pole showers

incher8

Superior Member
Verified
Gold
Joined
Mar 31, 2019
Posts
137
Media
85
Likes
8,745
Points
388
Location
York (Pennsylvania, United States)
Verification
View
Sexuality
99% Straight, 1% Gay
Gender
Male
In high school, we had the pole showers. I know the sports teams used them. When I had gym, the guys that played football would regularly use them.
Never used them as a student but I used them once as a teacher. Was using a spray paint gun and the backfire got me bad. It was at night, so I knew nobody else was there.
 

navywill83

Admired Member
Joined
Mar 3, 2012
Posts
307
Media
0
Likes
906
Points
573
Sexuality
80% Gay, 20% Straight
Gender
Male
In elementary, junior high and high school, the showers were shower heads along the walls of the shower room.

When I went to college, most of the dorm had pole showers. My shy self that was just starting to come to terms of my sexuality was excited to try them out. Turns out that the dormitory I was assigned to was the only one (besides the big dorm that had private bathrooms) that didn't have pole showers. It was a smaller dorm and we had 4 shower stalls on our floor. I did get my shower pole excitement when I started doing to the college gym.

But the best shower poles were when I joined the YMCA. A few shower heads located on the walls, but most of the guys used the 4 shower poles. It was sad when they tore down that Y. The new one is stalls.

Ya, why the fu*k do the YMCAs keep converting open shower rooms to stalls? I’ve seen it happen to two recently. One in Texas from two open shower rooms with two men’s whirlpools into stalls only. Other one had wall open showers and they build stalls around them in NY.

I know they will say that it’s because of inappropriate behavior reports and that guys are asking for more privacy these days, but something has to stop this.

We should build a petition or something that demands for continued membership that they revert back the men’s locker rooms to a communal setting. That it’s healthier, builds community, and develops positive self-image that young men are so lacking in a fatherless world vs an insecure manhood. Get some MD to endorse it and even state that practically speaking these huge slabs of plastic for the stalls and rebuilds must be costly. Oh and that it’s easier to catch inappropriate behavior in an open room than behind closed stalls.
 
7

7775021

Guest
In elementary, junior high and high school, the showers were shower heads along the walls of the shower room.

When I went to college, most of the dorm had pole showers. My shy self that was just starting to come to terms of my sexuality was excited to try them out. Turns out that the dormitory I was assigned to was the only one (besides the big dorm that had private bathrooms) that didn't have pole showers. It was a smaller dorm and we had 4 shower stalls on our floor. I did get my shower pole excitement when I started doing to the college gym.

But the best shower poles were when I joined the YMCA. A few shower heads located on the walls, but most of the guys used the 4 shower poles. It was sad when they tore down that Y. The new one is stalls.

Society has this thing about shaming men and making us feel embarrassed about being naked or looking at others. Used to all be open bay showers, best way to build male confidence and see that all men are the same, just different sizes and shapes. I always try to be openly naked in group male settings, lockerroom, public showers, changing rooms. Have helped my sons and others to understand how important it is. Also, great to check out other guys in the showers.
 

navywill83

Admired Member
Joined
Mar 3, 2012
Posts
307
Media
0
Likes
906
Points
573
Sexuality
80% Gay, 20% Straight
Gender
Male
Society has this thing about shaming men and making us feel embarrassed about being naked or looking at others. Used to all be open bay showers, best way to build male confidence and see that all men are the same, just different sizes and shapes. I always try to be openly naked in group male settings, lockerroom, public showers, changing rooms. Have helped my sons and others to understand how important it is. Also, great to check out other guys in the showers.

So agree with you. I think open showers for me showed me that no guy has a perfect body. Ex. Even the hung guy had a huge birthmark on his ass or may be short. And in terms of penis size, you learn there will always be a guy w/a bigger cock and one w/a smaller cock than u. So many vital lessons learned in the space.

And for many young guys, it may be the only practical environment where one can openly speak and interact w/a dad aged man and compare w/his body.
 
7

7775021

Guest
So agree with you. I think open showers for me showed me that no guy has a perfect body. Ex. Even the hung guy had a huge birthmark on his ass or may be short. And in terms of penis size, you learn there will always be a guy w/a bigger cock and one w/a smaller cock than u. So many vital lessons learned in the space.

And for many young guys, it may be the only practical environment where one can openly speak and interact w/a dad aged man and compare w/his body.

