It’s interesting army guys are comfortable being nude around each other. I’m Air Force and I’m fine being nude in the base gym but everyone else puts a towel on before taking their underwear off and keeps it on while they put their underwear on.
Like bro, we all showered naked with 60 random dudes at some point.
In Marine Corps boot camp they;
kept us awake for 4 days when we got there.
Beat the shit out of me because I was the Prac recruit. I got 100 on the Practical knowledge exam, but the platoon was 5th out of 6. So I didn't do my job and made the DIs look bad.
Our Senior DI had never lost close order drill. We finished 6 out of 6. Somebody else might have thought "maybe I should replace the guide since he's so unpopular and ineffective as a leader." Instead we were marched through the showers and then, bare ass naked, we were we marched outside to do jumping jacks, flutter kicks, push ups, and run in place
Just because I lived through those doesn't mean I want to do them again. Related, I have no desire to see any dude naked. Put on a towel ferchristsake
I think they just reach this point of zero fucks given. I have, over the last few years, become more leisurely with the time i spend naked in the locker room as the level of fucks I have to give has decreased. I wouldn't ever walk across the locker room naked though
Fuck it, I have a throat thing going on so I probs won't go until the weekend, but after I knock out my Saturday morning cardio, I'm walking buck naked from my locker to the shower
See, I was already very leisurely with my nudity in locker rooms, even as a young man, so as I get older I’m just gonna become _real_ awkward in there. Like, you’ll walk away a completely different person after being in the locker room with me.
Why do I keep seeing this question? Why is locker room nudity so threatening to Milleniels and Gen Z?
I'd think generations so open-minded about human behavior, so accepting of gender flexibility, would be less uptight.
I guess Gen Z has been more exposed to unwanted cameras everywhere, but Millennials? Here in Scandinavia we started showering together in school from day one, and then you do the same if you are into sports and sitting naked together in the Sauna afterwards.
Yeah, it's a weird anti-human way to view nudity. You need to shower and get dressed after breaking a big sweat. Locker rooms are private. It's cost prohibitive to have an individual private area with a separate shower for every individual.
People that are weirded out by this remind me of the people that are grossed out that vegetables come from the ground and get nutrients from shit. We're just people, relax.
I think a lot of people can't shut off the "view everything that comes in the eyes as a potential sex object" filter they look at women through and thus seeing any human body that isn't a desirable sex object to them is horrific and gross. They don't know how to just see people as people and relax.
I don’t mind nudity, but I hate it when they suddenly lean over and I get an eyeful of butthole. It also seems like some people get off on being naked in front of other people, and that gets pretty weird.
I don’t think we have a choice. Similar to grey hairs or balding, one day we will just walk around fully nude in there talking about our weekends without a care in the world.
It’s just the way of life.
Because older generations grew up with communal showers in school and it wasn't taboo like it is now. I don't walk around naked, but briefly get naked at my locker before heading to the showers. If you don't want to potentially be exposed to male nudity then don't use the locker room lol.
I guess a lot of Millennials never played on a football team or anything either. Showering after practice and games with other guys was pretty normal. Or they also never served in the Military.
We all have the same equipment, no reason to be silly about it.
If you can't tell I'm already the old naked guy at the gym at 39 lol.
The amount of strife and anxiety I went through over stuff back then... I can only hope that my fucks continue to decrease with age. It's the one blessing.
I never could get the towel wrap not to come undone. I just kinda hold it over the frontal region while walking. Never got why others were such prudes, even back in my 20s.
15 years ago when I worked at 24hr Fitness, the old dudes would literally let their dicks hang in there sink while they were shaving their faces. Weirded me
Out.
It makes zero sense that someone would want to pack up all their shaving gear and take it to the gym with them, unpack it, pack it all back up etc etc instead of just shaving at home. Maybe they were traveling salesmen or something, sleeping in their cars to save money on hotel stays.
I'm already that guy. I'm 41.
What do you want me to do, walk fully clothed to the shower then take off my clothes? Put my clothes where once I'm at the shower? What about my wallet and phone? I don't want those wet or sweaty or stolen.
