Does going to the gym turn you on?

[Curiosity69]

1. Plenty of people know plenty of generally older men taht walk around the locker room naked, and sit down for extended periods of time for no apparent reason. I have seen it, many others have seen it. It is likely the gym you attend is rare case.

2. I can't tell if this is serious or not? You think because people streak etc that they think it's ok to be naked for extended periods for no reason in a locker room, with oother straight men around? No. These people are also a very small percentage of straight men. Fact is, most younger people treat other straight men with more respect than the horny old men. You can not deny that.

3. Yes, I am not denying there is shy guys, but the majority of young people are more reserved out of courtesy, not shyness.

 

[bullwing413]

I say everyone deserves a mate like Blackbeltninja! He is right on and righteous! Let the precious workout in their basements and garages and leave the gym to real men.....

 

[blackbeltninja]

1. Plenty of people know plenty of generally older men taht walk around the locker room naked, and sit down for extended periods of time for no apparent reason. I have seen it, many others have seen it. It is likely the gym you attend is rare case.

I'll concede this might be a .za thing; but I've gymmed in many of the Cape Town gyms from both the major gym chains, and people hanging out naked is not the norm here. I recall it being up for discussion in an episode of Seinfeld and of Friends, and most of us were quite surprised that people do that since none of us had seen it.

2. I can't tell if this is serious or not? You think because people streak etc that they think it's ok to be naked for extended periods for no reason in a locker room, with oother straight men around? No. These people are also a very small percentage of straight men.

My point - which I think you might have missed - is that for the most part, the average (straight) guy does not have a problem with communal nudity under the appropriate circumstances. People streaking, skinny-dipping, showering and getting dressed in a locker room should not be a cause for concern, and for most of them is not.

Fact is, most younger people treat other straight men with more respect than the horny old men. You can not deny that.

3. Yes, I am not denying there is shy guys, but the majority of young people are more reserved out of courtesy, not shyness.

You're guessing, and guessing wrong.

Fact is, most younger guys I know whom I have asked this question of refuse to get undressed in front of anyone. It's not about respect; they're either shy or embarrassed.

Given how they'll happily swear up a storm in front of anyone young or old (including their parents), or behave like hooligans, or blast their music, or be downright rude to anyone who contradicts them in any manner is indicative of respect being the furthest thing from their minds; the locker-room stuff is shyness, plain and simple, not respect.

-d-

 

[Curiosity69]

Number 3, again, is where you're wrong. You're stereotyping young people as anarchists that have a disregard for rules and their elders. You couldn't be further from the truth, it's almost like you base your ideas off the propaganda bullshit displayed on Fox News and the like, which is mostly likely the case.

Young people are not how you see them, and yes, the main reason they do not prance around or be unnecessarily nude for extended periods of time in the locker rooms is due to courtesy and obviously understanding that other men may be straight and don't want to see it.

I'm basing this truth off talking to countless young people I know, where as you are basing your lie off your idea that young people have no care for anyone but themselves, which is utter bullshit and rude to even allude to.

 

[blackbeltninja]

*cough* bullshit *cough*

I'm not calling them anarchists. I'm saying their behaviour is a result of shyness and is not due to respect.

I would suggest you could poll in here and find a pretty good correlation between the "shyness" in locker rooms and the demise of mandatory school showers. From a scientific perspective, I would then smugly add QED.

Incidentally, I deal with younger guys all day - I supervise undergrad and postgrad research at a university, and I teach an older kids/young adults beginner-level karate class. I assure you I'm not sucking my "opinions" out of my thumb; these are things I have observed (and do observe) regularly. And as a .za boy, I don't have access to Fox news.

-d-

 

[AussieGuy91]

No and I don't really look around, I just do what I'm doing then leave. If I end up in the locker room I keep my eyes on what I'm doing.

 

[PrinceOwen]

I do .....................

 

[Yves Grey]

Hi, Kelsey!

Some of the best advice I've ever heard: "The best part about advice: take what you want; leave the rest." There seems to be a lot of quibbling here...

