Locker Room Experience

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Lately, I have been out of town and have been going to L.A. Fitness for my workouts. The experience there has got me thinking about how the locker room experience has changed since I started going to the gym years ago. This experience was such an individualized experience. Although there were lots of guys in the locker room, I saw one penis, apart from my own. Everybody went to individualized showers either covered with a towel or with underwear on. They dressed in the shower, or one awkwardly put his tight boxer shorts on while he had a towel around his waist. I never talked to anyone, something I always do in the showers at the gym where I normally go. The loss that I suspect that we experience in such settings is the loss of male, communal, sexual energy that comes from guys being together in their rawness. Now I know that there have been problems with that energy, including misuse of women, or even gang rape. But I have often found that when I come home from an experience with men in their rawness I am really ready for sex, not with the men, frankly, but with my wife or myself. Also, I realize that I learned a lot about my male genitalia because of the rawer, communal locker room experience. It was the locker room where I learned about circumcision. I didn't know that some men weren't circumcised. And lately, the open experience helped me understand pubic shaving. I know there are reasons for this new approach to the locker room. But I think it brings a significant loss for men and male identity.
 
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I think it depends on what gym, what country etc... here in NYC the gym has become the center of the gay cruising world..
 

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I am not looking for that. What I am looking for is the locker room where men are who they are--straight or gay. I miss the male energy that comes out of men bonding with each other--a bonding that includes the rawness of the male body.
 

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I can share your sentiments. I went to secondary school in the UK in the 80s when communal showers were the rule, not just in my school but in almost all our away fixtures (apart from one, which was notorious. Imagine 50 sweaty pubescent boys queueing up for three shower cubicles!). I played a lot of sport so I was naked with my mates pretty much every day. It felt completely normal to us and, quite apart form the hygiene issue, was the best way of breaking down social barriers . One of my closest mates was from a single-mum family and lived in a small ex-council terraced house, while another lived mainly in a luxurious seven bedroom manor, when not in his holiday homes. I fell between these extremes, but the point is that in the showers it didn't matter; we were all stripped down and shorn of any pretence: you were revealed to be who you were. I think it's also unfortunate that young men now are not encouraged to take a proud but relaxed attitude to the own bodies.
 

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Okay, it's time to rename this site from Large Penis Support Group (LPSG) to Locker Room Support Group (LRSG).

Seriously, how many more threads on this subject before it's been done to death?
 
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hz, I guess you can feel very lucky that you don't have that apparent need/desire for locker room bonding that other men come to the site to express. Please continue to come with your experiences and POST the (different) things on your mind so men have something else to think about! :)
 

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Info request: I’ve found out I’ll be moving to NYC in the Summer. Can anyone suggest a gym in Manhattan that’s good for open showers. Would like to base myself near a good gym with gang showers. Thank you!

alternatively a large pool with open showers.