to find naked people in changing room unnecessary?

[CharlLaneoxo]

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

And did someone say they had pubic hair? Surely not!

I don't mind age but there is an old man with a waist length beard that makes me nauseas. I can't stop thinking about the bits of boiled egg and spinach that may have been living in it for weeks and are now in the water.

Another warning about northern countries - If you go swimming in icleand you have to shower naked before you get in the pool and there are diagrams to show the bits you have to vigorously soap in advance. It was a bit of a surprise for me!

I swim with a number of very old people indeed - for some reason the 7am shift is predominantly occupied by Codgers. Frankly I am more in awe of people in their 80s and 90s (and while they look a good 10 years younger that still means they are pretty darn old-looking) who swim several times a week than horrified by their physiques (and see the 10 year proviso above in any case). If they wanted to dance a naked can-can they'd be welcome to it IMO.

The most shocking thing for me about this thread is the revelation that men straighten their hair. Really?? I mean, men in their 30s or over? Men with ordinary normal blokey haircuts?

Ah yes - the Icelandic showers with compulsory public nudity and minge soaping. Some of the posters on this thread would have to be taken away in an ambulance.

Nekkid conga ifnotnow?

Yep Spicy. With high kicks a -go-go.

I hope your both old, saggy and hairy for best effect.

YANBU - I would say "there's a time and a place", but so far the only place I can think of is at a nudist colony!

It isn't that I'm ashamed of my body, it's that I don't know how everyone in the room is going to feel about me casually strolling along in the changing room with my buttcheeks sashaying from side to side and my conkers dangling like spaniel's ears.

It isn't that I make a big show of privacy either though. I've seen a group of women who erected a four-walled towel-booth for each of them to change in, but they were all screaming "DON'T LOOK! DON'T LOOK!" and fannying about with it.

Conversely, I've witnessed a large, yet very nubile, woman wearing nothing but bizarre knee-socks, with her leg up on the counter like a ballerina...blowdrying her hirsute bush!!!! I mean, come on! No-one wants to see that! And you could tell she was enjoying it too

Anyway, point is - YANBU. Just British!

I'm sorry, "conkers" should really be "knockers" in that previous post...

Well, I am older than early 20's pretzel, although I think I am gorge, personally, wobbly arse, hairy minge an'all. Coming soon at a leisure centre near you....

"YANBU - I would say "there's a time and a place", but so far the only place I can think of is at a nudist colony!"

I actually can't imagine a more appropriate time and place then a woman's changing room!

And bloody hell, this woman who blow dries her pubic hair gets about a bit! I'm amazed that in 30 years using changing rooms at least once a week in lots of different places I've never met her.

Judging by this thread you'd think the female brittish population consist only of uber prudes and exhibitionist fanjo blowdrierers. And in the locker room...they clash.

You know until a few years ago (probably before I found mumsnet) I never thought that I was maybe weird and unusual for having a old fashioned hairy bush or labia that might scare folk. It honestly never, ever crossed my mind. Few years later and I could almost get quite paranoid (especially if I was out there single and looking at dating again). Makes me really feel for our young females who are growing up with this kind of pressure.

YANBU - and it's NOT just British attitude, it's also for those of us who are shy or just aesthetically-minded, i.e. would not want to look at people's genitals , there are nicer things to look at!

changing without a towel is fine imo, but parading or raising legs - yuk, have considertaion that others may find it unpleasant.

Haha love this thread - I normally cycle to work and we have a female changing room to get washed and ready in but what I never understood though is that each shower cubicle has space in front of it to dry off and get dressed in before coming out into the communal areas but I have seen plenty of naked ladies roaming about - some of them I have had to work or work with regularly .

Thankfully I live only 10min walk from my gym so after my workout I just grab my stuff walk home and shower in comfort

Well I'm 30 pretzel so not sure if that makes me offcially past it for gym nekkidness purposes, but I am very wobbly, sometimes hairy and have a scar. I still draw the line at blow drying fanjo or arse crack though. I wonder if these people (or maybe it is all the same one) do it at home?

I know what you mean about the young girls Begonia. I don't recall ever giving my muff a second thought as a teenager.
I wouldn't worry about men though. I am single and dating, and ime men couldn't give a monkeys what your flaps look like. The first time I copped off with a man post ds I haltingly explained that I did have some scarring. He stopped for about 5 seconds looking slightly bemused, said "yeah, lots of women have those. Does it cause problems with having sex?"
"Oh no" says I
"Great" he said simultaneously flinging my knickers over his shoulder.

OK, I might have slightly embellished that....(only slightly).

My point is, that men really don't care too much about whether one of your flaps hangs a bit lower than the other, or if you have pubes.

I was at a fashion show once and was wandering about when a very very handsome male model walked towards me wearing not but see though pants, like clingfilm round his bits. He was shaved too.

I stopped being all cool and did a double take, turned and ran:) he laughed so much, I could hear him giggling.

Right i'm off to the gym today just to wander round in my birthday suit - i'm not even going to bother exercising, just spend my 2 hours in the buff exposing my 36 yo, post baby, saggy, stretch marked, one boob way bigger than the other, cellulited body with extra dangly labia.

On that note, slightly disagreeing with IfNot (sorry :) not all men don't care - just the nice normal ones) when i was pregnant all my friends; mainly male and a couple of women, assumed i would automatically have a c-section (they also thought they were optional) just to avoid having what one charmingly described as a 'squashed hedgehog' and another 'wind chimes'. All in their 30's by the way. According to those guys they do care. One, unsurprisingly single one, looked like he was going to vomit.

I was going to have sex with one bloke once and when he put his hand down my pants and felt hair, snatched it back and said, 'it's weird you don't shave your fanny' and suggested i keep my pants on and give him a blow job instead. Suffice to say he did NOT get a blow job!

A) the blow drying the pubic hair thing is an urban myth.
B) you would have to be lying on the floor looking up as she stepped over you to see a naked woman's genitals. Which would be weird.

Spuddy! you are hanging with the wrong crowd!
Like I said though men don't care(or notice actually). Closet case boys probably do.
I honestly never even know that a) giving birth was supposed to give you "wind chimes" or that any man would react that way about pubes.

I am actually looking down my pants to see if mine looks like a squashed hedghog now...