School showers

Starting in 7th grade showers were required. Lockers overlooked the open showers. Toilets had small urinal partitions, but no doors. You hardly ever saw anyone on the toilets.

Snapping towels would get you in big trouble. Some kids would leave there jocks on when showering, but they were targets for getting their leg straps snapped or getting their leg straps grabbed and pulled up crushing the guys balls (Kind of the opposite of a wedgie). I was one of the ones that wore my jock into the shower because my public hair didn't come in until I was around 14 ½ so I was trying to hide that. I suspect the others that showered in their jocks did it for the same reason or just to hide their genitals.

Everybody had to wear a jock and when we lined up in the gym, you had to pull out a leg strap to shoe the teacher you were wearing one. The girls were on the other side watching the whole thing. If you didn't have one, you would be humiliated by the others and have to get one out of the barrel in the locker room.

This was how it was in the ‘60s and ’70's in the UK.

At junior school we were never required to shower after PE, and changing for swimming at the local pool was done in a cabinet with your best friend, so there was no real exposure of the body.

That changed at senior school (11yrs+). There you showered after every sport, and the showers were open so you saw everything everytime, but you got so used to it you never really ‘saw’ anything. At times there would be mixed ages (11-19) using the showers, particularly in the pool, so you got to see all stages of development if you looked. You also had to strip off and wring out your trunks before moving in to the ‘dry’ changing area (A bit like using pools in Iceland). Again it all seemed 'normal'.

From the age of 12, I was also part of a swimming club and the changing areas were always open and we had all ages up to mature adults of my parents age and beyond using them together. Fortunately they were always single sex and no big deal. As it was the ‘70s, I did get to see my first ‘fully furred’ adult - I never knew you could have so much body hair!

In halls at college, the showers were communal, but the hall was single sex (We had a protocol agreed if a girlfriend wanted to use or entered the showers).

These days, the male changing areas of many sports venues I use are still mainly open, with a limited number of cabinets for those who'd prefer to use them. The showers are usually individual, but not everyone covers with a towel to and from.

We had to start taking gym showers in 7th grade. Didn’t quite expect that until the gym teacher told us requirements for the class during the first session. For a few weeks, showers were optional, but one day after playing soccer, the gym teach announced the entire class had to shower. Was so weird slowly taking those briefs off and having to walk to the showers totally nude before finally getting a towel just outside the lockers. We had to walk back to the lockers totally nude, without a towel as well. Took a while to get used to that. It was also quite eye-opening to see how developed my classmates were and where I fit in within the class. It was also apparent which guys really needed to use deodorant and were in desparate need of a shower after gym class. Ironically, it’s almost impossible to find group showers nowadays; almost all gyms have individual showers. Do you have to take showers in school gym class? They seem to be disappearing nowadays.

A very limited number of people used the showers in my high school, no one used them in middle school. There was one exception, it was my sophomore year of high school and it was late in the school year. I must have easily been 90 degrees however it should have been raining it was so humid. We had this absolute jerk of a gym teacher who made us do our final which was a mile run, and likely other things. Many of us showered:

I was so overheated one of my friends brought me over to a shower to get my head wet and rinse off my sweat, I ended up just saying this is stupid and stripping down and showering. I was not even embarrassed. Me and maybe a few other guys (not my friend lol) showered really quickly, mainly just rinsing off…it was first period…there was no way I was making it through the day.

The following day I was sitting in economics class 2nd period waiting for class to start when a few people from that day’s gym class came in just before class started…a few of the girls had really wet hair like they had just showered. Mid-class at some point I started talking to my friend Rachel, who had wet hair, and she decided to tease me stating she was just butt naked an hour ago showering in the school. The thought of her and a few of the other girls in that class showering together in the open shower setup the girl’s locker room had (I had been in there once or twice when it was not occupied (of course) to help get gym equipment out of storage) was so erotic, even making my mind wander to this day.

