How open are you guys in the locker room? (story inside)
 

In terms of how you change clothes and how naked are you in the locker room, how open and carefree are you guys in the locker room?

I usually take everything off, put on a speedo, and jammers on top (too modest atm, but it will change). I then go into the shower stalls, pull the curtain closed, rinse, then head out to swim. After swimming, I get my shower stuff and towel, walk into the stall pulling the curtain and there I get naked to shower. Then with a towel wrapped around me, I dry off the speedo + jammer combo on a spin dryer, go back to the locker and pull the towel off and change. I do notice some guys just take off their suit in front of the spinner and dry them off while naked.

Overall normal and I don't do the towel dance thing. I notice some guys just completely let it hang out.

Here's an example of something that happened recently:
I finished swimming and I'm in the hot tub, then I see a really athletic, young-ish white guy come into the pool area. He wasn't huge, but he was muscular and good definition. He's wearing a short red square cut suit, almost brazilian sunga style but more so lowcut. His butt stands out really well with them. He goes into the sauna for a while and then heads back into the locker room. Probably the first time I've seen someone with a swimsuit that short other than the two speedos I've seen.

When I go into the locker room he's still in the red suit, but he's shaving. I do my routine, but when I come out of the shower he's drying off his suit in the spinner completely naked and no towel in sight. It was great. I get dressed and walk back to the shower area toward the urinals, and see he did not pull the curtain closed. He's just there showering completely naked in the open. It was great. As I finish changing he walks out of the shower area, again naked, with no towel and just changes then.

So, how open are you guys in the locker room in terms of being naked and changing out?

I'm not nearly that open. I towel change into my suit in the farthest section of the locker room from where most guys come in (but near where the door to the pool is), and I always make sure I'm fully dressed before spin-drying my suit. However, I do walk around in just my suit (jammers or briefs) if I have to take a leak or fill my water bottle or something.

For a while I used to do the whole wrap a towel around me and then take my speedo off but it just got annoying and made undressing way too difficult. At the moment I shower with my speedo on, head back to the benchs/lockers and take off my suit, letting everything hang out ha for a minute or two while I dry myself and get changed. What I really want to do eventually, is to be able to take off my speedo once I'm out of the pool and am in the locker room, walk to the showers, shower naked and head back to my clothes to get changed. The showers at my pool are fully open communal ones though with about 7 spots. So it's gonna take a bit of courage to go fully nude ha.

In open plan changing rooms I will strip down to a tee shirt and underwear, I'll then remove the underwear and put on my Speedos before removing my tee shirt, learned this process at school where everyone did it.
After swimming I will enter the showers in Speedos and begin showering, if nudity is common in the showers I will slip off my Speedos and go naked, if not then I will keep them on but slip my hands into my Speedos with shampoo to wash myself there.
If I have taken off my Speedos in the showers I will return to the changing area either naked or with a towel wrapped around me. I won't attempt to hide myself while drying off and getting dressed.

The current fashion is for mixed changing areas with small cubicles to change in. Being 6'2" tall the cubicles are too small for me, once while naked I reached to lean on the door, the lock failed and I fell out of the cubicle, luckily no one was around at the time.
I much prefer single sex open plan changing rooms as there is more space to move about and put thing s down on the benches.
With open plan changing rooms and showers you can continue a conversation with friends while you change and shower, which I consider more civilised.
Other men will look at you while you are changing, usually just a quick glance, but if you make a big show of hiding under a towel they will become more curious as to what is going on.

My Locker room routine
 

I am not an exhibitionist, but I am not a total towel dancer either. I think I am in the middle somewhere--I guess I would call myself 'normal?' or 'average?' in my behavior...

When I arrive at the locker room to prepare to swim, I will change out of my pants and underwear, and then put on my jammers.

Next my shirt comes off and on goes my rashguard. I then proceed, towel in hand, to the showers to rinse off before going into the pool. (I had read somewhere online that you don't want the first water hitting the swim gear to be chlorinated, but to rinse it off in the shower, first.)

After swimming, I return to the locker room and proceed to the shower. My gym has individual shower stalls with attached small private dressing space.

I take off my jammers and rashguard and rinse each under the shower head. (I really need my gear to last, so I was advised by some great guys, here on the board, to not rinse off while wearing the jammers, as that will push the chlorine back into the suit. But to take off the swim gear then rinse them so the water goes right though.) Then I take my shower as usual.

