Nudity & authority

Does anyone outside of the physicians room feel intimidated by being naked in front of someone in authority who is clothed. It used to happen at boarding school if the teachers supervised the showers. The worst time was coming out of the shower before you could get a towel to cover up and they would ask a question. I have never forgotten how embarrassed it made me feel.

Yes... I was always concerned when I was in the school change rooms. Was always a male teacher, with all the boys class there with me... but for some reason, I was worried that I was somehow different.

Was always covering those parts, especially when the teacher was closer.

When I'm nude in an exam room, I don't remember ever really feeling intimidated. It's usually more a feeling of embarrassment and vulnerability.

However, back when I was in high school, there were times when intimidated would have been the right word to describe my feelings. I played team sports all four years of H.S., so being nude in the locker room and showers after practice or a game wasn't any big deal. The coaches would routinely wander in and out of the locker room and might observe us while dressing or showering but that was all OK. However, I also had to take regular physical education classes, and for some reason I sometimes felt intimidated in those, especially my first year in school. The P.E. teachers would always stay in the locker room when we were dressing before and after class. They wouldn't just wander in and out, but they made it a point to stay there and actively observe us. That also applied to the mandatory showers after class. They were usually right there, standing just outside the actual showers in a large adjoining room where we would be handed a towel and dry off. I'm guessing the P.E. teachers took a more active role in monitoring us since it was a larger group of disorganized and unmotivated boys rather than a team.

And as I've written about before, I had group sports physicals all four years of H.S. Those were very embarrassing but also intimidating to some degree, especially the first year when I didn't really know what to expect. We weren't totally nude the entire time for those, we wore our jockstraps. But those were removed for the final part of the exam, and coaches and some other school personnel in authority were present and observed the whole thing.

I found the same when I was in the forces, absolutely no privacy, and the instructors would often stand in front of the group shower. Worst was when one of the M.O.s who was a woman would wander into the barrack block at any time.

Sometimes it was after sport and you would be changing after a shower and she would come up and inquire how you were. Standing there naked in front of a very attractive woman was no mean fea, and it felt so odd her being fully clothed.

Only everytime I go to the gyno.

When I was twelve years old, I attended a summer day camp at my local Catholic Youth Center. There was another camper who didn't get along with me. One day, after swim class, we ended up getting into a fight. The instructors didn't want us in the locker room at the same time. We had to go one at a time accompanied by an instructor. When it was my turn to change, I was accompanied by Miss Cathy. She was an attractive blond in her early thirties, slim figure, above average breasts. She took a seat on the bench and instructed me to change. I was very apprehensive about changing in front of her. She kept her eyes fixated on me which added to my trepidation. "You don't have anything that I haven't seen before," she chided. I began to feel a tingling sensation in my genitals. Surely, I wasn't going to become erect prior to having to denude. My penis began to swell until it was fully erect. I struggled to pull my swim shorts over my erection. It popped out, standing at attention. I shifted my hips away in an attempt to hide my throbbing manhood. "You don't have anything to be ashamed of, it's perfectly natural," she assured. She smiled and her brown eyes remained fixated on me. I barely toweled off and rushed to pull my underwear up over my erection. My wet body made the underwear cling to my throbbing manhood. I quickly finished dressing and alerted her that I was ready to have her escort me to the head counselor's office. She replied, "This wouldn't have happened had you not gotten into a fight." Both myself and the other camper were immediately barred from attending the camp, but I'll always have my memory of being nude in front of Miss Cathy.

Like Aussie38 I would hide from view.

But I was in the minority being uncircumcised. In fact I was one of only two in my year group of 100 not circumcised and having a large foreskin I received a lot of bullying. I hid from view all the time for fear of another round of abuse. Roundheads verses cavaliers stuff. Stupid really. Now its come full circle and some circed guys want their foreskins back.

Never embarrassed. I discovered social nudity and also discovered I had a exhibitionist streak in me.

No problem being undressed for any medical procedure.

After my first flex-sig procedure, the pretty young nurse stayed in the treatment room and casually chatted with me while I dressed.

I didn't hurry and made no attempt to conceal myself from her. She got the eyeful she desired and I got the thrill of letting her look.

I think that the nudist streak has always been in me to some degree, so I cannot recall ever feeling intimidated or uncomfortable when anyone with clothing on ever saw me nude. In fact if they looked at me while I was naked I just looked right back at them often imagining what they looked like without their clothing on.

As a young girl, the sea, my mother and my grandmother did not make me wear a bra, because, according to them, I had nothing to hide. I felt very ashamed to see the other girls who took him.

The worst time was coming out of the shower before you could get a towel to cover up and they would ask a question. I have never forgotten how embarrassed it made me feel.

I haven't had any situations like this. However, my colleagues talked about such situations at summer camps. It was normal for boys to be supervised while taking a shower. The boys were pre-pubescent, but there were also those who were starting to mature. Their showers were supervised by female teachers. This was normal in those days. The teacher was leading a group of boys to the showers. Then she asked them to strip naked and wash themselves. Some boys protested at first. But the teacher forced him to obey her orders. One of my friends said that the teacher who took them to shower had the greatest respect and authority. The fact that she saw them naked aroused respect in the boys.