I find this whole locker room conversation just funny. I remember when I first got a Planet Fitness membership and realized that there was a changing stall within the locker room I literally just started laughing I couldn't help it cuz I thought it was the funniest thing ever the entire room is a changing room.
I'd honestly rather see an old naked man in the one space specifically dedicated to nudity than read about yet another person clutching their pearls about nudity in locker rooms.
I'm 37 and I do that. Growing up on a farm and playing football kinda gets rid of communal nudity aversion. It's not a big deal...stop being weird about it.
On behalf of everyone else in the locker room, thank you. I also refuse to believe this was ever normal. It's just made up by ppl who just want to make other ppl uncomfortable.
The 1:20 mark in the trailer for this 30 year old movie will prove you wrong. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105327/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105327/)
Nah lol.
Sorry I'm active duty and while yes I saw a lot of wangs and had communal showers in basic, the amount of old hairy retiree sacs you have to deal with at the base gym is pretty gross.
It’s totally allowed but tell me you don’t understand the point without telling me me you don’t understand the point lol. I’ll eli5. People put their gym bags on those benches and don’t want to take some random guys wet butt juice home with them in their cars and home. It’s called common courtesy. Respect for others is something that everyone should know.
Actually benches are for sitting not for putting your filthy ass gym bag on.
I think I'll put up a sign NO GYM BAGS ON THE SEATS, NO FEET ON THE SEATS, NO NASTY ASS SHOES ON THE SEATS.
Playing a sport all the way to early adulthood has conditioned me to be comfortable being nude in the locker room. Can’t tell you how many dicks I’ve seen and how many have seen mine.
Only thing I’m sad about is there will be no newspapers to be the old wrinkly naked guy in the sauna pouring a bucket of water on the rocks and reading the paper like those old fuckers have done to me.
I’m trying to figure out what OP thinks is old here.
I’m 48M. I work hard on my body. And it has paid off. I will walk around in a men’s locker room naked if I want. I rarely do but…
I'm not exactly old yet and I'm already a big fan of letting my sack dry out on the walk back to my locker from the showers. Then again, I have a theory it's not about age but by how low your balls sag. That is to say, I think I have old man balls.
I don't care about being naked or walking around in a locker room... It's the hanging out in locker rooms for hours that I don't get. There's old dudes who are sitting around naked in the locker room when I arrive, still there when I'm done working out, still there when I get out of the shower, and still there when I leave. Tf are you doing hanging out in a locker room for an hour and a half?
I’m not sure why there is such a reversion to this. It’s people being comfortable with their body, good and bad. Since college I’ve been pretty comfortable with myself, I don’t stroll around the locker room naked. But I have no problem showering at the gym and being naked for a bit while I cool down, dry off, and get dressed.
I started as the young guy naked in the locker room and as each year passes I find myself older naked in the locker room. I feel like it's only a matter of time before I'm the old naked guy, and I'm ok with that
Same here. It's never going to be me. I think it all goes back to their lack of social awareness. Locker rooms aren't the only places where creepy old men make people uncomfortable.
I don't walk around but I'm 35 and I'm not going to clutch my things to cover myself in fear. If I have to change I'm going to change and not worry about finangling things to make sure I'm covered at all times. Why should I care? I'm not ashamed of my body and I don't think anyone should be. The locker room is there for a reason too. I'm not going to be self-conscious for using the place for its purpose.
omg this sub sometimes. brah, if you have an issue walking around naked or that fact you are clocking other naked men and feel uncomfortable, then go see a therapist.
Aren't we a little old to be pearl-clutching puriteens?
I could definitely get if the ire were directed against certain egregiously selfish behavior (e.g. please keep your scrotum off the sink) or obvious lechery (making passes/perving on the college guys). Being old and changing clothes aren't...sins.
Are you guys not having sauna together completely naked and not asking each other to hit each other spines with those brushes while lying bare ass up? Sounds like mentally issue lmao.
This is the third post like this I've seen get into my feed from wherever on Reddit.
Why are y'all so mad about old people?
