Level of undress in male locker rooms.

Since this question is asked for the women. Men what is your state of undressing in a gym locker/showers? I'm not sure on everybody's gym I don't have a problem being naked I don't want to be the only guy in the room changing naked. Of course I'm not for changing. But for showers I take everything off cover up with towel on since people are too modest don't want to offend people being naked. It's almost impossible putting clothes back on while redressing so I just take off towel quickly put on. I'm not keeping score but the few years I've been going to the gym I can't even count a hand on how many people I see naked. I don't see what the deal is it's a locker room. What are you're all expierences?

If I need to naked in the locker room I get naked. I don't bother with a towel to and from showers. Nudity is appropriate in locker room. People are to sensitive, if they don't want to see my junk just don't look down.

It has been quite some years since I was in a communal changing room (UK term for Locker Room). My main experience as an adult was during the 1970's through to the mid 1990's when I still played team sport, mostly when we had various teams in my place of employment.

In those days we more often than not would use school changing rooms, which were much as they had been when I was a secondary school pupil back in the 1960's. Some times we would have to use the girl students changing rooms and they were somewhat different, mainly in the shower provision. The boys were usually a communal unit separate from the changing area by a three quarter height wall whereas the girls were individual units with a light plastic screen for a little privacy during showering.

On every occasion we guys would just strip off as a group, walk around chatting and shower. We would all dry off in front of each other without a problem, just as we did when we were kids at school after P.E./ Games lessons. Don't ever remember going out of our way to check other guys out. I was always confident in such circumstances not because I had a big penis, it's normal size as far as I know, but I am happy with how I looked and look now.

What I've seen is a mix of guys who wrap a towel around their waist and those who either carry it or throw it over their shoulder. I usually carried it on my way to the shower and some times I wrapped it around my waist o the way back, not sure - maybe just habit. In the steam room or sauna I either wrapped a towel around my waist or sat on a towel for sanitary purposes.

This is an issue? From junior high on I've been in PE, varsity athletics, & gyms, pools Everyone changes, gets naked, showers. Some guys like to wear a towel, some don't. In Hungary they have big baths--200 naked men. Some wear a tiny apron over the front. I was told in the women's side a few wear aprons too.

Never wrap the towel around my waist. I have nothing to hide and have an all over tan. It’s 50/50 deal at the gym. Some guys use the towel before the shorts are dropped and again until a clean pair are put on.

Nobody gets naked at my gym. I wouldn't mind doing it but don't want to be the only guy making it wierd to do it. Younger generation is too shy.

They couldn't handle the old man levels of don't give a shit that I have seen before. It's all fun and games until grandpa is blow drying his balls at the sink next to your while you brush your teeth and try not to see it in the mirror.

I've never cared much about the show I was putting on. I don't linger around naked, but I just get my business done and leave.

I find it interesting that in Germany, when I've gone to the gym and sauna, they have separate changing rooms for men and women, but then everyone goes to the same sauna and sits there naked on towels together.

The gym that me, my big brother, and a couple of friends go to, we just strip naked at our lockers when we've finished working out and carry our towels in our hands and stick them on a chair next to the showers - there's a rule that you can't walk back to your locker after showering while still wet. The showers, there's six cubicles and six shower heads on the wall in a communal area. We all just take showers in the communal area, none of us are bothered about seeing each other naked. When we've dried off, we just walk back to our lockers without putting a towel round our waist or anything like that - it's not a case of showing off or anything, it's just we're in a changing room and who cares about seeing anyone else naked there?

When I used to go to the gym before I started having all of these knee issues, I used a work out center at the office complex my husband worked at. He would lend me the keyfob so I could get access inside. The changing room wasn't big, it only had 2 shower stalls and they were sectioned off by a curtain. It also wasnt heavy traffic, especially on the weekends when I would go, so there was absolutely no problem getting completely naked in here. Of course even if other guys were present, I still would undress to change clothes and shower. I even ran into my husband's supervisor a couple times, and have been naked in front of him.

