Nudity in Gym Locker Rooms.

[JR6ooo4]

Nudity is only a problem for those that make it a problem...

It is not like they are leaving a trail of something.

Mikeeee

 

[Loverly]

I belong to a similar facility-one of the top rated private clubs in America.
There are bathrooms for the kids using pool.

However-the locker rooms are adult only. No one under 14 allowed.

Our locker "room" is more like a spa. -sauna, steam room ,pool sized whirlpool, showers, and lots of hairdryers, mirrora etc. I would not be comfortable with any child in there-we walk nude from whirlpool to shower to locker all the time.

Your club needs to change its parameters

 

[DawnCt1]

Nudity is only a problem for those that make it a problem...

It is not like they are leaving a trail of something.

Mikeeee

I would prefer that they didn't sit on the bench however!

 

[SwedishMeatball]

Do you think it's more acceptable for the female form to be viewed nude?? I'm just wondering how many of the moms who take a casual attitude about exposing their sons to nude women, would feel the same about their husbands exposing their daughters to nude men.

 

[NHdisneylover]

Perhaps they respect the right of a parent to be uncomfortable sending a boy into the proper locker room alone and expect said parents to repect their right to treat the ladies' locker room as a ladies' locker room and not worry about being nude. It would seem to me the parents need to decide if they are more comfortable sending their boys into the mens room alone or risking exposing their boys to seeing a female body. In my opinion, boys old enough to stare or ogle should not be in the ladies' room. Period.

 

[CJMickeyMouse]

In the womens' lockerroom, I would expect there to be naked women. If I had a young son - I would find a gym with adequate facilities or make other arrangements.

 

[Darcy03231]

In the womens' lockerroom, I would expect there to be naked women. If I had a young son - I would find a gym with adequate facilities or make other arrangements.

I agree. Our gym is another that has banned children of the opposite gender from either the men's or women's locker rooms and have provided family locker rooms.

 

[mjkacmom]

Oh, sorry. I guess I was just wondering why moms do this when there IS an opportunity to use a family room.

FTR, the only people I've ever seen walk around naked at my gym are the little old ladies that come in for water aerobics.

Our Y has a family changing room - however, it's a single. You end up with a line of several families waiting for the room - it might take you a half hour just to get in! I finally let my 6 year old ds into the boys locker room, with strict instructions. I stopped taking them for swim lessons soon after.

 

[momto2girls]

Ick! I don't want to see anyone naked. It skeeves me out. I wish everyone would have a little more modesty and use the private changing rooms. But since they don't (and obviously it is their choice and my issue, not theirs), I just don't use the locker rooms. I live about 2 miles from my club so I just come home to shower.

 

[Ride Junkie]

Nudity is only a problem for those that make it a problem...
It is not like they are leaving a trail of something.
Mikeeee

Thanks for the visual!

Back when I belonged to a gym, I always got uncomfortable when women would walk around naked (and it usually WAS the old ladies after water aerobics!) I figure they could at least put some underwear on to step on the scale (and sit on the benches). I've always been very modest, and don't want strangers seeing me even in my chonies! So it always gave me the willies. But I don't recall ever seeing any kids in there.

 

[Claire L]

Wouldn't bother me but then in Europe nudity isn't such an issue (topless sunbathing etc.).

So very true.

Luckily my gym has a family changing area, my previous gym didn't but as long as the little boy was 5 or under it didn't worry me too much.

Claire

 

[Shutterbug]

Do you think it's more acceptable for the female form to be viewed nude?? I'm just wondering how many of the moms who take a casual attitude about exposing their sons to nude women, would feel the same about their husbands exposing their daughters to nude men.

Of course mom wouldnt like it if the husband did this. There is that double standard that exist that we have to follow.

 

[Shutterbug]

I always blow dry my hair while I'm naked. It feels weird to do it any other way. Maybe that's one reason they do it?

I have dated a few girls that also do this. After they shower they are naked while they do their hair, make up and etc. A couple of them said that it gives their body time to cool off after a hot shower. If they put their clothes on too soon that it causes the body to heat up and start to sweat a little. So they just didnt put any clothes on after the shower.

