"Discretion" being they key word. In already changed before I go to the gym, I only switch shoes while there. I can shower when I get home. THEY treat it like its their at-home bathroom, doing hygeine care like brushing teeth, shaving, or throwing a leg up on the bench and blow-drying their taint right in your full view. Who the fuck needs to this at the gym? It's like they WANT you to bump in to their hideous, puckered ass-flesh while making things as uncomftorable as possible for you. I would NEVER shave or brush my teeth in an open public change room. I'm no germaphobe but that's just goddamn gross.
I don't even like putting lip gloss on in front of people. Brushing my teeth so people can see would be awkward and gross and uncomfortable.
I saw an old guy a few months ago in the locker room using the hand dryer on his balls. Completely naked, sticking his twig and berries under the dryer like it was totally normal. I really hope I never make it to the point where I feel like that is considered acceptable behavior.
The last gym I went to had a guy who would do naked yoga in the sauna. Usually his asshole was pointing right at the glass door.
Fucking old people and their damn nakedness. We don't even have a racquetball ball court at my gym and somehow there is still loads of them in there naked as hell. On the other hand there are probably a dozen or so girls I'd probably go to jail for at my gym to sneak a naked peek at. Not that they get anywhere near naked anywhere near the gyms locker rooms.
SOMETIMES YOU DON'T HAVE A CHOICE! You're just...surrounded by it all, no matter which way you look. I don't think I've ever talked to the ceiling so much in my life. And forget it if you DON'T want to know about their personal medical conditions. Worst job ever. I walked into the dry locker room at the Y last Friday, and there's a buck-naked lady just sitting on the bench, just staring at her locker. NO TOWEL on the bench. I can't even...if you are supposed to wipe off the exercise equipment, how about the benches as well please? How convenient. I'm sure that wasn't an accident.
Yea, I've heard Europeans view nudity in a different light than us puritanical Americans. And this whole subject is why nurses have to deal with some seriously awful stuff. Ever had a loved one in the ICU? Nurses help them with literally everything.
Last Friday, I didn't either. I put my stuff in the locker, and got ready to work out and she was still just sitting there. She might have added looking around.
I see no other theory than that all gyms hire a dozen or so gross old people of each gender to do nothing more than walk around all day in gym changerooms completely naked. They don't workout, they don't swim or play sports. Just completely naked. All day long. Why do they hire them? Sadism.
I've already spend one extra unplanned night in Philadelphia. Looking like it might be two. They just cancelled my flight again. I have a plane, but for some reason the gubmint requires certified pilots or some bullshit to fly it home. Thanks a fucking ton Obama!
We had a special ed kid who would paddle around the pool on swim days on his back with his dick hard, like a scene from Hunt for Tard October.
This was in America. Nudity is one thing, but a hairy Eye of Sauron peering out over the Mordor of the showers is even beyond what Euros would accept.
I think you get to a point where you don't give a fuck about what other people think of your body. Which is kind of cool. Locker rooms are super gay, anyway. Not in a bad or uncomfortable way, but they really are.
Putting aside the obviously weird old people who spend excessive amounts of time naked in the locker room, are you all really that afraid of being naked in front of other people? Did none of you play any sports growing up? Do some of you really bring your disgusting sweaty bodies into your cars without showering first? It's only weird if you make it weird.