Unwanted School PE Nudity

No big deal for me in open showers Jr High through college. Uniforms or standards were never required. On a side note, the Norwegians Women's Volleyball team was fined for wearing shorts versus bikini bottoms. I guess the ruling committee wants to keep it a Spectators Sport!!

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/norwegian-women-s-beach-handball-team-fined-not-playing-bikinis-n1274453

I went to my grand daughters sports day and I noticed the girls either wear knee length shorts or track suit bottoms. In my day it was your netball kit, short skirt and polo shirt and that was it.

The girls still wear netball type kit now, the school I went to have still got the same coloured short skirt and polo shirt just like when I was going there. They do not wear shorts or track suits.

My freshman year in high school (1981/82). Showers were mandatory. I went to an all boys Catholic high school my freshman year only. I remember the PE Teacher telling us that we have to shower after PE or the female teachers will quit.

These were open showers. No stalls. It was a little weird at first and some guys wore shorts in the showers for the first week or so. Everyone eventually got used to it and it was business as usual.

After my freshman year I went to public high school. Showers were not mandatory but all the guys took showers. They were the same open style showers as the other school. 95% of guys would shower and only about 25% of the girls did according to my wife.

And…What is Netball? Is that Volleyball or Basketball on the other side of the pond?

And…What is Netball? Is that Volleyball or Basketball on the other side of the pond?

No it it not those, it is a ladies' sport with nets a bit like basketball nets are but I do not think the game looks a lot like basketball really. You can only move when you have not got the ball so you have got to pass it to other players who are moving, and there are rules about needing to pass to somebody in the next third forward too. I was a goal strike (GS) or goal attack (GA) because I was always tall and better for shooting on goal.

So I definitely missed the golden age of PE showers, and am really thankful, as I was a very scrawny and shy kid, up to university. Becoming nude with the opposite sex has finally gotten me over it. As an adult I still wear a towel to/from the shower in the gym, not really embarrassed with seemingly strangers, but what if I met my boss or a co-worker? One of the pools I've started swimming at has the open wall shower, and I use them, begrudgingly, but hygiene wins out over shame.

Was reading some old class supply lists (from the 50's to the 90's) that someone had posted copies of, and some mentioned mandatory showers “with soap”

I got to see these class lists, as the topic was about class lists that mentioned athletic supporters being required for gym in various grades at various schools.

Was reading some old class supply lists (from the 50's to the 90's) that someone had posted copies of, and some mentioned mandatory showers “with soap”

Yeah, and we had to bring our own soap or if you're a mess Sgt. at Ft. Dix dressing down a KP: S O P E. I said soap you dumb son of a bitch, S O P E, soap!

Remember all these memories very well , it was a vest and skimpy shirts and bare feet it the p.e hall with a loud p.e teacher shouting at you and if you didn’t remember your shorts and vest you had to do it in your underpants that was so embarrassing as girls would look through the window

showers were particularly stressful time for me as I was very small fir mt age and timid and I used to be last to get in the showers I was small in the genital area too of course most noticed that and was teased ,think the p.e teacher was a bulky and quite sadistic many a time he would have a naked boy over his knee and spanking him with his own plimsole ,thankfully that didn’t happen to me but it’s funny how p.e and shower time was such an ordeal fir a lot of guys

I would nearly always have an erection by the time I got outta of the shower. The showers were the post type with maybe 4-5 showerheads. Sometimes my jock would be holding back on e as I got undressed . Sometimes it happened at the urinal and id try to let it go down, but it seemed to get harder the longer i waited. It was a trough urinal really couldn't hide it very well. Everybody was always looking at everybody else so there was no way to conceal them.

It was a shock when I started Junior High School where for the first time we had to change into gym uniforms, including a jockstrap, and shower after class in a big open shower room with shower heads along 3 walls, then dry off at the entrance and walk naked back into the change room to get dressed. Most of us, including myself, soon got used to seeing each other naked and it became no big deal except for a few boys who hadn't started into puberty yet who tried to keep turned away from the rest of us as they changed. Once I started High School it was no big deal to get changed and shower in front of everyone else as well as the next class who were just coming into the change room as our class was still getting dressed. The same for pool class where we had to shower before going into the pool, and after class when the next class was already changing into their swimsuits while we were just coming out of the pool and we had to share lockers as we got dressed and the next class got undressed and hung their clothes in the same lockers.

