Hey, younger guys (18-27) please explain your generation's view of nudity

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http://www.lpsg.com/312288-the-locker-room-thread-part.html
Above is a thread that someone started about locker room ettiquette. Us "older guys" are sort of obsessed with the attitude of the current generation about nudity. We are going on-and-on about how y'all younger guys do the "towel dance," which means getting from clothes to the towel, and back again (after a shower, perhaps), without anyone seeing anything, namely, your penis.

One thing I can't figure out about your generation is as follows:

1. Y'all seem paranoid about others seeing you naked in the locker room, and yet....

2. Y'all are totally comfortable to upload nude pictures of yourselves (occasionally, fully nude with face included) and to text (or "sext") others pictures of your dicks.

I can't figure out how this generation is both more liberal and yet more conservative about nudity. It seems like the context has changed. The nudity, I guess, is less personal or something. Guys of my generation, and the generation before mine, were comfortable being naked together. The guys of the younger (18-27) generation are comfortable being naked -- alone, in front of a camera.
 

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Online or sexting is way less personal than an upfront confrontation, thus making it less awkward. The same principle goes with everything when it comes to online/texting and so on versus eye-to-eye. It's easier to be mean and yell out bullshit against a screen (pc, cellphone) than up in someones face.

Oh, and I usually don't toweldance, however if I notice an older guy looking at me and being "obsessed" as you put it, with trying to see me nude - hell yeah I'm going to try and hide myself from that nasty ass.
 

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I think it really is definied by the age group. I don't know about the population in general but I'm not particularly uncomfortable naked...big fan of skinny dipping. If i were in a locker room with other people who were comfortable naked I don't think I would have an issue but if there were a bunch I guys who weren't I think I'd probably follow suit. It could just be something that has fed on itself and cycled where the younger crowd isn't comfortable naked because the rest of them aren't.
 

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http://www.lpsg.com/312288-the-locker-room-thread-part.html
Above is a thread that someone started about locker room ettiquette. Us "older guys" are sort of obsessed with the attitude of the current generation about nudity. We are going on-and-on about how y'all younger guys do the "towel dance," which means getting from clothes to the towel, and back again (after a shower, perhaps), without anyone seeing anything, namely, your penis.

One thing I can't figure out about your generation is as follows:

1. Y'all seem paranoid about others seeing you naked in the locker room, and yet....

2. Y'all are totally comfortable to upload nude pictures of yourselves (occasionally, fully nude with face included) and to text (or "sext") others pictures of your dicks.

I can't figure out how this generation is both more liberal and yet more conservative about nudity. It seems like the context has changed. The nudity, I guess, is less personal or something. Guys of my generation, and the generation before mine, were comfortable being naked together. The guys of the younger (18-27) generation are comfortable being naked -- alone, in front of a camera.

I think it's because most guys are worried about getting a hard on form seeing what they like. Cock
 
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well the younger people such as I are feeling like its ok to do that.my theory is its because the cell phone and compters have gave us a larger look on the world and one day i think we will no even have to ware closes
 

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http://www.lpsg.com/312288-the-locker-room-thread-part.html
Above is a thread that someone started about locker room ettiquette. Us "older guys" are sort of obsessed with the attitude of the current generation about nudity. We are going on-and-on about how y'all younger guys do the "towel dance," which means getting from clothes to the towel, and back again (after a shower, perhaps), without anyone seeing anything, namely, your penis.

One thing I can't figure out about your generation is as follows:

1. Y'all seem paranoid about others seeing you naked in the locker room, and yet....

2. Y'all are totally comfortable to upload nude pictures of yourselves (occasionally, fully nude with face included) and to text (or "sext") others pictures of your dicks.

I can't figure out how this generation is both more liberal and yet more conservative about nudity. It seems like the context has changed. The nudity, I guess, is less personal or something. Guys of my generation, and the generation before mine, were comfortable being naked together. The guys of the younger (18-27) generation are comfortable being naked -- alone, in front of a camera.

You know you've asked this whilst having a link to 'young stud thread' in your sig, right?

I guess some guys get shy if the world can see everything.
 

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http://www.lpsg.com/312288-the-locker-room-thread-part.html
Above is a thread that someone started about locker room ettiquette. Us "older guys" are sort of obsessed with the attitude of the current generation about nudity. We are going on-and-on about how y'all younger guys do the "towel dance," which means getting from clothes to the towel, and back again (after a shower, perhaps), without anyone seeing anything, namely, your penis.

One thing I can't figure out about your generation is as follows:

1. Y'all seem paranoid about others seeing you naked in the locker room, and yet....

2. Y'all are totally comfortable to upload nude pictures of yourselves (occasionally, fully nude with face included) and to text (or "sext") others pictures of your dicks.

