during our freshman year. We grew up during the era when guys showered after gym class and gang showers were the norm, so being naked around each other just wasn’t a big deal. We usually didn’t shower at exactly the same time (but sometimes did). However, the other guy was often in the room when one came back from showering. My roommate and I both took our time drying off, and often walked around naked to dry completely. We took our time getting dressed, usually chatting while doing so. This happened pretty much daily for four years, and we never really thought anything about it – for us, it was just a byproduct of living together. It helped that we were close friends.

We talked about masturbation early on in our freshman year – lamenting the fact that it was hard to find “alone” time, given that our class schedules were similar. That first conversation was slightly awkward, but then we started joking about it. We talked about our masturbation frequencies, and would ask each other whether we had masturbated that day. One Friday night after having a few beers, we got into our beds and turned the lights off. After a few minutes of silence, my roommate said, “man, I’m so fucking horny.” I laughed, and said I was, too. He said, “are you going to beat off?” I told him I probably would. He said, “good…me, too.” We laughed nervously, then started doing the deed – each in our own beds but making no effort to be quiet. When it was clear that we had both blown our loads, he asked, “well, did you have a good orgasm?” I said I did, we chuckled, then went to sleep. After that, we jerked off at night after lights out two or three times a week. We no longer felt awkward or nervous, and we often talked about it while doing it – just stuff like, “fuck, my cock feels good,” or sharing what we were fantasizing about. It was our secret that we never shared with anyone else.

We did walk in on each other now and then while one was masturbating. It didn’t happen often, and we just laughed it off…the other guy usually just stopped and did something else, but we always knew that we’d be at it again that night.

We never masturbated with the lights on (I wish we had), nor did we ever touch each other. One afternoon, though, we were lying around listening to music. It was in the summer, just before classes started that year, the weather was hot, and we each were wearing gym shorts and t-shirts. Out of the blue, he said, “I’m horny.” I said, “I am, too…show me.” He pulled his erection out of the leg of his shorts. I did the same, and we looked at each other’s cocks for a few seconds, laughed, then tucked them back in. I strongly suspect that was a lost opportunity to jerk together openly and in broad daylight, something we had never done.

We occasionally talked about our sexual exploits with women (we were nerdy college guys, so there weren’t many…lol) – and sometimes in a fair amount of detail (we were also horny college guys). We never sexiled each other – I think we felt that wouldn’t be respectful.
 
With all my roommates, we would have the conversation early on.

In that conversation I would admit that I needed to masturbate daily and it would only be a matter of time before I would get caught so I wanted to apologize in advance. They would laugh and make their admission. So that would break the ice and we would agree to try to be as discreet as possible and also not be bothered if we happen to hear or see anything the other was doing.

Having said that, with roommates that I had a crush on, I was probably not as discreet as I could have been in the hope that it would turn into something more!
 
Where I was, each block only had one double room per floor - the middle one on each landing. In my first week, I was lucky/unlucky enough to get placed in one at the start, with a guy from an air force background. We pretty much avoided each other for the first week and never saw each other naked. At the end of the first week some single rooms became available, with guys dropping out, so we each got upgraded to a single room.

After the first year I house-shared. Eventually, one of the other guys and I got into a fairly regular habit of masturbating together last thing at night, as we were usually the last ones to head for bed and often got each other horny with our chat about girlfriends. Normally that would take place in one of our rooms but there were occasions when we got daring enough to jack off in the kitchen!
 
The only time I had a roommate who shared a room was first semester of freshman year. After that, I had either a double room with no roommate (second semester), a single room in a suite of six, or in a studio apartment and then a two-bedroom apartment with one roommate.

Anyway, my only roommate and I didn't really have much in common. Socially and economically he was in a different place than I was. He was always horny and chasing girls. He would jack off in his bed almost every night, not making much noise but also not trying to hide it. I was deep in the closet and very shy, so I never joined in. Too dark to see anything. He caught me once when I was jacking off and didn't think he would come back in the room, but I covered up pretty fast and nothing was ever said.

I regret that I didn't at least join in and even try to take things further. He was the kind of guy who would probably let another guy suck his cock just to get off when he couldn't get laid, but it never got close to that. He did tell me his family used to skinny dip together in their pool in Arizona. The only time I every saw him naked was then he was on his way to the shower once and had just grabbed a towel and clutched it to his chest instead of wrapping it around his waist. Decent cut cock, but not huge. He wasn't happy at the school and left after the first semester.
 
