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Was this Standard Gym Teacher Behavior?

When I was in the 7th and 8tth grade, we had gang showers. The gym teacher, a recent college grad, would stand at a small window and watch us showering. If anyone got a boner, which happened at that age, he would point it out and mock the kid.

Sometimes he changed with us and showered with us.

Sometimes, he would wrestle some of the guys in class when we were changing and then place his jock strap over their faces. It all sounds like a porn movie fantasy. But it's all true.

I think that if this kind of behavior was reported today the teacher would be arrested. Was it standard behavior any where else? Just curious.

by Anonymousreply 128January 16, 2020 4:04 PM

Yup. Perfectly normal. Nothing to see here. Move along

by Anonymousreply 1August 10, 2014 11:45 PM

I had a gym teacher just like that. Only if any of the guys got a boner he would make us jack off while he and the other guys watched. It wasn't as humiliating as it sounds.

by Anonymousreply 2August 10, 2014 11:50 PM

This is going to be a fun thread.

by Anonymousreply 3August 10, 2014 11:52 PM

I wish I had a gym teacher like R2. We had three middle aged fat men teaching class and NO SHOWER!! We had to go through the rest of the day stinking!

by Anonymousreply 4August 11, 2014 12:00 AM

No, of course it wasn't, and you know perfectly well that it wasn't standard gym behavior.

by Anonymousreply 5August 11, 2014 12:03 AM

We had a row of individual shower stalls with an outer changing booth screened by a curtain - very private, no one had to get changed or shower in front of anyone else. I think it was a hangover from before the gym was upgraded when the boys changing rooms used to be the girls room. The teacher stood in the outer room and timed us, we were only allowed five minutes.

It was quite civilised really, except for the time limit.

by Anonymousreply 6August 11, 2014 12:06 AM

This never happened.

by Anonymousreply 7August 11, 2014 12:08 AM

good god the stories on here....smdh. You people are weird.

by Anonymousreply 8August 11, 2014 12:11 AM

Sorry to say it did. What is surprising is that none of us knew that is was anything more than horsing around. It was the 7th grade. I never said anything to my parents. It made us umcomfortable, enough so that some of the kids word swimming trunks in the gang showers or chose not to shower at all.

by Anonymousreply 9August 11, 2014 12:13 AM

My gym teacher (an ex-college football star) used to us physicals once a month. The whole gym class would stand shoulder to shoulder buck naked while he went down the line checking for hernias. If anyone got a hard-on he'd usually just give a hand job. Usually, but not always.

by Anonymousreply 10August 11, 2014 12:16 AM

Yes, weekly penis inspections.

by Anonymousreply 11August 11, 2014 12:19 AM

Because of the similar thread related to high school penis size, I was thinking about this earlier.

In junior high school (8th grade), we had a gym coach who required us to take showers at the end of gym class. He would stand in the gang shower with a clipboard and a list of student names, and we would line up to basically walk through a running shower and get our names checked off.

In eighth grade, some of us had gone through puberty, some had not. Most boys didn't know the difference between a cock that was hard or soft, so I can remember seeing boys showering with boners and nobody made fun of them because we just didn't think about it.

But that gym coach saw a parade of naked boys every day, some with boners. It seems odd now.

I heard stories about coaches showering with students, but never witnessed that myself. Wish I had, because some of our coaches were hot.

by Anonymousreply 12August 11, 2014 12:27 AM

That sounds very much like my experience. The kids laughed at the ones who were still hairless.

Getting a boner in the shower in the 7th or 8th grade was an extremely embarrassing experience. I suppose teasing the kids was a way of making us feel at ease.

by Anonymousreply 13August 11, 2014 12:37 AM

[quote]My gym teacher (an ex-college football star) used to us physicals once a month. The whole gym class would stand shoulder to shoulder buck naked while he went down the line checking for hernias. If anyone got a hard-on he'd usually just give a hand job. Usually, but not always.

You're so full of shit.

by Anonymousreply 14August 11, 2014 12:42 AM

Around 11 years of age I went with the Boy Scouts to a YMCA where we were required to swim nude.

At Roosevelt High in Des Moines I took swimming as my required sport. We were also required to swim nude.

by Anonymousreply 15August 11, 2014 12:55 AM

We were required to swim nude in our YMCA in Massachusetts too.

by Anonymousreply 16August 11, 2014 1:06 AM

LOL at the little millennial at r7. Yes indeed it did happen. We had mandatory gym 5 days per week and we didn't even have lockers. We checked our clothes in numbered baskets with the creepy "locker room attendant" and had to go thru the gang shower and wait in line post shower stark naked to yell our basket number get our clothes back. It seems crazy now but kids were trained not to question adults back then...except for my brother who got suspended for breaking the nose of a creeper who groped him in naked gym world. More power to my bro.

by Anonymousreply 17August 11, 2014 1:12 AM

Way too many old queens on this thread posting their idiotic fantasies. So sad and so pathetic.

by Anonymousreply 18August 11, 2014 1:55 AM

Then go to another thread, R18. But your dick is hard.

by Anonymousreply 19August 11, 2014 1:59 AM

Only saw my gym teacher shower once ....he left the door of his office open ......but just that one time. Sadly.

by Anonymousreply 20August 11, 2014 2:00 AM

Not quite to those lengths but after gym class he handed out towels and made sure everyone scrubbed their asses. Male gym teachers seemed to consider at smear on their reputations if one of their students didn't leave their classes shower fresh and odorless.

Gym in those days was fun though. It was considered a natural requirement for High School boys to have the exercise. Everyone seemed to linger in the showers and be in no big hurry. A wet head from gym class was kind of an equivalent to a hall pass for being late to your next class. It was just understood. So if you had a shitty class you hated after gym you took your sweet time.

Of course those were the days before prepping for tests and common core and teachers were more human.

