Women Showering in Groups

Are mixed showers common? I've never heard of them in the States. I'd expect the men to find that ... er ... stimulating. And a bit hard to disguise, lol.

I do not know about the states, but it was inevitable that some men rose to the occasion (my bf says it happens in the male only showers, and as long as it was "natural" and not "self induced" we just used to ignore it or the person left the shower.

In films you often see women in group showers soaping each other. I have seen guys doing it but the amount of times I did you could count on one hand, but does it happen in real life to women.

I did a sauna in a small town in Sweden about 12 years ago and there was a women's side and a men's side, but you could lower the divider between them. While you could sit in the sauna with a towel covering up afterwards we skinny dipped in the lake. Everyone else was doing it so I thought "why not?"

It was a long tunnel like thing with shower heads along both side. There was never a debate, after sports events it was strip and shower all together. Normally we did one sports afternoon a week so for one afternoon a month you were excused the shower. We grew up with group showers and personally I never gave it a minutes thought.

In Junior and Senior High communal showers were all we had after Phys Ed.. None of us thought much about it one way or another. In college we had a shared bathroom between two suites and again the four of us never though anything about being in there when the others were.

Like Marsha we had communal showers in HS and I felt the same way about showering in public - not the slightest bit worried. As for soaping each other, I cannot remember seeing two girls doing this, I suspect because of the possibility of cruel jibes, but when I was in a cross country team it happened all the time. I think it was started so that we could get the backs of our bodies clean of the mud and after getting over the phobia of same sex touch I had no compunction about helping one of the team when she showered nor when they helped me. You could say that it was almost bonding, but we would never dare to do it in the communal shower.

As for soaping each other, I cannot remember seeing two girls doing this,,,but when I was in a cross country team it happened all the time.

OK, now I'm hard just picturing that. 😃

I am glad I have been of assistance too you Jimmy, personally it did absolutely nothing for me, it was like being seen by a dr. After a run you were normally washed by another member of the team using a shower mit and you thought nothing of it, I suppose you let them into "your bubble". The next day you could met them in the pool shower and all you would do is pass the time of day. Ditto with a dr, you allow them to enter your bubble and exam you, but you would run a mile if they were to touch you in the street.

In my playing days, all of us showered together. No big deal.

My wife and I are of the age when you were bought up to all have a single sex shower and thought nothing of it. On the other hand, my mother in law had her first group shower when she was 17 during WWII and was fascinated by the difference in body shapes.

I am currently in a single sex rehab physiotherapy ward, and if you are the "walking wounded" not only do we all shower together, but because of some of our injuries we often wash each other. It is the most intimate bonding I have ever done since school.

When I was a boy in the '50's, after a day at the beach, we would crowd into the shower, mother and the three young boys and think nothing of it. When I mentioned it to some one of my classmates, he gave me all sorts of a hard time, and it spread and I got hazing from others as well.

hankb

I know how you feel Hank, society seems to condemn what is perfectly normal.

When I went swimming with my daughter and niece last year I got verbally abused because we did not wear anything walking back from the shower in the womens changing room.

Pammy32^^^What a bunch of ignoramuses....In a communal change room of all places...Duh.

In the early 70s, until I was approaching 7 years old, my mother would take me into the women's locker room at the community pool. There were women and girls of all ages, young boys were a common sight too. The showers were open, no individual stalls. Everyone in there was nude. No one was the least bit self conscious about it.

I do remember it seeming a bit peculiar to me that we would have conversations with other women that lived in the neighborhood with all of us in the buff, but everyone was so comfortable that it didn't seem unnatural at all. This was the same environment as the men's locker at that time.

By the time I was 7 years old, it was understood that I should only go into the men's locker room. By that time that is what I much preferred to do.

I know the shower was open with out stalls until the late 80s because I worked there when I was in high school. I can't be certain about the women's locker room now, but I do know that the men's locker is still wide open and most men walk about freely in the nude. It is mostly young adolescents that choose to keep covered, swim trunks in the shower and all.