I give you big props for marrying your husband and not letting his sexuality get in the way of your love for one another. It seems like you're willing to work together, and I think that's what's important. You're honest with each other, and acting as a pair--which I think is what marriage is about. You're adults. You can communicate. You can make decisions. I think you've got it under wraps. =)

As for working out, I can't speak for anyone other than myself. I'm usually tired (and hungry) after getting done at the gym. But I usually feel pretty good, too, real good--and that can quickly--we're talkin' tinder to flame--turn sexual.

As mentioned before, I can't speak for anyone other than myself. I suspect this is also the case with a certain husband.

 

[Yves Grey]

*cough* bullshit *cough*

I'm not calling them anarchists. I'm saying their behaviour is a result of shyness and is not due to respect.

I would suggest you could poll in here and find a pretty good correlation between the "shyness" in locker rooms and the demise of mandatory school showers. From a scientific perspective, I would then smugly add QED.

Incidentally, I deal with younger guys all day - I supervise undergrad and postgrad research at a university, and I teach an older kids/young adults beginner-level karate class. I assure you I'm not sucking my "opinions" out of my thumb; these are things I have observed (and do observe) regularly. And as a .za boy, I don't have access to Fox news.

-d-

Blackbeltninja!

Beautifully said. I don't mean to be belligerent when I say I don't think anything fits 100% of people 100% of the time. This coming from someone who uses generalizations and catchalls liberally to save time. I'm only trying to remind myself.

I agree with your comments. I was home-schooled. Christian family. Never exposed to naked bodies, never cultivated a healthy relationship with it. Consequently I was very self-conscious, hadn't known how I "measured up" or whether I was "normal." It made me very shy and reluctant to expose my body.

I think nakedness is something that's kind of taboo in America. Of course, as I say above, this is variable. I know there are nude beaches, for example. But I'm always surprised by how many young adults--and even adults--are uncomfortable with nudity or even the idea of it. Usually the first thing I hear when nudity happens is an apology. "Sorry I'm indecent," says the shirtless friend I unwittingly walk in on. "Sorry for my hairy butt," says the middle-aged gent I just crawled into bed with. Why are you apologizing? What have you done wrong?? I walked in on you! I'm the one who agreed to roll in the hay with you!

I think self-image is something that needs attention, cultivation and instruction on a larger scale. This isn't to say everyone should run around naked all the time or show up to work naked or greet guests naked. Rules and adherence thereto are what keep us functioning socially and subsequently collaboratively. We need each other and we need "society" with all of its entailment in order to enjoy what we take for granted--school, cars, nights out, &c.. It is what has brought us to be more than warring tribes--though, arguably we still are, in a larger and more abstract sense.

Still, despite my youth, I lament many of the inexorable losses we seem to suffer as we continue to advance and evolve. I suppose that is the meaning of sacrifice...

Maybe a little off topic... But it's a subject that's close to home.

 

[teenbriefboi]

i get really horny at the gym. in face the gym is where i started my sexual escapades lol. the summer before high school i lived with my grandparents while our new house was being built and they got me a membership to the ymca dwn the street. so i started going there and working out then i realized the locker rooms, so i started showering after and then realized i could use it to get comfortable in front of guys. so i started going into the adult mens locker room and would walk around in my tightie whities and weigh myself or sit in the sauna in my briefs, just stupid stuff. when i was older my friend and i fucked in the locker room at ballys in a shower staul.

 

[thefishinthesea23]

I don't know about the gym, but whenever I workout I get really horny and usually an erection. Im glad I work out at home, don't really like public displays of my erection

 

[Ally1980]

I am not saying that young guys should show skin or prance around naked in the locker room, without any reason. But showering dressed in underwear and sitting in the room in underwear is a bit too much in my opnion. This happens a lot in my gym espeically and majority of turkish and morrocan guys do this, but even the Dutch guys do this

They pretty much violate the rules of the gym by doing this.

Dont know why they act like this. As if they will get insecure if they shower nude (you are supposed to be nude in a shower). I dont know, but I see that a lot of straight guys are pretty insecure when it comes to this.

Its a real turn off!

 

[Mnestor]

Actually, you're wrong.

