Taking showers with other guys.

I meant to say "I used to masturbated frequently at night thinking about it."

In the late 90s, at my private Catholic high school, showers were not required after PE. I don't know how I would have handled it if they were....

In grade school, during summers, my parent put my siblings and I in Extended Day, which was after school "daycare" for older kids, which became basically a day camp for older kids in the summer. They took us to a local high school to go swimming. We changed in the locker rooms (first time I saw toilets without stalls, weird). Anyway, some of the high school boys were lifeguards while we used the pool. There was a room with a glass view of the locker room, and I can remember after we were done swimming, we changed, and I look over and the lifeguards are changing and they're all naked and muscular and OMG there's his penis and thick pubes! I was 11 or 12 at the time, and it just took me by surprise, and I couldn't look away. Like magically, honest to god naked 17-year-old men in real life, right over there. Nice memory. I'm sure every gay has some sort of similar story.

I'm pretty sure "communal showering" in high school ended in the Eighties? Early Nineties? My nephews were in high school during the Aughts, and they and their classmates NEVER used the school shower(s) after gym. And, yes, everyone then proceeded to bitch all day long about how rank everyone smelled.

The local public pool had a communal men's locker room while I was going through puberty. Good times.

There's no public showering in the LA public schools for decades. Even when I went to high school in the late '70s, it was not mandatory, although it was during junior high. I thought it was some weird ritual that we all had to go through. There were privacy lawsuits so the practice of mandatory public showering after gym class was disbanded.

Great story R3. When I was younger and was in YMCA camp, we'd shower together. Some of the dads would shower too and that may have been one of the first times I had seen an adult man naked. I distinctly remember our group leader, Mr Workman, having this huge dick and hairy chest. It was all casual and innocent and the dads were just chatting away with each other like it was no big deal.

Mandatory showers post gym class has been discontinued by the late 80s when I was in high school.

I remember everyone in junior high school hating to take showers after PE. This fat senior punk was the towel monitor and used to not give the towel to anyone who wasn't wet and would send them back to shower before giving them a towel. Everyone hated it so much that our PE teacher had to give the class a lecture one day on the importance of good hygiene.

Communal showering was required in my junior high back in the mid-70s. At 14 or 15 many of the guys were already well-muscled and hung, especially the black guys. Any doubts I had about being gay were immediately dispelled. There were at least 100 mid-teen boys (7th, 8th and 9th grade) all herded together lathering up in hot water. Frequent boners were inevitable and were always called out with raucous laughter and ridicule. One of our coaches was undoubtedly a closet case, as he required "shower checks" in which each boy, after showering, had to stand in front of him with only his towel to be checked off the list. Some of the more brazen boys would stand in front of him bare-ass and leering, probably onto his game. One of the boys must have said something to his parents, because the shower checks stopped happening about mid-term, and the coach was reassigned to teach biology.

I had two classmates who had the most beautiful, thick bushes I had ever seen. I jacked to their images constantly. We had to take nude showers and stand in front of the gym teacher who checked off our names. Late in the season, when it was getting really hot, we were told to go swimming instead of going outside to play baseball. Since we hadn't brought our bathing suits, we just swam naked. It was HEAVEN.

I remember a group of horny girls climbing up on the trash bins outside the guys locker room to peek in the window. Nobody noticed them until one of them let out a scream upon seeing all the guys showering naked, including myself. Everyone started to throw shit at the window and started hooting and howling. It was like a scene out of Porkys only with the roles reversed.

Yes, and walking into the shower single-file, we had to step in a trough of that sawdust mixture they use to clean up vomit!

r11 that never happened.

I remember all the nerdy guys having bigger dicks than most of the jocks.

We had communal showers starting in 9th grade. But I'm old.

I FREQUENTLY VOLUNTEERED TO BE THE “TOWEL MONITOR.” I HAD A CLIPBOARD AND SASH.

Communal showers in high school and in college. No private suites in my day, thank God.

Locker room showers began in 8th grade. And for two years after that. It was completely humiliating and degrading, and I will never get over it. To feel so completely turned on and so embarrassed....I guess for some gay guys it was rowdy fun. Not for this one.

I was terribly near-sighted and of course didn't wear my glasses int the showers, so I missed out on all this perving you all remember so fondly.

I was in high school in early-mid nighties and showering was mandatory. The gym teacher used to come in and make sure we all got in the communal shower (he was girl obsessed, so not a child perv). Eventually, we were all told shorts or underwear could be worn if you felt uncomfortable. I remember on guy who was a year or two older, who was embarrassed because he was over developed. He was at least 9 inches and I could tell he felt he was a freak because of his huge cock. I still think of him.

First time I saw an uncut pinga. Heaven.

I went to a Catholic high school (graduated in 1978), and yes, we were required to shower at the end of gym class. But the locker room didn't actually have lockers, though. The changing room was where our school's sport teams kept their uniforms and equipment, on metal racks above the wooden benches where we sat to dress/undress, so we'd also have football uniforms and jockstraps hitting us in the head as we were changing. The smell was rather pungent. I was always jealous of what great bodies most of my classmates had. And because the majority of our students were of German heritage, lots of blond and ginger crotches. I also saw my first uncut cock: a gorgeous, very smart black guy.

I remember going to the community pool in my town - it was part of a hotel, but the pool was open to the public during the summer.

Saw a beautiful hairy man in the showers. He put on a little show for me. I jacked off to the image of watching his flaccid dick chub up and get super hard for years after.

At our community pool, there was a public shower in the bathroom. My mother must have thought I had bladder issues because I was CONSTANTLY going to the bathroom. Closest I got to naked guys until a bathhouse at 18.

With the advent of cellphone cameras, gang-showers are out. Where they do have showers they're individual stalls, with privacy curtains. The situation you describe, OP, never happens anymore.

You must mean in the US, R25. I'm in Sweden. We don't call them gang-showers, they're just showers.

I would love to be in a shower in Sweden. All those beautiful, uncut Swedes.

I can still remember the size of my classmate's dicks after all these years. Also, I don't remember anyone complaining about taking showers with the other boys. When did "we" become a nation of prudes?

in the summer before I entered high school (1971), this overweight gay kid did NOTHING but fret and obsess all summer long about what the post-gym shower would entail. I was so ashamed of my body and repressed feelings, I was sure I would be a sitting duck and subject to ridicule before all my classmates. Fortunately, nothing of the kind every transpired (the advantages of a Catholic educational facility--the guys were mostly kind and civil). But I'll never forget seeing for the first time the most beautiful boy/man in our entire class (IMO) walk into the shower room, nude. He was an athlete and entitled to his swagger and confidence (to my astonishment we became good friends as the term went on). To this day he remains my standard of male pulchritude and I will never forget him as long as I live.

Same here, R28. Our gym showers had rows of lockers directly in front of the showers, and the lockers were stacked vertically so that the guys with the lower lockers sat on the benches in front of their lockers to get dressed, while the boys with the higher lockers had to stand. Over forty years later I can still visualize the big semi-hard dicks dangling within inches of my face as a couple of black guys stood to my left and right while I sat on the bench getting dressed. That semester I tried to get the timing right as often as possible.

r29 = MARY!

More memories than I can count. Still amazingly vivid. Remember seeing first full bush I had ever seen. On a very nice friend of mine. I was shocked. Took me another year to grow one in. Also the class clown was also a great athlete. Popped wood in gang showers. He was hung and thick bush. Chased other guys around. Ninth grade. We all laughed but I kinda remember thinking hmmmmm.

Oh lord, this thread, again? 🙄

R33: Oh Lawdy, I can totally ignore this thread, but I have to post in this manner while rolling my eyes. R33 has stated her boundaries, y'all!

R29: Awww. Hugs!!

8th grade in the mid-70's - mandatory showers were on the way out. We had a gym teacher who was trying to revive it, however - and would sit at a little chair-desk in the doorway to the shower to 'monitor'. He'd pretend to grade papers, but it was so obvious that he was a total perv. That only lasted a couple weeks. It was optional after that.

r34 gurl you know this thread it going to end in an argument with the elderqueens complaining that young hot men do the "towel dance" in the gym

We changed with the camp counsellors at Y Day Camp (Camp Dawson, Towaco NJ) in the 1960s. It was shocking to see grown men with full size cock and balls in the same room. We also swam nude at the Y. Those were the days....

All of the male prudery began after gay rights went mainstream.

We had to shower in my high school in the mid 90s. Even though I was incredibly shy it was heaven. There was this one wrestler in my gym class whose body was cut from marble, just perfection, the most perfect body I have ever seen in person.

There was another guy, the quarterback (god what a stereotype, i know) a year older than me -- I found out what period he had gym class and I used to go into the locker-room pretending I needed to get something out of my locker just to see him naked. I remember I got called out once by somebody who knew I wasn't in that class _ I just muttered my excuse and left.

Hilariously I thought nobody knew I was gay -- I never got bullied for that. But clearly I was perving left and right, they all had to know.

late 70s had to take communal showers. Hated it. One of my pals was more developed that the rest of us with pubes etc. The coach always came to talk with him when he the guy had stripped off. I was pretty innocent back then, and one day as I left the changing room I saw coach in a t shirt and blue jockeys with a strange triangle shape to the front of the undershorts. Years later I heard younger guys talk about him as a perv and say he loved young guys and his actions seemed to make senses in the light of what I had heard. But back then I was oblivious to anything like that. In college I was in the rowing club-not that was serious with hot beautiful bodies around a column of shower heads. Yes it was nice.

I started junior high I the early 80s and we were required to shower after, the gym teacher would come around and check. We also weren't allowed to take the towels back to the lockers with us. We had to deposit them in a bin outside the showers and walk naked across the locker room. The gym teacher would watch, and yell at you if you tried to walk to your locker wrapped in a towel.

There was a guy in my gym class when I was in 9th grade who used to torment me and call me a faggot all the time. I had four classes with him. He was a jock and had an awesome body, but I couldn't stand him because he would make fun of me constantly. One day I had finished dressing and was heading for the exit. My hand swung back and hit something. Not hard just grazed it.

I said "oh, sorry," as I turned around. There was my bully was behind me and I had just touched his cock.

Amazingly, he didn't say anything, and I didn't suffer any repercussions for it. I used to jack off to the memory quite frequently, though.

I found out years later that he had come out of the closet in college.

In middle school in the mid-70s, I was surprised I would be expected to take a shower with the entire physical education class. We were in sixth grade. Most of us were just starting to grow pubic hair. I wasn’t among them. I had a new friend, Scott, a very attractive classmate who had a hairy chest (in sixth grade!) I was intrigued and went outside my comfort zone to introduce myself.

I was leery about the shower until Scott took his clothes off. His cock was the biggest in the class and he had a ginormous beautiful bush. It was beyond my best fantasy. I could tell he was embarrassed about it, so I kept talking to him in the shower. Another classmate then announced I was staring at Scott’s bush. (I must have been.) So now Scott and I were equally embarrassed.

Afterward I dreamed of touching his whole body. He once showed up at my house after school, walking about two miles. I don’t know if he had the same feeling about me I had for him, but I was too scared to act on it.

Scott moved away during our holiday break that year. I never saw or heard of him again. I can still see him naked. I still get hard. I love a full bush now. That was imprinted.

I was in public school, 7th grade in 1969. And yes, we had to shower. I remember the gym teacher made a big speech the first day of gym class, told us to bring towels and soap to class. It was amazing. Half the class was filled with little shrimps who hadn't reached puberty, and the other half were comprised of gods with massive cocks. There was one Italian kid, I swear, had a six inch flaccid cock and the thickest bush I ever saw. He was proud because he always stripped naked while changing into his gym clothes, and always took long showers after. I remember those days fondly.

Weird, I'm 30 and showers were still mandatory when I took physical education in middle school. Maybe it was because I was living in Hawaii at the time, which is culturally different in many ways from the mainland US. This was eighth grade; boys were 13-14 so a really wide range of physical development in the locker room.

I was mortified about getting naked around all these guys whom I found attractive, so made excuses, feigned being sick and avoided PE class for a couple weeks, until the teacher threatened, kindly yet firmly, to contact my parents if I didn't show up to PE and take a shower with the rest of the boys the following week. As my father was an abusive alcoholic who hated my emergent homosexuality, I reluctantly went along with it.

That first time back in the locker room, when all the other boys were casually pulling off their clothes, japing and horsing around, was pure torment for me. I felt dizzy and nauseous (which I suppose was ironic considering I had been pretending to be indisposed) and was dragging my feet with heading to the showers. As luck would have it, my crush lagged behind as everyone else dispersed and struck up a conversation. He was a Japanese athlete with a room-lighting smile, a total local boy. He asked me why I'd been skipping class; I lied and said I'd been sick, and asked him whether he believed me. He paused and asked me if I was feeling okay again. Without technically lying, I looked into his eyes and said I was feeling a little queasy. I know, MARY!

Anyway, him taking an interest bolstered my confidence, and I hurried to get undressed as he went to join the other boys, stark naked. I stared at his small, pert ass as he walked off. Thankfully, my crippling fear of being outed kept my cock soft, and I got to the showers and made it through the rest of the year unscathed.

What I found funny was that the "straight" boys were way more interested in looking at my penis than I was at theirs. Especially the delicate flowers who covered their private parts with their hands for the entire school year; these were the ones who were the most curious about the cocks of other boys. After one glance at most guys I was satisfied, with one notable exception. There was a quiet Hawaiian guy named Jonah in our year to whom I'd paid little attention up to that point. But man, did he have a whale. He caught me staring at his long brown cock and fat balls one time and shook his hips to bounce them back and forth. When I looked up at him he winked and grinned. Nothing came of it other than masturbatory fantasies for the rest of middle school, but I wonder if he ended up being gay like me.

I graduated high school in the mid-00s at a Catholic high school. Most of the guys were either Italian or Irish and the vast majority would wear wife-beaters under their dress shirts (very strict dress code). So, most would just wear the wife-beater for gym class and then put the shirt back on over that after class. It was not hygienic, but I guess precious flower syndrome had already set in by then. Interestingly, they still turned on the big communal shower room every class even though nobody ever used it except for the one or two football players in every class who seemed to only do it to show off and strut around in their towel/nude.