I hated showering in junior high. All the girls were so judgemental especially towards me since I was a late bloomer. Even when I joined the Army I still didn't want to shower with other females butt got over the modesty real quick

I hated showering in junior high. All the girls were so judgemental especially towards me since I was a late bloomer. Even when I joined the Army I still didn't want to shower with other females butt got over the modesty real quick

It's amazing what the army does for you.😃

I was reading a bunch of old class supply lists that ranged from the 50's to the 90's, and some of them mentioned “mandatory showers with soap” or something to that effect.

So that was actually on class supply lists, the soap and towel, mentioning that showers were expected.

Back in the late 60's and 70's nobody was shaving pubic hair that I ever saw or heard about. The only guys that shaved their bodies were involved in water sports. I don't think they shaved their pubic hair because it was covered by a speedo.

I don't ever remembering doing so in school.

Back in the late 60's and 70's nobody was shaving pubic hair that I ever saw or heard about. The only guys that shaved their bodies were involved in water sports. I don't think they shaved their pubic hair because it was covered by a speedo.

Exactly that. Even in the 1980s when I was going to the YMCA I never saw anyone with shaved pubic hair. And when I was in high school and college it would have been a very weird thing to do. Even the swimmers and water polo team in high school kept their pubic hair intact.

Back in the late 60's and 70's nobody was shaving pubic hair that I ever saw or heard about. T

A bit to the side of showering, but in the early 1970's, sex mags in the Netherlands started featuring photos of shaved ladies and promoting the notion in both editorials and articles.

One such mag ‘Candy’ was enormously successful as a publication at the time and seemed to go full-out on pubic shaving. This was promoted in other sex mags as well and according a rather well-known Dutch author/artist/photographer/nudist (Hans Borrebach), it was slowly becoming something one saw at nudist beaches in France. He also promoted genital shaving in his articles and erotic comics.

Shaving was obviously still a fringe phenomenon in general, though that is around the time it seems to have tentatively started, at least in publications and I presume amongst the working girls in cities like Amsterdam, where many models for the sex mags were from.

The practice must have struck a chord, as it rapidly became very popular. I first started in the early 1980's. And from my recent visits to nude beaches, I'd say that the majority of visitors seem to be shaved nowadays.

My school didn't have showers for us to take a bath. However, when i did swimming classes i was extremely embarressed to take my clothes off in front of other boys. Though, i was very curious to watch other boys penises.

Showers were mandatory after PE when I started high school in 9th grade. I went to an all boys Catholic high school and we were told that it was not optional because they didn't want the female teachers to quit due to smelly teenage boys in the classrooms. That is literally what they told us.

They were the open type showers so everyone was naked in front of each other. At first it was very awkward and embarrasing but almost everyone got used to it. There were a few kids who would shower in their underwear and were really stressed about it but eventually they relented. I don't think they were ever comfortable with it but they had to roll with it.

I transferred to a public high school after my freshmen year and everyone used the same type of open showers there as well. They never said said that showers were mandatory at the public high school but almost everyone showered after PE/ football or baseball practice (which I played) or whatever. I was to concerned about smelling like shit at school so I always showered after PE. My junior and senior years, that became my morning shower because I had an early 7am weight training class so I just showered every morning at school. They were open showers and nobody thought anything of it.

My wife went to the same high school and she said alot of the girls didn't shower after PE. Again it wasn't mandatory.

Throughout grade school, I was pretty well sheltered in PE from the realities of having to expose myself to other guys; in fifth and sixth grades, we only dressed down to our briefs. But that all changed in seventh grade. Three years onward I'd be through with this agony till I suffered an injury in my mid-20s that necessitated me taking swim lessons once and for all.

Back at grade school, some friends of my parents' from Denver brought their kids each summer for sleepovers and swims; one male kid and I dressed in the basement (while the girls dressed in my sis's bedroom), and he and I saw each other's boyhoods several times, and I'd always do my best not to act uncomfortable.

Only in adulthood could I be completely passé.