Remember the old rule of one hour of homework a night? You weren't supposed to do more than that? You should see the insane amount of homework kids get today.

by Anonymousreply 21August 11, 2014 2:01 AM

My gym teacher would shower (which none of us 6th graders did after swimming class) and then stand in front of us an elaborately dry every nook and cranny of his body.

He later became the high school Principal.

Yes it all happened in Pennsylvania (Pennsatucky)

by Anonymousreply 22August 11, 2014 2:33 AM

Did you go to CALVERT HALL ?

by Anonymousreply 23August 11, 2014 2:37 AM

R21 - one hour of homework a night? When was this?

We always had multiple hours of homework - 3-4 hours - starting in junior high. This was in the 80's.

We had the gang showers too and had to shower everyday too. We had gym first period, so it was stupid to take another shower an hour after you took a shower in the morning before school. Particularly when you weren't sweaty.

by Anonymousreply 24August 11, 2014 2:41 AM

Dear Mandate Readers' Forum,

You'll never guess what used to happen at my middle school...

by Anonymousreply 25August 11, 2014 2:41 AM

Imagine fatties doing this in gym class today? Shit back in the day even the little girls could do it. Could you imagine gym classes even being allowed to send these toddlers up to the gym ceiling today? LOL Madison would wet her pants.

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by Anonymousreply 26August 11, 2014 2:47 AM

Went to a Catholic boys high school in the 70's, and we had to swim in the nude. Always wondered why some of the priests used to drop by to watch from the pool balcony! Also in 7-8 grades, we had to shower after gym class in a gang shower. I heard the coach, who was a hot 20-something, used to shower with the team after practice. I really wanted to see that. Oh, by the way, he went on to be a priest. Go figure!

by Anonymousreply 27August 11, 2014 2:48 AM

You're not very good at this OP.

by Anonymousreply 28August 11, 2014 2:54 AM

In my junior high, the teacher was a hot athlete right out of college. He was back with the guys again and loved horsing around. Looking back you would think that he had not learned appropriate boundaries between child and adult and that he was an adult.

Yes, he coached track, too and showered with the team. He was a very handsome man. I saw him naked a couple of times and will never forget.

by Anonymousreply 29August 11, 2014 2:56 AM

r27 that is creepy. The catholic priesthood seems to be one big pedophile protection racket.

by Anonymousreply 30August 11, 2014 3:09 AM

Great thread! I could stay up all night reading stories like these.

by Anonymousreply 31August 11, 2014 3:28 AM

I found out I was allergic to petroleum jelly because of my gym teacher. He always told me I would be doing myself a favor of keeping my anus lubed with vaseline. I never question his reasoning and simply did as he suggested. When he found out he fucked me in his office and told me to imagine how much it would have hurt if it weren't for the vaseline. So I was very grateful in the end.

by Anonymousreply 32August 11, 2014 3:51 AM

Public school - late 70s into the 80s. Gang showers. At least 3 gym teachers showered with us thru the years.

by Anonymousreply 33August 11, 2014 4:04 AM

I remember my 10th grade gym coach checking my prostate. I asked him if both of his hands were supposed to be on my shoulders as he did it but he just grunted and told me to shut up.

by Anonymousreply 34August 11, 2014 4:21 AM

"Remember the old rule of one hour of homework a night? You weren't supposed to do more than that? You should see the insane amount of homework kids get today."

You must be a young'un. The rule was usually a half an hour per grade. For example: 8th grade = 4 hours homework

I never understood the showering after gym class thing and thankfully we didn't have to do it in our high school. How much did y'all stink? Clean sweat doesn't stink and deodorant actually works.

by Anonymousreply 35August 11, 2014 5:42 AM

LOL, R32!

I think some of these old girls are early onset and have confused fantasy and reality. Nobody was swimming nude at school in the 70s.

by Anonymousreply 36August 11, 2014 5:45 AM

I started middle school in 1992 (Massachusetts) and by then no one was required to shower after gym though there were gang showers but those were from days gone by and only used by the school teams after practice/games. But during school hours we just merely changed into our gym clothes, had gym, and then changed back and went to our next class.

by Anonymousreply 37August 11, 2014 6:11 AM

60s/70s California kid here. Never had more than 2 hours of homework. Usually it was about an hour.

Gang showers, but the coaches sure never got in there with us.

by Anonymousreply 38August 11, 2014 7:05 AM

BTW: We brought our own shorts/sweats from home; we didn't have gym uniforms like I see in a lot of '70s/'80s movies, nor were the boys and girls separated. Did they really do those things then?

by Anonymousreply 39August 11, 2014 7:15 AM

California here to. 70's we had about 1 hour of homework per class, 5 classes a day.

by Anonymousreply 40August 11, 2014 7:37 AM

In the 70's public schools California we were required to go to gym class every day.

Gang showers, and waiting in line naked behind 20 guys for a dry towel. Towel boys really existed. The school did the towel laundry, I still remember that burnt caramel smell.

As far as parent were concerned, Junior High is were we were expected to "grow up" and be a man. that meant not being freaked out by seeing other people of the same sex naked.

None of the parents though this was abnormal. They though they were doing you a favor.

In fact, that's why some coaches showered there too, to show you how normal it is to shower after sports because you smell.

As a gay man not out yet, it was traumatizing.

by Anonymousreply 41August 11, 2014 8:01 AM

Was his name Jerry Sandusky ?

by Anonymousreply 42August 11, 2014 8:07 AM

I skipped gym class for the whole two weeks of swimming instruction (there was an indoor pool at my high school) and almost failed the class due to the absence. Had to get a note from home that I was sick, thus having to come out to parents.

Had to explain my fetish for speedos (this was 1977 and I had jerked off many times to that pic of Mark Spitz and all his medals). Couldn't fathom showering, then swimming with classmates all in their skimpy swimsuits without getting a hard-on.