1. I don't personally know anyone who prances around naked in a locker room. Never seen it except in fly-on-the-wall type documentaries and Big Brother. At my current gym, which I've been a member of for 7 years and which is RIDDLED with shyer guys, NOBODY prances around naked. At my previous gym, where I was a member for 6 years, NOBODY pranced around naked. There was one guy there who hung around completely naked for way too long, but everyone else I have seen there do keep their towels on after a shower until they're actually dressing.
2. If straight people didn't appreciate this stuff, as you have suggested, this fly-on-the-wall type footage of sports teams and dorm pranks and whatnot simply wouldn't exist. I mean proper documentaries, like Dailymoton and YouTube type footage, not porn; actual candid stuff. And nobody would streak and nobody would skinny-dip, ever. But they do, so...
3. The "shy" guys are not confident and many don't even change properly - they shower in their goddamn underpants and give the rest of us dirty looks for having the gall to get undressed. I have no time for people who act all precious about this stuff. Sorry, dude, you are the freak showering with clothes on; not the rest of us, okay? You might as well piss off and shower at home since you're clearly not getting properly clean here anyway. I object to being glared at for using the facilities correctly as intended; deep down, I wonder if these people are genuinely shy, or if they're like those creepy guys who hang around clothed at a nude beach.

-d-

Thank-You blackbeltninja

 

[mike1491]

Is ANYBODY here actually from the United States?? Because I certainly don't see any guys at my gym showering in underwear or trying to hide their nudity. They just aren't flaunting it like some of the dirty old perverts.

 

[WellingLuv]

Is ANYBODY here actually from the United States?? Because I certainly don't see any guys at my gym showering in underwear or trying to hide their nudity. They just aren't flaunting it like some of the dirty old perverts.

Exactly what constitute as "flaunting" it. Is it taking your time to change instead of rapidly pulling off your towel and putting on your underwear as soon as possible?

Lockerooms were created so men and women could change, shower, and be naked without the being exposed to the opposite sex. Why is it women rarely have an issue with being nude around eachother but men being nude longer than a certain time increment is seen as impolite or discourteous?

Straight men just need to get with the program and realize they should be able to see another guy naked without feeling disgusted or uncomfortable.

 

[Curiosity69]

Lockerooms were created so men and women could change, shower, and be naked without the being exposed to the opposite sex. Why is it women rarely have an issue with being nude around eachother but men being nude longer than a certain time increment is seen as impolite or discourteous?

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Lol did you get this idea from a porno or something? A lot of women are exactly the same as us. They don't want to sit around naked with other women, they don't want people unnecessarily being naked longer than they need to, and they certainly don't want other girls staring at them while they're changing. Not a difference between men and women in this idea mate.

 

[HunterM]

Haha. It's funny to see how this thread turned into a different discussion than the original question.

Uh...to the OP Kelsey, did you get your answer?

 

[blackbeltninja]

Is ANYBODY here actually from the United States?? Because I certainly don't see any guys at my gym showering in underwear or trying to hide their nudity.

This is more common than not in guys under 30 at my gym here in .za. Easily in a 3:1 ratio.

-d-

 

[mike1491]

This is more common than not in guys under 30 at my gym here in .za. Easily in a 3:1 ratio.

-d-

Well that's why I said the UNITED STATES, because clearly the young guys in you're country are a little odd. Like I said, here in the US I don't see ANY guys of any age acting the way you describe the young guys in your country.

 

[mike1491]

Exactly what constitute as "flaunting" it. Is it taking your time to change instead of rapidly pulling off your towel and putting on your underwear as soon as possible?

Lockerooms were created so men and women could change, shower, and be naked without the being exposed to the opposite sex. Why is it women rarely have an issue with being nude around eachother but men being nude longer than a certain time increment is seen as impolite or discourteous?

Straight men just need to get with the program and realize they should be able to see another guy naked without feeling disgusted or uncomfortable.

If you're just sitting on the bench or casually walking around naked for half an hour, that's not "taking your time to change"... in fact that's not changing at all. It doesn't take half an hour to change your clothes, unless you're mentally retarded.

And where did you get the idea that women are so comfortable being nude around each other?? I'm guessing you've been watching a little too much lesbian porn.