To be horrified by people in changing rooms?

[Smarshian]

I went on a lovely spa day today with a friend as my first day away from my 6 month old dd.
While getting changed for lunch a woman came out of the showers and stood around for about 5 minutes having a chat/getting in my way - right next to me completely starkers! I was getting changed under a towel and my locker was there and the bench the other side of me so I couldn't move without being really awkward as I was obviously using that space.
I wouldn't mind her just getting changed but she didn't, she had a towel round her head and her full bush and boobs out, she wasn't even facing the lockers, it was like she was just parading in my face.
I've no issue with nakedness in changing rooms while getting changed but don't just stand around naked making me feel awkward!
Aibu?

Jane we usually just announce that it's a fanny day !!!! Us gym kids don't get in with the white robes...they mess about in the pool and gossip while you try to swim!

I think it is a good thing. In general I have noticed that people have got more coy about covering up while getting changed and I think it's a shame that we can't just be more relaxed. I've noticed it particularly with my children even when they were still very young - they seems to pick it up at school?

We went to a public baths in Iceland and the way the (lovely, pristine) changing rooms and showers were set up you basically had no choice but to walk through naked. My silly DD was having a fit!

I've just been on holiday with my dh, dd and her spouse. I think I would sit that one out.

Jeez guys, the word you are grappling for is discreet.

But what stops a halfway house - at least putting on some pants whilst you faff around?
But if I did that, just to keep other people happy, then I would be encouraging a culture of shame that I really dislike. If it's a British cultural issue that we have an unhealthy discomfort with nudity then that is something I will continue to challenge along with other pressures that I see as harmful to people's well-being.
I think you just need to get used to it, and you would if everyone did it.

Nina2b well said!

I am an under-towel-changing-prude and have never been naked in front of my children and even I don't think that other females should refrain from their own comfort level of nudity in a female changing room just because of my personal inhibitions. I simply retreat into my personal headspace and dont look.

Unless someone is shimmying their breasts in your face or twerking at you, just ignore them! They aren't behaving inappropriately.

God you'd never last a day in Iceland
Everyone strips of completely before taking a swim

So what? We are not IN Iceland.

Thank goodness.

I don't care if people are naked or not. At a festival with showers everyone stood in lime waiting for the showers with no clothes on at all except a few prudish youngsters. The rest of us had it all out

Why is being prudish or modest such a negative thing anyway?

Exactly nina2b wtf has Iceland got to do with it! I'm all for a bit of coverage.There's too much twerking and stuff already, my eyes are bleeding.

The one of two cubicles was free today at the gym...twas a good day!

Why is being prudish or modest such a negative thing anyway?
It's not, it's your free choice.
The same goes for the opposite.

DailyFail have picked up on this thread!

Either this is a fake or they picked it

Do YOU go naked in the changing room?

dailym.ai/2uNrDQB

This thread is hilarious!

(And yes, this daily hate has C&Ped much of the first two pages - it was shared on FB by the Christian Naturist Fellowship [yes, there is such a thing])
I haven't been on MN for a couple of months it was sapping too much time and it has taken nudity for me to come back!

Firstly, the OP said Indecent exposure is a thing - err, no it's not (assuming you're in the UK). It used to be, but was superseded by the 2003 Sexual Offenses Act, specifically section 66; which was written in collaboration with British Naturism to specifically exclude naturism and general nakedness.

In short, nakedness in public is perfectly legal*; so it goes without saying that nakedness in a changing room is not going to be an issue. If you don't like it, don't look.

Secondly, modesty is an action, not a state of dress.

If you were dressed head-to-toe in a full-length bin-bag, gyrating your hips, dry-humping anything that moves, and grabbing your breasts, then I would suggest you are not being modest. If you are fully naked, and going about your normal business, then you are being modest.

Thirdly, of course YABU to be horrified by people in changing rooms, whether they are naked or otherwise.

*To clarify, simple nudity (which includes just standing around chatting) is perfectly legal.
If you showing sexually motivated behaviours, or are behaving aggressively and/or intending to shock and harass people by flashing, then this is illegal.

I totally agree. But I know I can be a bit of a prude though and it doesn't bother most people. On holiday a couple years ago in Vegas and had a spa day and all the women were completely naked in the hot tubs etc totally just kicking back - I think I was the only person wearing a bikini!

I'm fascinated my this thread

Also at the muff drying hairdryer users

I've only just rejoined the gym, but when I'd go regularly in the past I don't remember even glancing at anyone's privates, let alone observing the topiary of their muff

I genuinely have NO idea what a typical woman's pubes look like. When I had them (laser so it's all gone) the waxer would usually say how quick a Brazilian was because I was apparently not very hairy at all. I don't have any clue what a 'normal' amount of pubic hair is. I feel like I want to start peeking in the changing rooms just as a sort of roving anthropologist, as I am now dead curious about what other women do with their pubes. And actually particularly if they don't. I have no idea how full a full bush actually is!!