There was a guy I had a major crush on. I knew him from playing Pop Warner football as a kid and his father (whom I was attracted to as well) was our coach. Now we were in Jr high together. First time undressing in the locker room after PE I can still remember him taking off his pants, peeling down his briefs and seeing his big, beautiful dick and balls. I still remember the way it all bounced when he headed to the showers. It made me think his dad was probably well hung too. PE was my first period class and I could barely contain myself. I was so turned on. I couldn't wait to get home and rub one out.

Is it just a coincidence that all of you happened to shower with well-hung classmates? Nobody showered with tinymeat boys?

We just don't remember the tinymeats -- they were no doubt there though

My HS made swimming a requirement for one course of P.E. At the end of the class we were required to shower, but everyone remained in their trunks. That was 2005-2009 in the mid-west. I was also on the swim team and only some of the guys showered nude. We only had a wall of showers, so no privacy. But there was plenty of nudity as guys toweled off in the locker area. You get so used to each other that another dick is';t a big deal.

The BEST part of the swimming was during weekend meets, because the opposing teams crammed into our tiny locker room. Other teams had no problem showering nude. You had to pass by the showers to get to the lockers from the pool so perfect for catching a glimpse.

Last tangent. The wrestling team would occasionally site in our shower room, not near it, IN the room, with like three layers of hoodies and sweats the week of meet to sweat out some water weight from the steam of the shower. I'm sure some of them enjoyed being ordered to sit in the shower for an hour while us swimmers paraded around nude. Our coach never really came into the locker room so some horse play ensured, but nothing sexual.

R47, there were plenty of average and below average fellow students, including my crush I mentioned and another guy who bragged about how when he walked into the showers showing off his family jewels, everyone's jaws would drop (as he was of middling length and very thin, mine remained firmly in place). Moreover, probably more than half the boys covered themselves assiduously with their hands; I'm guessing that more of the smaller ones would do that, given that even at that fairly young age everyone knew that bigger was better.

The guy I mentioned, who was already well-hung at 14, knew he had the goods and loved showing them off, I imagine. I doubt his little show for me was because I was special. I always wondered what happened to him, as we ended up going to different high schools.

Great thread

[quote] Is it still a requirement to take showers after playing sports in high school?

I went to highschool in the 90's and no one would change in front of anyone else or shower at school because they didn't want people to know they weren't hung like a porn star or something. No one showered after gym because of insecurity. It's probably still the same way today.

The switch away from showers was also a timing thing--if you've got 45 minutes for gym class, getting everyone into and out of the showers is going to eat up 15 minutes of that and schools had requirements on how much phys ed you needed. Plus the maintenance costs of keeping the showers clean and in working order.

With sports teams, they realized it was more efficient for the kids to go home and shower--no worries about paying someone to oversee the locker room and then paying a janitor to clean it up afterwards.

I remember one of my high school classmates, Dan, walking around the locker room naked, making up a tune that he'd sing: "I've got the biggest dick in the world." It was pretty good sized, maybe the biggest I'd seen at 16, but I've seen bigger since. He wasn't a very good looking guy, but he played football, was popular, and, rumor had it, fucked the cute girl I had a crush on.

I also remember a cute guy, Scott, who would walk around naked. He had a great body, dick size was normal, but looked perfect on his body. He was another football player, but really nice. Always friendly to everyone, no matter which clique they were in (or even if they weren't in a clique). Sat in front of me in French class, and would always talk to me, even though I wasn't one of the popular guys. I'll never forget the first time I saw him naked in the lockers, it took my breath away.

I do belive R29 deserves another

MARY!

MARY!

MARY!

MARY!

I memorized all the hottest guys in our class. I'd missed gym classes because of a skiing accident so at one point I was taking double classes to make up.

I remember the two most beautiful dudes were a year ahead. Alan looked like any 80s gay porn star. Angular face, perfect blond hair, a body that looked like it was sculpted, and a dick that was long and visible when we walked, even soft. I beat off a lot to him, for sure.

And the other dude was Glenn. Football player, probably not as sculpted for sure, but I worshipped him because he was like 6 foot 4 or something, super tall.....and he had the biggest cock of any of us, for sure. That thing was bigger soft than many dicks I've ever seen hard.

[quote] I can still remember the size of my classmate's dicks after all these years. Also, I don't remember anyone complaining about taking showers with the other boys.

Yup, me too.

The summer before I started junior high I went off to camp for the first time. After the first couple of days, between the stifling heat and complete lack of privacy, any attempt at modesty went right out the window. Guys hung out naked on their bunks, slept naked, and, since the boys' camp was separated from the girls' camp, we'd even walk to the showers / bathroom in nothing but flip flops and a towel slung around our necks. Even the counselors hung out naked in the cabins, much to my delight. Forty+ years and I can still recall what those guys looked like naked.

When I started junior high that fall, unlike some I didn't feel any trepidation about getting in the showers with other guys. Like R21 it was the first time I'd seen uncut dick and I was fascinated watching those guys skin back to wash. One guy would put some soap on his index finger and gently wash underneath his skin. I remember quickly turning my water faucet to cold to stanch my nascent boner when I saw him doing that.

Little pervert that I was, over the 6 years of junior high and high school, I made it my goal to see every one of my male classmates naked. I'd move my locker each year, I'd change gym class each semester in an attempt to see fresh cock. I may have been lousy at sports, but I sure looked forward to gym class.

Junior high 76-77, I was in high school marching band. I was 13. Morale Day at a lake with gang showers after. Senior tuba player, tall and lanky, with a massive dark brown bush and long soft peen. My older brother noticed me staring at him and nudged me.

7th-10th grade PE, mandatory showers after class. I didn't mind, I was already over 6' in 7th grade, had pubes. I mostly recall the fat kids with stretch marks on their guts and love handles. Only one guy had any chest hair to speak of, lots of zitty backs. Not particularly exciting all told. Although I do remember one guy in my grade who was short and the only uncut kid, who must have suffered from Phimosis. He came back from Christmas vacation one year newly circumsized dick, with an angry red head and partial boner all the time.

Following up on R53 -- this is why Millennials and Gen Xers don't like showering at the gym--we went home to shower and were used to getting in the car sweaty (towels on the seats, windows open) and heading home to shower

Sorry eldergays!

[quote] I used to go into the locker-room pretending I needed to get something out of my locker just to see him naked. I remember I got called out once by somebody who knew I wasn't in that class _ I just muttered my excuse and left.

Ha! I used to do that too. I'd 'forget' my watch in my gym locker and have to rush back between classes to retreive it, just as the next class was undressing and getting into their gym clothes.

We had communal showers after gym but I never took a shower because it was the last period in school, so I didn’t care if I smelled.

One guy, slim and toned, loved to walk around naked

[quote]I can still remember the size of my classmate's dicks

How many did he have, r28?

In my junior high, a girl purposely walked into the locker room when everyone was changing. They all screamed like little girls.

all guys should be made to shower together

Shower curtains and urinals dividers are the decline and fall of Western Civilization.

It's great that you can see your crushes naked but if you were like me and got a hardon just thinking about someone it was not a great place to be. Some guys can keep it down until they are being sucked off, others like me didn't need much persuasion before getting a full on erection that was difficult to hide.

Wow r57 I have practically the same story about summer camp as you do, lol. I remember when I showered I got stared at a lot cause I was the only black guy in my bunk, I was used to that but there was this guy who always needed to talk to me about something when I was naked, lol. Thinking back I always wondered if I told him go ahead suck it, if he would.

[quote] In my junior high, a girl purposely walked into the locker room when everyone was changing. They all screamed like little girls.

We had a similar thing happen when one of the lesbian PE teachers walked through the locker room to access a male teacher's office which was adjacent. Some guy shouted "Dude! Miss Goodfellow is in the locker room" and started hooting and hollering.

The hot one when I was in high school, has been for years a 350 lb., short, balding, loser, with a bunch of troubling offspring, and a lousy job. I suppose he still has that big, uncut dick. He looks like a hog.

He was very cute, slim, blonde, and quite flirting. But thinking back, he was a lying asshole.

I got to see Robert Rusler's dick in Jr high school.

This how men should bathe together:

And after bathing, it's banana time:

These guys are gonna need a shower:

Nudity aside, isn't it just gross for guys to take gym class, get sweaty and smelly, then walk around school alld day like that? I wonder about the public health hazards, particularly since people share equipment for gym class like mats, etc. I wonder how many skin infections and that kind of thing get passed on in schools because people don't clean themselves properly after gym class.

Ick, nasty.

Most PE classes aren't all that strenuous and the kids don't get that sweaty R74--they're not running on treadmills for 45 minutes. Because lawyers and helicopter moms.

Athletes, who do get sweaty, practice after school and then go home and shower .

The showers themselves are nasty and gross. Would you want to clean them? Okay, dumb question I should have known the answer to.

I graduated high school about 6 years ago. Nobody ever used the shower. Most of the guys just sprayed themselves with about half a can of Axe body spray after class. There were even a couple guys who went to the bathroom stall to change because they didn't want to be seen in their underwear.

However, there was one guy who played football and basketball with dark hair, tan skin, and the most beautiful smile with dimples. He brought a fresh pair of underwear and went to where the shower was to change with his back turned to the class. I got a good view of his bare ass. This happened twice that I can recall. The first time it happened I remember him saying "my butt is hanging right out!" He looked back and I'm sure he saw me staring but luckily he didn't say anything. I carried my coat in front of me to hide that I had an erection.

But nobody ever once actually showered.

When I was in high school, you would get a decent PE grade for just getting dressed in shorts or sweats. They didnt expect you to do real strenuous exercise. We would goof off half the time playing ping pong or volleyball.

The 70s were the last golden age of school nudity and pubic hair.

I always wondered back when you were younger you would be in the locker room stareing you would try to be inconspicuous but your a kid so you wouldn't be good at it so I wonder if the other guys, especially the older ones and the grown men would notice the younger guys stareing at them. Guys will stare even if their straight, its just natural curiosity.

I think R74 is the OP of this thread:

And, YES the inevitable entrance of the complaining elderperv at r38!

Congratulations to the winner!!!

Adding FIFTY more “Marys” to r55’s tally.

As they say, “The more, the MARY-er!”

I went to school in the late 70s/early 80s. In junior high (7th and 8th), we had the option of showering, but no one ever did. Then in 9th grade, the locker rooms were being remodeled, so showering wasn't enforced (thank god!). My last year of gym class (in the 10th grade), it was the last period of the day, so everyone just wore their gym clothes home. I could never understand the forced showering thing. With such rampant homophobia in society, forcing guys to be naked around each other (on top of urinals being completely open, still common in so many restrooms), it's like guys are told they must show their dicks, BUT GODDAMN IT YOU BETTER NOT BE LOOKING AT ANYONE ELSE'S! Is it to trap gays into giving themselves away?

At school, we had to shower after gym - I honestly think it was a self-defence mechanism, This was in a poor area in Scotland and some of my classmates were washing - not bathing - about once a week.

People say that it is bad in summer but in a wet winter, the stench could be unbelievable.- our PE teacher actually held classes about changing underwear and socks, use of deodorant etc. Half the class were "WTF? We KNOW this" - the other half were "WTF is soap?"

Strangely the whiiffy guys were the ones with absolutely no nudity hang-ups at all.

[quote] I could never understand the forced showering thing.

uhh, it's better if you shower, that's why

R84, relax, Mary. It’s all over.

I graduated from high school in the early 80s. I never took a shower after gym class. Nobody did. Before high school, in summer day camp we had a men's communal locker-room at the Lake. The Camp Director's cock was uncircumcised. I remember thinking that it was weird. I still don't like un-cut cocks.

[quote] my parent put my siblings and I in Extended Day

Did they not teach grammar there, R3?

I remember being out of town on a Boy Scouts trip where we had to stay the night on some old ship for one reason or another. It smelt like paint. We had to sleep in this hammocks and there was a staircase in that room that led to a rec room and the showers. I remember not being able to sleep and walking down there during the night and seeing one of the dads showering. I never even got a glimpse of his face, but I remember being so turned on. I couldn't have been more than 7 or 8 at the time.

At summer camp when I was 10 or 11, I remember this one kid in our cabin had developed early and liked to walk around completely naked with his bush and huge (to my young eyes) dick. I remember him yelling "you're all jealous of my huge cock." He wasn't wrong. It might not have even been that big, but to young kids, it seemed like it was 15 inches. I just remember it flopping around. Some of our cabin mates even spread a rumor about the two counselors in our cabin and said that they were both leaving the cabin after we were asleep and fucking. They were both attractive guys, so the image of that in my head was really hot. I remember one being a tall, fit blonde and the other was a short, cute little Jewish guy with curly black hair. They'd have made a hot match. I still hope it was true. For years, I wanted to become a camp counselor, because I thought that's what one could get up to.

As someone pointed out earlier, R86, you don't necessarily even work up a sweat in gym class. So being forced to shower afterwards, hmm, no, it's just weird.

The only time we showered was in high school during the 1 month swimming course. It was hot. I saw a lot of dick.

From the opposite side, girls also dreaded showers because they were not happy about showing their boobs. More than a few girls were exposed for wearing falsies. Size matters to both sexes.

No showers in junior high, but in senior high the pe teachers said showers at the end of class. They also said that class would end ten or fifteen minutes sooner than the bell in order to shower. That lasted two weeks tops, as after that the teachers never wanted the game or activity or stop.

I love all these "first time I saw an uncut cock and how it made me feel" stories. For some reason I find them very intimate.

[Quote]Guys will stare even if their straight, its just natural curiosity.

Oh, dear!

My fondest memories of Laguardia High are showering with Timmy after basketball games. Yes, he was skinny, but he was hung like a Shetland Pony.

I had a gym teacher whom I thought was bi and he always made sure we had to start gym by running around the basketball court/gymnasium for ten minutes so we'd get sweaty and have to take a shower (and he could loiter around and watch).