 

[shkeogh]

Pictures?

 

[LotsOfQuestions]

Wouldn't bother me but then in Europe nudity isn't such an issue (topless sunbathing etc.).

Americans do seem to be a bit more ummm... 'modest' than Europeans. Give me the openess of Europe any day.

 

[LotsOfQuestions]

I would agree except there is so much opportunity for privacy in this locker room. There are at least 6 showers with changing areas behind curtains, including a large handicap shower if one is "claustrophobic". The other thing is, these particular women do not seem to be making much of an effort to get dressed. I don't get that. I would want to send a five year old into the men's locker room. I don't know who is in there and if there is a problem, how do I retrieve him? There are other gyms in the town that seem more fitting for the 'strut your stuff' set. This just isn't one of them. They have nothing for kids to do, no pool, no reason to take them for an activity. Heck, this gym even has a "dress code".

Personally, I HATE when women use the showers just for changing. They are showers, not your personal changing room. Only 6 showers? If everybody uses those to change in, then the people who really want to take showers have to wait. And using the handicapped shower to change - pretty rude.

The locker room is there for changing. The showers are for showering.

If a parent chooses to bring a opposite-sex child into a locker room, then that parent should expect that the child is going to see some nudity. They have to base their comfort level on that. It is after all, a locker room.

I think it wrong to expect the other patrons to cover up because the parent is uncomfortable, but still chooses to bring their child in the locker room.

I could never walk around naked because I don't want to sicken anybody with my cellulite encrusted body, but I also am not so uptight that the human body makes me uncomfortable. I have no problem with other women walking around naked in a locker room.

If somebody wants to walk around naked in a changing room, it is a changing room and that is their privilege. As long as they get dressed before they exit the locker room, I don't see a problem.

 

[LotsOfQuestions]

Nudity is only a problem for those that make it a problem...

It is not like they are leaving a trail of something.

Mikeeee

 

[DISUNC]

Sounds silly I know, BUT, I go to a gym that has a broad base in terms of membership. They have tennis courts, a large pool, indoor track, etc. Because they have all of this "stuff", they attract a lot of families and have a lot of children's activities, swimming, games, birthday parties, etc. Most of these children are too young to use the gender appropriate locker room and accompany there mothers into the ladies locker room. The locker room is large. The individual shower stalls are large with plenty of room to change or at least put on basic underwear. Most women use the private changing area and dress behind the curtain. It never fails however that at least a couple of times a week, someone has to walk around naked and do just about everything before they bother to get dressed; get weighed, chat, blow dry their hair, etc. If it were just women in the locker room, that would be one thing, but often there are little boys. I can't understand why someone would want to remain in a state of "undress" with little boys around. The mothers do their best to keep their children separated but its hard when they are going from one area of the locker room to the other. I don't get it when it is completely unnecessary.

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Do you think it's more acceptable for the female form to be viewed nude?? I'm just wondering how many of the moms who take a casual attitude about exposing their sons to nude women, would feel the same about their husbands exposing their daughters to nude men.

Great point.

 

[themarquis]

It makes sense that some people are kind of personally weirded out by undressing in front of children of the opposite sex. I'm personally weirded out by undressing in front of almost anyone (or strangers, at least )and would prefer to never have to do it!

But it doesn't make sense to me that ... hmm ... how should I put it ... people seem to think of it as sort of "wrong" or gross or damaging in some way to be comfortably naked in front of others. (I actually kind of envy all those old ladies --- and why is it only old ladies?? -- who walk around completely butt nekkid, utterly comfortable in their own skin!)

I don't feel that there is anything wrong with a little boy seeing women's "tatas and bits" as one poster so eloquently put it. It's all perfectly natural It would seem that the moms who do bring their little boys into the women's locker rooms also feel the exact same way I do. Therefore, it doesn't seem like a problem that averting one's eyes couldn't solve, but maybe that's just me.

 

[Beth76]

Ick. I don't know why anyone needs to be walking around naked in a locker room, children present or not. I don't want to see it either. And it's usually the old women too.

My Y has a policy of no opposite sex children under the age of 5. But we only have two family changerooms. We usually have to wait for those after swim lessons.