When I’m in a gym locker room I undress completely and then wrap myself with a towel for a quick rinse in the shower and then head to the steam room. Most guys do the same thing. The only guys I’ve noticed that don’t just undress completely are the few gym members that are in high school. The high schoolers tend to either change under their towel or they never remove their underwear and even shower and enter the steam room wearing their underwear which I find odd. I’m in my mid-twenties and it seems like 95% of everyone over the age of 20 just minds their own business and strips naked then covers up with a towel.

I have worked out most of my life,spent time in the forces,so being naked when walking to the shower is nothing to me, i cant see what the fuss would

be,true you would get a few sensitive souls in these places but hey we are all men.i dont wear a towel when walking to the shower just carry it

Not sure what the big deal is about being naked in the locker room or showers - too many snowflakes out there. We all have the same equipment so seeing yours is not anything unique, nor is you seeing mine.

The gym I used to go to had 8 shower stalls with frosted doors. I used to go in the morning before work and it was usually pretty busy in the showers. Most guys would finish showering and step into the common area to dry off so the next guy could get in. Most guys stripped down wrapped a towel around themselves and walked to the showers. I do remember this one guy that would be there in the morning with his and the son's friend (high school aged). The dad would strip down and throw his towel over his shoulder and head to the showers. His son and his friend practically got into the locker to get undressed, in three years I do not think I ever saw them naked and only a few times in their underwear. They went to such lengths to not be naked it was almost comical.

My current gym has an open shower room so no privacy, which is totally fine with me. There most guys strip down at their locker and walk to the showers naked. Not as many of the younger guys shower as in my old gym, but those who do seem petty comfortable getting naked.

I think the internet makes many people feel insufficient in terms of the tools they have hanging between their legs, and in turn you become concerned you might be smaller than most. If you search out average size, you have tons of different results. If you decide to watch porn via the internet ... everyone is packing something large, so I wonder if going back further it was as big an issue as it was in my years growing up, to those who did not have the internet.

There is also a sense of how much modesty might have been allowed in your household as well growing up, I have a friend who did not have a bedroom door (his dad's solution to trying to lock himself in so he did not have to go to school and that stayed that way well into his late teens, and I had a friend who hated going to the beach because taking a t-shirt off meant he was half naked.

Up until my mid-20s I would have been a reluctant showerer at a gym, maybe sit there an extra minute so no one else would be in there, but then I hit a point where my mind clicked "what do you care, just shower and get the hell out of there".

Everyone does as he wants, I have seen men who remain naked for several minutes, chatting with their friends and crossing the locker room, others keep an underwear and only take it off to shower, or keep a towel around the waist.

Communal showers were offered in high school, the Y and then in college dorm and recreational facilities on campus. Most tended to wrap a towel around waist except in high school. Coach handed out towels once you showered. On occasion, I have observed that some men walked through locker areas naked and had a towel over their shoulders. Some would shave without a towel. I would say these were in the minority. It didn't seem to be reflective of penis size!

"Not sure what the big deal is about being naked in the locker room or showers - too many snowflakes out there. We all have the same equipment so seeing yours is not anything unique, nor is you seeing mine."

Exactly! Could not have expressed it better.

I don't mind being naked. If you want to take at me go ahead I don't care. Got nothing to hide.

Not sure what the big deal is about being naked in the locker room or showers-... .

We all have the same equipment so seeing yours is not anything unique, nor is you seeing mine.

Exactly!

O Mostly were communal showers and few private stalls were offered in high school, college dorms and gyms. For me, it’s just a habit starting in high school to wrap a towel around my waist and go to the showers. It seemed it was the norm to wear a towel around your waist. Then I’ve seen a few guys that would wrap a towel around themselves take off their underwear, shower and then put underwear on wearing a towel. On occasion, there were some guys walked around the locker areas naked carrying a towel.

At the gyms I go to, I dress and undress at a locker. I walk to the shower nude carrying my towel in my hand. I have seen what others have posted - dressing with a towel wrapped around you, walking with a towel wrapped around you etc. Initially the showers when I started going where gang style. Then they evolved into small stalls that faced each other. Eventually those stalls got curtains added. As I have written in another thread I think its generally the younger guys that are more modest and the older guys don't care who see's them. I'm among the older guys that don't care. I used to be skinny, but now I have a few extra pounds, but I don't care. Over the years I have seen every size shape, and age of guys and I really don't care what they look like.