After so many showers I admit I started 'targeting' certain guys for a glance. Hey, if it was swinging in my face I'm going to look.

#90 you should develop that into a coming-of-age screenplay.

At least where I went to school we had relatively large shower "rooms" where the shower heads were lined up on two walls, and there was quite a bit of distance between everyone.

I don't know what I would have done if we'd had these "cost saving" shower poles that were meant to accommodate up to six guys at once.

"We put our heads together" indeed!

That's exactly the kind we had in jr high, R100. Some damn good memories standing around one of those - with a couple really well hung (for 8th graders) classmates.

[quote] I could never understand the forced showering thing.

On the first day of class we were lectured on the evils of jock itch and the importance of showering with soap after working out. And the importance of drying off afterward. I don't know where some of you went to school, but in both junior high and high school, the teacher would blow the whistle and we'd all have to do a mile worth of laps (outdoors in good weather, indoors in bad) and then 'hit the showers'. Yeah, a teenage boy gets sweaty and pretty nasty after that.

The plus side was that, in the '70s most of us had long hair and I used to love to watch the guys shampoo their hair and then lean their heads back and rinse, the soapy water flowing down their backs into the cracks of their asses. After all these years, I still appreciate the curve of a shapely butt.

Just to give the eldergays perspective:

Rather than a spirited games of hoop rolling or mumblety-peg, we would say learn "proper weight training techniques" which would involve three Nautilus style machines and the coach would explain in excruciating detail how to use them, then we'd all get to practice a set at a very light weight so he could check our form.

Then we'd all get to do three sets of 10 reps at a moderate weight.

Repeat for three different body parts and then PE was over.

No one broke a sweat or needed to shower.

Or tennis-- you'd practice say forehand without a ball, then coach would hit them gently over the net and you were supposed to concentrate on form, then you'd just have rallies, maybe the last week of tennis there would be games, but unless it was a hot day in June, no one was really sweating.

Thanks for that R103. It helps explain why kids today are so fat

[quote] “We have deep knowledge of the biological drivers of obesity, which include poor diet quality, excessive sedentary time, inadequate physical activity, stress, sleep deprivation, perinatal factors, and probably environmental endocrine-disrupting chemicals,”

The towels that were handed out to us in jr high smelled like corn chips.

R105 Ours, too! We used to joke about the Frito Detergent.

R106 I always attributed the smell to stinky feet and cheap detergent.

I was in Jr. High in the 60's and showers were mandatory. If you were caught trying to skip the shower you got a swat with a wooden paddle. It was a large school with 4 gyms (2 for boys, 2 for girls) so they ran two classes at a time. When I was in 7th grade the other class were 9th graders. I always positioned my self in the large shower room so that I could glance at all the older boys who were far more developed. I fortunately was able to control my erections but I did see a lot of peen. When I was in 8th grade they built a pool onto the building and we swam naked. By that time we were used to seeing everyone naked in the showers so there really weren't any problems.

We played sports like Soccer, football, wrestling, Gymnastics, track and field and softball so we got sweaty.

[quote] If you were caught trying to skip the shower you got a swat with a wooden paddle.

The coach had a large wooden paddle hanging on the wall of his office but I never saw it used on anyone. The threat was enough. The coach would stand at the door and you'd toss your towel into the bin on your way out. If it looked suspiciously dry he might grab the back of your neck to see if your hair was wet. I seem to recall one guy getting sent back to the showers, which of course made him late for his next class and put the fear of god in the rest of us.

There was also punishment for not wearing a jockstrap. Once in awhile we'd have to climb a big rope and the coach would look up and if he saw you were wearing underwear instead of a jock under your gym shorts, you'd have to run laps.

Most of the male gym teachers were retired military and we were scared to death of them. Uncoordinated, gawky kids like me just did our best and tried not to get hit in the face with a basketball. Shower time was my reward for surviving the previous 40 minutes.

Aside from the sanitary issues, mandatory showers were simply a part of 'coming-of-age'. Back in the day it was simply constructive development. The homo-eroticism was an added benefit for us gaylings, but for straight young males (and females) dealing with body issues, being exposed, yes, to other penises and naked bodies was just normal, healthy development. The last couple generations have lost that and have become increasingly entitled and coddled as this country just gets more and more puritan.

We had showers in the 90s -- where a bunch of guys had to stand around shower with a bunch of nozzles. I'm surprised some of you eldergays enjoyed. I was terrified of getting hard. Plus I was overweight and a grower not a shower. Luckily you weren't required to shower.

[quote] There was also punishment for not wearing a jockstrap. Once in awhile we'd have to climb a big rope and the coach would look up and if he saw you were wearing underwear instead of a jock under your gym shorts, you'd have to run laps.

I remember coaches checking for jock straps with the "strap test." We'd line up and have to reach under our shorts and pull the strap out with our thumb as they walked by. These "inspections" were very random

I think showers ended at the same time men started wearing those long shorts below the knees.

My junior high gym coach was so hot. Hairy slab of muscle who would wear a tight tee tucked into short shorts with a jockstrap underneath. I remember doing sit ups with him holding down my feet and just wanting to throw up my legs and wrap them around his neck

Not true, R113. It was still a thing as recent as 2009 when I graduated. Our high school had a swimming pool which was a required course for physical education. You weren’t required to shower after getting out of the pool but if you didn’t want to smell like chlorine for the rest of the day, you did.

To leave the pool, you went directly into the showers and changing rooms.

I remember changing next to this moderately hot classmate who was changing in the stall right next to me (no doors). I vividly recall him saying, “don’t come here unless you want to see a dick and an ass.” I masturbated and came right there.

Great honest summary, r110.

This subject again? Really? It’s like every three months with this shit. Do a fucking search.

In the past couple of years, my YMCA went from communal showers--an open, all-nude rectangle room--to individual showers with shower curtains. It pissed me off. Now so many of the guys who you normally saw naked walk to the shower room wearing their towel, close the shower curtain, dry off behind the shower curtain and walk back to their locker wearing their towel. There are still a few nudists, but not many. And then many of the towel-wearers do the "towel dance" putting on their underwear. It's utterly crazy. I'm different. I'm a nudist (go to a nude beach and I grew up taking showers and being naked with other guys in the locker room). I like being naked in the locker room.

I also like to moisturize my skin after getting out of the shower, so there are plenty of times when I'm standing there naked putting on moisturizing lotion before getting dressed. I still do it, but I look like the odd man out. Almost everyone else gets dressed as quickly as possible. Many of them turn away so no one sees their dicks. And remember, these were all guys who went to this same Y when it was an open communal shower room. The only ones who have no embarrassment are a few guys who are natural about nudity and a few five-year olds who go swimming and shower with their fathers after their swimming lessons are done. The damn country has gone extreme puritanical.

R118 is a predator

It's one the elderperv contingent's favorite topics, r117.

[quote]This subject again? Really? It’s like every three months with this shit. Do a fucking search.

Skip a fucking thread.

Despite the fact that we have a new thread on this subject every three months, r103 “spirited games of hoop rolling and mumblety-peg” has had me laughing for a hour.

One of the guys in my freshman dorm was assigned a work-study job enforcing the state's required nude shower before entering the college's pool. He hated it; and I couldn't believe his luck. He had to make sure the guys soaped up their pubes, since mites or lice might be there. (It was the 70s, when no men manscaped, not even those on the swim team.) He had to enforce it, so he had to stare at all the bushes in the room. I would have been willing to take the job without compensation.

I had those Bradley group shower poles in the schools I went to. The first group shower was 5th grade. It was a shock to me, as they were mandatory, and all the guys dragged a gym bag every day to and from school. There were three in the shower and it was no big deal. Then in HS I played football, so I had gym everyday and it was mandatory, and the same shower poles were used. there were six. Showers were mandatory as was stepping on this sprayer pad that killed germs on your feet before and after showering. Then football practice, another shower in a field house built in 1928. Huge open shower room with many wall shower heads.

Apparently the thing now is that one would rather stink like shit than risk a shower. I may be old, but the over-riding issue was not stinking up a whole room after gym class. This was considered the highest transgression. if someone skipped a shower, and it was not frequent, they would be called out as a fucking pig.

There were no issues with modesty as I remember.

Communal showers for boys started in 5th grade at my school for those of us on the basketball team. It was no big deal. By high school, though, it wasn’t good. Sometimes there wouldn’t be an adult in the locker room and upperclassmen would haze freshmen, which always involved the catching them between the shower and getting dressed. At least we didn’t have pervy coaches like Sandusky raping us.

The gym I used at my university had communal showers for men, but not for women. Female friends told me the women’s locker room in that gym had individual showers. I haven’t been there in ten years, but I’d be willing to bet that particular men’s locker room still has communal showers.

In Germany also we just call them showers. Gyms have one shower room with no stalls and no curtains. It is also no big deal.

No mandatory showers in high school by the time I got there (late 70s into the 80s), so usually the most I got, and remain grateful for, was a well-packed tighty whity on a shapely body. Occasionally someone would change completely, normally hurriedly and furtively, and I'd pay attention for a peen sighting, but it was never jo material.

[quote] I had those Bradley group shower poles in the schools I went to.

We had those in junior high. I hated them becasue there was no temperature control, and the coach kept the water pretty cold. One cold day, one of the 8th graders climbed up on a trash can and opened the panel where the temperature control was and set it to hot. Everybody was enjoying a nice warm shower for once when the coach came storming out of his office, having seen the stream billowing acrossthe locker room. He shut off the water and made everyone get out of the shower, get back into our gym clothes and run 2 miles worth of laps, followed by the customary cold shower. Of course we were all late for our next classes, but nobody ratted out the guy who did it. From then on, the panel was kept locked.

In high school we had strange showers where the controls and nozzles were mouned on a stanless steel panel about 5 feet above the ground, all in a row, six on either side. You'd shower directly across from six other guys whose faces you couldn't see, but you could see their cocks and asses. More than once I'd see an impressive dick and I'd put my shampoo bottle on the floor and disctreetly (or so I hoped) try to peek to see who it was attached to.

Unlike most other posters, I don't remember seeing any massive cocks in high school or junior high. Even the black and Latino guys were all pretty average. The one exception was a really nebbishy Jewish guy complete with horned-rimmed glasses. He was completely lacking in social skills so I never sought him out as a friend, but boy, what a schlong he had on him

R128, your HS showers sounded fun

I graduated in the mid 2000s and like r77 I never saw any of my classmates nude. I was pretty content watching gay porn online when I was in high school, so I wouldn't be looking to peek at dick prints or ass when guys changed. Jocks were not my type even then. Of course, most of them were the biggest douchbags on earth so I hated them anyway. One guy I had a crush on, Jonathan, was a pretty boy in marching band and that was the only naked ass I would've wanted to see.

Personal fitness was an after thought because we had to pass state exams. Our class was so short, by time we changed and walked the track twice it was time to go home. We only did that twice week. My high school had 4000 students so there was no way showers were happening. The class was scheduled at the end of the day, so if you for some reason stunk after some brisk walking, you were on your way home anyway.

We were probably the last students to use our old ass gym from the 50s or 60s before they tore it down. It always smelled like mold, death and Axe. I *hate* Axe body spray to this day, it reminds me of high school and puberty. Axe must have been at the height of its popularity then. The locker room always reeked of it.

[quote] I remember not being able to sleep and walking down there during the night and seeing one of the dads showering. I never even got a glimpse of his face, but I remember being so turned on. I couldn't have been more than 7 or 8 at the time.

I've always been more turned on seeing dads and adult men showering than guys my own age. Most of the time I was turned on by a classmate was when I knew who his dad was. I recall seeing this guy in my PE class, whose family were members of the same church. His dad, who was one of the youth group directors, was the handsomest guy with dark hair and hairy forearms. I had always wondered how hairy he was underneath his clothing. So when I saw his son (my classmate) for the first time naked and showering he had this beautiful, dark bush and big balls. When I noticed how much hairier his ass was compared to the other guys my first thoughts were "Holy shit! His dad's ass must be so fucking hairy!" Several times I would masturbate imagining how hot his dad looked naked. I also think because we started taking showers in PE around the same time we were hitting puberty gym class for gay men was one of the main sources of masturbation fantasy. I think that's probably why it's brought up a lot. I remember shooting what seemed like bucket loads of cum during that time in my life.

Lets just say I could pick them out of a line-up 45 years later with bags on their heads!

I went to high school in the early 90s and showering was optional. We had to take swim class once a year in tiny speedos. I still remember an honest to goodness towel fight with 2 guys one of whom was Dominican and horse dicked. Seminal moment.

[quote]We had to take swim class once a year in tiny speedos.

Gurl your school PE instructor must've been a perv and pedo. I've never heard of such a thing. You must've grew up well off too because swimming pools were something for more affluent schools, at least where Im from.

Boy this thread sparks a lot of memories. Interesting how these visual memories of developed male bodies are so strong with many of us. I can still vividly remember the first time I saw a man-sized hairy dick on a younger guy. He didn't seem young at the time though, as I was 12 and he would have been 18. It was summer after 6th grade (1985) and I was in swimming lessons, he was the only male instructor. Saw him nude a couple times in the shower after lessons and, though I didn't know why, I couldn't stop thinking about his dick (this was before I hit puberty myself).

Then 7th grade hit which was when we moved to the high school (my small town at the time didn't have a separate middle school). This was also when they started splitting up the boys and girls for gym. They didn't make us shower, but I remember the gym teacher going on a long rant on the importance of showering and how we shouldn't subject the rest of the school to our stinky bodies. So for the first couple days all the boys showered; it was my first survey of the drastically different developmental levels of my male classmates -- many, including me, still had tiny, hairless dicks; but probably half the class or so had at least started to develop, and there were a couple who already looked more like the aforementioned swim instructor.

But the daily showering quickly fell off; we'd all just layer on the deodorant after gym class and hope for the best (as others have said, these gym classes weren't *actually* that strenuous). After that, my best shot at seeing dick during the twice-yearly swimming units, which each lasted about three weeks. Lots of those images still stored in my head over the next four years (no gym after 10th grade); I have one particular memory of changing out of swimsuits next to this dude Jeff, a tall basketball star in my class; he was standing up on a bench while he changed as I stood next to him on the ground, and his long hairy piece was literally like three feet from my face. I remember it so well.

