Talk about paranoid people with huge sexual hangups. It's not as if all these gay types are going to molest all the innocent strait people in showers - even if it might happen in an isolated rare instance. Who gives a rat's ass what others think about your body anyway - are you all that insecure? No wonder America is such a f**ked up place.
Yeah you are right. I mean there has to be a reasonable explanation why a man would be walking around the locker room for an hour naked.....
Notice how no one has asked for pics? HA HA HA HA HA
I am 67 and feel 100% comfortable walking around naked in the locker room and carrying on a conversation in the buff.
One thing that I do on occasion is play a joke on someone that seems to be uncomfortable with my nudity. It only works if they are sitting on the bench, but I stand in front of them with my back facing them. Then I think about whatever thoughts I can to get it up and turn around and hit them on the nose with my mushroom cap. Ha, you would not believe how uptight they get after that! It's all in good fun, although one guy threatened to call the cops on me.
Most of you young guys should lighten up!
just another guy wrote:
I don't understand how kids these days can have a PE class and NOT shower. The younger generation's insecurity with their bodies is incredible. Sure you will see some other guys 'junk' when you shower, but so what. Very rarely do you see some guy on his knees plearuring another guy. That, my friends, is the exception not the rule. And some of those other guys are really hung!
todays youth do not use public showers. after working out, they lift their arm and spray on Axe deodorant.
OldFart wrote:
Look Buddy, it's a generational thing - do you not understand? Pretty much anyone under 40 is going to have issues with group showers. It was common AND mandatory in the 70's and prior to take showers after Phys Ed class. Phys Ed used to be pretty much non-stop calisthenics for 30 minutes and then a particular activity. Believe me, afterwards you needed a shower. Anyone 45 and older is probably going to be comfortable with nudity. I realize times have changed, but don't be dissing on the old guys because your generation's values are different.
I didn't do group showers until college like everyone else my age, but it wasn't a big deal at all. We had one guy on the team who was openly gay and another who came out after college, but it was never a problem. There's nothing sexual about taking a shower unless you make it so, agreed? Then who cares if some of the guys were Gay, Bisexual, Asexual, Transgendered, Pansexual, etc. ? Go in, get clean with hot water, good water pressure, and way more space than your dinky dorm showers (that's how it was for me anyway), towel off, get dressed. What's the issue?
I did not realize that high school kids were so weirded out by taking a shower in gym. What do these people do when they get to college? We had open showers in the dorm there, too.
no way wrote:
We are human beings and not animals.
What he said.
no way wrote:
We are human beings and not animals.
not only are we animals, but we came from other animals.
human life came from the Ape Family of Chimpanzees 6.1 million years ago. all of human life originally had black skin, and all of human life came from Chimpanzees. they are your ancestors.
go enroll yourself in a college science class.
better yet, go back and finish highschool. you fuccin religious retard.
-Dr Anthony Stancampiano
Chief Zoologist for Oklahoma Research Foundation
Sounds like none of these Nancys have ever had to line up nuts to butts with 300 other nekked guys at a military induction!
dfsfdsds wrote:
I'm talking about the 50-70 year olds who have full-length conversations with each other butt-naked. Is there a reason why this tradition has continued? Was there something about the lives of these people in their youth that required them to be naked a lot? I don't understand it.
If it makes you feel any better, we old guys are really uncomfortable around female teenagers who wear their pants down past the hips, flash a belly button ring, and wear skin-tight wife beaters.
As I get older, I understand that I'm not supposed to check out girls who are thirty years younger than I am. Sometimes, you just can't help it.
I'll be happy to get my junk covered as quickly as possible in the locker room if you let me interact with the barista at Starbucks without having to stare at her butt crack...
4runner wrote:
I'll be happy to get my junk covered as quickly as possible in the locker room if you let me interact with the barista at Starbucks without having to stare at her butt crack...
Let's Run needs a thumbs up "Like" button....
you're insecure. grow up.
I am a triathlete and lap swim every night at the local gym along with other triathletes from 16 to 70 years old. Many of us also get in the sauna and hot tub after swimming. The majority of us shower afterward although some just change back into street clothes.
Should I stop training and stay home every night? I wouldn't want to offend someone by changing clothes and showering after swimming.
You guys are such candy asses. This generation of white Americans has got the be biggest bunch of wusses on earth.
P.S. one of my swimming buddies is a high school coach and he said people stopped showering at school when schools were integrated and white people saw that black people had more muscular bodies.
You old people gettin cranky.
