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No nudity policy

178 replies

SuperMumTum · 05/03/2015 20:55

At the swimming pool today I noticed a sign in the ladies changing room/showers stating that they had received "feedback" from customers concerned about nudity in the presence of children and so they now have a policy of no nudity in the changing rooms during lessons and minimal nudity at other times.

Now I'm not usually one to strip off in communal areas and generally feel more comfortable in a cubicle so I don't feel personally attacked but WIBU to provide my own feedback that I am happy for whatever level of nudity people require to change after swimming to continue and that I am happy for my children to witness naked women in this environment where applicable.

I didn't say anything but it has annoyed me all day. I have no idea if a similar policy is in force in the mens changing room.

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UndecidedNow · 05/03/2015 20:57

I'm a bit at loss as to how you can have 'no nudity' in communal changing room of a swimming pool.

Unless there has been one those women whop dry their pubic hair with the hair dryer???

AnnSmiley · 05/03/2015 21:03
Confused

But... but it's a changing room... where you have to get dry...

Are there only cubicles and no benches? That's the only way it would be possible, if it's one of those mixed changing rooms where the only place to go is to be in a cubicle.

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SuperMumTum · 05/03/2015 21:03

I know. There are about 10 small cubicles and the rest is open plan. If you have more than one DC you have to expose some flesh in order to get changed.

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Idefix · 05/03/2015 21:05

Oh my, imagine all the pearl clutching that went on in the production of that signage!
So glad I live in Europe where attitudes are a little more enlightened :)
You are generally getting dressed or undressed to go swimming or to hit the gym not auditioning for the sequel of Fifty Shades Of Grey...

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SuperMumTum · 05/03/2015 21:07

The showers are all open plan as well. There are 4 shower heads in a row and no walls or doors. So they expect people to shower with their costume on.

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turquoiseamethyst · 05/03/2015 21:07

That is hilarious!

Naked people in a changing room!

Wasn't there a thread on here about this and someone retorted with "well maybe they can't afford a towel"? Grin

NoArmaniNoPunani · 05/03/2015 21:09

That's a daft policy. It's good for kids to see some normal bodies rather than the airbrushed ones they see in the media

ThereIsACarInTheKitchen · 05/03/2015 21:10

Eh, how's this going to work then? Confused

Dowser · 05/03/2015 21:11

They would have had a field day this afternoon down the beach then. A rather large lady about a size 18 ffor arguments sake was standing at the entrance to the beach in the most minute of thongs. You can see where this is going can't you.

She had a chat to the lifeguard. Very unselfish consciously considering all she was wearing was a piece of string.

She bent over to shake her hair out, boobs flapping in the breeze. Then she laid down on the wooden bench near the each shower that people use to sit on to put on their shoes.

Next then she's raising a leg up and down. Then she swaps to the other leg. I started to giggle and said to OH I think she's doing her exercises.

Then she starts bicycling in the air.....her vagine must have been on show at that point. She was facing people walking along the prom

I think the authorities at your swimming pool would have carted her off long before that.

ThatBloodyWoman · 05/03/2015 21:12

I can see both sides.
I have girls but I can imagine if you have a little boy in there with their mum,some people might find very open nudity a stage too far for what their child is used to

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SuperMumTum · 05/03/2015 21:13

NoArmani that was my first thought. AIBU to actively want my DC to see normal naked people occasionally?

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turquoiseamethyst · 05/03/2015 21:21

If little boys are so troubled by a naked woman might I suggest that a female changing room is perhaps not the best place for them!

Donnadoon · 05/03/2015 21:23

Undecided Grin you can bet your bottom dollar it willbe because of that woman

Smoothyloopy · 05/03/2015 21:24

Downer, I'm assuming your not in th UK. Unless she was wearing a thermal thong!

expatinscotland · 05/03/2015 21:24

Stupid policy. It's a bloody changing room.

ThatBloodyWoman · 05/03/2015 21:25

But if they're too young to change alone,but not babies?
I just think there's accidental nakedness,and deliberate nakedness,and wonder if deliberate nakedness is better in adult spaces.

MirandaWest · 05/03/2015 21:25

I have to admit that whenever I've been to swimming pools people do shower in their swimming costumes. The one nearby is one with a changing village ie mixed changing with cubicles which would make it unlikely for people to shower naked although it's always been the case in single sex changing rooms too.

I'd be happy being naked but I wouldn't really want to stand out tbh.

Smoothyloopy · 05/03/2015 21:26

Bloody autocorrect, that should have been Dowser.

ThatBloodyWoman · 05/03/2015 21:27

Our changing rooms have the same policy,and there are signs saying that male attendants clean the area.
I've never found it difficult not to wander about naked.
I just don't find it an issue if it means others feel more comfortable.

ShadowSpiral · 05/03/2015 21:28

How do they expect people to get changed after swimming without there being any nudity at all?

Unless they plan on doing away with the open plan changing area and having only cubicles, there's no practical way to avoid nudity. Ridiculous policy.

LynetteScavo · 05/03/2015 21:28

I get showering with costume on...but I realise I'm in the minority on. MN with that one...but they need more cubicles if they don't want nudity...or Should you purchase a towelling tent?

ThatBloodyWoman · 05/03/2015 21:31

I do outdoor watersports and manage to change in carparks etc whilst not exposing myself.
Its not impossible.

Charlotte3333 · 05/03/2015 21:31

My 9 year old boy still gets changed in the ladies room (cannot be trusted in the mens, spent 45 minutes in a shower last time I risked it), he goes in cubicle if there's one free, if not I hold the towel up (he's getting shy now he's older) and he cracks on. He sees me getting in and out of the shower, as does DS2 (4) and I don't see any difference.

themummyonthebus · 05/03/2015 21:43

Eh? Deliberate nakedness? It's just nakedness. Children don't care anyway (well, the ones young enough to need to be with an adult to help them change). Nowt such strange as folks.

SmillasSenseOfSnow · 05/03/2015 21:48

How bizarre. At various swimming baths on the continent there are signs saying you must shower naked and not with your costume on, for hygiene's sake.

This 'no nudity' thing sounds absolutely ridiculous to me.

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