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

At my gym which also has a swimming pool the changing rooms have two curtained off cubicles, otherwise it's all open plan, albeit in different sections such as adult only, with showers at one end, so yes most women are at sometime in a complete state of undress. It would most certainly bother me.

I do remember when we took our children to Center Parcs we would opt for a family changing room set up there, which is pretty family oriented anyway, I don't think they accept groups of single sex parties, but I wouldn't swear to that. We could probably do with a couple of specific family changing areas at my club, dads on their own do take their young daughters, but other than that I suspect most people don't want mixed changing rooms. I probably wouldn't go if that was the case.

Normal
Around here and it's completely fine. It's handy being able to use a larger family cubicle with husband and kids together.
I do obstacle course racing and I can think of at least one major event which has communal showers and changing in a large barn area - people do get naked if they want to, it's easier to get the mud off that way. As a woman I actually felt very safe there - as a PP indicated it's very busy. Some people prefer not to strip and just wear bra/pants/boxers in the shower then change under a towel or dry robe. People just appreciate that they have hot running water which isn't a given at these events.

Don’t mind so long as there’s cubicles! (Tbh I don’t like single sex changing rooms without cubicles either, I don’t want to show strangers my bits regardless of their gender!)

Our local swimming pool has mixed sex changing rooms and has since I was a kid, so at least 20 years. Makes things easier when you go as a family imo

Lots and lots of council swimming baths have shared change facilities ie family change which means it’s a lot easier for single parents to cope with kids of different sex - dad with a 7 year old daughter etc.

Any time I have been to mixed facilities they are always packed, really busy and full of exactly that - families. When it has been adult swim yes there are men getting changed along the same corridor as women so of course everyone is a little more conservative but it’s a busy, open space with lockable secure changing rooms.
If you went to a private gym or swimming pool and they didn’t have facilities where you felt safe then you surely wouldn’t go back / give them your custom.
Not many people are gonna be happy with a flimsy curtain protecting their modesty when they’re in the buff - whether same or mixed sex.

Our local pool has a mixed sex changing space with cubicles.

Shops here tend to have mixed changing rooms with separate cubicles.

It doesn't bother me at all.

My local pool has been unisex changing since I was a kid. There are cubicles with doors (not floor to ceiling), open showers that one uses in ones costume and single sex loos. We use it weekly, it is always busy, never given it much thought really!

No I bloody wouldn’t.
I’d had enough of the male gaze by the time I was a young teen.

I just want to get changed in peace.

As for if there's just a curtain separating you - well I had to spend the night on the maternity ward which welcomes men to stay overnight. This made me feel much more vulnerable as I was in pain, learning to feed etc and people such as cleaners randomly whipped the curtains open while I was changing.
I don't really care who sees me changing, I do it often enough in the car or at the beach/a sporting event under a towel. I would say sleeping makes me much more vulnerable.
And yes, I've been groped in a public place and raped, doubt that's unusual sadly.

OkMaybeNot honestly, I really don’t understand your feelings on this. Like, I just genuinely don’t get it. Why does it matter if a man sees me naked (not that they would in an area with separate cubicles)? It’s just a body. We all have one. A man catching sight of a naked woman or child does not make him a pervert any more than a vegan seeing a butcher’s shop makes them a carnivore. Yes, of course some men leer and ogle inappropriately but surely they could also do that in a pool where everyone’s in swimwear? On a beach? I get some people are unhappy with their bodies and self conscious but I’m just really perplexed by the attitude that a man simply seeing you in an area with cubicles is something to worry about

Individual rooms that can lock - fine
Flimsy peeping tom shit like in your op - not a chance

Can't say as I've never been in a mixed changing room but think I wouldn't like it.

Prefer it, means we can get changed as a family! Which was particularly helpful when our little one was a baby, 2 pairs of hands are better than one!

dodgeballchamp

I think the issue is that
A-sexual assaults increase when their is mixed facility’s

B-people with paedophilic minds gather we’re they can get to children in state of undress or vulnerability

C-women who are religious will self exclude

D- studies have shown were there are mixed changing women’s changing and men’s woman largely choose single sex facility

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

With proper lockable doors no problem.
Curtains are crap and would beca problem

Ive done loads of swimming over the years and have never in this country seen men and women padding around naked together in communal space.

Europe - thats different!

Fucking hell Hope ....

No, not until we have completely eradicated the sort of men who rape, assault, covertly record and expose themselves to women and children (i.e. never). While there is still even one predatory pervert amongst all the decent men there is still a risk to women and children, which is inevitably increased by sharing facilities such as changing rooms. We don't know which men are decent and which are predatory so the only way we can be, and feel, safe is to have female only facilities.

I say again for most people this
images.app.goo.gl/fBcQGoyoczLe7kCx5
Is not a issue but not all changing especially high schools changing are like above they are www.google.co.uk/search?q=gym+changing+rooms+curtians&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwj8u7C_0NDiAhUDrhoKHZjNDZgQ2-cCegQIABAC&oq=gym+changing+rooms+curtians&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-img.3..30i10.6988.15001..15728...0.0..0.321.1990.15j2j2j1......0....1.........0i13j0j0i7i30.RON_AgIiCGY&ei=g8_2XLzuLYPcapibt8AJ&bih=553&biw=375&client=safari&prmd=ivsn&hl=en-GB#imgrc=GgMm-dlAVD6whM

As long as cubicles I much prefer it to single sex facilities where you are expected to just get changed in front of people.

Helenluvsrob

To be honest it’s the visibility of eveyone in the pool being able to see what your doing that prevents assault you struggle to rig a Camara at pool side

No way. Increases the risk of sexual assault and excludes a lot of women.

Am I missing something? Nothing you have linked has shown a gym/swimming pool with mixed sex open plan or curtained changing rooms. All you have linked are pictures of changing rooms. I’ve not seen a curtained room for years as the curtains are unhygienic and harder to clean than a door. Mixed sex cubicle changing is great for families, and I wouldn’t whip my costume off in a single sex changing/shower anyway so makes no difference to me.

Our local pool has unisex changing cubicles with solid doors. Heavy curtained unisex changing rooms are fairly common in shops - usually with a staff member at the entrance.

Lots of schools have curtains as well

dodgeballchamp

Have you ever been sexually assaulted?

Maybe you have, and you've healed well enough that men being present where you're in a vulnerable state wouldn't bother you, but many women aren't as fortunate.