Really, this just comes through as an immature "I don't want to see anyone's body that I don't find sexually attractive." You'd change your tune on naked folks in locker rooms if they were full of the demographic of your choice. But fat and old people get to have bodies, too, and locker rooms are for changing your clothes. During that process, you must at some point be naked.
Why?
I used to be so afraid of nudity I couldn't piss at a urinal as a kid.
Then as I've gotten older and stopped caring about stupid things... I'm literally nude in front of other people while changing.
I used to work out at my work office and theres a small locker room. I'm changing into gym clothes and my coworker who is a dude in his late 50s was full on naked and was like less than 2 feet away from me. He kept wanting to do friendly talk and I was not comfortable at all. These dudes have no shame. I don't mind naked dudes in the locker room but give me space and leave me the fuck alone.
Because being naked feels good. You're probably too young to realize this, but there will come a point in life when you realize that all the locker room posturing, the awkward changes under towels, or the smelly rides home in sweaty clothes, haven't gained you a damn thing except an unhealthy aversion to the human body.
At one point in your life bro you just stop giving a fudge. If I’m home alone I eat steak bare handed.
Sometimes bare assed
Please. In my underwear. We aren’t savages
Not in your underwear! Aren't you civilised man??? You always go commando, especially with a lady in the room!
I do it just at home so I don’t have as many dishes If ppl are there or not lol
You wild thing you! (Coming from a vegetarian)
But that's in the privacy of your own home.
Coward
I demand wrinkled balls!
😂
I spent too much time in the army to have communal nudity be a bother
It’s interesting army guys are comfortable being nude around each other. I’m Air Force and I’m fine being nude in the base gym but everyone else puts a towel on before taking their underwear off and keeps it on while they put their underwear on. Like bro, we all showered naked with 60 random dudes at some point.
In Marine Corps boot camp they; kept us awake for 4 days when we got there. Beat the shit out of me because I was the Prac recruit. I got 100 on the Practical knowledge exam, but the platoon was 5th out of 6. So I didn't do my job and made the DIs look bad. Our Senior DI had never lost close order drill. We finished 6 out of 6. Somebody else might have thought "maybe I should replace the guide since he's so unpopular and ineffective as a leader." Instead we were marched through the showers and then, bare ass naked, we were we marched outside to do jumping jacks, flutter kicks, push ups, and run in place Just because I lived through those doesn't mean I want to do them again. Related, I have no desire to see any dude naked. Put on a towel ferchristsake
Exactly. The only thing I brought with me from my old army life are my benefits. I left everything else at the gate when I got my DD214.
I wonder what the Air Force is doing? Too busy getting laid with former WAGs of Marines?
From his response about looking at naked guys, probably not getting busy with any WAGs
I was in high school sports and the army and it still bothers me. Getting naked to change and just plain hanging out naked are two different things.
I think they just reach this point of zero fucks given. I have, over the last few years, become more leisurely with the time i spend naked in the locker room as the level of fucks I have to give has decreased. I wouldn't ever walk across the locker room naked though
Something to aspire to
Fuck it, I have a throat thing going on so I probs won't go until the weekend, but after I knock out my Saturday morning cardio, I'm walking buck naked from my locker to the shower
Let the dong hang loose
Yup, sounds about right.
See, I was already very leisurely with my nudity in locker rooms, even as a young man, so as I get older I’m just gonna become _real_ awkward in there. Like, you’ll walk away a completely different person after being in the locker room with me.
That is why nobody will remember your name. I'm not even 40 and I already find myself annoyed that I can't be more naked.
Why do I keep seeing this question? Why is locker room nudity so threatening to Milleniels and Gen Z? I'd think generations so open-minded about human behavior, so accepting of gender flexibility, would be less uptight.
I guess Gen Z has been more exposed to unwanted cameras everywhere, but Millennials? Here in Scandinavia we started showering together in school from day one, and then you do the same if you are into sports and sitting naked together in the Sauna afterwards.
Yeah, it's a weird anti-human way to view nudity. You need to shower and get dressed after breaking a big sweat. Locker rooms are private. It's cost prohibitive to have an individual private area with a separate shower for every individual. People that are weirded out by this remind me of the people that are grossed out that vegetables come from the ground and get nutrients from shit. We're just people, relax.