When I was a kid Cleanbean, when my pa took me swimming, we did the same that happen to you but I would go into the mens changing room. At the time I thought it was perfectly natural and I never felt the least bit shy.

I have heard many accounts of teens being shy even in front of their own sex in the shower. In my day you all had to get your kit off and into the shower or suffer the wraith of the coach.

Last year my daughters HS took out the communal shower and replaced it with lots of individual stalls (I think it sends out the wrong message), and yet at Uni, they have co-ed dorms where both sexes shower together and the can share a room with whom ever they like.

I would say 90% of time in various locker rooms in high school and college that the shower area was communal. As a team, we would shower in the big gang shower. No questions asked. Also in high school phy ed, we had to shower at least three times a week and in was all together at individual shower heads coming out of wall. When we had swimming in phy ed clasa, shower before in our swim suits and afterward completely naked. I was never shy about the nudity thing with other girls.

Went on holiday to the Netherlands....mixed showers are the norm there.....and females who were total strangers, and even children would strike up a conversation with me just like we were in a shop...the dutch have no hangups about nudity !

At high school we did not really do enough a lot of the time during P.E. to need to shower. But sometimes we were told to. I'm laughing now but I covered my boobs with my arms and kept my hands over my crotch when I scurried into the showers. A lot of girls did that. The communal showers were in a tunnel at one end of the changing room and there were lots of shower heads along two walls. Most girls faced the wall when we got under one of the shower heads.

I shower with my husband every chance I get but I like the idea of having mixed showers in bigger groups.

Hoo Amethyst, I know exactly all too well how you felt, I did the same for a few times when I first went to HS, and we had to have communal showers. I thought the action of covering your boobs and pussy with your arms like they did in films was a clique until I did it and I did not seem to have any control.

I used to love the camaraderie of the school shower, the lost of inhibitions being nude so long with my friends and then when we had to do the balloon dance as part of the initiation ceremony at college, the automatic reflex of covering myself came back.

Hello Mazzie The funny thing is that if I did the same thing now I would not hide my boobs or my pussy. I am more ok about being seen without my clothes on now. I have a fantasy about having showers with a big group of men and 2 days ago I think I scared some men on zity.biz when I talked about it. Hahaha

Neither do I now. We had a co-ed shower at college, and I was not the least bit embarrassed showering with the men. In fact there was more friendly play and touching in the shower there between the sexes than at HS (single sex showers).

Ohhh Mazzie I would love the chance to have a shower in a big mixed sex group!!! I think you were really lucky!!! Are mixed group showers a common thing in America? I think you are American, yeah? I would want my husband with me in a mixed group. I would be looking around at all the penises. Hahaha

This has got me going now. What do you mean when you said there was friendly play?

Hi Mazzie. What is this balloon dance you talk about and was it part of the curriculum

I missed out on this "coming of age, rites of passage" experience in junior and high school. Due to horrible problems with my knees and instability and problems with continuous patella tib fib dislocations, my orthopaedic surgeon decided that it was in my best interest to be removed from all required phys ed/gym in school. I had inquired about taking swimming as a class. I was advised how easy it would be to slip and dislocate on the wet floors and around the pool and it was strongly discouraged for that reason to take that class. I did and still love to swim. This also applied to slipping in the locker room on wet floors. During that time I was relieved to not have to deal with showering in front of other girls. As and adult, I prefer to shower and bathe in private, including when I have been inpatient for illness and surgery. My mom and friends always said I was lucky to not have had to endure showering for gym as I was excused from all those classes. Looking back now, I am not sure either way. It is what it is. As a grown woman, I am able to easily change and shower in the gym with other women, though I do prefer to do so with as few women possible. I live about 5 minutes from my gym. Lucky me. LOL!