My answers:

Here are some specific questions I am wondering about things that (may) have happened:
  • Was it a big deal if you guys were in your underwear in front of each other? Did this happen often? Not a big deal, all the time.
  • Was it a big deal if you guys were nude in front of each other in non-sexual situations (like going to/from the shower, changing clothes, etc). Did this happen often? Not a big deal, all the time.
  • Was it a big deal if one of you walked in on the other masturbating? Did this happen often? Hasn't happened, we masturbated in private.
  • Did you guys ever masturbate while the other was in the room, but not participating with the other? No.
  • Was there ever an instance of you guys "experimenting" sexually together? If so, was it isolated, repeated a few times, or did you guys become a couple? No.
Here are some specific questions I am wondering about things that (may) have been discussed:
  • Did you ever discuss your masturbation habits or discuss your need to masturbate with your roommate? Yes.
  • Did you ever "sexile" one other? what is that?
  • Did you ever talk about what girls/guys you've had sex with? Yes.
  • How detailed did those discussions get? Very detailed.
 
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With all my college roommates, I made a point of allowing them to see me nude right from the start. Not in a flaunting way. Just when it was natural and appropriate like changing after showering. In the morning, I'd always have a raging erection and I would give them the split second opportunity to see my wood before wrapping my towel around myself.

I think because I set the standard, they just did the same.

With a couple of my roommates, it did turn sexual over time. I have always found developing close friendships easy so taking advantage of opportunities when they arose was just a natural progression of that.
I think that modeling the behavior as a natural thing like you did is probably the best approach. When you act naturally about it, other people tend to do the same.
I've never shared a room, but I'd probably act the same as you. I can't imagine having to cover myself in my own room to do regular things like change clothes. If you're sharing the room with someone else, the arrangement needs to treat occasional nudity as something natural (because it is). Same goes for masturbation, boners and so on (especially among young guys).
The situation becomes much more enjoyable for everyone involved when people can be comfortable around each other.
 
My freshman year, my sexy roommate, in a two twin bed dorm room, brought his hot girlfriend in only to find me high and drunk and passed out in my bed. I was aware enough to hear him say “He’s passed out. He won’t hear us”. They proceeded to fuck the night away.
My first roommate told me, "Me and ___ went at it when we both heard you snoring...." They both though it was hot they could do six feet away from me....
 
  • Was it a big deal if you guys were in your underwear in front of each other? Did this happen often?
Nope. But it happened organically. If you just got out of bed and had to use the head, okay... but we never paraded around the flat in underwear otherwise.
  • Was it a big deal if you guys were nude in front of each other in non-sexual situations (like going to/from the shower, changing clothes, etc). Did this happen often?
It didn't happen. We all had our own bedroom, and if we needed to use the head / shower, we went to/from in our underwear.
  • Was it a big deal if one of you walked in on the other masturbating? Did this happen often? Did you guys ever masturbate while the other was in the room, but not participating with the other? Was there ever an instance of you guys "experimenting" sexually together? If so, was it isolated, repeated a few times, or did you guys become a couple?
For most of college, we had our own rooms, so it was not an issue. My roomie in the next room would tell me, "If you were jerking off in your bed, I'd know..." We never circle jerked or rubbed one out in front of each other. And no, we never experimented with each other.

  • Did you ever discuss your masturbation habits or discuss your need to masturbate with your roommate? Did you ever "sexile" one other? Did you ever talk about what girls/guys you've had sex with? How detailed did those discussions get?
I recall very few discussions on masturbation with my roommates... Maybe one or two. It was a "dry" or "wet" discussion, if that. If anything, it was more or less a "Where?" question... and to that end, became a funny story of "the weirdest place you've masturbated" type discussion. Outside of my one roomie I shared a studio with one year, we had our own rooms, so it there was never a need to sexile each other... I knew who my roommies were banging, and they knew who I was banging. The worst discussion I had was with one roommate who would leave the sand bags in his coffee mugs... and I flat out told him,"Throw that shit in the trash and wash the mug... I am not gonna put that crap in the dishwasher."
 
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I had chill college roommates most of the time. For two years I did have a roommate who I eventually realized was gay and we fooled around quite a bit during those two years. It was fun ;) To answer the questions in the original post though:

Here are some specific questions I am wondering about things that (may) have happened:
  • Was it a big deal if you guys were in your underwear in front of each other? Did this happen often? No. This happened all the time. I lived in fraternity so guys were in underwear and honestly fully nude quite often. It was not overtly erotic...perhaps homoerotic in some cases. It was just normal for us.
  • Was it a big deal if you guys were nude in front of each other in non-sexual situations (like going to/from the shower, changing clothes, etc). Did this happen often? No, not weird. We had large bathrooms / shower rooms that were like locker room style. Nudity was rarely an issue with roommates/housemates.
  • Was it a big deal if one of you walked in on the other masturbating? Did this happen often? Oddly enough, I don't think this ever happened.
  • Did you guys ever masturbate while the other was in the room, but not participating with the other? I think I "secretly" masturbated while my roommate(s) were sleeping. In our sleeping dorms or bunk areas I'm sure that happened alot.
  • Was there ever an instance of you guys "experimenting" sexually together? If so, was it isolated, repeated a few times, or did you guys become a couple? The roommate that I mentioned above became something of a regular hookup. We were very good friends too, so at times it kind of felt like we were dating. It was honestly very innocent and really served more as a tool for us to explore our sexuality in a safe way with each other.
Here are some specific questions I am wondering about things that (may) have been discussed:
  • Did you ever discuss your masturbation habits or discuss your need to masturbate with your roommate? No, not really.
  • Did you ever "sexile" one other? No, that didn't happen often. I think we just timed things really well.
  • Did you ever talk about what girls/guys you've had sex with? Yes
  • How detailed did those discussions get? I only got into detail with my gay roomie. The straight roommates before that were a bit prude...super conservative guys. Those topics didn't come up as much.
 
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A three generation reply.

Me - went to college in the 1970's. Athletic dorm room was 4 guys in two bunk beds. One communal bathroom, gang shower, and laundry facility (all one room) and a TV lounge per floor. After the mandatory orientation, the four of us went to the room and talked, sharing stories about high school, sports, girlfriends, hometowns, etc. Then, one guy asked the boxers or brief question and when we answered, someone said "prove it." So, we stripped down to our underwear (all briefs). The next question was cut or un and we also had to prove it (2 and 2). So, within minutes, we'd seen each other in undies and naked. Next was when do you masturbate (all right before bed). So that night, we did it together and after that, no one cared if interrupted. Walking to the showers was naked and most guys sat around the TV lounge in their briefs. Since all were athletes we often saw each other in jocks and in the gym showers. All 4 of us were straight, but we experimented under the guise of learning how to do something for our girls. A rubber band on the doorknob was a request for privacy when something was happening, but not always followed.

My son - went to college in the 2000's. Athletic dorm had 2 guys in a room and shared an interconnecting bathroom and shower with the next room. The guys established that doing #2 was the only time the bathroom doors would close. So they often saw each other changing and showering. Most of the dormmates wore Joe Boxers even under their athletic gear. All four were extremely afraid of being labeled as gay, so nothing happened and my son said he never saw another's erection other than as a bulge. Masturbation was usually done in the guise of taking a poop. They had a deal where if one of them had a girl, the other three would use the other room (giving privacy) typically arranged by conversation. They shared intimate details of their conquests but not of themselves.

My grandson - currently in college. Athletic dorm has 4 single rooms each with private bath. Shared living room and kitchen space. Seeing someone in underwear was typically by accident and apologized for (undies choice is long boxer briefs). Seeing someone naked never happens. Privacy assured because all rooms lock. They might see each other in their athletic team space, but always do the towel dance. My soccer, basketball, and la crosse playing grandson wears swim trunks in the locker room showers. While they claim to be open to gays and trans people, they seem to be afraid that someone in their group is gay and are very careful about how they act together. Interesting that my grandson doesn't have any of those inhibitions at home. The guys have talked about their conquests and know who each is currently fucking. The only thing they know about each other's dicks is what girls have relayed.
 
A three generation reply.
Don't know what conclusions can be drawn from this three-generation replay... But this reply mimics other threads here on how one's personal space in otherwise public spaces has grown. (i.e. - gyms / gym showers, college dorms, etc. and the growth of less "communal" space.). Did personal behavior drive the design, or did the design drive the mind-set. As posted above, you'd think that in today's world - with the proliferation of porn and the growing acceptance of gay / bi persons, one really wouldn't care as much about nudity..
 
In college I was a lot more about flaunting it. I was certainly getting a lot more sex than the guys I lived with. A couple of them were actually kind of cheerleaders for my cock, in retrospect. They would both egg me on to try and get some of the hotter girls at parties and them ask me all about it.
 
I had the same roommate at an apartment my last two years of college. Our schedules were different so I’d walk around naked first thing in the morning if I thought he wasn’t there (making coffee/breakfast, etc). One time his class was cancelled and walked out of his room while I was butt naked in the kitchen and from there it was never an issue. We were (otherwise) respectful of each other so it wasn’t used as an excuse to masturbate or have sex down the road, but over the next two years we got comfortable with each other, and if one (or both) of us were naked around the apartment, it wasn’t a big deal. Just two dudes being dudes I guess.