There is no dignity in desperately trying to keep everything covered in a changing room. There is also no dignity in going to the sauna in a swimming costume or trunks. But that does seem to be the typical uptight anglo-saxon way.
I agree, we have a mixed sauna where i live and that’s not too bad if you have a towel around you…so what if it slips sometime, the guys are nice enough to compliment it ( but my towel have NEVER slipped, HAH!)
Look, 80% of the year in Scandinavia it’s physically impossible to take off your clothes without turning into an ice sculpture, so naturally we drop them all when we can. It’d be crazy not to.
If your pubes are long enough to need a blow-dry then they’re too long, IMHO. Having said which, in a single-sex changing room what the hell is the problem being naked? It’s not like you’ve got anything nobody else has got, albeit that you might have more or less of it..
I’m with you keithybabes. To be honest, people just need to stop being so bashful about nudity. If it they just accept that a body is a body, and walk around naked in the changing room comfortably, then they will stop seeing these sorts of things as offensive. Think of all the grand gestures of mass nudity, no one in pictures where everyone is naked is looking at everyone else and saying put it away, are they??
Agreed! Being an American, dare I say.. American’s are sooooo uptight about nudity. I lived in Germany for four years and sort of lost all that uptight-ness from being there. Not that I’m a nudist or anything now but the topless beaches or public water parks sort of puts you more at ease with that sort of thing. So, that being said…. I regularly swim at the gym and I went to use the restroom before changing into my suit one day and I overheard a couple of younger women discussing someone who had just changed in the locker room and how horrified they were at the sight of her nude butt and “nobody wants to see that”, “keep it hidden”, comments, etc. Oh how I wanted to just lay into them and tell them what closed minded, snobbish, little twits they were and IT’S A LOCKER ROOM FOR F**CKS SAKE!!!!!! And at the gym and so f’ing what if the person changing was a little overweight (or a lot, I don’t know I didn’t see her but that’s not the point) they are going to the gym to get healthier and they didn’t need to be such judgmental little sh*theads!!!
I live in the US and at my school it was tiki-tower showers for PE. No one cared, everyone just accepted it. So as you can imagine people from my area aren’t very uptight about nudity.
it`s really a matter of personal prefference, some ppl cover up, some couldn`t be bothered to. Who cares, personally, i usually mind my own business and don`t notice women walking around naked or not. The interresting thing thought is that on the count that i`m a bi, if there`s a real good looking one, it`s double the fun, coz she`s a looker and has no idea am starring lol))))
Well I suppose normal people would be turned off by the sight of a woman blowdrying their pubic hairs. But personally I get turned on by weird things women do, and this definately goes on the weirdlist. There is an upper limit of weirdness obviously but this is well below that mark :p
lol)) with me it`s kinda like a switch))) when there r no potential targets around women r just women, i don`t notice them or maybe only see the typicaly woman stuff, like shoes or a nice ring, to compare, as we all do. So i couldn`t care less about some woman drying anything.
But when a good looking one walks in, pum, the switch is on and she`s not just another woman around, she`s a hot chick)) then i pay attention.
Lol then i`m afraid to ask what is a turn off for u)))
People tend to overreact to the blow-drying of pubes. I got banned from seventeen hairdressers’ salons in one week before finally giving up, buying my own hair dryer, and doing it myself.
I might suggest _not_ looking at her pubic region; that’s a good start. In fact, you might want to focus on the whole reason that _you_ are in the changing room. That’ll not only keep you too busy to check out the other ladies drying their goods, it’ll get you out faster, too. It’s just Win all the way around.
Hear, hear. Unless the woman was blow drying her pubes while standing in front of Red’s locker, there’s little reason for Red to have been looking that way anyhow. Don’t know where to look? Look at your own business, woman!
From the above comments and from my own personal experience, I would say there is more dignity in a mixed sex changing room than in a single sex changing room simply because in the former everyone considers nudity to be natural.
I don’t have a problem with people getting naked in the changing room but there are rules. Don’t put your naked butt on a bench, that’s just gross. Don’t hang around naked when you’re standing right behind someone; turning around as you stand up and almost going face first in to old lady pubes is unpleasant. There is no need to hang around naked and that includes blow drying your pubes. You are in there to change clothes so you can go work out or after you work out and presumably have somewhere to be so get on with it instead of spending 20 minutes walking around naked.
It’s like the old Seinfeld episode about “good naked and bad naked”.
Woman blow-drying pubic hair: a little weird, but not terrible.
Wrinkly old man shaving at the sink while his balls rest on the counter: bad naked (and the reason my husband avoids our gym’s locker room).