We have to keep it all out in the open and normal. Too much of what guys see is online now which does not show variety or truth, it just breeds more self-consciousness for young guys. Seeing older men openly is the best way to be honest and hopefully ask honest questions about sexuality with out being shamed.
 
D

deleted15807

Guest
Seriously, what's so traumatic about showing the world your cock for a moment?

That’s what I can’t figure out. What the hell is so traumatic and life altering about it? Somewhere some neurotic guy or guys had a panic attack and managed to spread that neuroses. Now countless men have contracted the illness.
 

navywill83

Admired Member
Joined
Mar 3, 2012
Posts
307
Media
0
Likes
906
Points
573
Sexuality
80% Gay, 20% Straight
Gender
Male
I think it has to do with a late 1990s and onward obsession with personal space and privacy and coddling in society starting in the US. The ideas of that no one should ever have to feel an ounce of discomfort anywhere.

No showering after gym class because one guy might feel uncomfortable with his body and be shamed, urinals fully divided because your ‘privates’ are a sensitive body part no one should see without emotional preparation and permission. Even at my doctor’s office recently, my urologist-the penis and testes specialist doctor, left the room for me to simply pull my jeans and underwear down and then had me around a curtain to check my sack even though we were in a private room.

It’s ludicrous and what they think they are preventing is actually developing adults with no self identity or resilience. Adults who say they are triggered by everything and young men depressed about, say for example, their penis size or chest hair because they have never seen another nude man to realize they are perfectly normal.
 

WebMale80

Worshipped Member
Verified
Gold
Joined
Aug 7, 2017
Posts
598
Media
127
Likes
11,320
Points
413
Location
Chicago Loop, Illinois, United States of America
Verification
View
Sexuality
69% Gay, 31% Straight
Gender
Male
I haven’t seen a gang shower situation in years unfortunately. I got stiff a few times in high school after cross country practice. Never knew How guys could play cock tricks and slap other dudes butts together and not get totally excited But that was always too much for me. I could never keep it together as soon as someone looked at my dick
 

lovin_california

Expert Member
Joined
Aug 18, 2007
Posts
284
Media
0
Likes
111
Points
263
Location
San Jose (California, United States)
Sexuality
100% Straight, 0% Gay
Gender
Male
I haven’t seen a gang shower situation in years unfortunately. I got stiff a few times in high school after cross country practice. Never knew How guys could play cock tricks and slap other dudes butts together and not get totally excited But that was always too much for me. I could never keep it together as soon as someone looked at my dick

I couldn’t keep it together watching you either
 
  • Like
Reactions: aldawg and effedi7

cedarizzo

Superior Member
Joined
Apr 15, 2013
Posts
1,508
Media
34
Likes
6,579
Points
533
Location
Champaign, IL, USA
Sexuality
99% Gay, 1% Straight
Gender
Male
Ya, why the fu*k do the YMCAs keep converting open shower rooms to stalls? I’ve seen it happen to two recently. One in Texas from two open shower rooms with two men’s whirlpools into stalls only. Other one had wall open showers and they build stalls around them in NY.

I know they will say that it’s because of inappropriate behavior reports and that guys are asking for more privacy these days, but something has to stop this.

We should build a petition or something that demands for continued membership that they revert back the men’s locker rooms to a communal setting. That it’s healthier, builds community, and develops positive self-image that young men are so lacking in a fatherless world vs an insecure manhood. Get some MD to endorse it and even state that practically speaking these huge slabs of plastic for the stalls and rebuilds must be costly. Oh and that it’s easier to catch inappropriate behavior in an open room than behind closed stalls.
The old Y was in a run down building (because they saved their money for a new building instead of repairing the one they had). They built a new state-of-the-art building out in a newly built area full of McMansions and then after that opened, they sold the old building that was near the downtown area. That was a few years ago, but they recently tore down the old Y building. Lots of great memories.
 

Gj816

Mythical Member
Verified
Gold
Joined
Feb 13, 2017
Posts
7,278
Media
86
Likes
26,410
Points
333
Location
Nashville (Tennessee, United States)
Verification
View
Sexuality
90% Straight, 10% Gay
Gender
Male
We have pole showers at my work in the locker/ bathroom. No one ever uses it. The men I work with seem to be very insecure about nudity. They seem to be afraid that someone will see their dicks.

If during inclement weather I'm stuck at work over night. You can bet that I'll be using the shower. I normally take a shower in the morning whether I'm home or at the gym and one in the evening after work. If I'm unfortunate enough to be stuck at work I'll be taking a shower.