Communal showerer here from 78'-81. My class was crammed full of chubbies with micro-dicks. The most homoerotic it got was a group of them quite often pinnng Paul Boy to the floor and farting on him.

....um what a fucking buzzkill above.

[quote]We had to take swim class once a year in tiny speedos.

In both 7th and 8th grade, we had 9-week swim class sessions that took place during gym every Friday. We had to strip, shower and line up in front of the PE teacher, who handed us tiny speedos to put on before we entered the pool area. Girls were provided with one-piece suits and entered through their locker room. When class was done, we went back to our respective locker rooms, stripped off the swimsuits and showered again before getting dressed in our street clothes. We also had to shower every day after gym throughout the school year. This was the early '80s.

R134 - yes, it was a somewhat affluent high school, but also celebrated for it's diversity. The PE teacher for swimming was a coach and hot as fuck. He would also wear a speedo and demonstrate swimming techniques. He had a sick body. If it was possible to make me gayer, he could have.

r109 we had jock inspections as well but I only remember that in 7th grade. We had to hold out the strap to show we were wearing one. He would walk down the row holding his paddle checking. The first time he caught one guy and gave him a swat. The second time everyone complied. I don't think we had any other inspections. The threat of getting paddled kept most guys in line. The worst paddling I witnessed was in 8th grade with the same gym teacher. We were doing gymnastics and the trampoline was the most popular. The teacher was out of the room and a couple of guys thought it would be a good idea if they threw tennis shoes at the person on the trampoline when their time was up. The teacher came back in the gym just as these two were tossing the shoes. He gave each of them three hard swats. Their asses were beet red later in the showers. That ended the shoe throwing.

We had jock strap check, and had to pull out the strap and snap if for the Miss Goodfellow.

Oh, Lawsy, if I'd ever been subject to a strap check in my tender years, I would have climaxed in my gym shorts (cotton, navy blue with gold lettering) right on the spot.

This is a quite delightful thread.

The first teacher I ever saw at my grade school was Mr. Higgins, a twenty-something military type with a flattop crew cut and well-muscled under a tight white tee-shirt and green khakis. He barked at everyone in the foyer to go to the gym until classes started. I was terrified of him.

I went to my initial first grade physical education class and discovered Mr. Higgins was the teacher. Great. I didn’t like sports, already. He led us into the locker room to tell us how to put our clothes in a locker. He took off his shoes and placed them on the floor of an open locker. Easy enough. Then he tugged his tee-shirt out of his pants and pulled it over his head. Unexpected by me. His nipples were stretched on his bare chest while his arms were raised, and then they rested on the lower rims of his pecs. They were glorious. I never looked at quarters the same way again. There was a triangle of hair spanning his chest, as well.

My eyes were swimming as he put the tee-shirt on a hook in the locker. He unfastened his belt, unzipped, and took off his khakis. They were hung next to the tee-shirt. He was left only wearing his boxer shorts. The prolific dark hair on his legs caught my eye. I wasn’t listening anymore.

Then he tucked his thumbs under the waistband of the boxers and slid them down, kicking them away. Suddenly I saw much larger versions of my “wee-wee” and “peanuts.” His cockhead reminded me of all the helmets in the movie “The Longest Day.” (My parents let me watch it one Sunday on TV.) But, all the hair surrounding it, I had never seen pubic hair before. It was like a modern-day chia pet, thick and black and curly, and counter to his flat top haircut. I was senseless. I know I just stared at his body, and he kept talking to us, naked, for I don’t know how long. We got a view of his rounded hairy ass, completing the picture, when he turned to put his boxers back on.

We played Red Rover that day. I think. I didn’t concentrate in the rest of my classes for the day. One teacher had to remind me to pay attention. Mr. Higgins married one of the other first grade teachers after the school year was over.

Can you imagine if a gym teacher stripped naked in front of first graders in this day and age? He would be lead story on the TV news. It must have been acceptable then. I know we kids talked about it afterward, and if we talked about it among ourselves, someone was bound to tell his parents. I now love a large bush on a man, especially on men with tightly-cut hair on their heads. It really struck me. But maybe we all think a bush is huge when we see one for the first time. Mr. Higgins must be in his 80s now. I remember him, and I still have his picture in our photo class book from that school year. He’s wearing a tight white-tee shirt, too. What a trigger…

[quote]He’s wearing a tight white-tee shirt, too. What a trigger…

thrills and chills

[quote] Their asses were beet red later in the showers.

sexy

The frauen did away with the mandatory showers. Because she didn't want Sklyer to have anyone see his peepee.

You can read the rest of R144's story over at NIFTY archives

Nope, R148, every word is true. If my memories are not wanted on this board, I will be happy to comply with your editorial suggestions. I don't need to be contributing, but a question was asked, I thought about my past experience and I elected to share. Thank you for your astute words of encouragement.

We had to shower in, I guess 8th grade and freshman year of high school, which was the early 80's. We'd also go swimming, with our class and with our scout troop. Only one boy in my class had pubes and wore a jock strap. The "older brothers' (16-17 year old's) had pubes and stuff. My gym teacher was a hot, tight, fire plug of a man. Too cute. I loved watching him in his shower routine. Our troop master, was a pedo. He'd strip naked at the drop of a hat in front of the troop (13-17 year olds)...at swimming, we'd swim with him, and he'd want us to sit on his lap and junk. I remember the over-nights, he'd pick his favorite boy, and they'd "Sleep" in two zippered up sleeping bags. THAT troop leader later was arrested for having sex with under aged boys....

R144 I remember I think it was swimming lessons but our instructor got naked and took a shower in front of us. It wasn't at a school. I remember all the boys in the class went over and stared at him. Weirdly, I wasn't interested at all, I thought men were weird and gross until much later.

Exactly why did showering stop? And does the ban apply to high school sports teams too? I played through jr hs and hs and college. I loved the camaraderie of being on teams. The busses to away games. The showers. we used to freeze our butts off in fall sports by November and the hot showers were a great pleasure afterwards.

I remember a few guys I found stunning. I liked charming and cocky guys with huge smiles. I don't know how it is now but in my day any kid playing competitive sport had a great body so that was a given.

3 hours is too long.

Bump!

R84 is WAY overthinking it.

"This is a quite delightful thread."

Up late, Fr.?

The guys with average to large dicks think it's prudish to not want to have other guys see your dick. There's no need for communal showering, where it's all for show. Have some sympathy for the small dick guys please.

"I meant to say "I used to masturbated frequently at night thinking about it."

A boy, masturbating... about other...bo.......

I had to google mumblety peg...

R134, clearly you are very young and brought up in more recent, puritanical, post-board short days. Competitive swimwear between 1960 and 1990 consisted of small Speedos - that’s how they made their vast fortune (it wasn’t by selling slutty bathing suites to 10% of the male population).

And before the 60’s, sex-segregated swim classes, swimming at the YMCA, and even some competitions, were done butt nekked.

Does no one remember the threads on early-to-mid 20th century swimteam group photos in which the boys were routinely frontally naked, even when the team was mixed-sex? I tried to believe they were faked, but I don't think they were. I think Americans were just more relaxed about male nudity then—and I'm not much older, I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Something changed quickly with the 60s and after.

R152 asks a good question about athletic teams. Does this group showering continue after meets? Maybe all meets are held now in places where there are individual showers with opaque or merely translucent doors.

R160, frontally naked swim team group photos, you say? We really have gone backwards, haven’t we?!

R161: Why should boys be forced to display themselves while women were not? If I was a swim team member back then, I'd be pissed that I have to show everything because of my gender. We've gone forward as far as I'm concerned.

R160 -- we went home and showered. You got on the bus sweaty and the trip back to school was never more than a half hour, usually 15-20 minutes. (This was baseball). You were in charge of laundering your uniform too, which saved the school money and the hassle of having laundry machines and getting people to wash uniforms. Most families thought this was a much better system than having to wait for their sons to change and shower after the game.

I enjoy showering with other men after working out at the gym. Not only for seeing others, but showing off my own body as well. Unfortunately, the experience has become less enjoyable since they've put doors and partitions on the showers. I'm not sure if it stems from being required to shower in PE class, but there definitely is something liberating and thrilling about being completely nude in front of others.

Yes, it is atavistic but essential to the male psyche. Male rites of passage have all been quashed in our culture in the name of "progress" but you can't ignore the fact that it's part of our tribal DNA.

R165: To be forced to be naked in front of others against your will is in our DNA? Get the hell outta here.

My hottest memories of my all boy Catholic HS in the late sixties are all in the locker room. Nude classmates, sweaty, dirty jockstraps, just the SMELL had me in a state of horniness from day one. Just being around all those healthy boys. I sound like Myron Breckenridge.

Man up, r166.

Post the thread, r160

These threads--there was one about the "towel dance" and younger guys not showering at the gym-- are weird AF. Like all the creepers have a place to meet up.

Maybe antiperspirants are stronger these days? None of my friends really stinks no matter how sweaty they get. Not that they smell like roses, but it's never gag-worthy.

Fuck off, "weird AF" R170. It's so ironic and short-sighted when the marginalized marginalize, like millennial pearl clutching. Let your freak flags fly, "creepers".

R170: These people are psychotic. I love naked men and locker room stories as much as the next Mary, but this retarded allegation that being nude in front of other men is in the male DNA and a required rite of passage is just ridiculous. I'm R3, and I never had to shower after gym in HS, I was worried I'd have to until orientation and they said we didn't. I would have been scared shit less to have to be naked in front of other guys, I was closeted, shy, not in shape, and had been bullied in elementary school. If you had a good time with this as a kid, great. Don't try to enforce YOUR fun times on kids who would not enjoy it at all.

It's probably like three or four guys R172 and there's something about it that gets them completely riled up--both about how fucking amazing it was and how awful it is that it's stopped now.

It was kind of amusing at first, but now it's just creepy. I just hope none of them are around children.

It’s generational r173. The Boomers were accustomed to male social nudity. With them, a real man would be fine without hanging with other men in a non sexual way, because they did all the time in the locker room and showers.

Generation X and Millennials, with smaller families, so that boys did not have a share a bedroom with their brothers, and the lack of showering after gym class, were not accustomed to male social nudity.

R173: I don't think they need to be bared from kids, a little overboard there. But it's almost like toxic masculinity, hell the one above told me to man up, I'm R166 btw as well as R3. Let's say my chubby, closeted gay 14 year old self had to take showers and got a boner and was mercilessly bullied over it. Would you tell me to man up then? Again, It's Like Bullying and Hazing Don't Exist To Them.

R174: Um, Millenials are the largest generation ever, I'm a vanguard millenial (1982) and I shared a bedroom with my brother until I was 14...

The average house bed room count has increased from the 1950’s to 1990’s r176. I’m generation X, and I do none of my friends had to share a bedroom with a sibling.

I'm thinking sharing a bedroom with a sibling has a lot more to do with social class than with which generation you were born in.

R178: Right so the point R174 made is invalid. Moving on....

R160 must be correct. I Googled swim team nude and there are photos like this one.

Another mixed photo.

More history.

One could probably be arrested in the US and in a shitload of trouble for even googling for such images in 2018.

2 reasons those pics wouldn't fly today, woman don't want to be around naked men and the it is sex discrimination to require men to be nude while woman can be covered for swimming. I'd sue, why should I have to be naked just because I have a penis? The reasoning was so stupid.

I distinctly remember the first time. Me and a few other nerds dallied. The guys who played Freshman football had been through this the Summer before school began, and they were already showering. There were about 5 of us. Finally Allen B. said, well, here we go, and dropped his whities. The rest of us followed. .

And, which of you had the best nerd dick? Don't leave us hanging, so to speak.

Wow, those photos at R80 - R82 don’t looked the least bit photoshopped at all!

Thanks for the pics, R180. For a second there the thread was about to be hijacked by tender flowers and snowflakes.

R179 I’m sorry about your child hood life of poverty in the trailer court, but my point still stands: the majority of boys did not share a room with their brother, military drafts were not a factor in Gen X or Millens, and mandatory gym showers didn’t happen after the late 70s.

Ergo, it’s a generational thing.

Thanks, R180 through 182! Saves me the trouble of googling or searching for the DL thread.

I'm still flabbergasted. Every male swim team member's dick was out there for everyone who saw the yearbook. I can't get my mind around the fact that people a generation or less older than me would not have a problem with this—I'll have to think of an excuse to ask my parents about it (never saw anything like this in their yearbooks, btw).

It’s Extremely Surprising That all the men in R180 - R182 are so well hung.

R189: God, you're boring.

[quote]I'm still flabbergasted. Every male swim team member's dick was out there for everyone who saw the yearbook.

Those pictures are all very obviously photoshopped. God, some of you people are gullible!

I don't think they were R193. There's an interesting article about it here. Kinda strange, but hot at the same time.

R36: You were right, and I apologize. But it did go on for awhile and very pleasantly so.

I think it would have been awesome if we were required to take nude team photos.

R196, I’d volunteer to be yearbook photographer.

Those are definitely from college yearbooks.

[quote]Those are definitely from college yearbooks.

Surrrrrrrre, they are.

They could be from German yearbooks. They have a quite different relationship to nudity. Look at Bravo magazine.

"Let's say my chubby, closeted gay 14 year old self had to take showers and got a boner and was mercilessly bullied over it. Would you tell me to man up then? Again, It's Like Bullying and Hazing Don't Exist To Them."

You're joking, yes? You were neither bullied nor hazed. You were TESTED. Tested just like when you apply for a job or when you enter a relationship or become a part of any social group. Tested...part of the rite of passage for any teen.

Remember those Ivy League "posture photos" where the freshmen were forced to pose for black and white nudes, front back and side. I think this stopped in the late 70s. I wonder what Jodie Foster's look like.

R201: First of all, that was a hypothetical, fool. It didn't happen. What did happen was that I was BULLIED in elementary school, not tested, bullied. And don't you EVER diminish that for me or ANYONE else, EVER! You disgusting ASSHOLE!