Everytime in middle school when we had to gang shower I got hard cause I was naked around other guys. Just being naked I got hard, horny teenager that I was.

by Anonymousreply 43August 11, 2014 8:20 AM

Female here. In the 70's we had a very butch gym teacher who was like a grizzled old drill sergeant. I can still see her clearly in my mind's eye with her leathery skin, knobby knees, gym skirt and whistle. She was like a cartoon. I'm sure the highlight of her day was watching us shower. We were required to get naked and line up at the entrance of a 'U" shaped communal shower. Then we'd run through it to the exit where she stood handing out towels. So stupid. We barely even got wet. Everyone knew she was a gross old perv, but no one did anything about it. That's just how it was back then. You didn't question authority.

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by Anonymousreply 44August 11, 2014 8:27 AM

Interesting R44, I thought it was only happening to the boys. The girls seemed to be above all that...so it seemed.

by Anonymousreply 45August 11, 2014 8:35 AM

For all the naysayers, nude swimming was required in YMCA's and many schools up until the early 70's. See the documentary at the link.

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by Anonymousreply 46August 11, 2014 8:39 AM

We were forced to shower after gym classes. I don't really remember if any of the teachers showered with us, but it is possible. I must say that I didn't even once have one or see a hard-on in the showers during my time in various schools. That's possibly because I'm from Northern Europe and going to sauna naked with other people was pretty much the norm ever since being little kids. Sure it was a bit embarrassing at first at school with new people but you got used to it quickly.

TBH I don't remember even starting to get a boner in the group showers even though there were some hot dudes there. I had two of the most gorgeous gym teachers first when I was 13 and then when I was 17. Jesus they were hot, but unfortunately they never got their kits off. I must say, though, that I have gotten hard few times when in sauna with just the wrong people: one time with my superhot brother-in-law and another with my super straight roommate at high school, so I'm certainly not immune to nudity.

by Anonymousreply 47August 11, 2014 8:47 AM

Junior high & high school in the early-mid 80s. We were never required to shower, it was always optional. But when swimming was required you were getting undressed anyway, so most guys showered since you were covered in the disgusting over-chlorinated water of the pool. If you showered, you'd have to go to the Coach's office for a towel. So basically the coach would end up with an office full of naked boys, coming and going. The coach would shower if it was last period gym, so you would get an eyeful if that was your schedule. He would often stand there in his towel, waiting for most of the kids to finish in the shower, but if you dawdled around in the shower, he would end up coming in. Big and built, cock a-swingin'.

by Anonymousreply 48August 11, 2014 10:34 AM

[R2], Jacking off in front of your classmates?

Gawd, I say that's emotionally traumatizing.

by Anonymousreply 49August 11, 2014 10:40 AM

How many of you remember the starchy smell of the gym towels?

by Anonymousreply 50August 11, 2014 12:55 PM

R46, in that video, they get an e-mail from a gym teacher who started working in 1979 and he swears no such things occurred then. But if he were a grown adult by then, doesn't that mean he went to school in the '50s or '60s when school showers and nude swimming were standard practice? How could he say it's a fallacy, when he probably went through it himself growing up? I could understand a new gym teacher now saying that, since he would have been born long after that, but the gym teacher who started in 1979 wasn't that far removed from that era. The narrator even said it was standard practice until the mid-1970s.

by Anonymousreply 51August 11, 2014 1:11 PM

The Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard's basic training (boot camp) had swim classes where everyone was naked.

by Anonymousreply 52August 11, 2014 1:24 PM

R52, my brother was in basic training in 2003 and he said you had absolutely no privacy. Gang showers and toilets without stalls. He said sometimes a commanding officer (male or female) would pass through.

by Anonymousreply 53August 11, 2014 1:39 PM

[quote]If anyone got a boner, which happened at that age, he would point it out and mock the kid.

That never happened.

by Anonymousreply 54August 11, 2014 1:43 PM

[quote]Nobody was swimming nude at school in the 70s.

My brother swam nude at a Catholid boy's high school in the early 80s. They discontinued it before I started.

by Anonymousreply 55August 11, 2014 1:46 PM

My high school did not have a pool, but I remember swimming naked in the YMCA pool when I was taking my first swimming lessons in the 1960's. In high school, we were expected to shower after class, and change into our gear in the locker rooms. Although the coaches rarely came into the showers unless people were misbehaving, they had offices which looked directly out at our locker. Even in college and grad school in the 80's, gang showers and sauna/steam in the men's locker room where guys went naked were the norm. Nobody freaked out about being naked in front of another guy. I also worked in health clubs up until around 2007, and most of them had the same arrangment It was only in the early 2000's that you saw the younger 20 somethings begin to do the towel dance and/or come already dressed to work out and leave without showering. I blame it on a lot of the high profile, if false, molestion cases of the 80's like the McMartin's. Suddenly children being taught that any type of touch was wrong and the thing about "show us on the doll" etc. created a generation of both men and women ashaed of their bodies.

by Anonymousreply 56August 11, 2014 2:17 PM

Then there was also summer camp and the Boy Scouts. It was considered a healthy thing to be nude outdoors. Nothing shameful there. Gang showers.

by Anonymousreply 57August 11, 2014 2:24 PM

I grew up in a very modest household. Some boys grew up with father's who had no issue being nude with them or even peeing with them. My father would not even go shirtless.

So to go to school and change in a locker room and shower with a lot of other boys was traumatic at first. In the 8th grade we were the last class. Often the gym teacher would shower with us. Seeing a naked man for the first time was pretty amazing. We got used to it.

by Anonymousreply 58August 11, 2014 2:28 PM

I didn't know unisex bathrooms/showers existed on some college campus until this past season of PARENTHOOD. The kid Drew began his freshman year at UC Berkeley and the bathroom scenes included males and females coming to and fro with their robes and shower kits. I later Googled it because I just couldn't believe it, and it's true! Berkeley has co-ed bathrooms!

by Anonymousreply 59August 11, 2014 2:33 PM

"You must be a young'un. The rule was usually a half an hour per grade. For example: 8th grade = 4 hours homework."

