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This is grim, yes?

455 replies

loveawineloveacrisp · 09/01/2025 13:50

Gym changing rooms. Woman sat butt naked on vinyl type benches while she rubbed body lotion in for about 10 mins. Bare arse and foof all over furniture which others are using. Put some knickers on ffs, I don't care if you're naked but please don't rub your lady bits all over the furniture 🤮

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TamborineGal · 09/01/2025 14:08

Minge Crime
Gym benches have seen so much bodily oozing action.

Iloveyoubut · 09/01/2025 14:09

loveawineloveacrisp · 09/01/2025 14:05

@SabreIsMyFave she was 70+

@ilovesooty I'm hardly going to approach her and say please take your fanny off the bench.

You could ask the gym to put up a ‘no bare fannies on the benches please’ sign 😂

Kbroughton · 09/01/2025 14:09

Iloveyoubut · 09/01/2025 14:05

I’m in my 50’s too and over the years I have noticed there is a certain ‘The Joy of Sex’ type who enjoys a performative prolonged bush/arse crack drying session, usually with one foot up on the bench. It’s definitely a thing.

In my gym its the younger fitter ones who walk about with hardly anything on! The older mum bods cover up.

Jellifer · 09/01/2025 14:11

I always used to think that when watching ‘Naked Attraction’. They used to interview the rejected contestants in the changing room, stark naked and sitting on the benches. Unnecessary!

Lifelover16 · 09/01/2025 14:12

ComtesseDeSpair · 09/01/2025 13:52

When you think of what gyms are used for and all the people who come in to use them for that purpose, it’s probably best just to let somebody fresh out of the shower but without underwear sitting on a bench slide tbh. It’s probably more hygienic than somebody in sweat-soaked leggings straight from their workout sitting there.

Edited

Best just let someone without underwear sitting on a bench slide???😂😂😂 Deliberate joke or Freudian slip (sic!)

ilovesooty · 09/01/2025 14:12

loveawineloveacrisp · 09/01/2025 14:05

@SabreIsMyFave she was 70+

@ilovesooty I'm hardly going to approach her and say please take your fanny off the bench.

You could have approached the staff and raised a concern about hygiene.

Iloveyoubut · 09/01/2025 14:12

Kbroughton · 09/01/2025 14:09

In my gym its the younger fitter ones who walk about with hardly anything on! The older mum bods cover up.

I think the vast majority of mum bods definitely cover up but there’s a subsection who perform. Yes I can see why the Instagram bodies would do that, just hopefully they’re not filming themselves with me trying to hide myself in the background!

ilovesooty · 09/01/2025 14:13

Iloveyoubut · 09/01/2025 14:09

You could ask the gym to put up a ‘no bare fannies on the benches please’ sign 😂

It doesn't have to be phrased like that but they could certainly address it.

Iloveyoubut · 09/01/2025 14:14

ilovesooty · 09/01/2025 14:12

You could have approached the staff and raised a concern about hygiene.

There is not a member of staff alive who is going up go up to a woman in a changing room and tell her to get her fud off the bench. No one is doing that!

Hoppinggreen · 09/01/2025 14:15

it’s probably best just to let somebody fresh out of the shower but without underwear sitting on a bench slide tbh

Am I the only one with a filthy mind?

Iloveyoubut · 09/01/2025 14:15

ilovesooty · 09/01/2025 14:13

It doesn't have to be phrased like that but they could certainly address it.

It was a joke. As you know. You don’t need to such the fun out of every thread.

Illinoise · 09/01/2025 14:15

Urgh grim! She could be dripping all over it 🤮

In my gym no one really walks around naked, people stand near their lockers and quickly change, as I do! I don’t hide behind a towel, so I’m completely naked at some points, but I’m quick and discrete about it. If I put lotion on, my underwear goes on first!

AD1509 · 09/01/2025 14:15

I posted something similar a while back about an older lady who enjoyed coming into the family changing bay every swimming lesson session, ignoring the many many empty bays, butt naked, one leg hoisted up on the bench E45ing herself head to toe- whilst giving all the waist height 5 year olds quite the eyeful. She also liked to follow up with a full body blow dry too, with foof blow out. I did have posters popping up to tell me I was being ageist….