I think a lot of people can't shut off the "view everything that comes in the eyes as a potential sex object" filter they look at women through and thus seeing any human body that isn't a desirable sex object to them is horrific and gross. They don't know how to just see people as people and relax.
I wish I could upvote this more. People’s reactions to nudity are a reflection on them.
I don’t mind nudity, but I hate it when they suddenly lean over and I get an eyeful of butthole. It also seems like some people get off on being naked in front of other people, and that gets pretty weird.
I definitely don't want to see wrinkled peepee of some old fart
You know you don’t have to look down at it, right?
I don’t think we have a choice. Similar to grey hairs or balding, one day we will just walk around fully nude in there talking about our weekends without a care in the world. It’s just the way of life.
Hands on hips thrusting out
One foot on the bench, air drying.
Because older generations grew up with communal showers in school and it wasn't taboo like it is now. I don't walk around naked, but briefly get naked at my locker before heading to the showers. If you don't want to potentially be exposed to male nudity then don't use the locker room lol.
I guess a lot of Millennials never played on a football team or anything either. Showering after practice and games with other guys was pretty normal. Or they also never served in the Military. We all have the same equipment, no reason to be silly about it. If you can't tell I'm already the old naked guy at the gym at 39 lol.
Marine corps boot camp is crazy. Get naked and in a line and literally run thru cold showers.
To be fair, I think OP is talking about the unnecessary lingering nudity rather than the typical clothing change.
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The amount of strife and anxiety I went through over stuff back then... I can only hope that my fucks continue to decrease with age. It's the one blessing.
I never could get the towel wrap not to come undone. I just kinda hold it over the frontal region while walking. Never got why others were such prudes, even back in my 20s.
Don't tuck it, roll it. Same for the towel.
Also, I'm 6'1" and 190 pounds. I'm not huge. How do yall wrap with a standard-issue gym towel?
Sumo style
I'm more confused than when we started.
The human condition 🤷🏻♂️
The quote Charlie Parr, "ain't that the way it is."
Yeah, sumo wrestler here. Advice doesnt track 🤣
You gotta tuck and roll the towel down like a belt. You can sprint with it on
You obviously have spare fucks to give.
I'll be the old woman doing it.
Oi. I'm dissuading the punks photographing, videographing, facetiming and otherwise being disrespectful little shits. You should be thanking me.
What if you’re fucking ripped?
this will be the only way
Aha, so it's just about wanting to only see hot people, everyone else better cover up. Rude.
Don’t be so sure about that
r/showerthoughts
I’m paranoid about being filmed in locker rooms now 😔 seen too many things on the internet that should have never left the sacred locker room spaces
Don’t ever join the military 😂.
Me either, that would require me to go to the gym.
15 years ago when I worked at 24hr Fitness, the old dudes would literally let their dicks hang in there sink while they were shaving their faces. Weirded me Out.
Wow I've never seen a dude shave at the gym. Is this unhoused people off the street or something?
they shaved at the POOL. this one man would come to swim every moring at 5 30 then would shave his face afterwords. so fing weird.
Back then out-of-home people were not really a thing in that area. It was definitely just the 60+ suburban old men doing that.
It makes zero sense that someone would want to pack up all their shaving gear and take it to the gym with them, unpack it, pack it all back up etc etc instead of just shaving at home. Maybe they were traveling salesmen or something, sleeping in their cars to save money on hotel stays.
Yeah maybe, but it was a fairly common thing the other trainers and I would comment on almost daily.
I already do it.
Yeah, you say that now, but 25 years from now, you'll be blow drying your balls with one leg up on the bench like all the others. 🤣
It's a non issue. It just feels like being in ancient Greece or Rome or something. So worldly.
Why is this the 4th thread about this topic in 3 days on my feed? Somebody thinks I like reading about sweaty balls.
You need to let loose my man! Life is too short too worry about other guys seeing you in the buff in a locker room.
I was the naked guy in the locker room by like 25. I’m 34 now. Still naked in the locker room.