I was in 7th grade in '86-'87, and then we were made to shower, although by 9th grade we were allowed to just towel off.

But in 7th grade there was Brian. Brian was tall, athletic, good-looking, very nice but a little dumb. He was not shy at all about taking a shower, and for good reason -- I guesstimated that his dick was 5 inches limp. At that age! One day, he walked past me naked, and I checked out his butt. It was red, as if he had been spanked or something. The next day or so, I was eating lunch with a couple guys, and they told me that Brian told them that he had a locker room mishap (I don't remember what exactly) that caused his butt to be really red. "It was!" I agreed out loud. Oh, how they laughed and laughed. I had admitted that I looked at a guy's butt. Whoops!

There were a number of good-looking guys with nice bodies in my middle school gym classes. Our coach seemed a little pervy. His office was right next to the lockers and he would watch us through his window while we undressed and dressed. He assigned the lockers and the early developers like myself always seemed to get assigned to the lockers right in front of his office. He also took his daily shower with the boys in the last period gym class.

R203 MARY MAXIMUS!

In keeping with the era...

Go away, R203. This was a perfectly good thread until you tried to make it about you.

It was til a bully showed up.

In 1987, I spent much of the summer prior to seventh grade filled with anxiety over having to shower with my classmates in PE. I had the typical worries about penis size, hairiness and how I would react to seeing the other kids naked and how I would stack up. Well the first day of class roles around and we are all in the locker room and the coach is telling us to hurry up and shower. Some of the boys went in their underwear but the coach said “no underwear in the shower” I like many others procrastinated until the coach started going down the aisles of lockers and rushing us to go shower. I don’t think he really had any Pervy intentions, he just wanted these smelly seventh graders showered and ready to go to their next period on time. As we all nervously headed to the showers I was taken aback but the wide range of development- from a couple of man-sized cocks with full Bush on little boy bodies, mid stage puberty with some pubes and cocks proportionate to our growing bodies and then there were the boys with some pines but still very small cocks and finally the boys who had no pubes and child sized cocks. I was at mid stage and only the two boys with freakish man sized cocks were bigger than me and this guy named Arnold whose development was exactly the same as mine. I developed a great deal of confidence from being in the top 5 biggest in class it was sweet revenge when a kid who was always an asshole to me in sixth grade had the locker next to me and he undressed revealing a hairless, tiny baby cock. I made sure to always face him when I toweled off and even made an extra show of toweling off my pubes. The next year my family moved to another state and the new school didn’t do showers. Disappointed I found a swim team and joined that to get my fix of teen shower fun. I could write a whole seperate post about that bunch of guys.

Well, R210 ... do!

People often overlook the importance of the shower as a learning environment. That is why as a ninth grade English teacher, I require students to shower at the end of class.

Good one, r212, I'll be chuckling for awhile because of your contribution.

R212: I love you!

R206: I accept that title with pride and honor.

Two things changed the culture in the US.

Gay became known, and horseplay between men now had an ugly label. Boys could not longer experiment without being gay.

Women's liberation pushed them into male spaces like the YMCA both for jobs and as members.

It should be pointed out that there are still 3 YWCA's that are allowed to be all female as well as curves and living well lady but all male gyms are illegal in in the US.

Can you guys imagine the kids today ever enduring a paddle for not wearing a jockstrap or not showering? They would all go running home, crying to their Helicopter Moms and there would be lawsuits.

Idiocy

R216: Should any kid be paddled, at all? Not to mention for something as stupid as not wearing the proper underpanties for activity time? If corporal punishment is to be used, if you can't do the job with your hand, then you shouldn't engage in that type of punishment, period. But that is a whole nother thread.

paddling is a hot

Elderperv ^

One of the Phys Ed teachers, Mr. Robinson (he was also a member of our church), would stand in the shower area monitoring that all the guys were properly taking showers. All the while would be leering at all the guys. It was rather creepy. The fact that he resembled Uncle Milty made it even more creepy.

My 7th-grade gym teacher was a mean bastard who was super hot with his muscles and hairy chest which he would (I fucking swear) tease me with from time to time because then I was so physically awkward and one of his worst students. By that, I mean that there were two or three times I had to go into his office for some legit reason or another. Because HE was my personal terror, I now don't recall too much about the shower experience itself except I know I didn't like it that much, kept to myself, and somehow never had any incidents that would scar me now. I DO, however, recall being left alone in a row with a muscle blond hunk bad boy. I watched him strip and reveal his Adonis body to me (for that age range, and I can only imagine how he developed before the inevitable decline).

R222: Don't complain now, you were just being tested. No different from a job interview, doncha know.

I tried really hard to avert my eyes from the guys while in the shower, but HAD to check out Todd Turquand (who was doing TV work at the time). He was toweling off with some other guys. I peeked and noticed that his cock and balls were handsomely surrounded in an ample nest of dark pubic hair.

We showered at summer camp. I was probably 12. I had a huge crush on my camp counselor and desperately wanted to see him naked. I hovered around and timed it right and saw him in the shower. He was uncut. I was horrified. My reaction has not changed.

That’s ridiculous r225

Are you a woman?

[quote]Can you guys imagine the kids today ever enduring a paddle for not wearing a jockstrap or not showering? They would all go running home, crying to their Helicopter Moms and there would be lawsuits.

There should be lawsuits for shit like that.

From The World According to Garp:

Attitudes like r225’s are the kind of thing that leads to prejudice and bigotry.

From The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas

I’m showering naked with other guys as I type this

R231

In re the nude swimming: My father belonged to the DAC (Downtown Athletic Club) in New York City. It opened in 1926, and it was the home of the Heisman Trophy. It did not admit women members until the late 1970s. It was a private, gentleman's club where you could get a workout, sauna, steam room, racket ball, and basketball. It even had a boxing ring. By the sixties and the seventies, its days were numbered. It was from a different era that catered to lawyers, financiers, and businessmen who after a workout would then have a few scotches/martinis, a cigar, and a steak lunch.

We would eat in the Dining Room overlooking the Hudson there on various holidays (Easter, Mother's Day), and we would get pies from there on Christmas.

On the 12th Floor, the club had an Olympic-size swimming pool with a balcony overlooking it. Swimsuits were optional, and, of course, women were not permitted on that Floor in the days before they were admitted as members. I can remember as a kid (circa 1970) always getting a thrill when I was taken to see the pool as treat after having dinner. There were always a couple of men swimming laps naked. I can remember being fascinated by the hairy bodies, seeing a grown man's penis or butt. It must have awakened the gay in me.

Welcome back, BPC

R233. I belonged to DAC. Floors and floors of weights, pools, boxing everything. Two separate men's lockers. Upstairs locker. had a room to just relax and watch tv. Nude or in a towel. Also probably abt five steams saunas. A cold plunge pool. Massages in an open room. No covering. It was truly an old gentlemans club. I joine when I was 21, new to NYC. Great memories there and I get in awesome shape. Restaurant bar in lobby. Small shop w shorts, socks, jocks, swimsuits. Unused rooms w random weights. It was a paradise. It's fucking condos now. Thx for reminding of that place.

I still remember to this very day the look of RH's glistening ass as he was drying off following his shower after gym class. It was so perfectly round and full, with two beautifully shaped dimples. The side view of his perfectly sized dick bobbing up and down was icing on the cake. He was so beautiful and seemed oblivious of how perfect his body was, which made it even more attractive. I graduated from high school in 1982, and yet the memory will never fade.

The cunt frauen are responsible for this no showering thing. FUCK YOU FRAUEN!

Women spoil everything r237

Vaginas! Know your places.

The women are testing you is all. And you have been found......wanting.

R233 / R235 That sounds like paradise, but like something a lot of us could never afford. You both must be very wealthy elderly gentlemen.

Chill out Marky Misogynist at R237.

It wasn't the frauen, it was the accountants and the state legislatures.

As explained earlier, it costs money for the schools to maintain the showers and people to watch and clean the showers and possible lawsuits from kids slipping and falling in the showers.

If it was a sports team playing, that was even more money as they needed to wait till the kids were done, clean the showers and wash the uniforms -- all extra $$

And in many places, state legislatures and/or local Boards of Ed mandated X number of minutes of phys ed per week, which could not be done with enough time for showers built in.

As someone who grew up thinking that only happened in old movies, we would have thought it really odd to have to shower in school. You never got that sweaty in gym class and after sports practice, or games, you went home and showered. My bathroom at home was mine alone and was a much more pleasant place to shower than the locker room at school. Ditto any gym I've belonged to--unless I was going someplace after, there was no reason not to go right home and shower.

R240. Not at all was kind of a lower end version of midtown clubs like The Metroplitan club or Racquet and Tennis Club. Sort of run down when I belonged (1990 to 1993). But I liked that. Upper floors were a hotel for members. It was that old 40s 50s 60s men's club kinda thing. No one cared about nudity at all. Lthiugh it was coed during my time there, it was still 95% men. I actually JFK jr there (who was a member). I have posted this before, but (and I will swear on my soul) I showered in open showers w him two or three times. He was nice as hell. And yes he was hung.

And now he's Q-Anon R242 ;)

(For realz, that is one of the big theories the nutjobs have, that he came back to life (never really died?) to save us from Satan, or whatever Q-Anon is supposed to be doing.)

Back in the 70s and early 80s the 24 Hour Fitness gym on Santa Monica Blvd in West Hollywood was The Sports Connection and predominately male. It was known to many as "The Sports Erection"

R240, R233 here. I'm in my mid-fifties, so by some standards "elderly," but I'm middle-aged. and this was in the early 70s. My family was upper middle class. My father was a lawyer. Clubs were not all that expensive. The DAC was in lower Manhattan as R235 pointed out. By the 80s and 90s, changing demographics spelled the end of places like it: an economic downturn, rising real estate prices, etc. That part of Manhattan was dead on the weekends back then. Clubs like that made their money through food and booze. The health craze of the 80s and 90s did not include martinis after a workout.

The NYAC survives. It was a larger club, and it's location helped it.

BPC the NYAC was famously nude swimming years and years ago. No longer. It is nice. Racquet and Tennis Club on Park ave and 53 is still all men. Old school vibe to it and lockers and showers all open and feel like the old days. Nudity no big deal there.

No showers during gym at at school but plenty after school sports - Basketball and Wrestling crossed each other - it was the first time I noticed I was pretty well hung. Then I saw the quiet dude in my history class showering Holy shit. He had a big fucking boner and was swinging it around not giving a shit. It was no lie a foot long. I made friends with him fast !

I have a feeling this is why I see so many elderly men standing around the locker room completely nude for long periods of time.

Back in middle school in the 70s, two teams of male teachers played a basketball game for charity. One teacher, Mr. Zachary, was new to the school, fresh out of college, and was so good-looking. When he arrived on court, he was wearing a loose fitting tank top. It shifted across his chest when he moved, so his spongy, dark brown, distinct quarter shaped nipples came in and out of view throughout the game. I had a hard-on the entire time.

He got in trouble for it. I don't know if parents complained, but I learned he was told by the principal never to do it again. So, while some of you had P.E. teachers who stripped naked, Mr. Zachary was known as the teacher who revealed he had nipples. Scandalous!

I need to hear details from the poster who saw Robert Rusler naked. Please be as descriptive as possible. I’ve been in love with him since he was in ‘Shag’.

I grew up going to the boys club then the Y. I was on the swimteam in high school and played soccer. So I have been aroung naked dudes while naked way befoe puberty to this day.

[quote] Back in middle school in the 70s, two teams of male teachers played a basketball game for charity.

I would imagine they all showered together after the game. I would've waited around for that!

R233 The DAC as imagined by Dutchwoman Madelon Vriesendorp

“eating oysters with boxing gloves, naked, on the nth floor…”,

The Swimming Pool Library is a great book about traditional old athletic clubs from the Londonian perspective of 1983.

There are Korean spas in the Wilshire district in LA. I've gone twice. 1st time fully expecting it to be a gay bathhouse, but it really didn't have the sexual vibe thing going on at all. But it's all naked. In fact, it's against the rules to wear a swim suit. 2nd time it was better because frankly I had dropped any expectation of 'cruising' - and didn't stress over whether I was being appropriate or not. I was just chilling out while naked with all men. It was nice.

Uh r255, you need to have your eyes checked, because the Wilshire Koreans spas have SO much gay sex going on.

R225 I can relate, albeit a bit differently: the first time I saw a circumcised penis I was more than a bit horrified, especially after my cousin started explaining it in gross detail. Americans are such an odd bunch, that for the most part they claim to like things natural, but seem so horrified by the natural penis.

Certainly times have changed, but there are still guys who use the showers at my gym. Even the younger crowd. If there's a bunch of guys standing around gawking, and waiting for others to undress, they'll not feel comfortable and won't shower there; but I feel the same way. I feel creeped out if I'm being watched, so I don't stare at the other guys. If everyone in the locker room is myob, or just socializing with their buddies, everyone just goes about their business. At least that's my experience.

[quote]Americans are such an odd bunch, that for the most part they claim to like things natural,

Um, the female body, liked by at least 60% of Americans, and admired by another 35%, cannot - in the case of most American females- be traced by more than six inches before you bump into something unnatural, at times downright synthetic.

The summer before 7th grade, I was terrified of back to take showers, which from my older brother I learned was required after every gym class (even last period!).

So I tried to burn the gym down. It did some damage, but was repaired in time for the school year, and yes we did have to take showers and I still hated it.

But I never got caught.

^having to take showers. Ugh.

Gym class is reason enough to burn down the gym. You're my hero, r260.

What r216 said. Man if some these stories were to happen today it would make national news.

I wish it were possible for anyone who ever got paddled—paddled???—for not wearing a jockstrap to go back today and sue the asshole(s) who did it to him. Just when you think you've heard it all.

I got paddled a couple of times in high school—not for being jockless, but because the football coach/science teacher just enjoyed paddling boys’ asses. This was tolerated in that time.

When I was in school, we got punished for not wearing our jocks. The coach would make us take of all of our clothes and paddle each other, while he yelled "Harder!!!"