HI, I remember the communal showers at boarding school (all girls 12-18 ) well. When you showered with your classmate after PE/Games etc it always felt as if you were on display and everyone was checking out ‘what you had’….embarrassing if you were a late developer as I was. After getting your buds and badge of honour it was less stressful and time to enjoy your schoolgirl crushes…..

Only in adulthood could I be completely passé.

The term would be ‘blasé’ … 😃 😃

My school showers began in the 7th grade at the age of 12 with puberty kicking in and being introduced to the male g-string a jockstrap required for gym p.e.. A bit hesitant at first with the open shower room I quickly adapted to it already having bisexual leanings and soon enjoyed the sight of my other gym mates in their jocks and stripped down for gym attire or showering. Actually always looked forward to gym class each day and the exposure it provided. Even had wet dreams concerning it. Many years later thru employment discovered a former gay classmate from that time that came out to me and explained to me how he used to love seeing me nude in the showers and I soon allowed him to give me several blowjobs at his apt. Fretter.

I remember it from swim team, not from PE. I definitely looked at the other girls to see how they looked and how much they'd developed, hips and breasts and pubic hair & lack of it.

@BottomFromTheTop I find it interesting that girls were treated the exact same way, down to the hands above the head, naked assembly line and naked paddling. Usually girls are given more privacy

I grew up in Soviet Union, so no school showers at all. But parents sent me to scout camps each year and there of course I had experience of common showers. We showered always under supervision of an adult. I liked this so called shower days, once a week. I could look at my age, a bit older or younger boys and compare them naked to each other and myself.

I have very fond memories of the showers at school, they were a room off the changing room, with about fifteen shower heads, we showered after every gym or games session, as well as before and after swimming, no boys shaved back then, pubic hair was a masculine sign, whenever i read of boys at school not showering now after gym or games i think it rather disgusting to think of dressing whilst sweaty or muddy

Showers in PE didn’t start until high school. As a freshman, there were quite a few guys with tons of hair. I had some fuzz and there were some guys yet to have hair. As a senior, we pretty much all had hair. As one of two uncircumcised guys in my grade, they made more fun of you for being uncut rather than how little pubes you had.

As one of two uncircumcised guys in my grade, they made more fun of you for being uncut rather than how little pubes you had.

and you were uncut?

Showers in PE didn’t start until high school. As a freshman, there were quite a few guys with tons of hair. I had some fuzz and there were some guys yet to have hair. As a senior, we pretty much all had hair. As one of two uncircumcised guys in my grade, they made more fun of you for being uncut rather than how little pubes you had.

@HighandTight Having been both uncut and now cut how would you describe the difference? Does your name refer to the style of cut you have and how did you choose the style? Did a doctor make you aware of the different styles? What was it like having your bare glans rubbing on everything with no relief? How long did it take for it to become desensitized?

Can you describe the care you had right after being cut.

I don't recall any ribbing by the other boys for being uncut or anyone in the class doing that. I do remember that the cut guys all seemed to be larger than us uncuts. I figured that was because our foreskins squeezed the blood out of ours while theirs would be be fuller.

They must have had to release your adhesion to remove the foreskin, why couldn't they just do that and not go for the big cut?

@roscoe

Having been uncut and cut, I would have to say the difference is like seeing in black and white versus seeing in color. As I couldn’t pull the foreskin back and expose the glans, I was limited to rolling the foreskin between my fingers in order to get a release, although most would stay inside the foreskin and I’d have to figure out how to get it cleaned out the best I could. After getting circumcised, the glans was super sensitive and any kind of rubbing against clothing while walking was unbearable. I would ejaculate many times a day just from waking around at work. It took about 4 to 5 months to be desensitized enough to endure a floppy penis scraping around inside the blue jeans.