I didn't like changing for PE starting in 7th grade and showering afterward. But after a few times and seeing that my body was on par with the others allowed me to relax. Showers were enforced by the gym teacher. After class, we all had to strip down and line up at the entrance to the showers. The teacher would then walk through the changing areas to sweep up any stragglers and get them naked and in line. He'd then proceed to the shower room entrance. He'd unlock a closet which contained the valve that started water flowing to all the shower heads that lined the shower area. Boys were released to enter the shower room when space was available. He'd call out boys that spent too long and block a boy from leaving if they hadn't washed to his satisfaction. As you left the showers the teacher handed you a towel (also stored in that closet). When all boys had showered, the valve was closed and the closet door locked. He'd then station himself at the locker room exit. Your wet towel was your exit pass, which we threw into a big hamper.

Some boys tried hiding in the toilets, etc. to avoid showering and swipe a towel of another boy but the teacher had a good memory of who had showered or not. They were sent back to strip and wait again at the showers until everyone else had left. When the next class arrived to change, the teacher would turn on the showers for those caught cheating. They'd be very late for the next class, so boys only tried it once.

One other thing... You didn't want to be in the first group of boys to shower, the water started off cold. You didn't want to be toward the end either, the hot water would often run out leaving the last boys showering in tepid to cold water. The bigger boys would push the pip-squeak boys to the front or end of the line.

When I was a freshman in high school we had a different schedule then most schools around. Our school had 4 83 minute classes per day. So the PE classes lasted longer then other neighboring school districts. We had to take a full semester of PE our freshman year. Some of the class was health and book related and the other half was physical exercise and gym work. On the far end of our school were 2 gyms, 2 health classes(you spent half of your PE time in the classroom), a weigh lifting room with different weight lifting classes, 4 large locker rooms(2 for PE and class use - 1 male and 1 female), the other two locker rooms were for teams.

For 3 of the class periods during the day there would be freshman PE classes. Each class had 25 guys, and 25 ladies usually. On our first day everyone was asking if showers were required. They said no. But suiting up in the uniform daily was, when you went to the gym for the rest of the class. We would often be in the locker room with the weigh lifting class, which had guys who were in all 4 class ranges. The instructor of the weigh lifting class was also the head varsity basketball coach and pretty strict on his players and the kids in his classes.

If the guys in his class were the least bit sweaty he would tell them in a authoritative way that, "Showers are needed today gentleman!!!" Most of the guys always seemed to take a shower as we were changing at the end of our class. A few wouldn't take showers. But I do remember on one occasion his class had intense workout day, and he came in the locker room and told ALL of those guys, "Weights class!!! EVERYONE will shower today!!! Look at all of you. You will NOT go to the next glass this sweaty and dirty. Your expected to be a gentleman and present yourself as one after leaving this class today!!! No other teachers want dirty men in their room. NOW GET TO IT."

First class in 3rd year at Secondary we boys were made to stand up naked facing each other, hands behind our backs, legs apart in a square before going on to the shower room.

The teacher pointed out we all had the same and he didn’t want us to spend the year hiding our bodies. He went on to describe situations where nudity was normalised.

We had open showers before that, but that was the only time it was regulated in that way.

During my boyhood and adolescence in the 1950's and 1960's, nudity was fairly common in a few situations and not such a big deal to most lads. In high school, our locker room was a large open area with lockers and benches and an adjoining communal shower room. We changed in and out of our P.E. uniform together, going from street clothing to the mandatory gym tee shirt, short shorts and jock strap with sneakers and athletic socks. This uniform was mandatory and required all boys stripping off all their street clothes to change. Boys showered together and saw each other get an occasional whack for dawdling or fooling about on the bare bottom with a paddle from the P.E. teacher who supervised. This all came on the heals of changing and swimming naked with other boys at the local YMCA or at the river. It was all just part of growing up as a boy during those times.