Sorry mods, if this isn’t FUNNY and you want to delete it, but if you think about it it kinda is…
Really, some peeps need to get over themselves. It’s a locker room, you know? At a gym. Everybody that goes there should be given credit for getting up off the couch and getting SOME exercise in the first place. Follow that up with showering afterward – a little consideration to the crowd you see for the rest of the day, rather than going to work smelling like said locker room. Or worse, covering up the failure to shower by drowning yourself in perfume or some pit-pit-cross BS, so there’s no oxygen left at the office and perfume-allergic co-workers end up flopping around the floor in anaphylactic shock.
If you don’t like looking at somebody’s less-than perfect parts, ask yourself 2 questions: How perfect are YOUR parts? And: Why am I looking there in the first place? Look them in the eye, say hello, give them some respect and maybe some encouragement to GET more perfect. You might just meet somebody who is really very nice.
Are YOU very nice? You could even become one of the people at the gym that everybody likes, and not the one they call a “stuck-up a$$hole” behind your back.
And yeah, we even had a guy at the gym I go to that blow-dries his nuts. Why, I don’t know – he shaves. And he drowned himself in axe, too, until I looked him in the eye one day and told him we could smell him upstairs as he left the gym.
What happened? He turned out to be a pretty cool dude; we all get along and we don’t smell him upstairs anymore. But he still blow-dries his non-existent pubes. I don’t know, maybe it feels good.
Some men have a real problem with fungus growing around the groin area (jock itch). A really good way to help with that problem is to make sure ur nuts are dry and have as little moisture as possible. He probably powders his balls as well.
Hmm. After a rant like that, the last thing I expected was a reasoned response beyond tl;dr. Peeps putting down others who are less than greek gods/goddesses, yet who are actually trying to improve themselves a bit, is a pet peeve of mine. Respect those who try, you know?
Anyway….. could be. It could explain the shaving, as well. The place isn’t the most sanitary gym in town. Actually, the dude is a doctor.
It’s not about looking at someone’s less than perfect parts, it’s about common decency and respect. It’s not gross to walk around naked because you don’t look good, it’s gross because you’re plopping your naked butt down on the bench that people put their keys and water bottles on or you’re standing by the bench with your naked goodies mere inches away from other people.
“good naked and bad naked” – that’s a good one. Like the woman I saw in the locker room whose very thick, black pubic hair literally began at the bottom of her navel and continued on down like a thick shag carpet…either that, or she had a man with a beard between her legs. It was hard to tell, b/c that’s when I ran away screaming, “Help! Is there a razor in the house?!”
Ewww–was she one of those that had them growing down her thighs as well? There were a couple broads at my ex-gym that had that, er problem, and would wear super short shorts. Hair is hanging out all over, and they were completely oblivious to it, or proud, while the rest of us were trying not to puke.
Hell I wank in the gym shower and wash it down with my mighty yellow river of vitamin enriched piss, then i take a crap with the stall doot open and really let loose. And I make heavy eye contact in the shower, sauna , jacuzzi and weight room. I like the rush.
There’s just one person who upsets me in the changing room. As you come out of the shower and catch a glimpse of long sleek golden hair flowing down a flawless back, you startle and think, “what’s she doing in here,” when in fact it’s a guy.
There’s a bearded woman at my gym, quite startling to enter the woman’s changing room and see her standing there. I always worry about walking in to the wrong room so I always get really confused for a second when that happens.
There is no dignity in desperately trying to keep everything covered in a changing room. There is also no dignity in going to the sauna in a swimming costume or trunks. But that does seem to be the typical uptight anglo-saxon way.
Not in Sweden….
I agree, we have a mixed sauna where i live and that’s not too bad if you have a towel around you…so what if it slips sometime, the guys are nice enough to compliment it ( but my towel have NEVER slipped, HAH!)
In mainland Europe they’re a lot more laid-back about such things.
In mainland Europe, people go naked on beaches… so yeah.
In mainland Europe they have whole naked villages.
In mainland Europe.. chocolate.
In mainland Europe they have whole naked countries, such as Norway and Sweden.
AND,
In mainland Europe they have a lot of danish factories, in DENMARK!
in soviet russia … oh sh-
you beat me to it, leo. Well played.
Ha I was about to say that too
You didn’t say Candlejack, why did you sto-
Look, 80% of the year in Scandinavia it’s physically impossible to take off your clothes without turning into an ice sculpture, so naturally we drop them all when we can. It’d be crazy not to.
agree
In mainland Europe socialists too lazy to go to work inevitably become to lazy to get dressed.
Win!
In mainland Europe socialists too lazy to go to work inevitably become too lazy to get dressed.
nor in finland…. in fact it’s not allowed to go into a sauna in your swimwear.
Women have pubic hair?! WTF!
Oh Hai, pedobear!
pmsl!! steve-o win!!!! x
Pleaaaase tell me you are joking…
Ultimate burn on yourself.
Bets they’re talking about the same woman (the mom of green and the pubic-hair-dryer).
I imagine it would be hard to dry pubic hair while fully dressed!