I wish

I always like the good-looking guys at the gym who, for the longest time, avoid showering then decide one day to give in.

This gives an excuse for the forced nudity—

when men are forced to be nude together they become friends

The entire team

it's Friday, TAKE a shower

Wash

That

Man

Pussy

We used to go down to the creek after a hard day's work and strip off.

There's no shame in that. And almost nothing happened.

Cleaner than clean

Funny, jock straps were a thing of the past when I was in high school. Guys wore compression shorts. I played baseball and they made them with a pouch for the cup.

I know of some high schools where you didn't have to bring a gym uniform. The school would take care of the laundering and you'd just pick out your size for that day's gym class.

Here's the clincher: There was a huge bin of jock straps to choose from!

HOW hot is that?

I used to walk into the locker room and showers just to catch glimpses of the football players big hairy cocks, still remember the starting runningback a black mixed guy with a giant dick and abs and bubble butt just walking around next to his locker , had to quickly rush to the bathroom to jerk off..

R277. The Manhattan Athletic Club is a gym on East 48th betw Park and Lex. They provide shorts shirts socks w club logo/ uniform in men's locker. All folded up nicely in piles. Oh. And a huge nice folded pile of jocks. I kid you not.

Family moved to South Florida from NY in the early 1970s. Principals, deans and deans could paddle students without cause. Sometimes it was just because they didn’t like you. My tall, imposing, NY, Italian father threatened the principal as soon as we started the year “if anyone dares to lay a hand on one of my kids..........”

Thankfully, we had immunity. Although my sister did get home from school for wearing a mini skirt. 🙄

SO BACKWARDS!

Thankfully this paddling policy has long since been abolished.

I wonder what mandatory showering was like for teen stars/actors of the time. Did they get a free pass or were they required to get naked just like everyone else?

R281, we showered naked just like everybody else.

OP,

OMG - the “Sure, Jan” meme/joke needs to be retired or, better yet, banned. It’s no longer funny and now it’s being completely misused.

I think I’m gonna start FFing it everywhere I see it.

R284, while I don't mind the "Sure, Jan" gif as much as you do, I don't understand how it applies to OPs post. What's so hard to believe about his comments? That they were required to shower after gym? That he had guys he liked that he saw naked? That he jerks off to those memories?

It just doesn't make sense being used here.

I suspect if the image was posted only when it truly applies, people may not be as tired of it.

You suspect wrong, r285. It is always boring AF.

The only DLisms more boring than "Sure, Jan" are "slaps viciously" and "earrings, caftans."

R285 that’s why I said it’s being misused.

Also I want to reach through my computer screen and slap that "Sure, Jan" actress in the face with as much wallop as I can muster.

r288 I want to smash the SureJan posters' fingers so hard they can never post again in any thread, on any forum, using any device.

Alright - then you know how to use your FF

Whiners gotta whine.

There are so many more SureJans every day than we get FFs, r290. Not a solution.

Just block each and every one of them. They're not worth the time.

I hate blocking people because you get those numbers over in the right hand column telling you there are posts you haven't read. And then you click, and it's the morons you have on ignore.

When I ignore someone, I want them to be IGNORED.

There may be less of them once school is back in session. Kids tend to get a bit antsy the end of summer.

Wasn't this thread about the display of male flesh in group shower rooms?

I just imagine this in response ad infinitum.

....

Can we get back on topic? Jan never took showers with other guys.

Yeah, golden showers don't count.

Mr. Brady made sure that Greg, Peter, and I showered with him whenever I spent the night.

Memories...

So many memories...

When these guys were hot...

beautiful butts in a row

Last night I saw twin brothers in their early 20s showering at my Y. They came in from the pool after swimming. Sexy guys with round asses and identical hot cocks and suckable foreskins. Damn, I couldn't stop staring.

^ Which is why you found your tires slashed and your gas tank sugared,

Not at all. We chatted while getting dressed. Turned out their lockers were near mine.

I still do that.

To suck or not to suck? That is the question.

My gym has shower curtains. I don't close my curtain when showering. A couple of others don't either. Some don't close them all the way. Some are anal and make sure everything is buttoned down, and then they emerge all wrapped in their towel or wearing their shorts/underwear.

Slap them!

I’m in my 30s and guys my age seem uncomfortable socializing naked. On gay beaches, I always see old guys naked, and now it seems common for guys in their 20s to go naked on the beach too. My friends would be too prudish to hang out nude together (unless it involved hooking up). Along the same lines, I’ve seen a bunch of 20-somethings wearing thongs on the beach. The only guys I’ve seen wearing thongs before have all been over 60 years old. What is old is new again??

A real life sports team:

[quote] My friends would be too prudish to hang out nude together

As mentioned earlier, this may primarily be an American thing.

I went to a sento, a non-gay bath house, in Osaka and was surprised how many young men were there in groups, just socializing while completely naked. A couple guys were even washing each other's backs in the shower room.

I also went to a sento in the Nagoya airport where I saw the biggest flaccid cock I'd ever seen. He was a cute young Japanese guy with what resembled an elephant's truck swinging between his legs. The other patrons were too polite to stare, but the way he paraded back and forth, there was nobody who didn't notice. I almost missed my flight I was so mesmerized by his dick.

^ Dickmatized, tourist-san.

No european country has the nudity hang ups like the US has

Are Canadians so repressed? Does hockey loosen them up or rigidly conform them ?

US didn't have many nudity hang-ups when I was growing up in suburban NY. I am 55.

Where do meltdowns like R172 come from? And that’s someone who “never had to shower in front of others?” What causes these extreme, prisspot reactions?

Clearly he has mental illness issues.

Mince, mince prisspots, Mince!

I would love to take showers with a bunch of teenaged boys now.

Hit the showers, boys!

Rump!

OP, do you have to notify the local police department every time you move into a new neighborhood?

sexy times

I'm going to run for our local School Board based solely on the platform that mandatory showers need to be re-instated.

I probably won't win, but it sure would make for an entertaining campaign.

After all, that's all we're interested in anyways these days: the entertainment value of our elections.

bump

For those with gym memberships have any of you followed guys into the locker room hoping to get a glimpse of their cock?

Following ? No need. My gym still has communal showers, no stalls, no curtains.

But most of the guys don't shower. I'm not complaining here. I pity the people who are around their smell for the rest of the day.

I've followed guys back to the locker area and have seen dick on occasion. You have to time it just right so you're there when the shorts come off. A lot of time guys will just gather their stuff from their locker and leave but seeing the guys striping down before heading to the shower is a real treat. I've noticed people "casually" following me into the locker room as well.

....

I love it when they pop boners

Anyone know if the R333 gif is from porn? What's the video? Great stiffy on that man and hot man talking to him.

Men.com's "Football DL part 3" with phenix saint adam bryant robert axel cameron foster darin silvers.

Yeah, like most of men.com, the stills are hot, the video is not

I’d love to do it now. Then? No! I hated and dressed it as a 12 yr old.

Hated ans dresses itI?

[quote]Hated ans dresses itI?

Liza, is that you?

Liza's career has fallen apart and she has become crazy. She would no longer be considered a Diva.

Liza’s biggest problem is that no one under 70 knows who the fuck she is. I only know of her because of the DL.

How did a discussion about group showers turn into a discussion about Liza Minnelli?

You rang?

Back on subject

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Don't drop the soap!

I used to watch "The White Shadow" back in the early 80s solely for the team shower scenes they had every week.

What other reason was there to watch it, R348.

R335, delicious

"Take Me Out" A Broadway production now played in local/regional theatre. Centered on baseball players, there's extensive full-frontal nudity in the shower scene. Jeremy Sisto, for one, was once under those showers. I wish I had know. I would have had a front row seat...

Take me out is classic.

I refused to shower with my 7th grade class because, in the pre-internet era, I was sure I had a very small endowment. It was only years later that I realized I was decidedly not.

I refused not to take a shower.

Never had this experience in jr high or high school. I did at summer camp during jr high, and somewhat flusteredly did my showering quickly and self-consciously while the other boys in there, all a year older than me, took their time, leisurely conversing. As I left and dressed I heard one of them say, "Somebody turn that kid's shower off, he forgot to turn it off and it's using up the hot water."

I have no recollection of looking at any of them.

[quote]Are Canadians so repressed? Does hockey loosen them up or rigidly conform them ?

Yeah. They're worried because, yet again, they aren't hung like pornstars.

I warsh muhsef wit' a rag onna stick.

Showering was not required in late 80’s in high school. I was leary even to shower at the gym, until I was 28, until I saw this stud casually drying himself off, totally unselfconsciously. I still remember him vividly. At that point, I said “fuck this shyness”, and I have been showering at the gym ever since, going to nude beaches, and fucking in public.

Being shy is worthless

I enjoy admiring the really hairy blokes in the showers. I try to be discreet when I steal a glance. Gets me going way more than muscles.

It's not really a choice, R359.

Yes being shy really is a choice. You do it anyway and soon you are no longer shy.

I have a group shower in my pool's cabana. We have lemon parties there.

I had a crush on this cute kid who was goofily homophobic (fag this, queer that). He rarely took showers though once after track practice, he made a rare appearance. Through the corner of my eye, I saw his little cock was semi-engorged. And I wanted to suck on that thing so fucking bad. Saw a picture of him a few months back. Bald and gross, aviator glasses. No thanks. Still, if I had a time machine, I would pass on killing Hitler, etc and eat his teenage load like a champ.

PS. The closest I got to being with the kid above was by fucking his less cute sister.

[quote]I have been showering at the gym ever since, going to nude beaches, and fucking in public.

Because we all know that Gym-showering is the gateway to public fucking.

It's a shame most of the gyms have gotten rid of the communal type showers for ones with doors. It was such a treat to shower with all the guys after a strenuous workout.

R362, you sound like an ignorant extrovert.

R368 and you sound like a vicious ancient prude.

Tommy looks MISERABLE......Or maybe he realizes DLB isn't rolling around in job offers----like Tommy is.......poor Tommy----saddled with an old queen hubby while YOUR youth is being wasted ..../sad ;(

R370, unless Tommy and DLB, whoever they are, are in the shower with the other boys, take them to another thread.

Some of the latest posts are very trivial.

Feel free to call me whatever you want, R369. I wasn't being vicious in presuming that you're unaware of what causes people to be shy, and that you're probably an extrovert if you think that it's any more likely to supersede shyness through behavior than it's possible to supersede homosexuality through behavior. The underlying state remains the same and has been found to have a lot of genetic factors in its etiology. Introverts can mimic extroverts just as gay people can mimic straight people. Some can do so convincingly, some not so much. Ultimately we shouldn't have to.

My gym coach in 7th grade would stand there and watch us shower. I was a new student in November that year and did not realize showers at this new school were mandatory. I didn't shower the first 3 days, so the hot gym coach called my parents and told them I was not showering. I got a lecture. There were only a dozen of us in that class, but 7 of the guys had huge dicks. It was very intimidating as I didn't have any pubic hair at all yet.

I find it creepy so many coaches are watching. Do they give pointers and critiques on your lathering up sufficiently too? What's next, they rub your skin to ensure you've rinsed properly? I'm all for the eroticism that does exist in locker rooms for us gay men, but watching seventh year boys is not right.

Our male swim teacher at school, insisted we all wear Speedos, instead of swimming trunks / shorts - even though we weren't swimming for speed.

What would you fuckwats do if there was another war and you suddenly were drafted to take showers with other guys without your privacy panel? Shock and Awe.

I think the shy men here would probably make do R377, and those who are not men would of course desert, as in other wars. You shouldn't try to emasculate them for their shyness though.

Very simple, R377, I'd gouge your eyes out first.

the next war will be fought electronically, r377, but for my part my gym class never showered - dammit.

Social shyness isn't an act nor an affectation. It's a result of experiences wherein one has felt powerless or inept around unkind loudmouths more interested in impressing everyone and marginalizing the more reserved, thoughtful, and soft-spoken members present than in promoting awareness through sharing and kindness.

Shy people are OK by me R381. Some do get better at feeling comfortable getting naked though. It is not unlike desensitisation really. It happened in my case anyhow. One can improve self-esteem and confidence. It becomes easier as we mature. Bulking up in my case helped me immensely. I would even hold the towel for you to give you some privacy, but might sneak a peak if I find you attractive!

I consider myself shy. I'd rather spend a night at home or with one or two good friends than at a big party. If I do go to a party, I'm a wallflower and will quietly observe until (if) I get comfortable. But I have no problem getting undressed or showering with other guys in the locker room. I don't think of that as not making me shy, it's just more functional if I need to get clean and be hygienic. Maybe it helps that I grew up in the 80s where I was naked with junior high, high school and college classmates.

I don't see "shy" as not getting naked in a locker room. Just food for thought.

I can understand the distinction you are making R383. Are you R381? Whether or not someone feels both, I don't think it fair to consider shy men to be any less masculine, or less capable fighting for their country if need be.

No, I'm not R381. I think this was my first post in the thread.

R383, neither do I

Nice thread, brings back memories.

I'm not shy, but I have a small dick, so I'm going to do what I need to do, to save my self the embarrassment.

Will the Shyness Troll please go away.

[quote]What would you fuckwats do if there was another war and you suddenly were drafted to take showers with other guys without your privacy panel? Shock and Awe.

Where do I sign up?

When I was in high school, we had to shower and then bend over and show the coach our pooters so he could be sure they were clean.

Sounds hot

[quote]I got paddled a couple of times in high school---not for being jockless, but because the football coach/science teacher just enjoyed paddling boys' asses.

What was your alleged offense? And was the coach hot?

I wanted my shop teacher to paddle me. He was a hot motherfucker -- he wore tight Wranglers and always left the top two buttons of his shirt unbuttoned, exposing his hair chest. So, I was always tempted to get into trouble, so he would make me bend over and light up my butt with his big paddle.

However, he once paddled two senior football players and brought them to tears, so I thought it might not actually be as hot as I fantasized. Too chicken to go through with it.

Sexy

R393 what year and in which state did this occur?

I got paddled in wood shop once. Kinda humiliating. Looking back, the shop teacher (9th grade)(in the 1970's) with his clone mustache, was so obviously a Christopher-Street gay.