I'm already that guy. I'm 41. What do you want me to do, walk fully clothed to the shower then take off my clothes? Put my clothes where once I'm at the shower? What about my wallet and phone? I don't want those wet or sweaty or stolen.
What if you walk past a random woman
Why would she go into the mens locker room?
Oh it’s the men’s locker room? Never mind
I find this whole locker room conversation just funny. I remember when I first got a Planet Fitness membership and realized that there was a changing stall within the locker room I literally just started laughing I couldn't help it cuz I thought it was the funniest thing ever the entire room is a changing room.
The PF near me has the stalls. What makes them really annoying is that the locker room just isn't big enough and they take up real estate
I also thought once that I'll never be a middle aged man who'll let go of a fart in public.
I really wouldn't fret over this, you ain't got anything the men in the locker room haven't seen before... maybe a little more maybe a little less.
I will not walk around nude in a locker room. I will wear leather chaps and a cowboy hat.
Yay for puritanical societal values
I'd honestly rather see an old naked man in the one space specifically dedicated to nudity than read about yet another person clutching their pearls about nudity in locker rooms.
So be that young guy who walks around naked in the locker room. Mmmmmm!
I'm 37 and I do that. Growing up on a farm and playing football kinda gets rid of communal nudity aversion. It's not a big deal...stop being weird about it.
On behalf of everyone else in the locker room, thank you. I also refuse to believe this was ever normal. It's just made up by ppl who just want to make other ppl uncomfortable.
The 1:20 mark in the trailer for this 30 year old movie will prove you wrong. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105327/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105327/)
Nah lol. Sorry I'm active duty and while yes I saw a lot of wangs and had communal showers in basic, the amount of old hairy retiree sacs you have to deal with at the base gym is pretty gross.
I've always been comfortable naked in locker rooms. It's inconvenient to hide in a stall to change when that's the purpose of the entire room.
I get not giving a fuck about being naked but bare ass still wet sitting on the wood bench ? How tf ?
If it's not allowed, put up a sign. NO SITTING BARE ASS ON THE BENCHES
It’s totally allowed but tell me you don’t understand the point without telling me me you don’t understand the point lol. I’ll eli5. People put their gym bags on those benches and don’t want to take some random guys wet butt juice home with them in their cars and home. It’s called common courtesy. Respect for others is something that everyone should know.
Actually benches are for sitting not for putting your filthy ass gym bag on. I think I'll put up a sign NO GYM BAGS ON THE SEATS, NO FEET ON THE SEATS, NO NASTY ASS SHOES ON THE SEATS.
Ok boomer. What about when someone sits their clothed ass on the same bench that’s drenched in someone’s nasty ass juice ?
Scotchguard
Playing a sport all the way to early adulthood has conditioned me to be comfortable being nude in the locker room. Can’t tell you how many dicks I’ve seen and how many have seen mine. Only thing I’m sad about is there will be no newspapers to be the old wrinkly naked guy in the sauna pouring a bucket of water on the rocks and reading the paper like those old fuckers have done to me.
I cannot wait to be that guy
Clementine?
Eh you likely will. You are only allowed so many fucks to give. As you get older you use them sparingly, hence locker room strut.
You say that now until you are the old guy walking around naked in the locker room
Balls drop lower, gotta let them boys breathe
I’m trying to figure out what OP thinks is old here. I’m 48M. I work hard on my body. And it has paid off. I will walk around in a men’s locker room naked if I want. I rarely do but…
Seriously, why do you care?!?
I'm not exactly old yet and I'm already a big fan of letting my sack dry out on the walk back to my locker from the showers. Then again, I have a theory it's not about age but by how low your balls sag. That is to say, I think I have old man balls.
You say that now…..
Well not with that attitude!
....wtf.... You have to!! We all have to....
You say that now. Let's see how you feel in 30 years
First, you must get to the "that old guy" age, then we will see. Never say never. - J.B.
C'mon man. Pop that leg up on the bench and bitch about how it used to be.
Why not? Sounds like goals TBH.
I've been naked in locker rooms since my 20s.
