To be annoyed that my gym only has open mixed sex showers

People are getting so weird about these things.

It's not standard for all council swimming pools to offer single sex showers. Some do, a lot don't and never have.

People just shower with their swimsuits on. You can still wash your hair, go get changed, put one some deodorant and go to work. Even take some wipes if you need to. You can have another shower at home later.

Unless you have some rare skin disorder (in which case you probably wouldn't be swimming anyway?) it's not going to kill you to have a bit of pool water on you for a few hours.

Wow! In my area it's always been single sex - and I'm in my 60s now.
But I haven't seen the council ones since my DC stopped swimming so I don't know if it's changed since then. I'm not keen on swimming so unless I'm forced to stop doing other sports through injury I won't be going anyway, but if I did consider it, I wouldn't be going anywhere with mixed sex showers. Who wants to shower with a swimsuit on? - that's no way to get the chlorine off your skin.

Our leisure centre is currently in the process of being replaced, will be interesting to see what the changing facilities are like as currently have separate male/ female changing rooms, think all of our local leisure centres have separate shower facilities even if they have communal changing rooms

Did you know about this when you joined the gym or is it a new thing?

Sound like you need to join a different gym.

Many pools don't have space for segregated changing rooms.
In the olden days it was two open rooms... now people prefer cubicles, which take up more space

And let's face it... Council swimming pools are extremely limited and way past capacity

@Hothothothothotdog I don't understand why having chlorine in your 'bits and pits' would make you feel gross? Surely it actually makes you cleaner as the water is chlorinated to act as a disinfectant.

My council pool has mixed showers and changing rooms. There are no separate showers. Only separate toilets. This is because everyone showers in their swim suits so it isn’t an issue. You can still shower fine in your swimming costume I would think

im in Australia and have never seen it at a local pool!! Women’s, men’s, family.

It’s truly depressing.

Yes but they were single sex communal showers not mixed sex

If you've been for a swim, your 'bits and pits' will already be squeeky clean. Just wash your hair in the communal showers and stop being outraged. There really are bigger problems in the world.

I’m in my 30s. The council swimming baths where I learnt to swim definitely only had communal showers. The pool near me now has cubicled showers in the gender specific changing rooms.

It’s definitely not a new thing.

Um, I've never had plasters make it through my swimming costume and get into my jacksie. And if the pee and chemicals can get through the costume to my parts then so can the clean water from the shower and soap to wash it away. People are way OTT about this stuff. Unless you've got some sensitive fanny/bum condition, a shower through a costume is perfectly adequate to last till the evening and as I said, wipes (or as PP did a bottle of water) in the loo should deal with anyone who really needs the extra cleansing.

I definitely preferred where I lived previously. It had mens, womens and family changing rooms. There was a big room with benches and lockers etc plus a few cubicles (in the women’s anyway, I assume the men’s was the same). Plus a decent amount of showers in cubicles with doors inside the changing area. There were also poolside showers.

The family changing area had one communal area plus several large cubicles, some with showers in the cubicle. Basically so your kids couldn’t escape!

Now it’s a changing village with poolside showers only. Sadly I don’t have a choice really of where to go.

Only being able to shower while wearing your costume is nasty, can't get properly clean then. Don't get those kinds of shower arrangements in my country, single sex only as the rule is always that you shower naked before swimming so you enter the pool clean, then obviously shower naked afterwards to clean off all the chlorine. Wouldn't like to swim anywhere that didn't have this setup

I don’t understand why you would have to go home and shower?

I haven't been for a while (about eight years) but I used to take DC swimming often when they were younger and never once saw a mixed sex changing room or shower. All the pools and leisure centres I ever used were segregated.

A pool near me used to do women only sessions.
They stopped about 25 years ago because the men complained they should have a mens night too.
It became an adults only session.

Doesn’t anybody want to use soap on your bits?

I wouldn’t bel clean either.

And to those who say you shouldn’t use soap there, I’ve always done and never got infections.

A massive international pool opened in my town. This is the shower set up and it baffles me. Our local council pools are better.

Center parcs showers are rubbish too😁

Council leisure centres in my London borough are single sex for swimming (don’t know about the gym side of things).

I’m pretty sure the Somali women changing into their burkinis for the women-only swim session at one of our local pools would bat an eyelid.

You need to join- and pay for- a posh gym.

People do bat an eyelid. It's great for families to get changed together but anywhere mixed has a much higher rate of problems with sexual assault.