To think "put some fucking clothes on!"

[PutSomeFuckingClothesOn]

or at least wrap a towel round yourself FFS.

I go to the gym five days a week, usually in the morning. Every single day without fail there will be people having a shower after their workout. I don't have a problem with this as the showers are in cubicles rather than out in the open.

My problem is is that after they've finished showering you can be sure they will then strut naked out of the shower over to the lockers without bothering to wrap a towel around themselves. They will then stand naked for a bit sorting their clothes and shit out before getting dressed. It's always the same people too.

AIBU to think they should at least wrap a towel round themselves? And get dressed as quickly as possible?

Nobody wants to see them naked!

I did mention it to reception but they just gave me a look like this .

Oh dear I go to the gym most days and walk from the shower area to my locker without a towel and then dress going from naked to dressed in full view of anyone who wants to feast their eyes on my old overweight body.

It's never occurred to me I might be offending anyone as I'm in a changing room . As to "reporting it" to reception you've got to be kidding right ?

...which is why the Victorian bathing costume comeback is long overdue. Hides a multitude of sins and protects against fungal infections (providing it's laundered correctly). Win win, as they say.

Strutting is fine but you need to hang on to wobbly bits. Imagine you are modelling a jacket on a catwalk but instead of fabric you have a boob in each hand instead.

Don't forget to do a swift turn on your heel by the lockers and extend one boob out as you go.

Oh my giddy aunt. I've just googled nude catwalk. Do not do this unless you want to get all sorts of interesting adverts popping up.

Looks like there is just as much judging of people who prefer not being naked in public

Must admit I've never viewed changing rooms the same as being 'in public', but maybe I'm mistaken in that respect.

If the women in question strutted from the changing room into the street butt naked then I'd say you have a point.

A few years ago some woman was naked and kept bending over to dress her kids after swimming. Unfortunately my Ds's were sat next to her and her arse was in he's from their faces I was plucking up the courage to ask her to put some knickers on when the 3 of them burst out laughing which soon shifted her.
I must admit I'm a bit of a stealth dresser but that's because I like to protect others.

Look. Here is my life law. Learn it well

Also (re: my last post) nobody here is telling people they should whip off their towels as they don't want to see them, however, OP seems to be saying that others should cover up. There is a subtle difference.

Primal, well, calling people 'prudish' etc is a value judgement, so it's impossible to objectively say whether they are or aren't.

My point was that it annoys me when people make general statements about how people naked in a changing room (like, shock horror) must perforce be 'strutting' or showing off in some way, when IME (and I KNOW it's only IME, but who else's can I speak from?) no one 'struts' naked round a changing room, but just quietly goes about drying and dressing themselves.

I was at a pool in Spain, sitting alone minding my own business, when a woman in a tiny bikini came over and bent down right in front of me.
She had a massive boil in her bum crack.

I've never been the same tbh. Sometimes at night I think I see that arsecrackboil.

Oh Pag, I'm sorry.

I love looking at naked people and not in a sexual way.

Fat, slim, toned and young, elderly.. all shapes, sizes and ages.

I love looking at the differences and sometimes it makes me feel better about my own body and sometimes it makes me envious that I am not toned and stretch mark free.

My problem is trying not to look and look like a perv

pag was your overriding emotion one of revulsion or the urge to pop it?

I went swimming once with my MIL. She came out of the shower completely starkers. I felt a bit awkward but didn't show it or bat an eyelid.
Even if you look away the image is seared onto your brain for eternity.
Here's a weird thing though - I do not feel at all bothered by a complete stranger doing this ! Quite happy for stranger's bits to be hanging out, but not MIL's ! Go figure

It's because every time you see your MIL you now see her nekkid

But surely if you go to a local gym the chances are you will know the nekkid people.

When I first started going to gyms, it weirded me out lol. I don't know why, it just did.

Then came the bit where I started going to the gym with people from the office = co worker having a conversation with me whilst completely nekked... and then there was the lady who used to 'floss' with a towel right in front of me!

You get used to it .. eventually? (I can't do it - not that confident!)

From oxforddictionaries.com

in public
In view of other people; when others are present:
men don’t cry in public

OnlyLovers - IMO prudish is probably more derogatory than strutting. My point is that there are words used with negative connotations used on both sides here.

Maybe someone, somewhere in a gym changing room, struts. Maybe someone, somewhere, is prudish. You can't say equivocally that it doesn't happen.

I hate the feeling of being naked. I've loss of feeling in my stomach because of csections and having my appendix out. It's like I'm not sure where my stomach ends (if that makes any sense). I'm not prudish but prefer to be a bit covered.

Actually as one definition of strutting is walking with arrogance, then isn't that a value judgement too?

My nekkid woman in g string was definitely strutting - no doubt about it.

All I can say is that in my own experience in gyms over the years, I've never 'strutted' about while naked nor seen anyone else doing so.

I personally think that 'strutting' is generally concrete, something you can see –a certain physical way of walking –which can also be described with the more abstract word 'arrogance'. I find the definition 'walking with arrogance' a bit problematic from that point of view, in fact, as it seems to carry a value judgement of its own rather than being an objective definition.

What annoys me most about the OP though is phrases like 'AIBU to think they should ... get dressed as quickly as possible?' – yes, that's U because who on earth is anyone else to tell people how quickly to get dressed?

Also 'Nobody wants to see them naked!' is just a plain silly thing to say. How does the OP know? She's just projecting what she doesn't want to see.

But you 'hate nakedness' and I don't, so we're obviously never going to agree.

in public - In view of other people; when others are present

Ah right, I stand corrected.

So being naked in your own home in front of your husband is considered to be 'in public'. Glad we cleared that up then.

Actually, come to think of it, what's more comparable to the 'strutting' type language used about naked people is not words like 'prude' but something like 'AIBU to think the woman in the gym changing rooms who came out of the showers walking all meekly, with a towel clutched round her, looking self-conscious ... timidly fumbled about putting her clothes on under her towel ... should just bloody well get naked?'

which no one here is saying.

I hate my own nakedness. I don't care what others do. Unless they are shaving their legs in a gym changing room with no knickers on and their foot up on the bench, as I said. Because that is disgusting.

I'd just rather not be judged for it.

Re the 'in public' definition, I didn't write it. I would think that in front of several strangers not talking to each other but going about their business is in public.

Why don't you start a thread in AIBU asking just that Lovers?