For those over a certain age who attended school pre 1990s-2000 school showers would have been a fact of life at least once if not twice a week. Presumably Zitys youngest member would be amazed that such things were complusory.

Looking back I found trying to get dry afterwards more annoying than the shower itself.

Also those same people who experienced such showering rules, would have likely experienced some barechested lessons too (well the boys at least!) which again is unheard of now I presume.

I went to an all boys secondary school in the UK, from 1964 until 1968. At primary school the only showers were before and after our weekly swimming lesson at the local swimming pool. The secondary school was fairly newly built and had large communal showers with a seemingly unlimited supply of hot water in each of the Gyms.

I cycled around 4 miles to school everyday and if I was early enough would take a shower before the start of classes every morning. We also showered after every P.E. class, whether it was indoor or outdoor. There was a lot of horseplay in and around the showers and I do remember some boys being fairly shy about being naked, but there certainly weren't very many. I think I have posted somewhere on this site about being pushed out of the showers through a fire door and having to run around to the main entrance of the school to get back in.

The boys in my own age group were at varying stages of development, with some having body hair from the first day at school although most didn't develop any until the third year as for myself I didn't get any body hair at all until a couple of years after I left school. I can't remember feeling self conscious about it until I was maybe 17 when someone at a sports club I trained at asked me if I waxed. Until that point it hadn't even occurred to me that I was perhaps a late developer.

I ran track in middle school and high school. I don't really remember being shy about being naked in the showers or locker room past like the very first week.

It was a unique experience for me though, having always been exclusively attracted to girls rather than boys. I didn't try to conceal that fact, but I also didn't announce it to the world so I don't think anyone really even knew until maybe the last couple years of high school. I did enjoy the eye candy, and enjoyed the rare occasion where one of the other girls had some evidence of being spanked at home. The majority of the time they would try to hide it, as did I. That was the only real point of embarrassment for me but there were a couple of times where I didn't even attempt to hide it either because I just didn't care or because I was curious if anyone would say anything.

It was a bit of a different ball game when I went to basic training for the army. Many of those girls seemed really shy. You could tell who had been conditioned to the idea from doing sports in high school vs those who had never been in that type of environment before. Of course, the stress of that situation is enough to make anyone shy or nervous and understandably so. Most people adjusted to it pretty quick but we did have a few girls who really did try and wait til the rest of us where asleep in order to shower. They quickly learned that wasn't an optimal choice as it ate into your very limited sleep time. Everyone is so exhausted in the first couple of months that its not like anyone had the energy to be really looking or oogling anyway except for a couple of extremely neurotic and immature girls who ended up getting separated for SHARP eventually. Those types weed themselves out.

For those of out there that don't know military acronyms, SHARP stands for Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention Program.

Some time ago I saw on YouTube a video about PE at schools in the uk. I think it was 1980s TV programme. And there was a shower episode there. So I assume after pe showers were compulsory in uk in 1980s.

@Kulemh I went to school until the mid 1980s, and I can confirm that showers were compulsory after PE were required at my school. They were communal showers and we were required to strip and line up and wait for a shower to be available.

I was in secondary school during the 80s and we had to have compulsory showers after PE. This went on for 5 years from age around 11 to 16.

There was no privacy at all and the changing room had a large communal shower area at one end. After each PE session it was mandatory for you to strip naked at your changing room bench and then go and take a shower. It was quite a big deal as at that time everyone was a different stages of puberty and quite self conscious.

I can also add that is was much the same for girls in the UK in the 1960s !

I was at an all-boys British Public School in the 50s, and we had had nude swimming lessons every week. We were told that the boys had requested this at some time during the past, in order to avoid half the lesson disappearing in changing etc. However, the whole system fell into disrepute when they employed a pedophile as one of the gym/swimming masters. He was known in those days as a 'homo'. although today he would have been called gay. At the beginning and end of each term, all the boys were weighed and measured. They had to remove their gym shorts and gymshoes and jump on the scales Ably assisted by this master, let's call him 'Johnny' for want of anything better, who had a good feel round every boy's bottom as he did so. He slid his fingers down between the cheeks touching every boy's anus in the process. He called out the figures to the Head PT Master, who was sitting a few feet away, and who was aparrently totally ignorant as to what was going on. What an idiot.