Are you people serious? Four hours of homework a night? Sounds way excessive to me.

by Anonymousreply 60August 11, 2014 2:34 PM

[quote] Gang showers, and waiting in line naked behind 20 guys for a dry towel. Towel boys really existed. The school did the towel laundry, I still remember that burnt caramel smell.

Yup. Graduated high school in CA in '75. No towel boys, however. In Junior high we had showers that had 5 nozzles around a single post, so you'd stand with other naked guys all around you. Only an on/off handle and they kept it pretty cold so we'd get in and out quickly. Since there weren't enough showers for all of us at the same time, we'd line up naked and when one guy finished, the next guy would step in, so bumping into each other while naked wasn't uncommon.

One day somebody noticed that the door to the control panel wasn't locked and he turned up the temperature of the water. EVERYBODY got into the showers at once to take advantage of the hot water. The gym teacher saw the steam billowing through the locker room and came running out of his office and gave us hell. We stood there, dripping wet while he demanded to know who altered the temperature. Of course nobody ratted the guy out so we all had to towel off, get back into our gym clothes, and run a mile, followed by another (cold) shower. We all got to our next class late.

As to why we had to take showers, we were told it was because allowing sweat to go unwashed in your groin caused jock itch. We were also taught to dry off thoroughly. And, at that age, guys can smell pretty bad after working out.

The first day of 7th grade gym we were told that showers were mandatory, and that was that. Maybe we were more worried about going off to Vietnam after graduation than someone seeing you naked.

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by Anonymousreply 61August 11, 2014 2:34 PM

In my 70's high school it was common showers for the boys but the girls had individual stalls with no doors. We saw the girls' showers during yearly open house.

We had to bring our own towel and the teacher would smell them and tell us to get them washed if necessary.

The teachers had their own individual showers in their offices and if a teacher saw a boy with a boner he would suggest the boy take his shower in his stall. No hint of molestation, merely compassionate discretion.

by Anonymousreply 62August 11, 2014 2:49 PM

In 6th grade our school (on the same property as the h.s.) was huge and brandnew, so the high school guys came over to practice in our gym. When we pubescents went in to change back into our street clothes, a team of wrestlers were always there early getting into their singlets. I'm not lying. I'm sure it turned me gay, all that swinging cock at a formative age.

by Anonymousreply 63August 12, 2014 3:44 PM

Seeing my gym teacher's hairy naked muscular legs and big cut cock sealed the deal for me. I was young and unsure of what was going on. But when he changed and showered with us I still don't know if that was healthy male bonding or borderline child abuse.

by Anonymousreply 64August 12, 2014 4:26 PM

It used to be that the very last person anyone would assume was a gay or a sexual predator was the gym teacher or the coach. Now after reading all these testimonials (and dismissing the fantasies) it is clear that what was once considered innocent camaraderie and mentoring would now be considered a form of sexual abuse.

Which was it? Is it a healthy thing to be naked among your peers in junior high? Should you ever see an adult male, who is not a relative, naked?

When does horsing around become inappropriate touching? What can be dismissed as adolescent curiosity? When does all this become traumatic and unhealthy?

by Anonymousreply 65August 13, 2014 5:58 PM

When I was growing up gym was maybe 30-40 minutes, if not shorter. Can't exactly understand how people could change; work up enough of a sweat to need to shower; shower; get a hand job and change back.

by Anonymousreply 66August 13, 2014 6:05 PM

[R66] The shower was an attempt to teach young teens good hygiene. You get sweaty, you shower. I remember teachers complaining about students arriving in their classes sweaty and unwashed from gym. Our gym classes were more than an hour.

Also, we did not include hand jobs in the curriculum. That must have been another school. Fantasy Prep, maybe?

by Anonymousreply 67August 13, 2014 6:19 PM

Complete nonsense that seeing adults naked would somehow negatively affect a kid if it happens completely non-sexually. I think it's pretty sad to think that a society is so scared of nudity that everything about it is easily labeled to be about sex.

I'm sure there have been and there are pedos among teachers. But I think it's good for boys to have adult male models when growing up, and one part of that is seeing them naked. Is it necessary? I don't know, probably not. To me it has always been about companionship, sort of a brotherhood, naked guys together in a sauna or in the showers. Because I've been doing it since I was a little boy I haven't really seen those situations as sexual, although they have been that, too, on few occasions when I was already an adult.

I don't deny that there isn't a certain tension if I'm naked in the sauna with a guy I fancy when compared to being naked in the sauna with women or men I don't like but still the sexual element is pretty distant.

by Anonymousreply 68August 13, 2014 6:26 PM

My junior high gym teacher would occasionally shower with us, if it was an afternoon class or if we did swimming that day. I still remember the the way shampoo ran down his hairy chest and dripped off his cock.

He was really fit and I think he liked being admired and showing off his body to us boys. He wasn't otherwise pervy or predatorial.

This was in the 1970s when people weren't so uptight about everything.

by Anonymousreply 69August 13, 2014 6:29 PM

In high school we had a hunky jerk of a gym teacher. The real coach was always tied up with team stuff during our gym class (it was a sports-focused school and our gym class was the last period, so anyone not on a team had to do the class and team members went to practice with the coach) and we got stuck with this guy in his 20s who had no business being a gym teacher.

He did the sorts of things mentioned here. A lot of humiliation, towel snapping, watching showers ("to make sure you ladies aren't dropping soap") and once he got a guy down and acted like he was going to shove a hairbrush up his ass, because the guy told him to fuck off.

We were in a pretty rough school. And four of the guys had enough, and got him in the showers and gang fucked him while we all watched. After they were done a few other guys took turns - face down, water coming down on him. And then we all left. He never made a sound through it all.

