locker room layout and privacy

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I've always believed changing while keeping the towel on
is a way of these guys sending an unspoken message:

"I'M STRAIGHT".

Here's my unspoken response:

"WHO CARES. My seeing your dick is not going to turn
you gay, dude. If anything, keeping your towel on causes
me to believe you've got a teeney-weenie and you're
embarrassed to reveal it."
 

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based on the layout of the locker room and showers at your gym how much privacy do you have for changing and showering?

The club where I go is a fairly old building. Everything is built in a very open layout. Which is the way I like it. All lockers, showers, urinals, everything is visible from every where else.
 

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Everything is partitioned and private. The only thing that is public is the benches. There are lockers to keep your things in, partitions between the urinals, and shower curtains on every shower. You don't see anything.
 

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I would say curtains are the way to go, both from a customer and management point of view. Customer has privacy (if they want it), management can change/clean them easily and cheaply.

And keeping one's towel on does not mean they have a small penis. They probably, like most folks, don't want their genitalia compared with others. Nothing wrong with keeping private things private, IMHO.
 

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I would say curtains are the way to go, both from a customer and management point of view. Customer has privacy (if they want it), management can change/clean them easily and cheaply.

And keeping one's towel on does not mean they have a small penis. They probably, like most folks, don't want their genitalia compared with others. Nothing wrong with keeping private things private, IMHO.

well said.
 

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I find the mix configurations (stalls in addition to a gang shower) strange. Almost as if managment is tring to cater to all. Privacy for thoes who want it and publicity for thoes who don't.

I will say one thing about stalls. There are two men at my gym whom I've cut off due to excessively creepy leering. It would be great to have a stall to duck into should one of them be lurking in the gang shower.
 

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The club where I go is a fairly old building. Everything is built in a very open layout. Which is the way I like it. All lockers, showers, urinals, everything is visible from every where else.

Why do you think older lockroom layouts were more communal and newer ones are all about privacy? I like the open layouts myself. Why do men feel they need to hide themselves from other men these days?

I wonder what lockerrooms are like in other countries like Germany, France, or Japan. Any foreign members here that can tell us?
 

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Why do you think older lockroom layouts were more communal and newer ones are all about privacy? I like the open layouts myself. Why do men feel they need to hide themselves from other men these days?

I wonder what lockerrooms are like in other countries like Germany, France, or Japan. Any foreign members here that can tell us?


Us Europeans tend to be more relaxed about nudity with open showers and open locker rooms. Scandinavia tends to be the most relaxed I have found - guys generally no hang ups about walking around naked, showers always open - went to one facility where the sauna overlooked the showers ... great views of big Danish cocks!

Younger guys do tend to be more prudish - I swim at a Uni pool and although the showers are open I find it is generally us guys who are not 18-21 who strip off - the young guys stick their hand down their shorts to wash themselves ... yuk!
 

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I would say curtains are the way to go, both from a customer and management point of view. Customer has privacy (if they want it), management can change/clean them easily and cheaply.

And keeping one's towel on does not mean they have a small penis. They probably, like most folks, don't want their genitalia compared with others. Nothing wrong with keeping private things private, IMHO.

No it does not mean that because I have seen a few who have "slipped" but the perception is that they are under-endowed. By gay and str8 alike. Its childish and puritanical, get over it people.
 

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A lot of the younger guys modesty comes from our culture. We are teaching our boys from elementary school and on that grown men are predators. And if any adult guy sees a minor in the nude, then that is automatically a molestation issue.

It is bad enough that I have heard adults saying that on field trips with elementary children, a mother should be put in the room with 10 to 12 year old boys at the motel and not men. Men can't be trusted, not even the fathers of the boys. Teen boys are not allowed to change diapers in the church nursery because that males are sex predators and girls are not.

So with this type of message being sent to the boys and teen guys, it is no wonder that they are extremely private anywhere and will hold their urine in pain rather than pee at a public urinal with no privacy stalls.
 

