Ok, what's the deal with locker rooms?

[dm1333]

I have no REAL idea why, but it's true. Old guys at the Y like to stand around buck naked and talk, often with one leg up on the bench.

Ugghh!  We have the same problem with the gym where I work out.  A bunch of the guys at work have complained to the gym management but if the stories from the ladies at work are true the womens locker room is way worse.  I always attributed this to being in NORCAL but evidently I was wrong.   

[Marnoot]

I have no REAL idea why, but it's true. Old guys at the Y like to stand around buck naked and talk, often with one leg up on the bench.

It is also rather annoying when they wander about the room, going to the sinks, putting a leg up on the counter so they can use the blowdrier on their anus/perineum/testicle area, coming up to me as I'm retrieving something off the floor and engaging me in conversation while their boy parts are a foot from my face etc.

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[Jocassee]

I think it's both, and that's my theory.

Although one other thing. As you age, your connective tissue breaks down, stretches, things begin to sag...

And uh... because of the help of gravity and decrepitude, ONE part of the anatomy kinda/sorta benefits from this. (from a normal male insecurity perspective...) They may just be showing off. 

I'd rather have my connective tissue.

[Viking]

I would start going to the gym if they had Denise Richards in the shower.

This.

[sanglant]

pain killers kill modesty? i know they make me more talkative. funny how talking not hurting has that effect.

[Boomhauer]

I thought I had permanently avoided this problem by never going to a gym, but lo and behold, at my current job I maintain and clean several campground bathrooms...a thankless duty...

People have no concept of modesty...I also have the sneaking suspicion that the old aholes who walk around for 30 minutes in the bathhouse scratching their junk are the same aholes who leave s*** volcanoes in the stalls for us to clean up.


We also catch people making the beast with two backs in the bathhouses. I don't know about any of ya'll, but a mildewey old state park bathroom is one of the last places in the world I'd consider remotely romantic.

[P5 Guy]

So, how many of you have the nightmare where you are nekkid in public places other than a locker room?
Just asking?

[Monkeyleg]

I've had that nightmare all my life.

[Perd Hapley]

Let us theorize. As the nekkid-in-public dream is quite common, is there a cure? If we were all to make a naked outing, just once, acting out the dream in real life; would this nagging fear be dealt with and the subconscious cease nagging us about it?

Or is this subconscious nudity merely a metaphor for our fear that secret thoughts and feelings, hidden inadequacies, are certain to be exposed at some unforeseeable place and time? This is most probable, and casts grave doubts upon the efficacy of the proposed cure.

fistful is not responsible for any decisions made upon the basis of this musing, nor for the legal or social ramifications of same.

[Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas]

Only once that I can recall. I was the guest of honor of some sort, and I'd apparently forgotten to bring pants.

[Monkeyleg]

Oddly enough, in those dreams nobody ever seems to notice me, even though I'm naked.

Pretty much mirrors real life.

[seeker_two]

Oddly enough, in those dreams nobody ever seems to notice me, even though I'm naked.

Pretty much mirrors real life.

Maybe you should try it in real life and see if they notice you....

[P5 Guy]

I had the dreams when I was a kid. They stopped when I hit high school and used the showers after gym class. I think the correlation between the two is not a coincidence. Us of the older generations have had more exposure to communal showering than the younger set.

[Jamisjockey]

I had the dreams when I was a kid. They stopped when I hit high school and used the showers after gym class. I think the correlation between the two is not a coincidence. Us of the older generations have had more exposure to communal showering than the younger set.

A couple years in the military cured me of caring about being naked in front of other men.  Communal showers, toilets without stalls, troughs instead of urinals.... Of course, as I get older, I do enjoy a little privacy.