The boys were pre-pubescent, but there were also those who were starting to mature. Their showers were supervised by female teachers. This was normal in those days. The teacher was leading a group of boys to the showers. Then she asked them to strip naked and wash themselves.

In which country was it? I had a similar experience in summer camps in former USSR.

When I play I’m usually dressed and my play partner isn’t. The obvious differentiation in authority isn’t lost on most people even folks who attend nude beaches because of the intimate private setting.

When instructed to disrobe right away some folks look at me in a bit of shock, I look back with a disinterested look and perhaps say now.

With a shrug and eyes that never meet mine the instruction is complied with.

When we’re doing enemas or playing doctor nudity is required.

For the patient.

When I play I’m ...

How do you play? in person? Than must be very intimidating

Absolutely. I have always felt ashamed, intimidated, and very vulnerable when I am ordered to strip and stand naked in front of clothed people. Especially Dominants. There is no doubt in my mind who has the power and control. Clothed = Authority.

Absolutely. I have always felt ashamed, intimidated ...

Was it in real life?

In which country was it? I had a similar experience in summer camps in former USSR.

It was in Poland at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s. I heard this from many people, so it wasn't lies. However, young people in Poland at that time were quite shy. Despite this, she was forced to shower under supervision. I don't know how much initiative the teachers had in this. How much of it was necessity and how much was about showing his power.

We had supervised showers at school by both male and female staff. I got used to it, but it was embarrassing when a new member of staff saw you. We had to line up waiting our turn to go under the shower and could be seen both in the queue and whilst in the shower.

Being awfully shy, I can barely make steadfast eye contact with someone, nevermind having to be completely naked in front of a clothed, authoritative figure! Everytime I go to the gynecologist, exposing my breasts to them and then comes spreading my legs in those stirrups and exposing my vagina as they spread my labia apart....it's utterly embarrassing and I tense up most everytime 🫣. What is it that goes on in my mind in those moments? Maybe I feel a bit ashamed for being so exposed, or maybe it's feeling vulnerable. The latter is most keenly felt as, even in sharing very intimate thoughts with another at the risk of being vulnerable....is terrifying. It's the thought that maybe they'll find something wrong with me or even they have full visual access that I don't want them to have. They'll find me repulsive in some capacity, or maybe they are just creepy and, and there's no escape or turning back from that.

So, back to being completely naked in front of a clothed authority figure, where I cannot hide my body...the areas of me that maybe I am self conscious about, that are now at the said clothed person's full discretion and view. In a play exam, it can be fun because even though I'm nervous, I've asked for this. It's my choice to be exposed and at the doctor’s mercy and that's what gives me a rush in medical play!

I have roamed around naked for as long as I can remember. It is not a sexual thing or something I feel embarrassed over. So no.

I have noticed my nudity makes others feel embarrassed and uncomfortable.

I have roamed around naked for as long as I can remember. It is not a sexual thing or something I feel embarrassed over. So no.

I have noticed my nudity makes others feel embarrassed and uncomfortable.

I am going to guess that many members here would not be embarrassed or uncomfortable ... ha ha

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I am going to guess that many members here would not be embarrassed or uncomfortable ... ha ha

I would hope not. I am aggressive but very playful. Like a rabid kitten.

I used to be, called showering after gym class, I was very insecure about my body and the gym teacher would stand in the doorway of the shower room and watch us all. If any of the girls tried to surround themselves with a towel, she would walk in there and rip it off of them.

Now days I probably wouldn't care

the gym teacher would stand in the doorway of the shower room and watch us all. If any of the girls tried to surround themselves with a towel, she would walk in there and rip it off of them.

I hear that (gym) teachers aren't very highly paid. So maybe they considered such antics part of the compensation owed?

Not sure I would class it as feeling intimidated (much more embarrassing), but I also experienced the forced showers at school, which were supervised by teachers. For me, due to my early puberty, I got a lot of unwanted attention (mainly from the boys who were curious about my difference and "what I was doing when I became hard"); particularly in situations where nudity was required. Having the teachers supervising changing & showering was very embarrassing as they seemed (to me) to watch me most of the time. It did, however, help reduce the opportunities for any unwanted attention from the other boys - particularly when I became erect in the shower.

I find it exciting and intimidating, it was always that sort of mixed emotion when naked with a fully clothed guy such as as others have mentioned a games / PE teacher

I remember those days too @Lookslikebetty . I was so self conscious that I refused to take a shower or even undress. I think I was the only one in gym class who got a 0 (that's a zero) in gym over and over. It was a good thing I liked English which carried me to graduation. Like you, though, times sure have changed.

BTW, welcome to Zity.

I practically grew up in boarding schools, from age of 6 till 15. Being naked in a presence of clothed adult was something normal and not intimidating. And in general, being naked in showers or changing room is something that I don't even notice.

However, when I in BDSM settings, being naked has special meaning, makes me feel more submissive.

When I was in the 8th grade the Principle/8th grade teacher, a nun, would sometimes come into the locker room after football practice when we were showering. The coach once told her she really should not come in and she replied, "oh these are just my little boys" where he came back and said"they are boys but not little boys! "