I can't figure out how this generation is both more liberal and yet more conservative about nudity. It seems like the context has changed. The nudity, I guess, is less personal or something. Guys of my generation, and the generation before mine, were comfortable being naked together. The guys of the younger (18-27) generation are comfortable being naked -- alone, in front of a camera.


easy answer, the young men you encounter in a typical locker room aren't the young men you see posting their cocks on the internet (in most cases). plus sexual arousal lowers inhibitions, so that when someone is in the mood to be exhibitionist they show it off, and when they aren't aroused (like after a work out or swim) they just want to go about their day without showing their junk to you and your creepy old friends.
 

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I think it’s easier for people to upload pictures of themselves online or through a text message because they’re not getting the reaction of the other person, really. I also think we’re still stuck in previous generations, where men don’t talk about penis with their friends out of fear of being called a homosexual. Sure, guys joke about it from time to time, but I would say it’s rare to actually sit down and discuss your penis concerns, compare with others, and experiment in a nonsexual way with other guys. Or at least it’s like that for the western culture. Many men also are insecure about their penis size too.


If I had it my way, I think nudity would be more open. If it's a hot summer night and I'm gaming with my buddies, why not get comfortable and let it all hang out? That doesn't mean something sexual or "gay" has to come out of it. In other words, it's a culture thing in my opinion.
 

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Oh, and I usually don't toweldance, however if I notice an older guy looking at me and being "obsessed" as you put it, with trying to see me nude - hell yeah I'm going to try and hide myself from that nasty ass.

Thanks for the response. But reread what I actually wrote. I didn't write that we are "obsessed" with seeing the younger generation naked. I wrote that we are "obsessed" with trying to understand the younger generation's seemingly contradictory attitude toward nudity -- and then I elaborated. And I use the term "obsessed" as a hyperbole, an exaggeration. And, by the way, we (the older guys) feel sorry for the younger generation -- one that has been reduced to feeling more comfortable with anonymous nudity, as you yourself have admitted here. Thanks.
 
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I think it's because most guys are worried about getting a hard on form seeing what they like. Cock

This is actually what someone wrote on the thread I link to at the start of this thread. For the older generation, you were accused of being gay if you DIDN'T want to get naked in the locker room. The logic being: if you were afraid to get nude, that meant you were afraid you'd get an erection, which would mean you're gay.
 

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You know you've asked this whilst having a link to 'young stud thread' in your sig, right?

I guess some guys get shy if the world can see everything.

Um. Yeah. And I have a link to the "fully body stud" list, AND pictures of my own cock. What's your point? And if the younger generation is shy about hte world seeing everything, then why post things on the Itnernet and why sext? In other words, thanks for the non-answer. lol :biggrin1:
 

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easy answer, the young men you encounter in a typical locker room aren't the young men you see posting their cocks on the internet (in most cases). plus sexual arousal lowers inhibitions, so that when someone is in the mood to be exhibitionist they show it off, and when they aren't aroused (like after a work out or swim) they just want to go about their day without showing their junk to you and your creepy old friends.

Finally, an actual answer. I suppose you'd think, though, that the guys who are comfortable sexting, etc., would also feel comfortable getting naked in the locker room.

I guess the next question would be, do you think there's a connection between these two factors?
 

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Evident from my gallery that I'd take nude pictures and upload them, though wouldn't let people I know see them and everyone on here are reasonably strangers that I'm unlikely ever to meet. I'd also probably hide myself in a locker room.

Can't entirely explain the logic behind this if there is any.
 

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Evident from my gallery that I'd take nude pictures and upload them, though wouldn't let people I know see them and everyone on here are reasonably strangers that I'm unlikely ever to meet. I'd also probably hide myself in a locker room.

Can't entirely explain the logic behind this if there is any.

Yes, it's a strange paradox. Intimate, and yet entirely anonymous. To be honest, dude, that's the essence of pornography. Your generation has easier access to pornography than any previous generation, thanks to the Internet. I wonder if this has anything to do with it. Thanks.
 

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This is actually what someone wrote on the thread I link to at the start of this thread. For the older generation, you were accused of being gay if you DIDN'T want to get naked in the locker room. The logic being: if you were afraid to get nude, that meant you were afraid you'd get an erection, which would mean you're gay.

I do not have a issue at all I feel comfortable nude as long as my foreskin covering the glans.
 

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I'm pretty young myself and personally i love going naked- whenever i'm at home alone i'm almost always naked. Also, in the change rooms everyone I know (including the 'towel dancers' themselves) drop it all when we shower together. In high school for sports the team would shower together after practice and we would pretty regularly pour soap on the ground in the shower and on each other to make a sort-of slip n' slide in the showers- all of us completely nude and fine with it. Now in the gyms that wouldn't happen but back then it wasn't uncommon to brush against other guys and sometimes even wrestle, naked and covered in slippery soap, and no one thought anything about it because we were all teammates.