The urologist didn’t go over the styles. I asked him about getting a Gomco circumcision and he said he didn’t cut adults with the clamp and that his own freehand method ensures that he takes exactly the amount of skin he wants and where it is. He said the style would make sure my pleasure would be unaffected. It wasn’t a high and tight cut but was medium and tight. The scar location and feeling is awesome. It’s very enjoyable with or without a partner although a little spit might have to be used due to the tightness it’s very functional and practical now I haven’t had any kind of yeasts or infections since I was cut. It’s been a real life changer for me.

Right after the cut, it was just bandaged up and wrapped around tightly to keep swelling down and to keep the stitches from catching on my clothes. After the first 24 hours I could remove the bandage, apply neosporin to the stitch area, and take my first shower. No baths were allowed until first follow up visit. They had given me prescription for Tylenol with codeine, but I never took anything stronger than regular Tylenol. The pain was like having a mild paper cut, but on your cock. Only flash of real pain would be the times I snagged a stitch on my underwear or jeans.

The urologist offered to just use a probe and release the adhesions, but he said after examining the scarring of the tip of the foreskin, the scarring would continue to progress until the outlet hole would be totally blocked. Plus, I wanted to be cut. I had waited many years to get it done, so it was a welcome procedure.

Thanks for the reply @HighandTight it sounds like you had a terrific urologist. I have considered having mine done at various times over the years but until the advent of the internet the lack of information was a serious hindrance. At my age now it's probably not practical anyway.

@roscoe

The urologist was very top notch and was very easy to talk to. I was afraid to talk to him about getting circumcised, but once I mentioned it, we had a discussion which was matter-of-fact and was done in a friendly manner.

As I’ve related in other discussions I came to practice as an assistant at a school for retarded kids in the mid 70s. It turned out to be a period of some naked exposure on my part… very unexpectedly I might say. First occasion was when I was taking ”my class” for their PE. After lunch that day the headmistress asked: ”You didn’t bring a towel, did you?” I got very confused and replied: ”No, should I? Are we supposed to take part in that lesson?” ”Of course you are. Well, we’ll see to that”, she answered. This time I had no t-shirt or shorts, so I just played along, running and bouncing some balls with them, but the female PE-teacher reminded me to bring the right outfit for the next time, which I did, but excluding the towel. The same question aroused two days later: ”And you still haven’t got a towel?”, the headmistress sighed. ”No.”

I had to help some of the boys undressing and put on their gym stuff. They were supposed to strip all their clothes. It took some while. When all of them were out in the gym I started to change myself. I hesitated a second wether I would keep my underwear, but I took them off and put on my shorts. After the PE which really didn’t make any of of us sweat at all it was all in for the showers. It was more or less a part of the routine, mostly an education of hygiene, really. To my surprise the headmistress showed up: ”I brought two paper towels for you!”, she said triumphantly. I really didn’t know what to do. The boys undressed and took for the showers. The PE-teacher and the headmistress started chatting, but I know they were observing me as I very slowly stripped, grabbed the paper towels and headed for the shower room, where all of the pupils were standing under showers in the nude, even the two girls in the class, who had acessed from another dressing room. One of them were Down’s syndrome and the other blond and extremly chubby. When I entered there was a moment of amazement and silence and then all of them, especially the girls, started to giggle. I noticed all of them had well developed pubes, except for the youngest little boy. But he was the one who couldn’t take his eyes of my crotch, and when the PE-teacher walked in he pointed at me and shouted: ”Look, look, he has hair around his dick!” PE-teacher watched and nodded: ”As you will have too one day.”

Never ever EVER showered after PE in high school. The horrors. There were plenty who did, however; the extroverts with the killer bodies. And for me, this was the era of the full bush. The only trimming I remember was to avoid spilling out of bikinis that were fairly modest by todays standards.

We started showering after PE in 5th grade. This was the first time we had to change into gym shorts and tees for PE. We also had to wear jocks. For many that was a first but for those of us who played baseball in the summer jocks and cups were mandatory so we used to the. At that age few boys had any pubic hair but shaving or trimming was unheard of.