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AIBU?

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No nudity policy

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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.

OP posts:

vienna1981 · 05/03/2015 21:53

Utter nonsense. It could only happen in the UK .

Notcontent · 05/03/2015 21:56

That's ridiculous.

We live in strange times. On the one hand, we have primary school aged children watching porn online and porn-like images everywhere in advertising, and on the other hand this crazy stuff...

What next - parents being prosecuted for allowing their children to see them naked...

HazleNutt · 05/03/2015 21:56

YANBU, it's a changing room! And yes, I'm on the continent and there are signs that you must shower naked and swim costumes are forbidden in saunas.

ThereIsACarInTheKitchen · 05/03/2015 21:58

But it's the women's changing room . Why should women have to cover up in the women's changing room?

RatMort · 05/03/2015 21:59

Honestly. How does 'deliberate nakedness' look different to 'accidental nakedness'? And if someone is taking their swimsuit off to dry themselves and put their clothes on, in a swimming pool changing room, shouldn't they be getting deliberately naked? And what possible harm could come to a child from the mere sight of a naked body anyway? Don't they see their own parents?

RandomNPC · 05/03/2015 22:01

I do outdoor watersports

Kinky

RandomNPC · 05/03/2015 22:06

I like doing 'the helicopter' in the changing rooms. Bet they'll ban that next.

ThatBloodyWoman · 05/03/2015 22:07

I'm just trying to see it from other people's points of views.
Some may say its different seeing a parent naked to a stranger.
Some may say that a towel slipping whilst trying to maintain modesty is different to walking around naked.
Some children may not have seen a naked adult body of the opposite sex ( not all parents walk about naked)
I can only really guess at the reasons....
With numbers of people swimming having dropped,if it puts people off to have obvious nudity in the changing rooms,(which presumably it does as customers have,it seems,prompted the policy in the ops pool) I am happy to try to conform.

ThatBloodyWoman · 05/03/2015 22:09

Random

Reported.

( not really )

ProudAS · 05/03/2015 22:10

Do any of you MNERS have DCs who have NOT seen you naked?? I don't mean recently if they are teenagers

rockinrobintweet · 05/03/2015 22:10

i think this must be a movement leisure centres are making! the other day dd and i had been swimming and were showering afterwards. i strip her straight away and she plays with her costume and shampoo bottles whilst i wash my hair still wearing my costume. i then kneel down and wash her hair. then stand and wash my body, whipping my costume off for last washing and then grab my dressing down from hook less than a foot away and cover up.

the other day as i whipped my costume down an elderly man came in to use a locker. i knelt down with dd and combed her hair hiding my body in my crouched position behind dd. as he left a lifeguard came in sweeping the floor so i maintained this position. the lifeguard looked around 19 and was male.

after minutes i started to squeeze out both of costumes and wash them with the soup. the male lifeguard came over seeing this, crouched down next to us and said that it wa policy of the centre that if you are undressed you must have the door shut.

rosey cheeked i informed him i was waiting for him to leave so that I could cover up and he wriggled off giggling. I thought perhaps her was playing a prank but I checked at reception and she was horrified that is voluntarily be nakid IN A SHOWER!!!

can't bloody believe political correctness!!

RandomNPC · 05/03/2015 22:13

What's political correctness got to do with it?

woodhill · 05/03/2015 22:13

sorry I don't understand why you'd run the risk of being naked if men were able to come in. I'd only shower naked in an all female changing room with doors on cubicle or rinse off in my swimming costume.

ThereIsACarInTheKitchen · 05/03/2015 22:17

In that case we will have to agree to disagree. Personally I will continue to strip off my clothes in the changing room (on purpose of course ) and hope that my leisure centre stays sane and doesn't introduce a crazy rule like this one. And if it does I would probably still have to strip regardless as I can't be arsed to fanny around clutching a towel with one hand whilst undressing/dressing with one hand. What a faff.

I also have no idea what "the helicopter" is.

rockinrobintweet · 05/03/2015 22:18

I was in the family changing area and couldn't shut the door because dd sits in the doorway as she's 9mo.

how do you suppose i change from my costume then? bearing in mind if I don't take off then I'll b stood in it for 5/10mins whilst dressing dd freezing my arse off.

and the women at reception suggested it was politically incorrect of me to be naked in the shower with a door open.

I wouldn't have been naked for longer than 30 seconds

woodhill · 05/03/2015 22:30

why does she need to sit in doorway? don't understand why you don't shut door.

rockinrobintweet · 05/03/2015 22:34

have you seen how small a shower cubicle is? we wouldn't fit. I honestly cannot believe other mothers are in such disagreement with me. do other moms not wash after swimming at the centre and wait to get home?

JohnCusacksWife · 05/03/2015 22:35

Who on earth showers naked in a mixed changing room?

Gileswithachainsaw · 05/03/2015 22:37

There's this funny thing called, oh what us it again, oh yes I remember. ..NOT LOOKING.

problem solved.

now people can get changed and dry themselves properly with it panicking that fleshy have been on show.

how ridiculous.

Gileswithachainsaw · 05/03/2015 22:38

flesh nor fleshy

JohnCusacksWife · 05/03/2015 22:38

I've no problem with nudity in a single sex changing room but to do so in a mixed changing room is just a bit odd.

QOD · 05/03/2015 22:43

But it says "during lessons" ... i guess 20 giggling girls or boys get a bit distracted by it? Intimidated? Embarrassed? Do they mean during school lessons?
That's all I can think.

woodhill · 05/03/2015 22:43

I think I would wash her quickly, shower to rinse off in my swimming cossie and change in cubicle or female changing area and have shower later at home

rockinrobintweet · 05/03/2015 22:43

this thread is mental. I will continue to shower with dd in this routine and ensure that my 10 seconds of nakedness are minimal but shall maintain them. it's NATURAL and I wish to instill to my daughter that it's nothing to be ashamed or offended by.

woodhill · 05/03/2015 22:45

each to their own, I'm prudish and proud of it.

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