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Why we talking about being in lockerrooms here all the time? :confused: I think the gyms should have regular showers for us and little stalls for shy people. Put more showers in the open so we don't have to wait to use the damn shower. I shouldn't be waiting for this because you are too shy!!!:cool:
 

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All the gyms I've been to have the showers segretated, either by a wrap around shower curtain, glass dividing walls that have frosted glass or are set up to look like toilet stalls but with the shower head and taps instead of the loo itself.
I mean, I am not well hung extremely, but to me all this hiding around only appears to heighten a bloke's sense of insecurity about his size rather than relieve it by hiding it. So I just shower buck naked after soccer practice with the rest of the team and, although there is ribbing how In am not the most well hung like Davo or Barry are, it is never malicious and is all in good natured, bonding type fare. In fact, the showers at my local soccer club were kept in the old style american 'gang shower' set up even though some of the teenage members wanted to change it to the toilet block/glass wall set up. The coach simply said the expense was not needed for an already struggling local club and that, rightly, we were men and that nudity in the locker room should be a non issue and should be embraced.
Out of curiousity, I have noticed in many european and canadian movies, that when they do show the locker room shower scenes it appears that many still have the gang shower ( you know, the pole with six shower heads attatched at the top and you all basically have to huddle together to use it ) or are pretty much open air types with no dividing walls. To me this is a great initiative as it forces guys who are shy about nudity to just get over it and enjoy the experience, and also to accept that, in the locker room at least, there are no secrets amongst your fellow blokes. Even on the cock and balls level.
 

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"--get over it and enjoy the experience...in the locker room at least, there are no secrets amongst your fellow blokes. Even on the cock and balls level."

Good point you making here, WellHung!
 

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I dont go to a gym regularly (see my photos... LOL). and most i have been in seem very concerned with privacy.

But I was on a business trip a while back and stayed in a hotel for a week. It had a small gym. And a sauna and steam room in the men's locker room. This smaller locker room had no privacy at all, and open showers. Since it was a hotel up in the wintery north, I didn't have a bathing suit or anything with me, so I used a steam room/sauna nude for the first time. (30 yo here). And found that every night I was down there, several other guests were using it as well. Most were nude also, for the same reason I guess.

Anyway, to the point of my post! It was actually an interesting expirience, given that size is a preoccupation of my fantasy life. I was very surprised to find that A LOT of the men looks not only smaller than me but VERY tiny. It seems the nubby-shrivelled dick is much more common on a guy than society or porn leads us to believe. Even some of the guys who were pretty fit had tiny dicks. I would say that mine was about like what most of the non-tiny guys had. (In the heat of the sauna and steam room, it had nice hang with no shrivel.) And I really felt, i dont know, manly about the whole expirience. Like I was a regular guy, and not particularly small like I thought in hs or college. I think, out of the nights I was down there and the number of guys I saw (probably about twelve), only 2 were obviously bigger. And a good 5 were obviously smaller. With the rest pretty much the same.

Anyway, i thought this might be an interesting expirience in terms of how different layouts make a guy feel. But, now that I've written a freakin long post, maybe it wasn't as on topic as I thought. Might post it under a new thread.

But what do you guys think of this expirience?
 

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Great story!
I can imagine the nice feeling it must have been for you, knowing these tiny dicked guys just wished they had real cocks like yours. I think many guys who have average or even bigger cocks, still think they are too small and when they have an experience like yours, they can finally stop worrying and start enjoying life instead, knowing they are men enough to attract women and gay men.
I can also imagine how it felt for the small dicked guys, who had to sit there and feel inferior, knowing everybody could see their lack of manhood. That might be painful for them the first time, but I know from my own experience that when we accept that we can never be as manly or sexually attractive, we will start to admire men with real cocks and be happy to know what a great sex life they can have.
Both in schools and gyms the showers should be open, the sooner guys learn about their size, the sooner they will learn either to be proud, as real men or to accept that they are tiny dicks.
I have accepted my inferiority and for men who didn't have the shower or sauna experience (and for men who did), add me at small3.5@hotmail.com and feel free to say what you want about my 3.5" dick and be happy you have a real cock instead of my babydick.