I don't think our generations nudity can be defined as less personal but perhaps we are just comfortable nude in different places in ways, such as online which is an area almost completely run by young people who understand the technology.
 

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Thanks for the response. But you've kind of missed the essence of the question. The question wasn't "Why isn't the younger generation comfortable with strangers oggling them?" The quesiton was, "Why isn't the younger generation as comfortable with nudity as the older generation?" This issue is humorously exemplified in the enclosed cartoon.

I attend a gym with many young men. We are NOT strangers at all. We have a bond with each other based on the fact that we see each other in the gym all the time, and have for the past few years. And yet the locker room at this gym is virtually un-used. There are showers, but they are private showers -- and virtually no one uses them. This is a huge cultural shift from what I knew -- and I am only roughly ten years older than these younger bros of mine (and that's the way I feel toward them, and they toward me). And yet I get a sense that they are terribly self-conscious with their bodies, in a way that my generation was not. We used to strut around naked in the locker room; this generation struts around naked -- online, or on the cell phone. I don't get it. That's why I asked.


given the feedback young nekkid dudes get online from random strangers.. i can see how being nekkid in a room full of random strangers might cause them to think twice about what is on display.
 

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I think it really is definied by the age group. I don't know about the population in general but I'm not particularly uncomfortable naked...big fan of skinny dipping. If i were in a locker room with other people who were comfortable naked I don't think I would have an issue but if there were a bunch I guys who weren't I think I'd probably follow suit. It could just be something that has fed on itself and cycled where the younger crowd isn't comfortable naked because the rest of them aren't.

Really think you are on to something. I have seen time and time again groups of guys that are uncomfortable being nude with eachother/locker room, but the moment one guy takes a leader role and shows himself as being comfortable nude then the others follow and everyone gets naked.
 

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Finally, an actual answer. I suppose you'd think, though, that the guys who are comfortable sexting, etc., would also feel comfortable getting naked in the locker room.

I guess the next question would be, do you think there's a connection between these two factors?

I would say that many of them are. Some guys, who would normally be more inhibited, lose that when they are horny. I don't think the two are connected directly, but I do think there are reasons for the generational aspect. I was in the Army for years so I'm used to showering with other guys, but unless you played sports in high school, many guys in our generation didn't grow up showering with other guys. Unless you are an exhibitionist, it is a little having your "private parts" be seen by strangers -at least in a culture that is pretty emphatic about keeping them covered in public at all other times. You have to do it a few times to get used to it. There are less PE classes required by schools than in the past, therefore less young guys are accustomed to it.

On the other hand are generation grew up with the internet. I remember my family getting the internet and I was on it all of five seconds before searching for "naked women". Most of my friends have similar stories. Our phones take pictures so you always have a camera present, and when you're a teenager you're always horny. So a lot of guys send girls dick pics and get boobs in return growing up. Now they are adults and have no problem being digital exhibitionist because they were socialized that way. It's not really a question of anonymity. I don't put pictures on this site, but I have sent a few to female members I was exchanging flirtatious messages with and many of my former girlfriends, as well as the current one, have received dick pics from me over the phone. The girlfriends get to see my face.
 

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That's interesting. I hadn't taken that into account. In my education, I actually took PE classes that REQUIRED that you showered naked in communal showers after class. The justification was that it was teaching you personal hygiene, you know, that you needed to be clean. I always thought that was a lame justification, but that was that. I had to shower with the other guys if I wanted to pass the class.

I guess this sort of thing isn't required for the younger generation. And, to be honest, maybe, just maybe, it's not such a bad thing. To be honest, I think it was kind of traumatic for all of us to have to get naked together like that.

I would say that many of them are. Some guys, who would normally be more inhibited, lose that when they are horny. I don't think the two are connected directly, but I do think there are reasons for the generational aspect. I was in the Army for years so I'm used to showering with other guys, but unless you played sports in high school, many guys in our generation didn't grow up showering with other guys. Unless you are an exhibitionist, it is a little having your "private parts" be seen by strangers -at least in a culture that is pretty emphatic about keeping them covered in public at all other times. You have to do it a few times to get used to it. There are less PE classes required by schools than in the past, therefore less young guys are accustomed to it.

On the other hand are generation grew up with the internet. I remember my family getting the internet and I was on it all of five seconds before searching for "naked women". Most of my friends have similar stories. Our phones take pictures so you always have a camera present, and when you're a teenager you're always horny. So a lot of guys send girls dick pics and get boobs in return growing up. Now they are adults and have no problem being digital exhibitionist because they were socialized that way. It's not really a question of anonymity. I don't put pictures on this site, but I have sent a few to female members I was exchanging flirtatious messages with and many of my former girlfriends, as well as the current one, have received dick pics from me over the phone. The girlfriends get to see my face.