He called in sick two days but the following Monday he was back like nothing happened, except he was quieter. And it turned into a regular fuck session, although eventually most of us got fucked by him, too, and were doing each other. He turned out to be a nice guy, just not ready to be a teacher. We'd go over to his house, a few of us, and fuck and he'd give us beer. But he left after that year and we heard he got married.

by Anonymousreply 70August 13, 2014 6:45 PM

[quote] And four of the guys had enough, and got him in the showers and gang fucked him while we all watched.

Yup, that happened. A bunch of students anally gang raped a teacher and no one ever said anything?

Bitch, please.

by Anonymousreply 71August 13, 2014 7:34 PM

I just ran into my high school gym teacher. What a wreck! Too many beers over the years! There goes that fantasy!

by Anonymousreply 72August 13, 2014 7:43 PM

A lot YOU know about inner city Catholic parochial high schools in the 1970s, R70. At the same school three of the priests ended up going to prison for sex with students, a nun quit the order to marry a kid she had in class sophomore year (they waited until he graduated), and boys being gang raped (never girls) was so frequent the school had a priest talk to all the boys at assembly about taking precautions, fighting urges, and not hurting people - very effective. A cute priest never was caught for his gay fun because everyone liked him.

Plus another male teacher (English, he was 27) had crushes on guys, had them over for booze parties, and attempted suicide when he thought he was going to be exposed.

And the jocks and toughs (the latter being the ones who went after the gym teacher) also were hustlers in the park every week, which was how they had the savvy to recognize the guy was a closet case and so they nailed him.

So sorry (or glad for you) that your own experience was so easy-going.

by Anonymousreply 73August 13, 2014 8:12 PM

As a teacher, I wish they still made kids shower after gym. All they do now is spray themsleves with AXE or some other awuful "body spray" and it makes the after sweat stench even worse. We have raised two generations now since the 70's unable to cope with naked in front of each other? What has gone wrong?

by Anonymousreply 74August 14, 2014 5:24 AM

No, I don't think the horsing around was "standard gym behavior" but I do think that some of the nudity, gang showering and camaraderie were a healthy adolescent experience. Most of us never get comfortable walking around naked among other men. At a nude beach it can be a liberating experience.

In junior high school/middle school there are often not enough male role models for boys. The PE instructor should be one of them. Encouraging students who are not gifted athletically to participate in sports and physical activities is a special art.

I guess I should end this by suggesting everyone should get a chance to swing on the coach's cock at some time or another but if I knew some way that that would not traumatize a 14 year old I would recommend it.

by Anonymousreply 75August 14, 2014 5:40 AM

It's funny though the double standard. Every other year we had physicals in school. It would last a couple of days for the boys and then a couple of days for the girls. It was broken up like A through G.... etc...

The boys stripped down to their underwear and started a line from the nurses office out the door and around the corridor. Nothing special was done to block the view from anyone. I still don't know where the girl physicals were held. It was top secret.

This was from the 70s to the early 80s. In rural Connecticut out by UCONN. A snobby, preppy little town. We had eye and ear tests too. It was a pretty small school. I think I had maybe 50 people in my graduating class. The towns out there have grown quite a bit. It's depressing. I don't even recognize them with all the development. Anyway, I'm sure they're like the rest of the schools now and don't offer jack shit like that anymore.

by Anonymousreply 76August 14, 2014 11:17 AM

I was in high school 1979-83, well after post-gym showers were abolished. The gym teacher told us to change before and after gym "so you don't have flies buzzing around you in your next class," advice that I assume was weakly carried over from the days of showering. Rarely I saw a guy strip completely and change his underwear in the locker room, and even more rarely one or two guys would come in and shower after sports practice while we were in the locker room—teams still showered, of course, but I had nothing to do with team sports.

It wasn't until grad school that I started stripping and showering in the locker room (after swimming), and learned it was kind of fun, especially when the college water polo team coincided. Actually I once showered at summer camp when I was 13. There were already older boys showering who stayed, casually talking their shit, after my quick rinse and hasty departure. I was extremely shy about getting naked for it, especially since a middle-aged counselor lingered around in the changing area—at the time I just felt embarrassed about feeling so embarrassed, but in hindsight, what kind of perve hangs around waiting for a 13-year-old to take his clothes off?

by Anonymousreply 77August 14, 2014 11:58 AM

I could never figure out my PE coach at the time. He was the one everyone dreaded getting assigned to. Hardcore x-military made us jump around like a pack of recruits.

He seemed to love being outside in the cold weather. He loved the word INVIGORATING.

He picked on me, saw I was the weaker one in the bunch, made me do extra exercises as punishment. I think he knew I was gay before I did.

My gym close went missing one time, mother came to complain and demanded to go into the locker room and low and behold they reappear.

Called me into his office once time which was right inside the locker room, but demanded I see him immediately after the shower, no towel or cloths like I was in some kind of trouble. Standing there naked, dripping wet in front of him, I dont even remember what for, but WTF?

And even when we were outside, before we took our first lap, we had to run by him one at a time snapping our jock strap near the butt cheek to prove we were wearing proper sports gear. Double WTF. And no one though that was abnormal.

He never touched me though, so I am still confused to this day. And thanks to him, I have a Jock fetish.

by Anonymousreply 78August 14, 2014 12:19 PM

I also remember the gang showers with the central pole being crowded too.

Not only did you bump into other guys, the water and soap splashing off their chest and back would hit you in the face like a thousand pearl necklaces.

by Anonymousreply 79August 14, 2014 12:24 PM

We were such dirtbags in the 80s, would wear our gym/sports uniforms under our clothes, before and after gym/games- 1980s NYC public schools...the showers in junior high didnt even work. Gym teachers were nice enough, the perverts taught math. I always had a strong 'silver daddy' attraction, and wished some of my teachers would touch me.