R396, on your bare ass in front of the whole class, we hope?

This happened to me. The teacher held me after class and pulled my pants down and put me over his lap and paddled me until I was red. I could feel his hard cock poking me. Then he bent me over the desk and fucked m---

Sorry, that was just a film I am watching.

R395, Alabama in 92/93.

R393 R399 in 1992/93??!! I thought this was long outlawed. What did they do that got them the paddling?

They were sex fiends

To this day the scent of starched towels gives me a Boner.

[quote]in 1992/93??!! I thought this was long ago outlawed.

Hope you're sitting down, but corporal punishment is still allowed in Alabama -- and most other Southern states, for that matter -- TODAY!

^ mmmmm corporal punishment.

If the guy has a hot ass then corporal punishment in front of others is a duty

I showered in high school w a dog weiner guy

Post-high school shower story. In grad school I went through a phase where I'd swim at the campus pool regularly in the mid morning. Often there was a guy who'd swim at about the same time and I'd see him after in the shower, rarely anyone else. He was a tight, tan, adorable pup. During his shower he'd turn away from the multiple-head shower pole thing (but sideways to me) and spread his butt to let the water in there. I was too reserved to try anything to see if he was testing me out. Maybe he was just getting clean.

Clean holes is a blessing

While no one was ever asked to pull down their pants when they got paddled at my junior high, there was one incident where two guys were goofing around in the showers and the teacher gave them each a swat on their still wet bare asses.

Class of 1988:

There were showers in the middle of the locker room in high school, but I recall not a single person ever using them. I agree with the guys who say I don't know what I would've done if it were required. In the same way I don't know what I would've done if it were 20 years earlier and I'd been drafted into the Army. Unimaginable to me.

Almost no one got naked in the locker room except one guy. Puberty hit him early, and he had a full beard, and big muscles. Dude would strip down, and he had a thick reddish bouncy dick. It was so manly the way he didn't give a fuck about anyone seeing it. I made sure every day I had a prime position to sneak a couple of looks. I think gym teacher Mr. Haines caught me looking once. He didn't seem to care.

There was another hot guy named Art- he looked like Taylor Kitsch in retrospect. Never took off his underpants, but he wore bikini briefs, and had a massive package. Always tried to sneak a peek there too.

I was Class of 1983. We started using the locker room and showering together for PE class in the fourth grade (1974). As a boy, I was not interested in looking at other little boys ... even though, oddly enough, there were plenty of instances of the boys showing their prepubescent genitals to each other. It was like we didn't fully understand what these little penises would be doing later in our lives -- they were just novel appendages to be proud or ashamed of.

Things didn't get thrilling until seventh grade. This was middle school, so there were a bunch of new boys I had not met before. One, Brian, was the tallest boy in class because he had already gone through puberty. He had a beautiful long cock that flopped around and a full bush of pubic hair. To me, he was not a boy but a full grown man! I couldn't take my eyes off his cock, and he was always first to get naked and take a shower and engage in horseplay in the locker room. There were plenty of other boys checking him out just because he was the first. It wasn't until a few more boys started changing that we became self-conscious about our own bodies, and there was more hiding and shame about being naked in front of each other.

Shame and lust

I'm at a loss as to why some of you shower at the gym.

That's always a "worst case" scenario for me, e.g., if I have to go somewhere immediately after.

Otherwise, it's a major hassle, bringing a change of clothes and toiletries with me, worrying that I forgot a belt or socks or something.

Why wouldn't you go home and shower?

I'm always still heated up after a workout and need some time to cool down so I don't start sweating after a shower.

Much easier to walk a few blocks home or get into your car and drive 5-10 minutes. (In the summer I keep an old towel in the car so I don't get the seats all sweaty.) Few people actually stink after a workout at a level that other pedestrians or other gym-goers would notice.

Or is it just a thing where you want to check out other guys naked?

R413 post workout, I frequently have social plans. And I sweat when I work out...I don’t want to stink three hours later. I’m not afraid to be naked among other guys...I don’t even think of it.

Can't you work out a little earlier to avoid that R414, e.g. so that you have time to go home and shower first?

And what do you do with your sweaty gym clothes -- bring them to the restaurant with you?

Just so much of a hassle bringing all your gear. Maybe you live far from your gym or it's by your office?

I park near my gym, then ride the train downtown to my office r415, then work our directly after work. My gym bag is in my car. I frequently don’t arrive home until 9-10 at night. If I didn’t have my car, then bringing a gym everywhere would be a problem.

R413 Water is expensive. I do not want to pay the bill so I shower at the gym.

One of the benefits of doing your showering and grooming at the gym is that you get to use their water and toiletries, and they also take care of cleaning up (particularly the whiskers from shaving at the sink).

The other benefit is you get to check out naked guys.

r413 you do you, and let me shower at the gym

I'm off to the gym right now, hopefully to shower with other guys. Wish me luck, boys!

Almost every time I shower at the gym I get a bj. Nice incentive after a workout.

Where is this gym r421?

There was a time in the early to mid 90s, the old gym at UNC was almost as cruisy as a bath house. I used to love to work out and he hit the open showers. Unfortunately after they built a newer student rec Center it became less active. Flash forward to the rise of the internet, yet an even newer student rec center and the place was dead.

Evenings after 9, Sunday afternoons were usually best.

I had an ongoing flirtation with a guy in the law school when I was doing my early morning work outs.it never progressed past small talk but there was something really hot about timing to finish my workout at the same and ending up in the shower. Usually facing each other but if the soap dispenser was empty,side by side. Never made a move though. Honestly could not get any sense if he was gay or not . He ask did borrow my deodorant once which made me think he was straight .

Couldn’t imagine a gay guy doing that, but who knows?

r423 remember Harold, who’d offer pretty much any young guy a professional massage? “ya wanna do somethin some time?”

i can remember straight guys on campus talking about him cornering them in the locker room and asking if they’d like his services.

When we started showering in our younger years it was required after gym class. It didn't matter what period it was.

There was an area outside the gang shower where we hung our towels and that was the area where we'd dry off. Our gym teacher stood there and we had to turn around for him so he knew our backs were dry. Everyone had to do that.

I remember one guy saying, "Jeez, some of these guys look like my father..."

Our gym teacher in HS was a retired marine gunnery Sargent. I think WWII. This was the late 70s/early 80s. He was addressed as Gunney. Nice guy but strict. Locker room had no urinal dividers or stalls. There were gang showers. It was like boot camp. It was super clean because he would not tolerate piss on the floor. Also toilet seats had to be raised. Football boot camp ran for 4 weeks in August. It was mandatory unless you couldn’t walk. You could quit after football camp. Everyone had a pee buddy since you peed 2 to a toilet just like boot camp. After those 4 weeks you were desensitized. I hated it then, but it was the best thing that happened to me. I went back every summer until I graduated. I almost joined the marines because I figured Paris Island would have been similar to his football camp with drill Sargents.

Wow, R413, the lengths one goes through to avoid getting naked in a locker room.

As HS gym showers are no longer mandatory, perhaps that is why your generation is so uptight about it.

(that's right, I didn't have to be told how old you are)

Dude r418. Fine if you want to shave in the gym sinks but have the decency to clean your whiskers and shaving cream out of the basin when you’re done. No one wants to use a sink with that mess caked all over it and the poor guy cleaning the locker room for 10 bucks an hour isn’t your personal maid.

R423 why not? I mean borrowing the deo.

I mean, I dunno I had gang showers in PE class, because we had a swimming pool. Some people turned me on, some didn't. I bet those who didn't would have never guessed anything about me even if we buddy-flirted, because my body genuinely didn't react to their nakedness and closeness.

I'm actually 53, R427. Just went to a high school where gym showers were not a thing and sports teams went home and showered

And what's with the "stinking" thing and you creepers?

How many people do you encounter who actually stink when they're all sweaty? Do you live outside the US where hygiene standards are different?

Most people I have encountered at the gym during the past 35 years wear antiperspirant and deodorant and don't stink during or after a workout, at least not to the point where it's noticeable.

Where do you workout? Do you live in a part of the world where garlic is a major part of the diet?

[And sidenote to Millennial DLers-- most Gen Xers and Boomers don't harbor these bizarre generational stereotypes. It's only a few old men on DL, who, I suspect, only know other men over 45. The rest of us get that you're not more monolithic than any other generation.]

^^Granted they don't smell like Irish Spring, but if you're standing next to them, you're gag reflex is not being activated.

R413,

I go to the gym right from work. I have a small gym bag for my workout clothes. The gym provides plastic bags for worn clothes, so my bag doesn’t smell like sweat. They have all the toiletries I need and provide towels.

If I had to go home before/after the gym, I wouldn’t have time to do anything else.

The showers are totally private, but even if they weren’t, I wouldn’t think twice about it. I’m late boomer-early millennial, btw.

Oops- meant late genX/early millennial

You don't use your own deodorant R432?

And why wouldn't you either go in the AM before work or after work an then go home to shower?

Just seems like such a hassle, and pretty much only worth it for the chance to see guys naked.

No idea what a late genX/early millennial is. Does that mean you're 40?

35- I think 40 is safely genX

I don’t go before work because I hate getting up early and I don’t go home right afterwards because I have a life. Even if I weren’t going out, it’s still a waste of time to go home first.

2018-35 = 1983 (or 82 if you turn 36 this fall)

You're a Millennial dude.

Embrace it!

And fuck the crazy "All Millennials Are Exactly The Same And I Hate Them All" posters on DL

One could conceivably go home, shower and then go out again R436.

Do you live in a rural area, far from places where you might want to go out or where your friends might live?

Is your gym many hours away from your house?

Dude, you’re freaking obsessed with how others plan their schedules. I love in nyc, work in nyc, go to the gym in nyc, and go out in nyc. I have a membership that allows me to use any gym in the chain, so I usually go to one near the office or where my after work plans will be.

You are obsessed with how your way of doing things is the only way there is.

I had just said that I found it to be a hassle to shower at the gym and was surprised at how into it so many of you were, and you were all "but I have a life" And I'm an early AM workout type so that may have a lot to do with it. I'm home by 7AM and can take my time getting ready. If I went after work it might be different

You're still not as crazy as R427 though. Do a quick "ignoredar" on him and he's all about coaches paddling him and other NIFTY archives stories.

Fuck - I am so glad we were made to shower in junior high so I didn’t spend my entire life afraid of having to shower in locker rooms and figuring out how to change without another dude seeing my dick. It’s fucking exhausting just listening to some of you. You won’t change or shower in a locker room - but you will send complete strangers dick pics and/or post them on the internet. Makes sense. I’ll let you get back to your towel dancing.

I work out near my office. It's about 20 minutes from home. So I shower after a work out so I'm not still sweaty and stinking up my car. And feeling soaking wet and gross. If all I do is lift, I don't sweat a lot, but if I do cardio, forget it, I'm soaking wet.

Occasionally, I've skipped a shower because I forgot something at home, so I drive home sweaty. The next morning when I open my car door, I can definitely tell the difference. So it's incentive to make sure I pack everything so I can shower at the gym.

Man, I am with R441 - some of you who go to the gym after work but can't shower, towel-off, put the same clothes on and leave are exhausting. It really does sound like you have concepts of hygiene and nudity that I don't understand.

I hated gang bang showers in school - I was always a before picture in the old Charles Atlas ads... but, guess what? In my late twenties, I filled out more and had learned that my cock was nothing to be embarrassed about size wise.

Going to the gym, working up a sweat and having to shower? It's not a big deal. Being naked outside the shower, in front of my locker it's only a few moments of more nudity. Then my cock's wrapped in underwear and more. A shirt will cover my chest...

Started in 7th grade. Managed to avoid it in 8th grade as well. Afraid of boner.

Couldn't avoid it on high school and as you started you got over your shyness very quick and were very comfortable changing around other guys. Men were comfortable naked. It was fine and a male tradition. Did hook ups happen? Sure, but it was not overt and nobody in high school had a problem with it as far as I know because they didn't pick up on it. Same with colleges and guys were so okay with it they joked about it and got frisky about it with no gay intentions though they did make gays in the shower joke but as far as I could tell nobody was frightened.

Some of the reasons it stopped were that a fat teased guy brought it the ACLU. Also boys were getting their own bedrooms and bathrooms at home. This privileged privacy allowed them to become more prudish objecting to the openness of communal showers. Guys even used saunas completely nude sitting on a tower. Now they sit there fully dressed in gym clothes(disgusting) and some places don't even allow towels. You would be thrown out unless you wore a bathing suit. Even Ys now have signs up saying consider the sensitivity (fuck their sensitivity of seeing a naked man, why is their fragility being indulged)of others and cover up. This would have been unthinkable a few years ago. The whole point was to allow your entire body to experience the health benefits of nudity and a complete relaxation and if some guy had a problem he was considered the weird one.

And I don't remember the coaches having any interest in us beyond making sure we took a shower even though the showers were open to the locker room and they were in a central cage.

And this went on for many thousand of years of with no problem.In just a few this has become a sick fantasy of perverts. Another fantasy of laughably prudish times when films are filled with the vulgarity and violence of a truly sickening nature but general audiences love. Who really are the perverts?

The people who find entertainment in this garbage.

[quote]You are obsessed with how your way of doing things is the only way there is.

You just summed up the entire Datalounge.

But especially R413 (and his multiple follow-up replies)

R444 nude sitting on a tower.

I would love to see these men in the sauna who sit on towers. Please post a photo.

We only had one bedroom for the guys and one bathroom so we were cool about walking around bare ass.

Why in the name of God is the OP now grey and crossed out? Have the trolls been FFing him the way they do to the political threads?

R447, that’s hot!

R445 = Paddling Troll

r446 oh i’ve sat on plenty of towers, baby. alas, none of this sitting transpired in a sauna.

R444 I agree it's prudish. I'm not asking for general nudity everywhere but to treat a body like it's something to be ashamed of, it's not healthy.

Why must we sexuality everything... it's just a body, and sometimes people just need to shower!

sexuality = sexualizi

'towels' but you knew I meant that. Still it was funny.