After the shower, I dry off as much as i can, then wrap my towel around by waist. I exit the shower stall and then go to the spin dryer located back in the locker room and dry both pieces of gear while wearing my towel.

I go to my locker, where I will finish drying, as needed. I then put on my underwear and pants, followed by my shirt. I sit on the bench to be sure to dry my feet before putting on my socks and shoes.


I have observed some guys that will, after showering, get dressed in the little private dressing area attached to the shower stall. I find it is much too wet and too cumbersome to do so. I have also observed the guys that get naked in the locker room and stay naked as much as they can, using the toilet, primping (or even flexing) in front of the large mirrors, for all to see. They usually have bodies where such behavior is fine. With my bigger body, I do not like to show off, so I keep pretty standard/conservative in my locker room nudity. I do not do the towel dance that I have seen some guys do, though. I think that it a little excessive--as one mentioned earlier--like they have something to hide. My gym locations do have a separate, private changing room, where, if one desires, they can use that room to change their clothes where no one can see most of you (it is like a toilet stall, in design--a partial door where one could see your feet and your head). I have seen it used on just a few occasions.

I guess I would summarize my routine as being that I am naked as needed. Nothing more, nothing less.

I treat the locker room in the same way as the swimming area. I just find it ridiculous how some guys can be naked in the locker room but must don a pair of long shorts to go swimming in. What? Because they're frightened of women seeing too much of their body?

While I don't swim laps at my gym, (I swim in our complex community pool), at the gym I typically change very quickly facing the locker. I'll leave my shirt on and strip off shorts and undies and put on whatever I need to. If I shower, I'll wear a towel to and from the shower, and then take it off when I get to the lockers, only after I've opened the locker and gotten my pants and underwear. I'm not shy, I just don't parade around a lot. I usually will use the whirlpool nude too if I have time. I'll wear my towel to the whirlpool and use it before and after I get in/out.

I don't think of myself as particularly modest but compared to the guys above, I must be an exhibitionist. My pool's LR is open so when I get there I strip completely facing the locker, but moving a bit so I can check what other guys are doing. No starring at any of the guys. Then I put on my briefs, take a quick shower and hit the pool. On finishing my swim I bring my bag back to my locker and go to the open sink area. I wash my cap, strip off my brief and wash it well in cold water, totally naked then, not sure how many guys follow my example but I am not the only one. I then dry my suit in the spinner and walk back to my locker. Then I sling my towel over a shoulder, grab my bag with soap and shampoo and walk to the showers. Our showers are stalls with curtains but I always leave the curtains wide open. I shower and towel off and go back to my locker again with towel over shoulder and re-dress as before. I am no Adonis but have nothing to be shy about. I mean it is a MALE locker room, just wish guys were more comfortable with their own anatomy, but that is just my opinion.

This seems to be a mix of what most guys at my gym do, actually. This is also what that one guy I mentioned pretty much did. I was caught off guard at how lax it was all. There seems to be an air of naturism rather than exhibitionism. I feel as if the latter is more for the shock factor or getting a kick of it, when it actually is just being cool with one's self.

Not many guys do this, however. The people at my gym seem to be more on the older-middle age range, and we also have a gay-friendly city near so that's probably why most guys are relaxed about it at my gym. Also, I'm almost certain a good number of those who go to the gym don't actually enter the locker room, but that's the younger crowd usually.

Always interesting to me that so many younger guys...20s, 30s...who are using the gym and not swimming will come with gym duds under their clothes. No stripping to change, just uncover to their shorts, shirt and off to pump iron. On return they never strip and shower, just put back on same outer clothes and gone. Gross to me not showering and of course I can't enjoy viewing the physique. So much shyness about being naked around other guys.

Like others I am not an exhibitionist; nor do I do the towel dance. Getting ready to swim l change out of my pants, underwear and dress shirt, put on my speedo, and lastly take my tee shirt off. With towel in hand, I head to the showers to rinse off and then hit the pool.

My gym is an old one with an open locker room and an open (gang) shower room. After swimming, I first rinse down and then take my speedo off to rinse it out and then take a soap shower. After showering I grab my towel, dry off, and then wrap it around my waist headed to my locker. On the way to the locker I stop by and spin dry my speedo.

At my locker I remove the towel and finish drying. Then put my towel down to stand on while putting on my underwear, pants, tee, and dress shirt. Lastly making sure my feet are dry then putting on my socks and shoes.