^I lol’d (:
Wow! Is somebody cooking some fish in here? Something smells indescribable!
If your pubes are long enough to need a blow-dry then they’re too long, IMHO. Having said which, in a single-sex changing room what the hell is the problem being naked? It’s not like you’ve got anything nobody else has got, albeit that you might have more or less of it..
Maybe red is secretly a lesbian and doesn’t want people to know yet?
I’m with you keithybabes. To be honest, people just need to stop being so bashful about nudity. If it they just accept that a body is a body, and walk around naked in the changing room comfortably, then they will stop seeing these sorts of things as offensive. Think of all the grand gestures of mass nudity, no one in pictures where everyone is naked is looking at everyone else and saying put it away, are they??
I’m all about being carefree and laid back about nudity, but something about being naked in a room full of naked men distresses me.
Agreed! Being an American, dare I say.. American’s are sooooo uptight about nudity. I lived in Germany for four years and sort of lost all that uptight-ness from being there. Not that I’m a nudist or anything now but the topless beaches or public water parks sort of puts you more at ease with that sort of thing. So, that being said…. I regularly swim at the gym and I went to use the restroom before changing into my suit one day and I overheard a couple of younger women discussing someone who had just changed in the locker room and how horrified they were at the sight of her nude butt and “nobody wants to see that”, “keep it hidden”, comments, etc. Oh how I wanted to just lay into them and tell them what closed minded, snobbish, little twits they were and IT’S A LOCKER ROOM FOR F**CKS SAKE!!!!!! And at the gym and so f’ing what if the person changing was a little overweight (or a lot, I don’t know I didn’t see her but that’s not the point) they are going to the gym to get healthier and they didn’t need to be such judgmental little sh*theads!!!
Gosh… this struck a nerve, didn’t it?
*sigh*
*stepping off soap box*
Preach on, Sista!
Except this happened with Brits involved, no Americans :p
No one likes to see pubes and hair driers mixed
I live in the US and at my school it was tiki-tower showers for PE. No one cared, everyone just accepted it. So as you can imagine people from my area aren’t very uptight about nudity.
Pics or it didn’t happen.
I second that
While you’re here, I need some highlights.
WIN!
hahaha! that line always cracks me up.
it`s really a matter of personal prefference, some ppl cover up, some couldn`t be bothered to. Who cares, personally, i usually mind my own business and don`t notice women walking around naked or not. The interresting thing thought is that on the count that i`m a bi, if there`s a real good looking one, it`s double the fun, coz she`s a looker and has no idea am starring lol))))
Well I suppose normal people would be turned off by the sight of a woman blowdrying their pubic hairs. But personally I get turned on by weird things women do, and this definately goes on the weirdlist. There is an upper limit of weirdness obviously but this is well below that mark :p
lol)) with me it`s kinda like a switch))) when there r no potential targets around women r just women, i don`t notice them or maybe only see the typicaly woman stuff, like shoes or a nice ring, to compare, as we all do. So i couldn`t care less about some woman drying anything.
But when a good looking one walks in, pum, the switch is on and she`s not just another woman around, she`s a hot chick)) then i pay attention.
Lol then i`m afraid to ask what is a turn off for u)))
Please go back to school and learn how to speak/write/type correctly. You are making all women, bisexual individuals, and the human race look bad.
how easy it is for Americans to pick on foreigners, bravo, keep it up, might as well go kick a puppy, butch XD
I never mentioned country.
It`s kind of a given at this point
The awkward thing was that the blow dryer was mounted to the wall and was meant to be used to dry your hands.
The most awkward thing was that the blow dryer was mounted to the wall and was meant to be used to dry your hands.
Oh wow – that’s hysterical! Thanks for the laugh Borat.
like in Bean?
The old fat guy at my gym goes into the sauna fully clothed. Shoes and all. And then changes his clothes in the toilet.
Oh. And he leaves his HUGE used-to-be-white underpants on the floor instead of in the locker while he works out.
And you noticed his underpants WHY?
because it’s HUGE
There’s no dignity in using an iPhone either.
There’s no dignity in obsessing over what brand of electronics is used by other people either.
There’s no dignity in telling yourself that just to attempt to avoid the shame of using an iPhone.
There’s a lot of dignity being communist leader of N Korea.
or China… apparently
US-American prudery detected
People tend to overreact to the blow-drying of pubes. I got banned from seventeen hairdressers’ salons in one week before finally giving up, buying my own hair dryer, and doing it myself.
Your own fault. What do you expect from…. “How much for a blow job?”
A hundred points on my loyalty card.
seriously, why do old people just hang out in the locker room naked?
I might suggest _not_ looking at her pubic region; that’s a good start. In fact, you might want to focus on the whole reason that _you_ are in the changing room. That’ll not only keep you too busy to check out the other ladies drying their goods, it’ll get you out faster, too. It’s just Win all the way around.