Along the same lines, I am one of the guys that will sit nude on a towel in the sauna or steam room at the gym. Used to be more naked guys but again as I get older it seems that more of the guys cover up. Its gotten to the point that some guys will come into the sauna dressed in workout clothes with shoes on. What really irks me is that often time they will have their cell phone out and earbud on playing music I can hear. Ruins the peacefulness of the atmosphere while relaxing.

When I enter the gym, I am generally already wearing my workout gear so that all I need to do is stow away my gym bag and then get started.

Once I am finished with my workout I always like to shower there before I leave. I grab a towel and drape it over the locker door and strip off all my clothes, put them in my gym bag and then wrap the towel around my waist. Sometimes I would walk naked to the showers while carrying the towel.

In saunas I like to be naked. It's relaxing. Some gyms now require a towel to be wrapped around the waist or for the man to wear shorts. If guys are going to come into the sauna fully clothed to warm-up, I wish they would leave the personal devices in their locker.

It's funny to watch some guys strip down while wearing a towel or after they have showered they are struggling to pull up their while the towel is wrapped around their waist. And there are dudes who go to the shower almost fully dressed and exit the stall in a similar form. To each his own. ...It's all good.

To add a little more information - at the gym I go to now what was once a steam room was converted into a sauna a couple years ago. Initially the steam machine worked fine but over the years it seemed to be broken more than working.. Personally I prefer the steam room and the wet heat. There is a mixed gender whirlpool and sauna adjacent to the pool in a large separate room. When guys have made comments about nudity I point out to them they can go to the sauna where it is required that a person be covered. I have used both, and have had some interesting conversations while using the sauna.

Men in the locker room at my health club are quite a mix. But nudity is common especially to/from the showers, sauna and steam room. Men 20 and up are pretty chill about it. Walking to/from the showers either carrying a towel or wrapped around there waist. (Showers at my club are individual stalls with frosted glass doors.) There are very few that might wear underpants into the shower stall and remove them inside the shower. There are many kids as well, mostly for swimming. Pre-puberty boys seem OK with it, but tend to hurry through the naked stage. Teens in puberty are the most modest, staying covered as much as possible.

Of course, there are couple of older guys a little on the strange side. They (individually) tend to hang out in the sauna for long periods of time and then move back to the locker area to cool off before returning to the sauna. (I've never seen them on the exercise floors or pools.) They may carry a towel, but it's never used as a cover. But they do seem to know the limits of appropriateness and stay within them.

I typically undress, slip on flip flops, and walk to the showers just carrying my towel. I don’t bother wrapping it around my waist. Sometimes I throw it over my shoulder. I do the same when walking back to my locker. We have both open gang showers and a few private showers with curtains. I use the gang showers but over the years most people have switched to the private showers. Years ago hardly anyone used the private showers. In the steam room I sit in a towel. In the sauna I sit on a towel and usually have another towel draped over my lap. Taking off my clothes in a locker room is no big deal. However, getting undressed for a doctors visit is very stressful.

When I used to go to the gym... I'd undress after my workout. Wrap the towel around me and walk to the shower room. Some guys were discreet and others just did there thing and didn't care.

I used to have a friend who was a trainer at another gym here in town. They required their trainers to take a shower half way thru their shift. They were pretty picky about their guys staying clean and well groomed as well.

Like most replies here, I just strip off put on my shower shoes pick up a towel and walk to the showers. The only time I would do any different is when someone has a small child with them, (the gym has a pool attached) then I will wrap my towel round my waist before heading off to the showers.

I wonder any of our gay correspondents would comment on how they feel about being naked or seeing naked guys in the locker room.

I don’t see why this is even a topic. You go to the gym, you’re either covered or not in the locker room

big deal.

This reminds me of several years ago when they began having female sports reporters on Boston TV. One of them was complaining because the male reporters got to go into the locker rooms which gave them an unfair head start getting their reports on the air. I think she went to court to get equality. Then she complained about the guys being naked in there going to and from the showers. Did she really think they wore bathing suits or something to go to the showers? I haven't heard anything about that for years, maybe they got used to seeing naked guys when they are in naked guys territory.