Daily I have to laugh when the swim team comes back from the pool. All in jammers and dripping wet directly from the pool (or showers) headed to their lockers. Opening their locker and grabbing their towel to damp dry their upper body. Then wrapping it around their waist and “towel dance” to drop their soaking wet jammer and maybe a speedo too to the floor. Then with the towel still around their waist they proceed to get their pants (jeans) back on using a reverse towel dance. Go figure?

[quote=BriefBro]In terms of how you change clothes and how naked are you in the locker room, how open and carefree are you guys in the locker room?

"I usually take everything off, put on a speedo, and jammers on top (too modest atm, but it will change)".

Why put jammers over your speedo? if you're embarrassed by wearing just a speedo and want to cover it up, why bother to put it on the first place?

CD
 

I think many guys wear a speedo under their jammers for support. Don't wear them and no other idea.

Also:

Forgot to say that after the swim team damp dries their upper body and puts their towel around their waist they next first put on a tee shirt before the towel dance to remove the wet gear. Waiting for one of them to fall and hurt themselves. it is funny :) To think they have been swimming with skin showing and now nothing showing among friends.....

I used to feel free to walk around naked in the locker room as most guys did then. Showers, massages, sauna and jacuzzi were all nude activities so why get covered between? That has all changed. With the pervs now finding sport in taking pics and videos of strangers and posting them online has taken what should be private and turned it public. It seems guys think they are cool with their blog of locker room photos, they are not - they are perverts. If they want to post photos of naked men they should do their friends or find a mirror.

I've had to come to terms in the past with not being private in changing room owing to my disability being paralysed from waist down means I've no leg movement at all. Usually used to get out of pool and back to changing room, transfer from my chair to bench, wriggle and lift my legs and bum until trunks are off before drying and pulling on tracksters. All this takes time so even my smallest particulars are in view for a while!!

I'm in no great shape, but not horrible. It doesn't bother me if guys look or if they are bothered by my nudity. I'll usually get in the LR and open the locker, then get down to underwear and T-shirt, then I go through my bag and find what I'm changing into. If I'm in the gym before my swim, I get my shorts and shirt out, then whatever underwear I'm working out in (usually a thong or sport bikinis). I pull my shorts and sneakers on and off I go. For the swim, I usually have 4 or 5 suits in my bag, so I can choose depending on my mood and the crowd. I have a Joe Snyder Rio camo one that I just don't have the nerve for yet. I usually opt for my black Nike briefs, or a square cut. I like to wear a thong under my suit to, not sure how I got into the habit but I do. I rinse off and head to the pool with my towel over my shoulder. After the swim, I strip off my suit, pat dry so I'm not dripping, and rinse my suit off while I'm nude. I pull the curtain closed on the shower, but then I dry off in there, towel around my waist to my locker, but then the towel hangs over my open locker door. I hate getting dressed when I'm not totally dry, so I'll get my clothes out, check my hair in the mirror etc..all nude so I can be dry. Then dressed and out of there. I'm not showing off, I'm just using the facility, if someone doesn't like it, they can not look, if someone wants to get a peek..go ahead...

In an open plan changing room with gang showers it is normal to be naked and to be seen naked. When changing cubicles and shower curtains are introduced people get curious as to what is being hidden and do perverted things like drilling holes in the sides of cubicles and trying to peep around gaps in shower curtains.

It is healthy and harmless for a man to see other men naked, becoming obsessed by seeing something hidden creates perversion. There also comes a point where obsessively hiding our bodies can become perverse as well.

Have confidence that your body is not offensive, it won't frighten the horses, so just strip off and shower with all the others.

Taking photos or vids of unsuspecting naked guys in a private area is illegal and probably a felony that will eventually land the perp in jail.

However, I would NOT go to the extreme of unnecessarily covering up just because someone might be intent on violating my privacy.

The phobia about nudity comes from concerns about embarrassment over sexual arousal or being uncomfortable with their own sexual orientation and being eyed over by other men.

If these issues are that overwhelming, just stay away from any venue that involves full or partial nudity. That includes swimming, hot tubs, communal showers, etc.

Reminds me of the old saying "If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen".

Hi guys I am a 55 year old who is a fat guy who has swum since i was a kid in speedo trunks. I strip off my cloths put them in the locker and then slip my speedos on. Take a towel with my wash gear with me. After swimming, in the showers i strip off everything, shower and then wash my speedos out, before wrapping my towel around my waist to walk back to the locker room. Use the towel to dry off and then get dressed. No towel dance for me.
Dave

I'm just egalitarian, so I let men and women see the same amount of my nakedness. You can see me in my Speedos but no more than that.

