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 .

MehsMum
American faffing under towels ... Prudish and puritanical.

That's what I replied to.

YABU and a bit weird. Of course people are going to be walking around changing rooms naked.

Soupy - that really confused me, because there is a Bridge St near work. I was trying to picture a gym there, until I got you

Hmmm.... So you work near a bridge do you...

Well, I think it's a reasonable statement to say that it's a 'faff' to get dressed under a towel.

But as I've said before, you've already stated that you have a problem with nakedness, and I don't, so we'll obviously never see eye to eye on this and can only keep the argument going by fighting over semantics.

And as I've also already stated, the OP complained to the staff about nakedness whereas I very much doubt anyone would complain about clothedness/towel-wearing. Which is the main point really.

No they haven't said that - because that's not what this thread is about Lovers

There have been pretty strong opinions though, with some inferring that the OP is prudish and others have agreed with her feelings towards nudity. I have ascribed 'strutting' to my naked gym bunny because that was what she did - but there have been plenty of other descriptions that you could have picked up on to describe both the naked-and-proud group and the towel huggers.

And I've stated that I wasn't commenting on the OP.

Near, but not under

I'm from "Europe", more specifically from Scandinavia. A body is just a body there. My DH insists on wearing swimming trunks when going into the sauna with male friends (they are naked, of course), which cracks them up. I find it comforting to know that we are all different, but the same. Saggy, taut, fat or fit, a body is a body. Nothing to be ashamed about. Although, I do remember with slight horror a situation at a local pool when I was 10 years old. An old lady was washing herself clean in the shower and flipped her boob over her shoulder to scrub underneath it. Don't know why I was so horrified really.

You don't have to be "ashamed" about your body to not want to be naked in front of strangers or otherwise. I just don't, and wouldn't even if I was Miss World.

I know, but we just don't have this in the country I come from. Never heard about anyone not wanting to undress in front of others (unless a bad case of psoriasis etc.). It's a cultural thing and I accept it (we have our own oddities), but it does seem a bit funny and prudish to my countrymen/women.

I still bathe with my 5 year old son on most nights and will only stop when he doesn't want to do it anymore. He has only very recently actually realised that I don't have a willy. I think when you grow up around nakedness and naked people, you don't concentrate at foofs, breasts and willies. They are no more inherently "rude" than an arm or a leg (unless willy is erect!).

Again, nothing to do with rude or prudish.

I bathed with my kids for years. But I can't usually fall asleep naked. It's the physical sensation.

I cannot believe this fred is still going - Bridge St or not!
Strong opinions, I see, on either side of the arsecrack divide.

Ooh, and my Scandanavian friend is the one pushing the school to let the girls and boys change separately for gym. Is that the same? I don't know.

Primal: Depending on the age of the children I would agree with her. From around 7 or 8 (ish) years old, it is good to have separate changing rooms for girls and boys. That is roughly the age when families stop going to the sauna in mixed groups (mixed saunas can feature again in adulthood, but that is personal choice).

Ah I see. They are 9/10.

I agree too.

At our local swimming pool/sauna some of the sauna areas are strictly material frei, it is considered unhygienic to wear a swimming costume. First time I was a little taken aback but I really don't think anyone is looking - far too dark and steamy ;)

Yes, swimming costumes not allowed in saunas where I'm from.

You don't have to be "ashamed" about your body to not want to be naked in front of strangers or otherwise. I just don't, and wouldn't even if I was Miss World

Agreed. I don't understand the constant refrain that nude bathing/ sauna allows us to understand we all come in different shapes and sizes. That's pretty obvious with or without clothes.

I am pretty confident about my body, happy to walk about naked in front of dh, but don't particularly want anyone else to see me naked - it feels private to me. Similarly I genuinely don't want to see anyone else naked. Kind of agree with op though am obviously in the minority.

ToysRLuv Sun 11-Jan-15 18:04:36
I know, but we just don't have this in the country I come from. Never heard about anyone not wanting to undress in front of others
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Have been thinking about this. Maybe because it is so culturally alien where you come from, people wouldn't admit it? Maybe they just avoid having to get naked?

Will ask my friend her opinion tomorrow.

Primal: I don't know. There must be the odd exception to the rule, but honestly, I have never heard of any.

Perhaps if you add me as a guest at your gym , I could come and flaunt my furry cumberbund and that might scare the 'air dryers ' off

ok with me as long as they don't try to converse