Also I meant to write 'In just a few years this has become'.

It would appear there is much room on this thread for response so why a new thread on the same subject?

R456, where is this new thread of which you speak? Can you link to it (if it contains hot reminiscences)?

I love showering naked. It’s better with other guys too

Interesting article about locker room nudity in the modern age.

I’m taking a shower with other guys as I type this

Me too, r460.

R460 and R461 if you're on your phones show us some pictures.

I sometimes feel comfortabe being naked in the lockerroom and sometimes I don't. It is not ( for me,)connected with whether i am being cruised on not. However, I am never so uncomfortable that I will resort to the towel dance. Too much work. I just minimize the time I am naked if I am not "in the mood'. I don't mind older or less fit men looking at my body. Why would it bother me? That seems so snowflakey to me.

When I was a kid we were thrown into situations like showers where you were encouraged to "get over" your shyness. I think its a much better policy. Millenials in my gym don't seem to be shy about being naked but I am in NYC, so could be regional.

I think it has more to do with the new rise of homophobia than with age.

As one of the few millennials on here, can I suggest another reason?

Comfort.

I rarely change or shower at the gym and neither do most/any of my friends. Our bathrooms at home are more comfortable, cleaner, don't require us to lug around toiletries and change of clothes, etc. It also cuts the time spent at the gym down.

And let's be real--most gym locker rooms are pretty gross, the showers are kind of dirty, they're cold in the winter, the lockers are cramped, etc. Much easier to throw on an old hoodie and walk the 6 blocks home.

OTOH, my parents belong to a really sweet gym (Equinox Lincoln Ctr, fka Reebok) and the locker rooms there are pretty cushy and clean and so showering there feels more like being at a spa than in a dirty locker room. (Or at least it did the last time I was there, which, TBH, may have been three or four years ago.)

I think it saves time to shower at the gym. Just the thought of getting in my car all sweaty grosses me out (I live about 45 mins away). Plus I save a lot on my water bill.

LOL, yes R466, if I had to get in my car and drive 45 minutes to get home from the gym I'd probably shower there too, even if the shower was a hose inside an enclosure in the parking lot.

That said, most people live pretty close to where they work out, unless their gym is near their office and they have seriously long commutes.

I'm glad it was mandatory back in my day (the Jurassic era, 1968-1974). I was 12 in '68 and just starting jr. high, and a new school district. Shy about my skinny body, but I had hair down there (and on my upper lip) so I really stood out. I felt more comfortable once other kids started getting hair (and bigger dicks). I was constantly getting boners and developed a whole system to keep them down. Times tables, NOT LOOKING, talking about anything but sex.

I think knowing (or strongly suspecting) that I was gay made it difficult for me to indulge in teasing and horseplay in the locker room. But overall, being naked with my classmates helped me overcome my shyness.

From the article at R459: "Dr. Barry Miller, a psychotherapist in West Hollywood and author of the article “On the Loss of Nudity in the Men’s Locker Room,” argues this is a cultural divide..."

Can you imagine devoting your doctoral studies to hanging out in the men's locker room and asking guys questions like, "Does it make you uncomfortable when you catch me staring at you as you undress? And how do you feel about seeing me naked with a hard-on?"

I had a friend in high school, he was sort of an unpopular guy but we sat next to each other in History. He was constantly asking me to hang out after school, said his mom worked late and we could get high or drink beer in his basement and watch porn. I always blew him off or made excuses. He was on the wrestling team and I played after school basketball so we never really had the same schedules. One day wrestling practice went long and I was getting changed. In comes walking my friend butt naked, killer body and a swinging dick like I have never seen. He was walking right towards me and I am just staring at his dick, and he says "hey dude" and I looked up. I was pretty sure he knew I was looking. Anyhow, so The next day he asks me if I can give him a ride home, I said yes and of course, the next question is - do you wanna hang out? This time I tell him sure and he gets crazy excited. He tells me he got some really good weed, and his mom won't be home until late. He tells me to go downstairs, there is a couch a tv, a table, a typical basement. He comes downstairs soon after with a bong and wearing nothing but shorts. He throws on a porno and lights up the bong, takes a big hit then passes it. I take a hit and it is really good weed. We are sitting back watching porn and drinking beer. I look over and he has a massive boner in his gym shorts. I mean barely contained. I said "jesus dude, you hiding a bong in there?" He stands up and it is jutting out and he is just grinning and looking at me. I was high a little drunk and thought fuck it, I reached out and grabbed his dick. He sat back down and said "you wanna see it>" He pulls out, no lie, a nine inch perfect cock. I reach over and grab it. One thing lead to another and we ended up doing everything but fucking. That came later.

R470 Sounds pretty hot. Gave me a bit of a stiffy.

Dongs on parade

r472 dong-go-seek is more like it.

Communal showers are the best. Every gym should have them.

Apparently Fred Savage enjoys taking showers with other guys.

Why are these people shouting?

I knew some guys in SAE at Stanford (a few years before Fred Savage's time). I'm going to spend a few moments now imagining them showering together ....

NO man's gonna see my dingleberries!

Why is Conan and everyone so uptight about being naked? I don't get it.

It was Sigma Chi, though, that was known on campus as Sigma Bi. Why? I asked. The guys, I was told, openly check each other out in the showers.

R479 All the better. I have no desire to see Conan O Brien naked.

Did anyone ever run into people they were hot for/attracted to from workplace etc. at a healthclub with communal showers? Very revealing, no pun intended!

[quote] Very revealing, no pun intended!

Details, please. Who was it? What happened?

r480 at my university it was Chi Bi - the first to have an openly gay president.

Weird to someone you are hot for in their altogether unexpectedly at a health club that You did not know they belonged to same one.

[quote]Weird to someone you are hot for in their altogether unexpectedly at a health club that You did not know they belonged to same one.

R485—Would you care to diagram that sentence?

Allow me, R486—I'm a textual critic.

An infinitive is missing at the beginning of the sentence, represented only "to" in the extant text, subject of the predicate "[it is] weird." I conjecture "to see" or perhaps "to run into." "In their altogether" is less idiomatic than "in the altogether," but clearly modifies "someone," as does the relative clause "[whom] you are hot for."

The last part of the sentence shows traces of rewriting; as it stands it's a combination of "a health club that you did not know they belonged to" (a syntactical continuation of the foregoing) and a new sentence, "You ... same one." This last part of the sentence is somewhat epexegetic with "unexpectedly."

Also, this thread is useless without pictures.

Bravo, R487! Well played! You rose to the occasion far better than I ever could have. I rejoice that there are people like you out there to whom the English language isn't a mysterious enemy.

I also echo your sentiment about pictures.

WE WANT PICTURES!

^^ADDENDUM^^

Also, R487, you sent me scurrying to the dictionary. I now know the meaning of the word "epexegetic." Now all I have to do is figure out how to throw it into a casual sentence.

[quote] WE WANT PICTURES!

Here you go. Me and my frat buddies.

Thank you, R490. I like looking at all those gentlemens.

*bowing and blushing* My pleasure, R488.

R480 should also go in the "hot gifs you could watch all day" thread. Here's a relevant exegesis (related to "epexegetical") with pictures.

Vladivostok wants its gif back, r490.

Bump!

As more uncut cock becomes common, could this explain the reservation of some guys being nude prudes?

Here's another possible reason for the decline in middle school/HS group showering. Baby Boomers grew up in large families. LIke 5-10 kids each. And the more brothers you had, the more comfortable you'd be seeing them naked/being seen naked. Cut to a couple decades later. Most families have only one or two kids. So there's a good chance a kid growing up today has never seen a cock besides his own. Therefore, ipso facto, for school systems to say: all you young boys get naked together or else, isn't part of our cultural sensibility the way it once was.

Makes sense or bullshit?

I grew up with 5 brothers and never saw one of them nude. We always had to change in the closet or bathroom and to never expose ourselves. Large families have nothing to do with it.

Yet I live in a place where my gym has a shower room, no stalls, no curtains. No problem for me, but naked in front of my brother, never.

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Gotta go to the gym and take naked showers with other guys, and also enjoy the sauna where naked women will be present also.

I live in Berlin where we are truly liberal.

I don't want to see naked women. I'm a gay man who wants to see naked men. And I'm a little to the left of Jesus.

The Muslim immigrant must really like the coed saunas r499

All these blonde female infidels....

I recently started going to a YMCA that still has a shower room. It's awesome. I had forgotten how great it is to actually shower next to other guys. My usual gym has separate stalls, no curtains, but the open room is so much better. It's also in an urban area so lots of young dudes and black guys.

It's fun to stay at the YMCA!

There's nothing like being naked in a roomful of other hot naked men. Before the last big recession my gym was full of hot daddy types who would workout during their work day. In the afternoon the locker room was full of these men, stripping, romping nudity, dicks flopping as the walk to the shower. A lot of them worked together since the gym was located on the ground floor of a high-rise office building. It was kinda hot when they'd be getting ready to go back to the office and talking to each other with their cocks hanging out.

Headed to the gym right now.

I showed my pee-pee in the showers today.

Keeping it all clean, boys

Mandatory showers did not start till high school for me- all male regional parochial school.

But showering started in 6th grade. My elementary school was also parochial, but coed and only 30 of us in my graduating class vs. 250 in hs.

The school did not have a gym so we trudged down the street to the original Y in town. I swear it was a converted barn! Needless to say in the start and end of the school year the gym was like a sauna!

Well one day Paul who had the locker next to me had stripped to his underwear and stood there kind of funny/contemplating. With essentially a ‘fuck it’ he pulled a towell out of his gym bag and dropped his underwear. I looked st him thinking ‘brave and bright’ and asked if I could use his towell afterwards dropping my underwear. He seemed almost relieved not to be the only one to be showering.

Now comes the, um, fun part. The lockerroom was litterally the length of a bowling alley and we were assigned lockers by last name. Ours started with ‘B’...and the shower room was down by ‘Z’!

We walked the length of the lockerroom, me totaly naked and him with a towell covering his goods.

Thankfully as the year progressed more and more of our classmates availed themselves of a shower after gym.

One advantage I had was gym was last class of the day, and I lived closeby so I did not go back to school but home, allowing me linger in the lockerroom and showers...especially when there was fresh meat to be seen!

Mandatory showers did not start till high school for me- all male regional parochial school.

But showering started in 6th grade. My elementary school was also parochial, but coed and only 30 of us in my graduating class vs. 250 in hs.

The school did not have a gym so we trudged down the street to the original Y in town. I swear it was a converted barn! Needless to say in the start and end of the school year the gym was like a sauna!

Well one day Paul who had the locker next to me had stripped to his underwear and stood there kind of funny/contemplating. With essentially a ‘fuck it’ he pulled a towell out of his gym bag and dropped his underwear. I looked st him thinking ‘brave and bright’ and asked if I could use his towell afterwards dropping my underwear. He seemed almost relieved not to be the only one to be showering.

Now comes the, um, fun part. The lockerroom was litterally the length of a bowling alley and we were assigned lockers by last name. Ours started with ‘B’...and the shower room was down by ‘Z’!

We walked the length of the lockerroom, me totaly naked and him with a towell covering his goods.

Thankfully as the year progressed more and more of our classmates availed themselves of a shower after gym.

One advantage I had was gym was last class of the day, and I lived closeby so I did not go back to school but home, allowing me linger in the lockerroom and showers...especially when there was fresh meat to be seen!

Mandatory showers did not start till high school for me- all male regional parochial school.

But showering started in 6th grade. My elementary school was also parochial, but coed and only 30 of us in my graduating class vs. 250 in hs.

The school did not have a gym so we trudged down the street to the original Y in town. I swear it was a converted barn! Needless to say in the start and end of the school year the gym was like a sauna!

Well one day Paul who had the locker next to me had stripped to his underwear and stood there kind of funny/contemplating. With essentially a ‘fuck it’ he pulled a towell out of his gym bag and dropped his underwear. I looked st him thinking ‘brave and bright’ and asked if I could use his towell afterwards dropping my underwear. He seemed almost relieved not to be the only one to be showering.

Now comes the, um, fun part. The lockerroom was litterally the length of a bowling alley and we were assigned lockers by last name. Ours started with ‘B’...and the shower room was down by ‘Z’!

We walked the length of the lockerroom, me totaly naked and him with a towell covering his goods.

Thankfully as the year progressed more and more of our classmates availed themselves of a shower after gym.

One advantage I had was gym was last class of the day, and I lived closeby so I did not go back to school but home, allowing me linger in the lockerroom and showers...especially when there was fresh meat to be seen!

In Jr High (7-9) showers were mandatory. This was the 60’s. Getting caught skipping them and the gym teacher would give you a swat with his paddle. Towel snapping or goofing around also got you a swat. We had the large shower rooms with the pole shower heads. It was a large school and two classes ran simultaneously. We had a large and small gym for each of the boys & girls. When I was in 7th grade I hadn’t started puberty and was totally hairless. I was fascinated by all my classmates who had started puberty and had some or in a few cases a lot of pubes. In addition, the other class running was a 9th grade class so they mostly had full bushes and hairy pits. I always took a shower near the 9th graders to be able to see the older guys.

In 8th grade they built a swimming pool. The story was that the swimming trunks they ordered got delayed due to a strike and so we swam nude. It worked out OK so in 9th grade we still swam nude. When in 9th grade the other class was 7th graders so I wasn’t as interested in seeing them naked except I did see a couple of them that were from my neighborhood. I was interested in my classmates, especially Randy who had the longest dong in the class. He knew it and would walk around naked quite a while.

10th grade was High School and they never said showers were mandatory, but almost everyone took one. One guy never took a shower and always kept his underwear on. The last week of class he finally showered with everyone. The reason he was so shy was that he was uncut. He was the only guy in 4 years of gym classes that wasn’t cut.

Bumping this thread with a clip from a documentary on the last British coal mine.

Here we see the boys playfully washing up after a long day's work.

And here's a video guide on Japanese bathhouse etiquette.

It's a shame neighbourhood bathhouses/saunas aren't more popular internationally.