Can I ask if you be happy with mixed sexed changing rooms

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Just that really not loos but changing rooms
Gyms swimming pools
Keep in mind many changing rooms have no cubicles or if they do they simply have curtains like this images.app.goo.gl/H6pdSPuXJiUqjs817

how do you feel about open plan with no cubicles?

Is this a thing that actually exists? Where? Just seems really odd and definitely not something over ever encountered in the UK (though definitely have abroad in places like saunas, specifically Sweden and Germany)

Why would anyone ask a question about in this context about something which doesn’t exist?

Why not? Why are you so obtuse?
For the records, I have seen some out of the UK, I wasn't that impressed.

If they did open tomorrow, you would have a choice about whether to utilise or not.
or complain so things would change back and you could still use the facilities?

“For the records, I have seen some out of the UK, I wasn't that impressed.”

Where?

“or complain so things would change back and you could still use the facilities?”

Ah, so in this leap of imagination we are now in a place where leisure establishments with perfectly workable policies might not only open mixed gender, no cubicle changing rooms tomorrow, but they will do so by ripping out all cubicles.

I’m sure that is likely to happen and would be good for business.

Fine with curtains or cubicles - not with open room. I'd be uncomfortable because I get lecherous comments and people grabbing at me on my way to work fully clothed... don't fancy having to squeeze myself out of a costume in front of men I don't know. I doubt I would be assaulted but I'd rather not be gawped at

Not if there's a potential for people to slip phone cameras or mirrors under or over the top of cubicles.

Helenluvsrob

Bring back the days where the changing was 12 cubicles on the poolside 😂

Actually, that's not such a bad idea. as it means that people are less likely to do something untoward.

In fact some of those places still exist, for example Peterborough Lido which is a 50m heated outdoor pool that was built in 1936.

I learnt to swim there in the 1970s and we went as a family there more recently when my DC were younger.

They certainly have cubicles with solid doors and I never felt any concerns about using them.

If anyone's near Peterborough then it's a great way to spend a few hours as a family during the summer.

Yes. As long as there were cubicles
Would be so much easier for families with boys and girls.

I’d be fine as long as there was at least a decent curtain, or preferably a cubicle. I’ve not had the experience of seeing a completely open mixed sex changing room with no private areas but if I came upon it I wouldn’t like it.

StreetwiseHercules
what's wrong with you? It's a bit odd to become so angry about the issue.

Well, one of my gyms completely changed the changing rooms in a refurbishment and reduced the number of cubicles to 4. There was such an uproar about it that they had to install a lot more back. And that was in London.

Still ensure why someone asking if people are bothered about the lack of privacy or the mix of the genders provocks such a silly reaction from you.

I've used them and not found them an issue

The pool and changing rooms were open, so you can step out of the cubicle and down the corridor is the pool.

The toilets were gender specific but changing cubicles no.

“you? confused It's a bit odd to become so angry about the issue.

Well, one of my gyms completely changed the changing rooms in a refurbishment and reduced the number of cubicles to 4. There was such an uproar about it that they had to install a lot more back. And that was in London.

Still ensure why someone asking if people are bothered about the lack of privacy or the mix of the genders provocks such a silly reaction from you.“

Personal attack. Naughty.

Look. You asked a preposterous hypothetical question and I challenged you on it. That’s all that’s happened here. You seem angered by that, but i’ll happily just get on with my day.

Not bothered about mixed-sex cubicle areas with lockable doors. That's how it has been at my local pool for at least 20 years. Lockers in the middle, cubicles all around the edge, used by men, women and children alike.

Mixed-sex open-plan with no cubicles would obviously be totally different (surely nobody would dispute that) and would offer none of the privacy that cubicles do, so no I wouldn't use a pool with that arrangement. I'd imagine most people wouldn't and that's why none exist.

You asked a preposterous hypothetical question and I challenged you on it.
the only one angry is you, I am a bit puzzled by our reaction.

The poster asking the question was perfectly reasonable, I don't know why you feel the need to challenge it, unless you didn't understand they point they were asking?

No, I wouldn't be happy at all, to the extent that I wouldn't use them.

No

I don’t mind as long as there are curtains

No. I don’t want to undress with men in such close proximity.

I wouldn’t use them.

I don’t want to undress with men in such close proximity.
fair enough, but as you will be nearly naked in the same pool 2 minutes later, I am not sure I understand why?

a massive room between the entrance and pool filled with cubicles with doors (like they have at centre parks) I am fine with. Large 'family cubicles' are a godsend when you have several children.
Other than at centre parks though the changing rooms I've been in are basically large tiled rooms with open showers, benches and a few cubicles, maybe some toilet cubicles. I would not be comfortable using those if they were mixed sex.

Are the women who are fine with this young? I'm oldish with a hideous body that I hate anyone seeing!

but Bizzardo, the whole point of the curtains is that other people cannot see you

I'm fine with it and middle-aged. Cubicles stop priest people from seeing my body.

No. Definitely not if just curtains.

In our leisure centre (council run, London), the women's are mainly open plan communal, with a couple of small cubicles.

Women's, men's and mixed sex with proper lockable doors should be the way forward.

fair enough, but as you will be nearly naked in the same pool 2 minutes later, I am not sure I understand why?

That’s ok. I don’t need you to understand why.

You could always give it some thought, ponder the difference between undressing, drying yourself, putting on your lotion post swim, just generally being naked in a private space and being in your cossie in a public space with others, where you can move around etc.

But you won’t. And that’s fine