I do worry a bit about my some of my nieces. Some of them are painfully modest, some of them are heavy/chubby overweight. Kids can be so incredibly cruel to those who do not "fit in".

I had not thought about this at all in this manner until I saw and read this forum thread. Interesting how what happens in our growing up impacts our adult life. This is one of many examples. I don't loose sleep over it, and I don't plan on it. I am far more concerned with what candy I am going to hand out for Halloween this year, what costume with makeup I will wear, how I will entertain the trick treaters and the get together later that evening with friends. LOL! 😁

"Laughter IS The Best Medicine!"

Oh god, the trauma of school showers!

We too had a teacher complete with clipboard who stood watching everyone file in in alphabetical order. She watched like a hawk to ensure you washed properly, with hideous smelling soap which every single time I used it dried my skin out and made it crack. The showers were arranged in a horseshoe configuration- you walked through the first half to wet yourself, then soaped in the bit at the top where the water was turned off, then rinsed by walking down the second half. I remember the water was always bloody freezing- they felt it promoted good circulation! We were not allowed to wrap ourselves in a towel on the way there or back. They were also timed, and woe betide you if you took either too long or not long enough. I was so glad when a serious knee injury in the fourth year meant I was excused all land based activities...

I think the whole experience has contributed to the fervent hatred I have of being forced to be naked in front of anyone other than of my choosing. If I'm comfortable with a person, I have absolutely no problem in being entirely naked- I've been naked outside, and positively enjoyed being exposed during play sessions, for example. But in a situation like a gym changing room, in front of people I don't know? Hell no. I figure that given that the clothes I'm working out in will be going straight in the wash as soon as I get home, they can stay on until I get home. If I'm swimming, I'll leave my bathers on while I rinse, then shower or bathe at home. Besides which, my shower is amazing, and knocks the socks off the pathetic little dribble of tepid water that my gym offers!

Binky When I had showers at school there was no-one taking notes of who showered and who did not but when we were told to shower we were expected to do it.

I was the biggest girl in my year by inches when I was about 13. I must have been about 5'7" or 5'8" then and my boobs and hips were a lot more developed than the other girls as well. The way I stood out from the other girls, the teacher would have noticed if I did not go into the shower area. I could not get out of it.

When we were about 15 I noticed some of the girls had started shaving their pussies but it was not for me. Some were still hairy like me. Some others had stripes and others had shaved it all off. I don't think anybody talked about the shaving or at least I don't remember it.

Hi Amethyst

I would not like to say mixed showers are common here as I have not visited every state, but some teaching establishments have them, but I do not know of any municipal ones, unlike places like Europe and Japan. Japans bath house surprised me the most as I thought they would have been too up tight. It could be me but I switch off looking at mens knobs in mixed showers ditto boobs. Sure I register who is big and small, but I do not get turned on.

The play was that we would soap each other which lead to peoples private parts being touched, it was so innocent and great fun.

Nursekev

It is becoming more and more common around the academical world I am pleased to say.

Much as I wish the balloon dance was on the curriculum, sadly its not. It was basically a variation on the fan dance where you use them to cover yourself, and replace say your right hand with your left without exposing what they were covering. Some of the group did it in their underwear or swim wear. Some of the girls were brave and did it topless, but you joined the elite group by doing it nude.

We practiced the dance fully clothed. I was ok stripping down to my underwear, but when it came to taking my bra off my mood changed and there was no backing out. The panties were next and I was fine until someone spoke to me and I covered up my bits with my arms like Amethyst described. I grabbed the balloons and went on stage. Although covered by balloons it was strange being nude in front of so many. We did the dance on ourselves and then you had to go behind someone and cover them up. I can tell you there was a lot of touching going on to try and cover them up in time.

Finally the end came, and by then we were so pumped up, we dropped the balloons and walked down into the audience nude and stayed like it all night.

There are variations like streaking, strip darts etc, but the result is the same - to get everyone naked, and why not.

My wife had to shower after middle school PE!