I only became comfortable showering/naked around others because of boy scout camp- perverted,sadistic older kids would make is shower for five minutes, in cold water - we were watched/timed.

It is kind of sad to see grown men at the gym afraid, or unable to shower/change/be nude...and no, its not my leering.

by Anonymousreply 80August 14, 2014 12:35 PM

[quote] And even when we were outside, before we took our first lap, we had to run by him one at a time snapping our jock strap near the butt cheek to prove we were wearing proper sports gear. Double WTF. And no one though that was abnormal.

Usually we would start gym class by running laps, but every once in awhile we'd have to assemble in the gym and climb the dreaded rope. The instructor would hold the base of the rope and look up your shorts. If he didn't see your butt, you got sent back to put on a jockstrap. And yes, nobody thought this was unusual, but then again, it was 1971.

Even though I had (and still have) scrawny little arms, somehow I managed to climb the rope. I was so thrilled I forgot to climb down properly and got terrible rope burns on my hands, but it sure beat the teasing some guys got when all they could do was hang on the rope like a salami at Katz's deli.

by Anonymousreply 81August 14, 2014 2:14 PM

[quote] Encouraging students who are not gifted athletically to participate in sports and physical activities is a special art.

Reminds me of Mr Weiss, 9th grade gym class. Young and really handsome. I was terrified because I just knew he would be the toughest gym teacher ever. But he sat us down the first day and told us that none of had the opportunity to choose our parents, and that some of us would never be good athletes, but all you needed to get an 'A' in his class was to show up every day, suit up, and try your hardest for 45 minutes.

So for the fist time ever, instead of slacking off, figuring I was just going to get a 'C' anyway, I gave gym class my all, and fuck if I didn't get an 'A'. My father was so stunned he turned my report card over to make sure it was really mine.

It always surprised me that more gym teachers didn't follow this theory. Even if you were the last guy to finish after running laps, he'd call out your time, and congratulate you on knocking off two seconds. It certainly did not instill in me a love of athletics, but he did teach me the importance of making incremental improvements, which applies in so many areas of life.

by Anonymousreply 82August 14, 2014 2:28 PM

I was terrible at gym but excelled at one track event: the high jump. For some reason I could jump and beat every other boy in class. Once, after being champion of the day,in the locker room I looked down and saw two large hairy feet beside me. I slowly raised my glance and saw it was my gym teacher beside me changing. I guess he had decided we were bonding.

When he got completely naked it threw me off balance because it was so hot. He just smiled and I ran off to the showers. I never jumped again.

I wish I had had the courage to go talk to him about being a better athlete.

by Anonymousreply 83August 14, 2014 2:37 PM

R82, do you think he had an anus?

by Anonymousreply 84August 14, 2014 2:37 PM

R82, your Mr. Weiss sounds like a decent guy and a great gym teacher. His way is exactly the way gym classes should be.

by Anonymousreply 85August 14, 2014 2:48 PM

Bring back the days of group showers and when everyone was naked in the locker room. Bring back gym teachers showering with their students. Bring back naked swim.

by Anonymousreply 86August 14, 2014 3:28 PM

I know everyone says it but I'm glad I grew up when I did. The head gym teacher was ex military and a little gruff on the surface but underneath was pretty cool. The assistant was right out of college. Big and dumb, really quite, and so fucking hot.

We had one big shower with the shower poles and some on the wall. We used to get the shower floor wet then shampoo it up and do slip and slide until it would get broken up. Towel snapping. Monkey in the middle with someone's clothes. It was a good time. Gym was my favorite "class".

by Anonymousreply 87August 17, 2014 12:17 AM

R86, Hear, hear!

by Anonymousreply 88August 17, 2014 12:21 AM

Anybody have any "learning' experiences and unusual male bonding with camp counselors?

A co-worker of mine and her husband were horrified that her young son played games at camp that included comparing boners. I had to ask what she thought pubescent boys did in camp.

by Anonymousreply 89August 18, 2014 12:30 AM

Good times, R87.

by Anonymousreply 90August 18, 2014 3:04 PM

R82, that's a really lovely story.

R83, I was also really good at the high jump, but no one including me realized it until my senior year. I had wasted the three previous years trying to run the 100m dash and sucked, hard. Wasn't good at any other sports. Were you a little guy, by any chance? I was -- and still am -- 5'8".

by Anonymousreply 91August 18, 2014 3:22 PM

I did things like that with kids my own age r89, but who the hell tells their mother about it?

by Anonymousreply 92August 18, 2014 3:41 PM

[R93] The mother thought it was appalling and wanted to meet with camp administrators. Apparently, there was some competition going on and her son was afraid that if he lost he would have to give a blow job.

Based on my experience at Boy Scout Camp, all of this was pretty much par for the course. The jocks were always threatening to cornhole the geeks but they never delivered. (alas!)

As far as I was concerned, this was all part of bonding and growing up. She asked if I ever thought it was why I was gay, as though camp had somehow twisted me.

No talking about boners with your mother will make you gay.

by Anonymousreply 93August 18, 2014 4:26 PM

Since doing the coach or gym teacher is a staple of everyday gay porn, a lot of people either had the experience or wish they had.

by Anonymousreply 94August 24, 2014 1:34 AM

I just ran a hook-up ad on Craiglist. One of my high school classmates who was a star athlete and college basketball player responded. He's married with kids and on the downlow.

Do I meet up with him anonymously? Do i wait for a social occasion to flirt and hit on him? Do I become best friends with his wife?

Do take this opportunity to work through my coach fantasies?

Do I try to become friends?

Do I forget he responded to the ad?

by Anonymousreply 95September 6, 2014 3:30 PM

R95,

"Do I forget he responded to the ad?"