SwingTheMonkey · 09/01/2025 14:16

Hoppinggreen · 09/01/2025 14:15

it’s probably best just to let somebody fresh out of the shower but without underwear sitting on a bench slide tbh

Am I the only one with a filthy mind?

I’m so disappointed with myself for missing that one…

ilovesooty · 09/01/2025 14:17

Iloveyoubut · 09/01/2025 14:14

There is not a member of staff alive who is going up go up to a woman in a changing room and tell her to get her fud off the bench. No one is doing that!

No one is suggesting that. Some kind of notice in the changing room about hygiene expectations could be put up though.

menopausalfart · 09/01/2025 14:19

Even at nudist functions, people sit on their towels. That's just grim. I wouldn't expect anyone to sit on my minge juice.

ilovesooty · 09/01/2025 14:19

Iloveyoubut · 09/01/2025 14:15

It was a joke. As you know. You don’t need to such the fun out of every thread.

So actually considering the situation seriously is sucking the fun out of every thread? Who gave you the right to tell me how to post?

Cattery · 09/01/2025 14:20

AD1509 · 09/01/2025 14:15

I posted something similar a while back about an older lady who enjoyed coming into the family changing bay every swimming lesson session, ignoring the many many empty bays, butt naked, one leg hoisted up on the bench E45ing herself head to toe- whilst giving all the waist height 5 year olds quite the eyeful. She also liked to follow up with a full body blow dry too, with foof blow out. I did have posters popping up to tell me I was being ageist….

Beyond grim. I don’t get it

pumpkinpillow · 09/01/2025 14:20

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I think walking about naked in the female changing rooms while you go about your drying business is fine.
It doesn't matter what age you are.
It doesn't matter what your pubic hair looks like.

Performative nudity - no need
Placing your naked arse/fanny on anything - no need

nb. I am over 50. I don't wander around naked as I have no need to, but I also wouldn't worry if I'd forgotten to take my towel into the shower and had to walk to the locker to get it.

You can still be ageist even if you are the age you are talking about.

Nc335799544 · 09/01/2025 14:21

Absolutely grim. Gym/fitness studio hygiene in general absolutely icks me out.

I do a lot of Yoga and have been dubious for a while over the hygiene of the studio-provided mats, despite the fact people are supposed to wipe them after use. Wanted to buy my own one of the same quality but the brand is very expensive so kept talking myself out of it. Walked into a class the other day and a woman with feet covered in massive verrucas was using one of the mats and that was my final straw, ordered the costly mat on my journey home! 🤢

ilovesooty · 09/01/2025 14:22

pumpkinpillow · 09/01/2025 14:20

I think walking about naked in the female changing rooms while you go about your drying business is fine.
It doesn't matter what age you are.
It doesn't matter what your pubic hair looks like.

Performative nudity - no need
Placing your naked arse/fanny on anything - no need

nb. I am over 50. I don't wander around naked as I have no need to, but I also wouldn't worry if I'd forgotten to take my towel into the shower and had to walk to the locker to get it.

You can still be ageist even if you are the age you are talking about.

Exactly.

devilspawn · 09/01/2025 14:23

TamborineGal · 09/01/2025 14:08

Minge Crime
Gym benches have seen so much bodily oozing action.

I read that as minge cringe 😂

devilspawn · 09/01/2025 14:24

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coxesorangepippin · 09/01/2025 14:26

I’m in my 50’s too and over the years I have noticed there is a certain ‘The Joy of Sex’ type

^

Lol

SharpOpalNewt · 09/01/2025 14:28

The worst one I went to for women parading about nude was the council one in Putney. Have never seen the like of it anywhere else. I don't mind brief nudity as you put your bra and pants on but it was like a nudist camp. Was only in my 20s at the time and most of the women were 20 or 30 years older. Now I am 20 or 30 years older I have lots of body confidence but still wouldn't go on like that. Too cold for starters.