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to find naked people in changing room unnecessary?

265 replies

CharlLaneoxo · 10/01/2013 21:14

Such as at the gym and the swimming pool etc.

I'm not talking about women who are comfortable with themselves and can get changed in front of strangers no problem.

I'm referring to the ones who will take leisurely showers, walk around, spend ages getting ready, drying their hair and stand chatting to their friends completely naked.

I know we're all women etc but I just find it unnecessary.

Or maybe I am a prude Smile

OP posts:
SpicyPear · 13/01/2013 10:26

No no seeker I have actually seen someone do it in the flesh. And arse crack. Central London leisure centre circa 2002.

Spuddybean · 13/01/2013 10:26

Ha! IfNot - Since having DS i have extensive damage and go to fanny physio. She said to me the other day 'when you look at yourself with a mirror' I thought 'Umm what do you mean when ? I have never thought i'd see (or cared) what i look like from underneath. Not that i mind - it just has never occurred to me. How i feel is different tho.

FryOneFatManic · 13/01/2013 11:13

Our local pool has been refurbished and the changing area is now mixed sex, but with individual cubicals. However, the showers are open to all, and I have seen people wandering around naked.

Pre refurb, there were several women at the early morning sessions who would shower naked, immediately prior to the children coming in from schools for lessons.

I have no problem being naked, but I always made sure to hurry up on the days I knew that children from my DS's school were coming in for the first lessons. Grin Didn't want to chance someone taking the mick out of DS.

FryOneFatManic · 13/01/2013 11:17

To be utterly honest, I had a bad night's sleep with a headache (no drink involved). And when I saw the comments about GHDs in the men's changing rooms, my first thought was "I didn't realise men straightened the hair round their privates............" Grin

I need more coffee.

Labradorlover · 13/01/2013 14:24

They don't put chlorine in the pools in Iceland and the diagrams are for the dirty foreigners.....
I loved the pools in Iceland...no shoes in the changing rooms, seperate showering, changing and drying parts = clean floors and dry clothes.
Loved the Blue Lagoon tourist trap purely for seeing the horror on the faces of some of the Brits and Americans, when they realised they couldn't skip the naked shower ( have attendents to check ). I contributed to the fango displays by bending forward to give my small DD a row with some outraged Americans behind me Grin.

kickassangel · 13/01/2013 14:39

Changing with dd recently, she said 'it's a good thing that boys aren't allowed in here, you know, because of the general disgustingness'

Turns out that the disgustingness wasn't the boys, but ME, with my huge tummy and hairy bush.

CarlingBlackMabel · 13/01/2013 16:07
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TeiTetua · 13/01/2013 18:41

it's a good thing that boys aren't allowed in here, you know, because of the general disgustingness

Maybe girls shouldn't be allowed either.

seeker · 13/01/2013 19:04

Kickass- I hope you put your dd very firmly in her place.....

MrsRajKoothrappali · 13/01/2013 19:08

JazzyTheSnowman here - have namechanged!

It's really not an Urban Myth, or at least not the one I know of. She was in Cardiff International Pool last summer, in the middle of the last week of August and the place was packed, so I'm really not exaggerating!

mummysmellsofsick · 13/01/2013 19:19

My gym used to have a sign up near the hair dryers 'these dryers are for head hair only' Grin

Some people do like to parade naked I know what you mean op. I never minded (when I used to go to the gym pre dc) although I always changed pretty fast.

determinedma · 13/01/2013 19:39

OK with the changing room stuff but still recovering from spuddy going for a pee while her dad is in the bath!

kickassangel · 13/01/2013 20:02

dd was told that all bodies are beautiful, even hers.

then i pointed out that she too will grow a bush

Bubblegum78 · 13/01/2013 20:06

I totally agree, all this prolonged preening in the buff does my head in!

Although I may not say that if I was standing in the men's changing room. *winks"

Overcooked · 13/01/2013 20:14

Also 'flossing' for prolonged periods with the towel, not needed.

seeker · 13/01/2013 21:58

Which does rather beg the question- why are you watching?

asheepatthewheel · 13/01/2013 22:13

My naked body is far too ugly to inflict on anyone. After two c-sections and a twin pregnancy I have a "pendulous abdomen" as my midwife charmingly called it.

Why would I subject people to that? I don't mind others being naked at all and if my body was normal I'd be ok with it.

2rebecca · 13/01/2013 22:28

I usually dry myself in communal changing rooms not the shower at my gym because the cubicle is small and contains lots of water vapour. I keep my towel outside (but do have a small swim towel I take in with me that gets rid of most of the dampness). It's faster to get dried away from the water vapour.
I don't think I put one foot on the bench when drying myself but haven't given it that much thought. I usually put underwear on quickly and am more casual about other clothes. I'll often dry my hair in underwear as otherwise my clothes get covered in hairs as I moult alot. I never pay much attention to what other people are doing.
I only blow dry my bush at home..a handy technique I started after childbirth when towelling down there was too sore.

BumBiscuits · 13/01/2013 23:00

I dry then moisturise foot up on bench in the communal changing room. I probably do it more quickly than when at home. I can't be arsed bothered with trying to hide my bits with a towel.

I don't pay attention to what anyone else is doing. I thought, but reading this I'm probably wrong, that no-one was paying attention to me.

It's polite in changing rooms not to gawp at others using it, I like to think.

floppybunnyears · 13/01/2013 23:05

I hate the one leg on the bench thing.

I walked into the gym changing room once where one lady had her leg up and was toweling herself dry. It looked like she was doing a seductive dance.

It was like an eclipse BumBiscuits. You know you shouldn't look but you can't stop yourself.

BumBiscuits · 13/01/2013 23:06

arf at the eclipse floppy Grin

kickassangel · 13/01/2013 23:20

asheep your body is normal

Morloth · 13/01/2013 23:45

LOL, the only comment DS1 has ever made about my naked body is on the size of my arse.

He said 'Mummy, your bum is so BIG!'. He sounded so impressed though I took it as a compliment.

Otherwise though he has been around naked women quite a lot (not so much now he is older) and never gave anyone a second glance.

Raising the next generation of sensible men here who know that women come in all sorts of shapes, sizes, colours and hair levels.

asheep, your body is just fine - it made a baby! How awesome is that, you can make people. Over the years in many different countries I have seen all sorts of bodies, and they are all fine.

CarlingBlackMabel · 14/01/2013 11:11

ASheepAtTheWheel - I can promise you that if I saw you naked in a changing room I would mostly take not much notice, but if I did I would not think your body ugly or not normal. Just a body that has been doing it's job. Which is normal. Smile.

Hobbitation · 14/01/2013 13:50

She said to me the other day 'when you look at yourself with a mirror' I thought 'Umm what do you mean when ?

I know what you mean. I have only ever looked at myself down there with a mirror twice. Once as a teenager in an "Am I normal?" moment after reading a magazine article, and once two weeks after having DD1 when the midwife had removed the stitches and said "It all looks lovely again now". Last one took a bit of courage, but it was indeed all ok.