Bare bum in dressing room , AIBU.

It's a changing room! People get naked that's the point. Really don't see the issue here. It's not like he's walking round Asda with his knob out.

OP is the issue that you had gone for a childrens lesson where the parents stay in their clothes as they dont enter the water with the child.

Therefore you were confused as to why the dad had come in and dropped his kacks if he also wasnt going into the pool?

Keep out of the men's changing rooms. Maybe he didn't like you in there and decided to shock you.

Years ago in the States, when they first were allowing female reporters into the male athlete locker rooms to interview the men, in protest some male sport stars dropped their towels and walked in front of her so their penis's were in her face.

Did you read up thread where I accepted all this
But you haven't, have you? Sure, you say you have, but can't seem to stop with the sarcasm.
So, it's safe to say if it was my husband it's ok for a man to go completely naked in front of children that aren't his. Fab!
Yes, it is safe to say.
I have also got my gear off in the women's change room in front of other peoples children. I only say this because you said you doubted any women would.

Did you care at all OP whether YOU made any males uncomfortable when you invaded their space?

Missing the point of the thread ( but YABU indeed, OP) but I’m sad at the amount of women who feel too self-conscious to get changed in a single-sex changing room without dillying about under a towel. I don’t “flaunt” in gym changing rooms but simply towel off & then put pants on - it takes seconds, and no one cares and no one is staring thinking “fuck, she could do with losing half a stone.” It’s a changing room, with people getting changed. Everyone’s there for that (except OP) - why are we so prudish?

Pinkboa, YABVVU, and not entirely honest, either. You started this thread off by just saying it was a "changing room" and only later admitted that you were trespassing in the men's. And then you have the nerve to complain about the way a man's body looks! Was the poor bloke offended by what you did? He had every right to be, and to complain to the management.

Just imagine how this would sound if the genders were reversed. "Oh, I was just hanging around in the ladies' because of my asthma..."

😂 I can imagine the headlines "Penis spotted in men's changing room".

OP you are either gloriously deluded or very stupid!

I am quite self conscious and dislike getting naked in the women’s single sec changing room. However, even if I try to use a towel, there are some points when I temporarily am partially naked. I would be incredibly cross if a man hang out in the women’s and immediately report him.

You are being Very Unreasonable

So you are concerned that other people's children are seeing penises.

In the Men's Changing Room.

Where you decided to hang out for half an hour.

Meanwhile, in Women's Changing Rooms up and down the country, other people's children are being treated to the sight of the (possibly even hairy, gadzooks) derrieres of dozens of women. And all the rest of what makes us women.

How old is your DS? If over 7 he should be using the sex-appropriate changing room, on his own.

If this man wasn't sure his DDs were going to be all right on their own in the changing room while he got dried and halfway decent in the cubicle, I can see his reasoning.

You seem to jeep chabging your mind about what you were offended aviut but to answer your most recent "issue", yes, it is perfectly fine to get naked in front of other people's children if you are in a changing room such as a swimming changing room. I'm assuming he wasn't leisurely strolling around, waggling his willyin the children's faces?

He was getting changed. In the changing rooms. Where other men and children (and inexplicably, a woman and child) were also getting changed (or sitting, passing the time, in your case).

Yabu, people do get chabged in changing rooms and there's nothing wrong with stripping off if you're getting changed from swimming! I don't because I'm far too self conscious, but that doesn't mean it's not perfectly acceptable behaviour. I wish I wasn't so self conscious, it would make a nice change from trying to do acrobatics under a towel!

Apologies if I've missed your answer but why couldn't you go and sit in the ladies changing room during the lesson?

I appreciate that you use the male changing room to help your child get ready for the lesson, but since it is a male space why would you spend the lesson time just sitting in there when you know men will potentially be coming into the room and getting naked? Why not sit in the ladies until the end of the lesson when you go back to help your child in the mens

This is utterly bizarre. You’re hanging around a male change room for 30 minutes and you’re surprised there are males getting changed? I’m pretty sure you’re the odd one here.

YABU

If you go into the men's changing room then you run the risk of seeing mens anatomy, just as anyone going into the women's changing room runs the risk of seeing women's anatomy.

A man using the changing room to dry and dress after swimming is doing nothing wrong by being naked. He has no obligation to hide in a corner shrouded by a towel purely because there are children in the vicinity. It is the responsibility of the parents to keep their child near them and not have them look at naked strangers in changing rooms.

I use a gym that holds children's swimming lessons and our changing rooms are open plan with benches and only 2 small cubicles. I use the gym, swim, shower then go to work. I'm usually getting out if the pool at the same time the children are starting to come in for their lessons. I dont parade through the changing room naked but during the course of me getting dried/dressed then there is a possibility children will see my naked body purely due to the layout of the space and the sheer number of children milling around. That is not my problem.

I am using the gym as my membership allows and as I'm usually going to work I want to make sure I'm properly dried before I get dressed (theres nothing worse than an 8hr shift when you're slightly damp and it makes your clothes uncomfortable and clammy). If your child happens to be watching me get dried/dressed then you should be directing your child that its rude to watch strangers rather than berating me for using the changing room as intended.

So if you normally go in the men's, why would you freak out enough to start a thread on MN?
You can't go in the men's and then complain when they get undressed FFS lol

Crossposted

Oookay. Just seen your update.
You were in the men's as the ladies set off your asthma?
(Correct me if I'm wrong,)
If so, WTF did you expect lol?!
If I was a bloke I'd totally expect to be able to whop everything out without some lady coming in and taking offence at my bod or telling me to put it away lol

I can't even be arsed.
"Walked into his penis?!"
Maybe I'm just always in my own little world but I don't think I'd even register and just walk past!
Do you mean changing village type changing rooms that are unisex? If so you'd think would be more comfortable in a cubicle.

OP, friendly FYI: we can see your post history, including a post where you mentioned where and which commonwealth you lived in.

Surely the norms surrounding this are more or less the same in Aus as they are in the UK?

Funnily enough, you aren't allowed to dictate what people can post here

Just like you can't dictate what men do in their own changing rooms

Unless the room has specifically been reserved for children, then there may well be adults of the correct sex in single sex changing rooms or toilets

Some mothers may feel their 8-year-old son is unsafe on his own, in which case they need to choose places with family rooms,
i.e. unisex facilities which will have cubicles