Hear, hear. Unless the woman was blow drying her pubes while standing in front of Red’s locker, there’s little reason for Red to have been looking that way anyhow. Don’t know where to look? Look at your own business, woman!
Look through a video camera lens, while it’s recording. Video or it didn’t happen.
From the above comments and from my own personal experience, I would say there is more dignity in a mixed sex changing room than in a single sex changing room simply because in the former everyone considers nudity to be natural.
I don’t have a problem with people getting naked in the changing room but there are rules. Don’t put your naked butt on a bench, that’s just gross. Don’t hang around naked when you’re standing right behind someone; turning around as you stand up and almost going face first in to old lady pubes is unpleasant. There is no need to hang around naked and that includes blow drying your pubes. You are in there to change clothes so you can go work out or after you work out and presumably have somewhere to be so get on with it instead of spending 20 minutes walking around naked.
If God had intended us to be clothed we wouldn’t have been born naked. Lol
If it’s so long she has to blow-dry it….*shudder*
It’s like the old Seinfeld episode about “good naked and bad naked”.
Woman blow-drying pubic hair: a little weird, but not terrible.
Wrinkly old man shaving at the sink while his balls rest on the counter: bad naked (and the reason my husband avoids our gym’s locker room).
Sorry mods, if this isn’t FUNNY and you want to delete it, but if you think about it it kinda is…
Really, some peeps need to get over themselves. It’s a locker room, you know? At a gym. Everybody that goes there should be given credit for getting up off the couch and getting SOME exercise in the first place. Follow that up with showering afterward – a little consideration to the crowd you see for the rest of the day, rather than going to work smelling like said locker room. Or worse, covering up the failure to shower by drowning yourself in perfume or some pit-pit-cross BS, so there’s no oxygen left at the office and perfume-allergic co-workers end up flopping around the floor in anaphylactic shock.
If you don’t like looking at somebody’s less-than perfect parts, ask yourself 2 questions: How perfect are YOUR parts? And: Why am I looking there in the first place? Look them in the eye, say hello, give them some respect and maybe some encouragement to GET more perfect. You might just meet somebody who is really very nice.
Are YOU very nice? You could even become one of the people at the gym that everybody likes, and not the one they call a “stuck-up a$$hole” behind your back.
And yeah, we even had a guy at the gym I go to that blow-dries his nuts. Why, I don’t know – he shaves. And he drowned himself in axe, too, until I looked him in the eye one day and told him we could smell him upstairs as he left the gym.
What happened? He turned out to be a pretty cool dude; we all get along and we don’t smell him upstairs anymore. But he still blow-dries his non-existent pubes. I don’t know, maybe it feels good.
Some men have a real problem with fungus growing around the groin area (jock itch). A really good way to help with that problem is to make sure ur nuts are dry and have as little moisture as possible. He probably powders his balls as well.
Hmm. After a rant like that, the last thing I expected was a reasoned response beyond tl;dr. Peeps putting down others who are less than greek gods/goddesses, yet who are actually trying to improve themselves a bit, is a pet peeve of mine. Respect those who try, you know?
Anyway….. could be. It could explain the shaving, as well. The place isn’t the most sanitary gym in town. Actually, the dude is a doctor.
It’s not about looking at someone’s less than perfect parts, it’s about common decency and respect. It’s not gross to walk around naked because you don’t look good, it’s gross because you’re plopping your naked butt down on the bench that people put their keys and water bottles on or you’re standing by the bench with your naked goodies mere inches away from other people.
“good naked and bad naked” – that’s a good one. Like the woman I saw in the locker room whose very thick, black pubic hair literally began at the bottom of her navel and continued on down like a thick shag carpet…either that, or she had a man with a beard between her legs. It was hard to tell, b/c that’s when I ran away screaming, “Help! Is there a razor in the house?!”
Ewww–was she one of those that had them growing down her thighs as well? There were a couple broads at my ex-gym that had that, er problem, and would wear super short shorts. Hair is hanging out all over, and they were completely oblivious to it, or proud, while the rest of us were trying not to puke.
Hell I wank in the gym shower and wash it down with my mighty yellow river of vitamin enriched piss, then i take a crap with the stall doot open and really let loose. And I make heavy eye contact in the shower, sauna , jacuzzi and weight room. I like the rush.
There’s just one person who upsets me in the changing room. As you come out of the shower and catch a glimpse of long sleek golden hair flowing down a flawless back, you startle and think, “what’s she doing in here,” when in fact it’s a guy.
There’s a bearded woman at my gym, quite startling to enter the woman’s changing room and see her standing there. I always worry about walking in to the wrong room so I always get really confused for a second when that happens.
That’s a Michael Mcintyre joke, almost word for word.
f’in prudish americans. worry about all the wrong damn things. no common sense or judgment.