That's complete B.S. They stopped having communal showers in gym class in part because gym time was being cut in schools and teachers needed to make the most of their gym time. The main reason though is that parents and teachers were concerned about the amount of teasing that can take place among teenagers. In case you haven't noticed, teenagers mature at very different rates, and it's a lot harder for early or late bloomers if they are forced to strip naked in front of their peers in a communal shower. It went along with the whole "everyone's a winner" movement.
And also, way to completely distort everybody's argument here. Nobody's saying that you shouldn't be able to change in a change room. Some people are pointing out that there are a lot of guys who greatly prolong their exposure beyond what is necessary to simply shower and change. You'd probably make fun of a fat old guy walking around in a thong on the beach, so I don't see why some old guys feel it's necessary to flaunt their nudity beyond what's reasonable in the change rooms. I think that the disagreement lies in what's reasonable, not in whether people should be allowed to change in change rooms.
not that impressive wrote:
That's complete B.S. They stopped having communal showers in gym class in part because gym time was being cut in schools and teachers needed to make the most of their gym time. The main reason though is that parents and teachers were concerned about the amount of teasing that can take place among teenagers. In case you haven't noticed, teenagers mature at very different rates, and it's a lot harder for early or late bloomers if they are forced to strip naked in front of their peers in a communal shower. It went along with the whole "everyone's a winner" movement.
And also, way to completely distort everybody's argument here. Nobody's saying that you shouldn't be able to change in a change room. Some people are pointing out that there are a lot of guys who greatly prolong their exposure beyond what is necessary to simply shower and change. You'd probably make fun of a fat old guy walking around in a thong on the beach, so I don't see why some old guys feel it's necessary to flaunt their nudity beyond what's reasonable in the change rooms. I think that the disagreement lies in what's reasonable, not in whether people should be allowed to change in change rooms.
Talk about a lot of hooey over nothing. I had no idea that kids no longer took showers after gym. And it's not as if teasing amongst teenagers and different rates of development is something new in human history. They will find plenty of other things to tease each other about.
And as far as old guys walking around naked, I've never really noticed (but I guess I'm an old guy). When I go to the gym it's typically right before or after work and I do my workout, shower, dress, and leave. I don't spend much time looking around the locker room to see what other people are doing.
Everyone in there pays their dues. If someone wants to spend a few hours lounging around naked it doesn't really affect me in any way. Kids these days get hung up over the most trivial things.
not a religious retard wrote:
no way wrote:We are human beings and not animals.
not only are we animals, but we came from other animals.
human life came from the Ape Family of Chimpanzees 6.1 million years ago. all of human life originally had black skin, and all of human life came from Chimpanzees. they are your ancestors.
go enroll yourself in a college science class.
better yet, go back and finish highschool. you fuccin religious retard.
-Dr Anthony Stancampiano
Chief Zoologist for Oklahoma Research Foundation
Chief,
I’m guessing this isn’t Tony S but is a troll. I hope this post is not associated with a professor at an Oklahoma university.
The reason why impolite bravado is so popular on this website is that anonymity prevents accountability for intemperate remarks. Remarks like “feccin’ retard” reveal much more about you than the subject, no matter how well they relieve your exasperation at people not on a par with your lofty education.
A doctorate, you say? In zoology? And someone still dares to put forward such a remark?
I hope you don't respond to your students this way when they say something that opposes your world view, or heaven forbid, make a factual error.
You’re certainly correct in your definition of animal. So is “no way.“ Take a look at almost any dictionary and, if you avoided the temptation to be a condescending know-it-all, you would realize that the English word animal has different connotations depending on the usage. In the first web dictionary that popped up, the second definition was, “2. An animal organism other than a human, especially a mammal.”
A truly educated citizen can communicate effectively without gratuitous insults, not just attempt to puff himself up with a title.
On this website, we use English. High school English students know that there can be more than one meaning of a word. They also have learned that each sentence should begin with a capital letter, unless the writer is so busy and important he doesn’t need to adhere to “the rules” that others use when communicating in the English language.
Instead of being a pretentious, condescending know-it-all, you might study the part of most religions that could give you the missing link in your humanity - humility.
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Kids these days get hung up over the most trivial things.[/quote]
Just like old people get hung up over 10 or 20 cents when they come order food at fast food restaurants. Or get hung up when things dont go exactly there way, or when senior citizen discounts, why whould they get discounts on food. But those are probably big deals to you, and you probably are old too.
Uhh and social security too