The only towel dance I do is to spread a towel on the locker room floor to avoid contact with my bare feet. I always wear rubber sandals and haven't had athletes foot since I was a teenager.

Practice good public gym hygiene!

Testing time today at my local pool. The changing rooms are being refurbished, so that for the moment the men and women have to share a communal changing room! We were told to keep swimwear on at all times, and all cubicles needed to be used for changing. Except there are only four cubicles, so most of us had to change in and out of our clothes in the communal area, while women walked past.

Very European...

Speaking of European, I was on a beach in France when a German couple (male, female) arrived. They both stripped off completely and then put on speedos and a lady bikini respectively. Since it was a free beach with mixed clothed and naked users it seemed strange that having revealed their bodies they should bother covering them again as there was no longer anything to hide.

I went to another pool yesterday. It was a mixed changing area but everyone had their own cubicle.

The shower area was mixed though. Showering in my Speedos, next to a couple of young women in their bathing costumes, did make me feel a little erotic...

Changing and showering in locker rooms
 

When I go to the gym that has a swimming pool, I wear my favorite snug Arena swim briefs under shorts, like underwear. I'll take off the shorts and shirt, putting them in the locker, then go to the pool. I take a nice long swim and head back to the locker room. I get my towel, then shower while still in my clinging tight wet Arena swim .briefs. After soaping and rising off the pool water, I' ll take my time getting the tight swim suit off and don't make a show of it, but it feels so good wearing it and tickles my lowers all over, trying to peel the clinging wet Arena suit down and off. Once The suit is off, I put a towel around me, then dry off by locker and quickly putting on my baggy boxer underwear with the shorts and shirt. I don't pay much to the other guys around the locker room and in the showers. Sometimes when in the swimming pool with friends,I get nice comments from them, how sexy my swim briefs are on me, especially when in the showers, but that's in private. I do like wearing them including speedos at the gym and as summer underwear too.:)

My gym is pretty egalitarian. I often see guys hanging out and chatting in the nude. That's not my bag, per se, but I'm not so shy that I can't change in front of other people. I mean, it's a locker room. There are going to be naked dudes in there.

In the mixed sex changing cubicles at the local pools I visit, I'm guilty of doing the 'towel dance' as above. But in my defence, with very little body fat (even in my 30's) I can get incredibly cold after 40 minuets to an hour in even a moderately warm pool. Add to that, the pool side shower/rinse off in my jammers and by the time I'm back at the lockers all I want to do is get dry as fast as possible. Hence the drying of my top half, wrapping the towel around my waist, t shirt on etc.

I never had a problem with nudity in a locker room, in high school that's how it was after gym/swim class. Today I'm still the same way, I'm there to shower, change and be on my way and I'm nude in the locker areas and showers today.
I visit a spa north of me a couple of times a month, old Russian steam bath place, it's old world and everyone is nude, in the lockers, showers, steam room, sauna and even in the lounge area and nobody thinks about it or bats an eye. Each time I go there.........when in Rome............

The gym we belong to has open showers and a sauna and hot tub in the locker room. I don't have any problem being naked while I'm there. After a swim, I'll often spend 20-30 minutes enjoying the facilities in my birthday suit.

I'd say that's true of about 65% of the members. Some of the younger guys (and a few of the older ones) cover up more. There's nowhere to hide in the showers, so some shower in their swimsuits and change under towels.

My boys are in the group that's less comfortable being naked. I've been trying to get them to try it out. They often prefer to use the family changing rooms by the pool, where we can change without other people around.

My older son and I went for a swim tonight. After, he followed me to the sinks instead of going straight to the showers and took off his suit to rinse it off. Then we showered together nude. I didn't say anything, since I could see he was nervous. Must've been overwhelming, because he got an erection. I didn't mention it as we finished and went back to our lockers to get dressed. Hopefully it doesn't put him off being comfortable in the locker room in the future.

I doubt it'll put him off, DiaS. In fact, it seems clear you are giving him the opportunities to experience what it's like being a self-aware, grown man and as a result the confidence his contemporaries by and large are not gaining.

Too many young men do not get the essential, approval messages from their fathers, "You can cut it," "You've got what it takes," etc. Thank you for how you're provisioning your sons for their futures, so they can live as leaders, as MEN, not loiter throughout their lives waiting for someone's permission to no longer remain as BOYS, as followers. Kudos to ye!