Yes.

by Anonymousreply 96September 6, 2014 3:34 PM

R95, did he remember it was you?

by Anonymousreply 97September 6, 2014 3:46 PM

[R97] Replies have been anonymous. So he's dealing with a screen name but his email program shows his screen name and his real name.

When you access aol.mail though Firefox it gives people's real names.

by Anonymousreply 98September 6, 2014 3:49 PM

And you wonder why they don't want gays in professional sports.

by Anonymousreply 99September 6, 2014 3:55 PM

[quote]you wonder why they don't want gays in professional sports.

I agree. Imagine if some guy on the team went home with a gay guy on the team. That would be so awful.

by Anonymousreply 100September 6, 2014 4:06 PM

[quote]I agree. Imagine if some guy on the team went home with a gay guy on the team. That would be so awful.

I think they get around that by volunteering to be roommates on the road.

by Anonymousreply 101September 16, 2014 11:01 PM

Lots of kink on those out of town team trips.

by Anonymousreply 102September 17, 2014 5:57 PM

Gym every day. Couldn't shower through grade 4, then had to shower in grade 5. Put your clothes in a full size locker, went to the gang shower, while the PE teacher and his down's syndrome assistant watched from a cage about 10 feet away, then you went to them naked for a towel. In high school showered every day the first two years, but the last two we went to "co-ed gym" because of "Title IX" and we no longer were required to shower or even change clothes into a uniform, and started doing things like playing co-ed volleyball in our street clothes, or square dancing. Fitness went out the window.

by Anonymousreply 103September 17, 2014 6:13 PM

The worst was one year I had the gymnastic coach who had been hired to bring us a state gymanstics championship (which never happened). He believed lazy Americans were in bad shape and that every child should be able to run 2.5 miles, so gym every day was running 2.5 miles and whatever else there was time for - sometimes nothing.

by Anonymousreply 104September 17, 2014 6:15 PM

I saw the current coach at my old high school this weekend. Seeing a man like him naked when I was in high school would have rocked my world. God created handsome well built men for a reason.

by Anonymousreply 105September 29, 2014 2:52 PM

This isn't really about a gym teacher but one of the councelors on the two day summer camp. He did look over us doing sports so let's pretend he was almost a gym teacher.

I was 12 or 13 at the time and I was probably just starting my puberty because I thought in some vague way that his lanky and muscular body was hot. He was about 25 and seemed very adult.

We were all going swimming and maybe five of us young kids were changing into our swimming trunks. He walks in front of us to the free seat and pulls down his pants revealing a half hard cock that was maybe 8" long. It was thin and curved downwards and absolutely gorgeous. The situation was bizarre. I had seen loads of cocks, both kids and adults, during my childhood in group showers but this was the first one that I remember seeing sexually in real life, I mean it was huge.

And there was no more to it. I don't remember paying more attention to it. I still wonder how in the hell did he manage to stuff that monster into his speedos, but I have a vague memory of huge vpl in his blue trunks, stuffed between his legs. I did sometimes wonder why he got half hard among pre-teen boys although to be honest I'm not sure it was even hard. He had two brothers (one of them gay) who both sported almost obscene bulges in their jeans.

I've seen him many times when I've visited my parents, last time just few days ago. He's still lanky and looking hot in his blue-collar overalls, even though he's now about 55. No surprise that I always think of his huge cock when I see him. I still sometimes wank fantasizing meeting him in a beach changing room where we end up fucking.

by Anonymousreply 106September 29, 2014 4:05 PM

It is always interesting to go back home and encounter men whom you considered hot at various points in your life. Some still are. Most are not. The jocks from high school peaked a long long time ago.

The dynamic is interesting when you meet up with someone who knows that you used to find him attractive. You no longer do but he think he stills has that effect on you. Comedies are made from this.

And sometimes you meet some men and you wonder why you never ever noticed them previously, eg. the Nerd who joined the Marines, grew into his manhood and is now a cop. Very nice.

by Anonymousreply 107September 29, 2014 4:12 PM

I never wanted to go back to see the gorgeous high school coach. It's better to remember him in his younger hunkiness.

by Anonymousreply 108September 29, 2014 9:09 PM

R10y you should ask him about it.

by Anonymousreply 109September 29, 2014 9:14 PM

sorry, meant R106, you should ask him.

by Anonymousreply 110September 29, 2014 9:31 PM

R110, ask what, to have sex with me? I couldn't really. His wifey, who's older than him by few years, is a friend of my parents, and her daughter (he's not the father, they got together when they were a bit older already and have never married or have kids) went to school with me. TBH, the guy exudes some kind of silent sexual energy that makes me breath a little faster, and there's just something that says he might be up for little action with the guys. There's just something in his eyes. It's like he looks straight deep inside you and sees stuff. I always thought his eyes said "Hey gay boy, I see you watching me... and it's ok".

In some other universe I would've tested the waters with him a bit when I was younger but it would've always been weird because he's always lived around where I grew up where everybody knows everybody.

If you talked of asking about him getting (possibly) half-hard in front of young boys then what can I say, I hope he's not into kids. I've never heard him hanging out with young boys although he did play soccer at one point in the team with other adult men and might've been around younger boys then if he coached them. Many of those soccer dudes were involved in coaching the boys and teens soccer teams. There's never been any rumors about abuse, though, so I hope there hasn't been any.

by Anonymousreply 111October 2, 2014 6:26 PM

I saw the gym teacher's son at church today. He's the quarterback at the high school here. He looks just like his father in his 20's. Hot. Hot. Hot. Daddy's a mess but a nice guy apparently.

by Anonymousreply 112October 5, 2014 7:45 PM

Showers for everyone!!!!

by Anonymousreply 113October 7, 2014 10:04 PM

Hot, OP.

by Anonymousreply 114January 16, 2020 2:35 AM

[quote] "You must be a young'un. The rule was usually a half an hour per grade. For example: 8th grade = 4 hours homework."

