Showering At The Gym

[Kronkorken]

Showering is nothing sexual.
After sports, me (and most of my friends) want to refresh and of course we are chatting.

It depends on the people. I'm not ashamed of being naked infront of my mates or other guys.

 

[guywithbigballs]

I always go straight to the showers, sometimes I might say so. Sometimes my buddy has a shower too, sometimes we chat. Varies. We certainly don''t decide any of this.

 

[Captain Elephant]

I usually always shower at the club after a round of golf. I never had a problem being nude around others. Definitely nothing sexually suggestive as far as I'm concerned.

 

[noew34]

I've also often had to wonder every time these same posts come up where the hell people are working out at. Every gym I've seen including mine has separate showers with curtains so no one is standing next to someone.
The mid west ymcas thst I have seen around here still have communial showers , and some state parks have a single curtain in the showers or beach area stall making it dumb to try and dry off to change behind it.

 

[zeropointthree]

I cannot picture in my head a most terrible place on earth than a gym. Why the heck I would go there?

The sport that I do, painfully, I do it at home, so at least I do not need to share my mysery with any other human being.

 

[twoton]

Showering afterward is such a regular thing for me that it wouldn’t cross my mind to mention it. I’d just do it.

 

[ukanubatrust]

My shower at my gym has a curtain and glass door. It’s ultra private.

 

[MarriedGuyinKY]

I use the showers at the gym because I usually go on a lunch break. Many friends from work use the same gym.

My usual: if chatting with a friend, I just go about my business, strip down and then head to the shower. No invitation but if he uses the same room (we have two open shower rooms), we chat and I don’t try to act different.

After all, it’s only a shower!

 

[hotheadguy]

As an older guy I can't relate to this discussion and wonder why the younger generation have such hang-ups about being seen naked by other guys, or about seeing them naked.

In my day communal nudity was very commonplace and totally normal. Open showers at school change rooms and at most colleges, even most non-school gyms. I went to a well-known and respected east coast college and grad school where if you wanted to swim in the pool at the men's gym, it was naked or not at all. So some guys were well endowed, others less so, some skinny, some flabby, and a few had physiques we might have envied. But it was all so very normal, and no "towel dancing".. Friends saw one another naked, and so did roommates.They didn't flaunt their nudity, but didn't go to great lengths to hide it. I don't believe that there was much staring. But I think we accepted that while we are all different, ultimately we are all equipped in much the same way. No big deal.

I never served in the army, but know that nudity amongst one's peer group in the showers was also totally normal.

So why have today's men become so ashamed of what nature has endowed us with?

 

[8inchPole]

When I wasn’t working from home, I would meet up with my friend/ coworker before work and we wouldn’t have time to drive home and shower. We tried to avoid any awkward, naked interactions. But after enough time went by, we began to care less about it. Eventually we were comfortable naked around each other.

 

[Theo0152]

I always shower after game or workout with a friend or my sons..all is natural and just shower and chat like any other time. One gym is an open shower room another is more private but drying off and walking around is always fine. I see many younger men 20's or so keep a towel on even when pulling up their underwear...Just how we were brought up I guess.

 

[RareD]

At my gym, I almost always shower when done for multiple reasons. Usually I workout alone these days but when I was taking mostly group exercise classes, everyone gets done at the same time and hits the shower, including family members or friends I had made through the gym. It's a shower - I know some people have an aversion but to others it is just the act of cooling off and cleaning up. The gym has one shower room, and it is a family friendly place. No cruising. I definitely talk to people in the shower, but then I talk a lot anyway.

 

[grommet10429360]

Ever since I was a child, I've always avoided it. I never liked it. Still don't to this day. I'm 33.

Don’t see why. You have a fab cock

 

[Theo0152]

Ever since I was a child, I've always avoided it. I never liked it. Still don't to this day. I'm 33.

Definitely an individual thing..

 

[Theo0152]

Unfortunately, so many have made it (along with the act of taking a simple piss) that way just to satisfy their voyeuristic kink.

Always someone like that around...

 

[jtheimpaler]

Whether it’s football rugby or the gym, I go to my locker get my towel out strip down and go shower…. Not sure there’s a conversation to be had…. If he’s showering cool, if he ain’t he ain’t…. I don’t hold the shower next to me for him though if that’s what your getting at….

 

[NWAthlete]

As an older guy I can't relate to this discussion and wonder why the younger generation have such hang-ups about being seen naked by other guys, or about seeing them naked.

In my day communal nudity was very commonplace and totally normal. Open showers at school change rooms and at most colleges, even most non-school gyms. I went to a well-known and respected east coast college and grad school where if you wanted to swim in the pool at the men's gym, it was naked or not at all. So some guys were well endowed, others less so, some skinny, some flabby, and a few had physiques we might have envied. But it was all so very normal, and no "towel dancing".. Friends saw one another naked, and so did roommates.They didn't flaunt their nudity, but didn't go to great lengths to hide it. I don't believe that there was much staring. But I think we accepted that while we are all different, ultimately we are all equipped in much the same way. No big deal.

I never served in the army, but know that nudity amongst one's peer group in the showers was also totally normal.

So why have today's men become so ashamed of what nature has endowed us with?

I've been wondering this same thing. I just don't understand it. I had a similar upbringing as you did with communal, open showers in middle school and high school gym class. And showering was required, not optional. I remember being uncomfortable with it briefly in 6th grade, but I quickly got over it. It's not like being shy for the first few weeks in the gym showers in middle school fucked up my life or anything. I got over it. Simple as that. On to college, the dorm showers were also open. And I went to an expensive, private university. It was just common. All those years of showering with guys of all shapes and sizes (some were friends too), I guess it just made me not care at all about being naked around other guys. I don't even think twice about it at the gym now. But I see, almost daily, guys in their 20s and 30s in the open showers wearing boxer briefs or workout shorts, soaping up and everything. It makes me wonder what happened to make them so afraid of showering without wearing clothing. Not a judgement, I just don't relate to it or understand it.

 

[GoingOnABoeing]

Not a big deal. We've all seen each other naked before anyway.

 

[Theo0152]

I've been wondering this same thing. I just don't understand it. I had a similar upbringing as you did with communal, open showers in middle school and high school gym class. And showering was required, not optional. I remember being uncomfortable with it briefly in 6th grade, but I quickly got over it. It's not like being shy for the first few weeks in the gym showers in middle school fucked up my life or anything. I got over it. Simple as that. On to college, the dorm showers were also open. And I went to an expensive, private university. It was just common. All those years of showering with guys of all shapes and sizes (some were friends too), I guess it just made me not care at all about being naked around other guys. I don't even think twice about it at the gym now. But I see, almost daily, guys in their 20s and 30s in the open showers wearing boxer briefs or workout shorts, soaping up and everything. It makes me wonder what happened to make them so afraid of showering without wearing clothing. Not a judgement, I just don't relate to it or understand it.

Similar for me and see those guys at the gym being so shy...

 

[new2day]

Never had to pose such a question, I've always showered after a workout/sports whether I'm alone, with friends or work colleagues. Used to play lots of sports with workmates and we'd all shower together in the open gang showers. Some say it's a little odd seeing workmates naked, I've never felt uncomfortable about doing something so normal and natural!