No nudity policy

[SuperMumTum]

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.

I suppose it's because I don't automatically associate nudity with sex, having spent many years outside the UK.
btw, these were all VERY respectable places.

I mean last time we went swimming I met my boss. Can you imagine

I have imagined one of my managers in that sort of situation a few times... Most of them, though, would be a clear No.

My boss is very definitely in the "No" camp! The thought of casually showering naked alongside him makes my toes curl.....

I make my DH take the DC swimming to avoid all this. The last time the DC saw me in a state of undress was the day they were born, and even then the sheet was covering as much as possible!

Nudity is easier with strangers - I'd cringe at even a revealed boob with an aunt or cousin.
But on a business trip near Frankfurt all of us, including the boss, went naked in the mixed sauna, with ages 5-85 around us. No embarassment.
Strange.

I'm with you on that Baby. I don't feel comfortable. I went swimming at hotel gymn, ladies changing. shower - shut cubicle, grab towel afterwards quickly holding door against me, into changing room.

I am a prude and proud, I don't want to see anyone naked nor them to see me, so I never go swimming. Problem solved.

I half-hope my gym implements this kind of bonkers policy just so I can make a point of flaunting my naked body. I don't care who sees it; man/woman, adult/child. It's perfectly natural, normal and psychologically healthy.

This country is, frankly, crazy. Puritanical, repressed and deeply hypocritical. Are we returning to Victorian times?

Only in Britain would you get this.

We are such prudes.

Oh dear. Go swimming in Iceland and there are notices in the changing rooms demanding naked showering before entering the pool. Try showering in swimwear and you will be told to take it off. I really do despair of our stupid country sometimes, when will we learn that nudity is not automatically sexual and there is nothing wrong with seeing a naked person FFS.

I am a prude and proud, I don't want to see anyone naked nor them to see me, so I never go swimming. Problem solved.

Then I am genuinely very sorry for you, sparkling.
I sincerely hope you do not bring your children up to be ashamed or afraid of seeing human bodies in their normal, natural state.

If nudity is such an issue, then surely, the pool should have been build with enough separate cubicules and separate showers (That's what we have at one of our swimming pools). Not with a communal shower and a communal changing room (the arrangement with another one).

If peope really have an issue with a communal changing room, then either they use the few cubicules there or they use another pool.
But they can't blame the people using a communal changing room for doing so.

And honestly, why does it seems to be an issue for young girls to see naked men but not for young boys to see naked women (see comments about taking girls into a men's communal changing room).
Or is the other way around? That it's unacceptabel for a man to see a young girl naked but it's ok for a woman to see a young boy naked?

Because ...??

Don't feel sorry for me Sallying, just because I don't want to get naked in public. DSs are 16 and 13 now and absolutely fine, and even go swimming from time to time and presumably see people in their normal natural state.

That is absolutely bizarre, OP. Women are not supposed to be naked in the women's communal changing rooms in case children are traumatized by the nudity? Personally, it would take me far longer to get dried/changed after swimming if I had to constantly worry about concealing my infant-mind-warping fanny from view. In our one the showers have cubicles, so strip off there, wash, return to changing room in towel for warmth/drying, dry self (FLAUNTING MY DELIBERATE NUDITY), get dressed, go. My nudey bits are probably visible for about ten seconds, and I don't care, nor do I care about seeing other naked women. I even did it when PREGNANT, thus exposing the youth of today to NAKEY PREGNANT HORROR.

[goes off shaking head at the madness of the world]

Yes, Super, I would write the dissenting 'feedback'.

I don't find it at all strange that people have bodies under their clothes

Jeez, but getting half naked when drunk on a weekend or on holiday in Ibiza. Tsssskkkkk.

Haha, that reminds me of the nudist beach in Croatia and my daughter asking me whether the man (in front of us) would find it difficult getting his piercing out of his scrotum again. No idea dear.

I think if I was the OP I would feel very tempted to dance around the changing room wearing nothing but a pair of pants on my head.

I've seen a synchronised helicoptering. I laughed.

(Not, I hasten to add, in a communal changing room)

I think my main issue with this is what actual harm would seeing a naked female do a boy young enough to need to be in a changing room with a parent.

Op, have they put similar signs in the men's changing rooms? Or is it only women who have to follow the no nudity policy?

Is it no total nudity? I think there's a difference between someone dropping their towel to dry their breasts, putting a bra/top on, then drying their backside before putting knickers on, and someone walking around a changing room completely naked with no attempt at discretion.

I was brought up seeing my parents nude and even now they wouldn't be bothered if I saw them naked, but I do think that in a public changing room some attempt at discretion should be made.

i think my pool has it right, unisex changing room that ALL cubicles, and there about 40 of them, plus 2 disabled and 2 family changing rooms.

and i dont shower at the pool, i rinse myself off after i get out, get changed into the old clothes i arrives in (tshirt and trakkies) then go home and shower!

That's nice, Obsidian. But a lot of people swim before work. I used to - alongside my boss & other colleagues, and we all stood around naked while showering & changing.

I'm not saying people shouldn't have privacy when they want it - of course they should. But neither should everyone else be forced to act like there's some kind of shame attached to having a body.

If swimming pools don't want women to be naked in changing rooms, they need to provide lockable cubicles. And that includes mixed changing rooms.

People should stay at home if they're so offended by a naked stranger in a bloody changing room.