Here's my 'locker' room experience from a weekly barefoot dance event I regularly attend. Regular visitors are of age 45 - 70 years, with 30% men on average.
The event takes place in a high school PE facility, so most patrons take advantage of the changing rooms and showers - there are no lockers, just wardrobe/cloakroom style hooks. The changing rooms are gender separated, so I can only speak about the men's routine.
On arriving, people just change quickly; a few may take a shower when sweaty form their bicycle ride.
After the dance, most men - including me of course - strip naked upon entering the dressing room. Many men will try to stay naked as long as possible. The showers accommodate six people at a time, so you may have to queue. You need to leave your towel in the dry part.
Interestingly, from one end of the room, the matching end of the women's room is in view - there are no doors. To enter the toilet (restroom), men may be exposed to women's eyesight. Some men do wrap a towel for this reason.
Even more interesting, women do not always respect the gender separation and may prefer the men's room which is always less crowded.
Now, this is not America ... It is the Netherlands, barefoot dancing is a very open minded subculture, with a high proportion of naturists.

How old is your son?

How old is your son?

He's 16 years old.

It's funny how quickly they get self conscious. The moment puberty starts, they go from kids who don't care about running around naked to tweens/teens who'd rather die than be seen nude.

Until our recent experiences, I hadn't seen my older son naked since he was probably 12. He got a big surprise toward the end of last year when I took him for his sports physical. We switched doctors after his old one retired. A youngish assistant took us back and checked his vitals, then told my son to undress to his underwear. She said the doctor would be in to see us shortly.

A few minutes later the doctor arrived. She introduced herself and got to know us. The doctor started the exam. At one point, she had my son stand up. She sat down on a stool beside him. "Is it okay if I slide these down?" she asked as she hooked her fingers in his briefs. Without really waiting for him to respond, she pulled them down.

My son got a panicked look on his face as he was exposed. I couldn't help but peek and see how my son had developed. She had him sit down and finished the exam, leaving his underwear on the floor. When she was done, she finished filling out the form. He quickly retrieved his underwear and put them back on before getting dressed.

i'm not bothered about my nudity. i'm happy enough to wander around the locker room totally nude apart from flip-flops though i see guys being very careful to cover up. What i do object to is young kids coming in the locker room and i then think its dangerous. at my gym which has a pool also there is a separate changing area for families and i think young kids should go there if unsupervised. in the UK there is a climate of fear and all it would take would be for some kid to mention something to a teacher about seeing a naked man who happened to look at them...not comfortable. i even left my other gym because there were guys used to regularly bring their young kids in and on a couple of occasions i caught the same young girl staring at me while getting changed.

Haven't been here in a while, but I'd thought I'd chime in on this one.

At one of our public indoor pools, both our change room and showers are one large open area. Really, no place to hide. So you have to be comfortable being seen in the buff. The odd time, you get a guy changing with a towel around his waist or suit on in the shower area. Most of us swimmers have known each other or a long time. We're not worried about modesty at all and are comfortable being nude. It's not unusual for two or three of us to be just standing around in the nude, chatting it up.

My routine usually includes getting undressed, shaving at the sink naked, throwing my Speedo on and heading to the pool to do my mile.

Afterwards, it's a shower and depending on who else is there, some quick manscaping. Most of us have shaved pubes and sacs and are okay if one trims or shaves. If there are newbies in the showers, we will usually refrain or wait until they are done and gone out of respect. Nobody has ever complained. You can expect the odd woody every once in a while and the other guys don't notice or care, no worries. Or one will center you out and make sure everyone else knows and you get a ribbing. I got a chubby once and one of the older guys joked about not having 'one of those' in 25 years and if he could, he'd be flaunting it too!

So as you can see, we are pretty open with locker nudity. I also think of it as a great bonding experience. Maybe it's just the way my generation, and older, were brought up. I don't think I have ever covered up in my lifetime.

A kind of odd experience at the pool last night. Went swimming and spent time in a sauna with two friends. One wore medium-length shorts and one full-length board shorts. When we returned to the locker room they were happy to shower naked and change very slowly, while I showered in my swim briefs and removed them under a towel.

So if they're not bothered about nudity in the locker room, why can't they wear Speedos at the pool? The session we attended was adults only, by the way.

Did he start to get aroused when she examined him?