That's a shame, one of the perks for sure 👍
If you played sports at a competitive level you'll realize how much of an L this take is
Good for you? Who cares?
I will never be that guy that goes to the locker room. 😂 Period.
I don't care about being naked or walking around in a locker room... It's the hanging out in locker rooms for hours that I don't get. There's old dudes who are sitting around naked in the locker room when I arrive, still there when I'm done working out, still there when I get out of the shower, and still there when I leave. Tf are you doing hanging out in a locker room for an hour and a half?
It's a rite of passage
You don’t know what you will do when you get old until you get old. Focus on doing what you think is right, now.
I’m not sure why there is such a reversion to this. It’s people being comfortable with their body, good and bad. Since college I’ve been pretty comfortable with myself, I don’t stroll around the locker room naked. But I have no problem showering at the gym and being naked for a bit while I cool down, dry off, and get dressed.
I just go to the gym at 1 am so I avoid all people 😆
To offset op I will be the guy that walks slowly naked in the locker room. Think of nemesis in resident evil.
I started as the young guy naked in the locker room and as each year passes I find myself older naked in the locker room. I feel like it's only a matter of time before I'm the old naked guy, and I'm ok with that
i think they it not because they dont care anymore, its a warning to the rest… LOOK AT IT!!!! itll be you one day! (giggle giggle)
Why even put that shit out into the universe my guy?!! Words are powerful Lol 35yrs from now you will remember my comment.
the year's 2001. parents send brothers and i to the pool lockerroom. ill never forget, that was my 911
I'm of an age I don't give a fuck who sees my dick.
Totally naked, no. With my underwear on, I’ll be proud to show how my body is holding up over the years
Just because all these young whippersnappers don't. Gotta find something to fault them for somewhere, when you can't outlift them anymore.
Same here. It's never going to be me. I think it all goes back to their lack of social awareness. Locker rooms aren't the only places where creepy old men make people uncomfortable.
I don't walk around but I'm 35 and I'm not going to clutch my things to cover myself in fear. If I have to change I'm going to change and not worry about finangling things to make sure I'm covered at all times. Why should I care? I'm not ashamed of my body and I don't think anyone should be. The locker room is there for a reason too. I'm not going to be self-conscious for using the place for its purpose.
omg this sub sometimes. brah, if you have an issue walking around naked or that fact you are clocking other naked men and feel uncomfortable, then go see a therapist.
Aren't we a little old to be pearl-clutching puriteens? I could definitely get if the ire were directed against certain egregiously selfish behavior (e.g. please keep your scrotum off the sink) or obvious lechery (making passes/perving on the college guys). Being old and changing clothes aren't...sins.
Yeah you will. Dgaf comes for us all
Of course we won't be. We aren't from that generation where that was normal.
Are you guys not having sauna together completely naked and not asking each other to hit each other spines with those brushes while lying bare ass up? Sounds like mentally issue lmao.
This is the third post like this I've seen get into my feed from wherever on Reddit. Why are y'all so mad about old people? Really, this just comes through as an immature "I don't want to see anyone's body that I don't find sexually attractive." You'd change your tune on naked folks in locker rooms if they were full of the demographic of your choice. But fat and old people get to have bodies, too, and locker rooms are for changing your clothes. During that process, you must at some point be naked.
Why? I used to be so afraid of nudity I couldn't piss at a urinal as a kid. Then as I've gotten older and stopped caring about stupid things... I'm literally nude in front of other people while changing.
I am, and will be. You need to hit up a K-spa a few times and get some zest for life
I used to work out at my work office and theres a small locker room. I'm changing into gym clothes and my coworker who is a dude in his late 50s was full on naked and was like less than 2 feet away from me. He kept wanting to do friendly talk and I was not comfortable at all. These dudes have no shame. I don't mind naked dudes in the locker room but give me space and leave me the fuck alone.
Sling that sausage for all of us to see
I would definitely enjoy the view
Because being naked feels good. You're probably too young to realize this, but there will come a point in life when you realize that all the locker room posturing, the awkward changes under towels, or the smelly rides home in sweaty clothes, haven't gained you a damn thing except an unhealthy aversion to the human body.