Eventually, 'Johnny' was caught and suspended, at which point he went home and shot himself.

I will not name the school, but I can tell you that at least three of the boys who were there at the time subsequently bacame members of the House of Lords, two having been Ministers in the Government.

The Headmaster was a gormlous git, who knew nothing about anything, and the Head PT Master was either blind or stupid or both.

I was in secondary school during the 80s and we had to have compulsory showers after PE. This went on for 5 years from age around 11 to 16.

There was no privacy at all and the changing room had a large communal shower area at one end. After each PE session it was mandatory for you to strip naked at your changing room bench and then go and take a shower. It was quite a big deal as at that time everyone was a different stages of puberty and quite self conscious.

Almost the same in my case form when I was 7 till I was 12, for every swimmimg practice at my swimmimg club. We had to have compulsory showers before and after the swimmimg practice.

It was a long changing room with a comunal showers room at one end.

We also had to go naked to the showers and come back for changing.

The worst part was that my team practice was always in the same time with another swimmimg group of boys under 7 and the changing room was also full with moms, dads, babysitters and even older sisters who was present to help the small boys with their changing...

When I had that badluck to find a free bench just in the oposit part of that changing room, for me it was a long 20 - 30 meters of "walk of shame" till the showers and another one to be back in my bench spot. Just the sleepers was alowed in the showers room, because wasn't anything to hang a towel or bathrobe...

During this "walk of shame" sometimes we had to salute another know adult from our neighbours or we had to stand and listen some other instructions from our coach...

Sometimes a boy was spanked with a sleeper by our coach inside the showers room because some discipline isue or for his poor performance at the practice. It was just a few strokes but really soundly for everyone was present in the changing room... Some already red or welted butts was also possible to be seen inside the changing room or showers room... It was really embarrassing...

During this "walk of shame"

Where's the shame

if all others were doing the same?

ha ha ha

The worst part was that my team practice was always in the same time with another swimmimg group of boys under 7 and the changing room was also full with moms, dads, babysitters and even older sisters who was present to help the small boys with their changing...

When I had that badluck to find a free bench just in the oposit part of that changing room, for me it was a long 20 - 30 meters of "walk of shame" till the showers and another one to be back in my bench spot. Just the sleepers was alowed in the showers room, because wasn't anything to hang a towel or bathrobe...

During this "walk of shame" sometimes we had to salute another know adult from our neighbours or we had to stand and listen some other instructions from our coach...

When I was 18 in 2006, I also took swimming lessons in my senior high school years and afterwards, we shared the changing room with little boys and their dads who helped them change for the upcoming lesson.

One of the dads actually talked to me, since he saw me practicing bowling at our local alley. I'm an avid bowler to this day and quite capable. His son was also interested in bowling, so we always had some little small talk each week. I've grown out of the shame phase and his boy was too young for his, so it wasn't any bad for any of us. It would have been somewhat awkward though if some of the boys had brought their moms with them.

The worst part was that my team practice was always in the same time with another swimmimg group of boys under 7 and the changing room was also full with moms, dads, babysitters and even older sisters who was present to help the small boys with their changing...

@Jumbix , Oh dear ((( I can imagine embarrassment when an older sister was from a boy’s neighbourhood and what if that boy was recently spanked.

Jumbix - I can't imagine older brothers being allowed to attend a girls PE class to help a younger sister to change, it always seems to be the boys put at this disadvantage.

I can remember one occasion when a lot of noise was coming from the girls changing room next to the boys area. Our PE teacher (male) went to the connecting door between the boys and girls changing rooms, unlocked it, opened it and told them to keep the noise down. The screams from the other side when he opened the door I can still remember. I wasn't near the door so couldn't see in and it was over in seconds but they kept quiet after that.

I was always very uncomfortable changing and even more showering. I didn't like being seen naked or even able to see one else naked. It was always very uncomfortable, and now I now why being MtF transgender lesbian.