That is different - a shower for 2 or 3 but it has a curtain.
Maybe so the guys in the shower can enjoy some privacy?
That is different - a shower for 2 or 3 but it has a curtain.
Maybe so the guys in the shower can enjoy some privacy?
I'm a member at three gyms in my area (two of them are free through my work) and they each have different shower setups. 1- old school shower room in the locker room, 2- wall of shower heads with divider walls between each, 3- three shower heads in the corner of the locker room with curtains that wrap 360° around each. All three gyms get pretty busy during peak hours, and the showers in 1 and 2 are in use regularly by a lot of members after their workout. The showers in 3 are hardly ever touched. I use them when needed, but honestly they're awkward to use and apparently hard to keep clean. It's every man's own decision on how modest he wants to be and there's nothing wrong with that-- just seems like there should be a better solution than mildewed plastic curtains that don't work well for anyone.
I don’t think so. It’s more general anxiety. And it seems to have begun at least in the US when mandatory showers were eliminated and that rite of passage never happened. So you just bring that baggage forward.
Growing up we had no option. Starting with swimming lessons, summer camp all the way through gym class and then the dorms in college - we were told we were all guys what are you worried about.
Yep. I had no option either. But today’s helicopter parents out there seek to flatten all bumps in the road for their offspring and in the process you end up with young adults unaccustomed to things that may cause discomfort or anxiety.
It's so sad. Like Fun4All said, we grew up with being naked with our schoolmates at school, the Y, summer camp, etc, and thought nothing of it. There's something unique about chatting with guys you know when you're all naked and it's just normal, nothing weird about it. Male comeraderie. It's really a shame that guys have lost that now, since they grew up with their own room and can't imagine being naked in front of someone who's not a lover or a doctor. Sigh.
Exactly - we all saw each other naked at some point in time - and did not worry about it. I would go over to a friends and he was in the shower - I would go in and talk to him while he finished - no one thought a thing about it.
I've been thinking about this. What needs to happen to fix it... but never will because Millennials have established themselves as the driving force behind design firms.
Schools should not have dividers in the restrooms at all... Like boot camp. If a kid grows up from Kindergarten on up like that, when it comes time to shower in gym class, it should be no big deal.
I remember my elementary school didn't have doors on the toilets, and my middle school had one restroom that administration apparently had problems with, and they had removed all dividers from that restroom. It was just one restroom though. I just made sure if I had to #2, I did it before I had classes in that area.
Schools should not have dividers in the restrooms at all... Like boot camp. If a kid grows up from Kindergarten on up like that, when it comes time to shower in gym class, it should be no big deal.
I remember my elementary school didn't have doors on the toilets, and my middle school had one restroom that administration apparently had problems with, and they had removed all dividers from that restroom. It was just one restroom though. I just made sure if I had to #2, I did it before I had classes in that area.
And they're bringing all their anxieties to the table. We certainly won't see a reversal in the US in this generation.
I once had a guy at a locker near mine do the towel dance. He was facing me on the opposite side of the ottoman and the front of his towel flapped open. He had a thick semi going on under there. It was huge!
Sometimes guys get hard for no reason while changing in the gym locker room.
Love the brotherhood of a lockeroom if anyone wants to chat to me about it.
Too bad the towel dance is such an international phenomenon.
The Woodlands Family YMCA at Shadowbend, Texas
Les Bains d'Odessa, Paris, France
Very very nice Y
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North York YMCA (Bayview), Toronto, Canada - Men's Plus Lockerroom
North York YMCA (Bayview), Toronto, Canada - Men's Plus Lockerroom
Canadian YMCA's are directly funded by the Canadian Gov, rather then relying on fundraising drives, donations etc; unlike US locations. Thus Canada Y's often are posh, shiny & newly built.