Communal Showers

[me203]

I suspect if the YMCA's had private showers in the 70's the Village People would never have been famous!

And then, in turn, some might not have heard of the YMCA.

Something I saw online is photo that is apparently a YMCA form with a question: "How did you learn of the YMCA." Written answer: "The Village People."

 

[jjonn3]

I hated the communal showers after games. Mainly because I was a late developer and the last to get pubes. Mortifying to a 15 yr old

I remember one very late bloomer in school - it amazed me how at ease he was about it. He would walk around the locker room chatting and laughing with his towel often over his shoulder - no shyness or hesitation at all.

 

[rareboy]

I remember some fun times in communal showers....

 

[lockeroomguy]

There were communal showers in the locker rooms in my high school, but they didn't give us time to shower after class. We barely even had time to get changed. I suppose the sports teams used them. I wasn't terribly comfortable changing in front of other people, and I would have been absolutely mortified to shower in front of my peers.

Back in high school, showering after gym was mandatory. The gym teacher would check the locker room to make sure all the boys were showering. Jockstraps were also mandatory. How times have changed.

 

[peeonme]

When I go to a place like Planet Fitness the only guys that display it all have huge cocks. The rest of us are more modest.

 

[jjonn3]

My first public erection was gym class in a shared shower. The humiliation lol

I was scared of that - but thankfully constant masturbation and the terror of being outed kept things to no more than a semi.

I remember at camp it happened to a couple of guys - they just laughed about it and hung a wash cloth off it.

 

[LeicsDom]

I remember at camp it happened to a couple of guys - they just laughed about it and hung a wash cloth off it.

Scout Camp was one of the places I got quite a bit of action

 

[workoutbud09]

At my local gym/pool (which is fairly new) they have individual shower stalls with curtains. The young guys tend to get in covered with a towel or swimsuit, and don't get naked until the curtain is tightly closed. Most of us old farts don't bother to close the curtain.

My local gym is like yours as well. I chuckled when I read your comment about “us old farts don’t bother to close the curtain…”. I totally agree. We walk to and from the showers butt naked. It’s a lockerroom. Men only. I laugh when I see young guys in the sauna with swimsuits or even shorts on.

 

[belamyi]

I remember some fun times in communal showers....

 

[workoutbud09]

If these guys are shy about it now, what would they have done back in the 60’s when you had to swim naked at the Y ? My dad took me there every Saturday to swim with my buddies, and he swam with his as well. Men only, nude.

 

[Alistair]

I don’t think it’s a bad thing that there are more private showers. I can’t remember anything more uncomfortable for everyone than showering together after gym class in high school.

 

[workoutbud09]

I don’t think it’s a bad thing that there are more private showers. I can’t remember anything more uncomfortable for everyone than showering together after gym class in high school.

Our high school gym class was not uncomfortable. This was in the early 70's and maybe times were different. We had all shapes and sizes, and no one made fun of anyone. The swim team with their speedos all hung together, no pun. Plus the wrestlers and football teams stayed together too.

 

[DexterJones]

There were open shower rooms in my college dorm. I loved it.

 

[rareboy]

I think that today, the pressure on teens would be even worse.

They are all conditioned to think that everyone has a 10 inch cock because of the interwebz.

 

[belamyi]

In later compulsory education they tried to force me to shower after practicing, about the only couple of times they made us really sweat...

Even when we made long-track running, I would not sweat more than when I did the same in the "pube" years...

But after swimming, we of course hit the showers... and nothing else.

And one of my two most cherished memories of my military year was the sight of a big, milky ass in the showers during the first month of (straight, military ) drilling. Funny thing is that they did not seem to be very aware of my "inner flame", while they would suspect a "posh" guy with whom I got close (even fuglier than me) because he would never talk of girls... just like me.- I was asked to sign a "chick centerfold" as memorabilia... the guy was pissed that I just dropped a tiny (actually, very vagina-like, like a crumpled spider in a slitty way) on her right (I think) hip. I case you wondered, the other memory was a blond high schooler with which I locked eyes (actually, our respective friends joined too) during a walk through Jaca... I think there was some sort of boarding school there, some of them commuting with us from Barcelona in the bus line... I even sort of suspect-fantasized that I had met him again a couple of years ago in the same departure area in BCN at Sants... because I wondered why he would be staring at me... and because the looked like the age that 16-yo or so would have today.

Yes, I wanted to say all that sometime, and maybe that's why I had resisted for days to post in this thread... how long did it take for me to drop this shit? lol

 

[workoutbud09]

I think that today, the pressure on teens would be even worse.

They are all conditioned to think that everyone has a 10 inch cock because of the interwebz.

You are correct. Me and my older generation buddies sense exactly that in the lockerroom/sauna when younger guys come to the realization that all men don’t have 10 inch cocks. The pressure on these younger guys is terrible.

 

[belamyi]

I can't decide who is stupider, the pressing or the pressed.