That can't be right or by the time you became a Senior you would have to do six hours of homework, in addition to seven to eight hours of school. That would only leave you ten to eleven hours to sleep, eat, watch tv, etc... I didn't do that much homework in college, except when writing a term paper.

by Anonymousreply 115January 16, 2020 3:39 AM

There was observation at my schools' locker room showers as well, but it was understood that it was for the safety of the kids. You wouldn't want a mix of weak and bullying students in a secluded area with no adult observation and supervision.

by Anonymousreply 116January 16, 2020 3:53 AM

Showering stopped by the 80s. Bummer - I would have loved it, but I guess it also would have provided stress - the fear of getting a hardon around other classmates.

by Anonymousreply 117January 16, 2020 3:54 AM

We started having to change clothes in 7th grade. After the workout you had to strip down, and line up to go through the showers. Eight shower heads on either side of narrow hallway. You could go stand under a shower head and clean up properly, but most everyone simply walked the gauntlet as the showers were angled to spray out rather then down. Once you got to the end there was a counter/cage where an older student would ask for your number, mark you off, and give you a towel. The teacher hung out in the area, supervising the guys drying off. When we were down to just a couple of minutes left, the towel guy would bring the paper to the teacher who would make sure that the unchecked numbers were absent, or he'd round them up an order them to shower.

Pretty much every guy lived in fear of this rite of passage to manhood. But after a week or so we just got used to it. I remember a few guys starting to get hard, causing lots of giggling, but as most were just entering puberty it was literally no big deal. The only thing that made us upset was finding out that the girls got to take "half showers" where they kept their bras and panties on. We couldn't understand why they didn't have to get naked with each other as we did.

By high school, showering was optional in regular PE -Only the guys on teams had to take a shower after practice. But most of us still showered out of habit and hygiene. Yeah, there were some amazing bodies on display, but it really wasn't a sexual situation at all. Being gay, I was concentrating on not throwing a rod, so I never stared at anyone.

As for the teachers... The two in junior high were fairly hot, but they never showered with us. One was an über Christian who was exceedingly homophobic, and used to tease the boys who were effeminate, making fag jokes about them with the "real" boys. One (gay) friend in high school swears that one afternoon he was showering and one of the coaches came in to shower by him, and that the guy had a dick than hung down lower than his kneecap. It could be true -He did show a huge bulge in his track suit.

I do get a bit nostalgic over all of this. Like I said, it was never sexual. We were too innocent and too afraid for it to be otherwise. But I remember the smell of that steamy locker room, and 80-100 naked guys pushing and shoving their way through the crowds, toweling off, etc. Makes for some interesting "what if..." fantasies. But more importantly, it helped me get over the severe body shame that I grew up with. I got used to stripping down and showering around other guys. I think that's a healthy thing. I really feel sorry for today's generation of towel dancers who are so fucking uptight.

by Anonymousreply 118January 16, 2020 4:32 AM

My gym teacher and his redneck buddies, each built like a brick shithouse, would kick me to the ground and then take turns pissing on my puny cocklet.

by Anonymousreply 119January 16, 2020 7:01 AM

My games teacher in the 70's was a stunner. While explaining then demonstrating something in a rugby scrum (am British) I felt his bulge in his shorts. I couldn't resist. I was 15 and realising I liked men's bodies. He knew it was me but couldn't say anything. Just looked embarrassed whenever he saw me.

by Anonymousreply 120January 16, 2020 9:41 AM

Bullshit that never happened. The OP is writing jack off material.

by Anonymousreply 121January 16, 2020 12:37 PM

I thought it had to be bs too. Then I Googled "swimming nude at the YMCA". It's all true. Here is just one of the many stories that popped up.

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by Anonymousreply 122January 16, 2020 2:33 PM

Here's another, specifically about swimming nude in school gym class.

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by Anonymousreply 123January 16, 2020 2:39 PM

Yes. Where I grew up (Iowa), this was standard from 7th grade through 12th grade.

by Anonymousreply 124January 16, 2020 2:41 PM

That is just insane to me. I am female, born in 1967, and never knew that until today.

by Anonymousreply 125January 16, 2020 2:47 PM

I went to high school in the late 1960's. In about 1968, the gym was remodeled and a new shower added on. We all showered in the nude, and the coach's office had floor to ceiling windows looking into the shower. There would be about a dozen priests checking us all out through the window. There was one guy, Pat, who had a huge pendulous dick, and remember once simply being mesmerized by it as it was swinging off of his legs back and forth as he walked. He picked up on it, and mocked me a lot over it. He turned out to be a real hard ass guy, went right into the service after high school, and later became a police sergeant. Got jammed up from beating up suspects, and later was involved with his girlfriend committing suicide. Ran into him much later, he didn't realize who I was. He was all messed up, severe heart trouble, never realized who I was when he came up to me in a parking lot one day. He was removed from the force, lived on disability, and came up to me to ask for a jump because he saw the FOP sticker on the back of my car. He almost had a grabber when I told him who I was. I recognized him right away, but he had really become a wreck. I still think about his dark Irish looks and wagging dick, and still have daydreams of fucking his ass.

by Anonymousreply 126January 16, 2020 2:59 PM

I had a hot Italian gym teacher who was always threatening us with putting his size 13 foot up our asses, he said it like that.

We used to line up and we had to show that we were wearing (mandatory !) jock straps. I lost total respect for him one time when I saw he couldn't do simple math quickly. Ok 2 teams and we have 12 people, so that would be, let me see, (he would think so hard his eyes would roll up)... 6 each.

Years later I saw him being berated and humiliated in the supermarket by his wife because he bought the wrong sour cream. I lol'd at him, at him but he never looked up. Also, in 7th grade he was a giant to me but He was probably 5'9". I think the wife actually called him stupid. That was fun.

by Anonymousreply 127January 16, 2020 3:15 PM

A REAL 8th grade gym coach.

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