Nude Gym Experiences

How many of you guys have had nude gym experiences?

Although I'm old enough, I missed the days when the YMCA required guys to swim nude. I do wish that was still the requirements. I definately enjoy swimming nude and just being nude in general with other guys. It is the ultimate in male bonding.

Bill

I do, but it was called Male only night. I was early 20s, looked much younger. Enjoyed the others staring at my shaved cock. and balls. [ shaved way back then] Saw nude males of all ages . The pool area was very reserved. The shower room was the place you saw hard ons. Great times.

I also remember the nude swims at the YMCA when I was only about 8 or so. Too young to appreciate the eroticism of it all.

Another experience worth mentioning: I was about 16 and working in a local gas station. An older single guy named Bill, rumored to be gay, also worked there on the weekends. One warm Sunday afternoon we took the station's Jeep to a rural area and did some 4 wheeling. We came across a pond and decided to cool off. We both wound up skinny dipping. At some point we were standing in knee deep water staring at each other's cock. This went on for a couple minutes. No words were exchanged and the spell finally broke. We just continued our dip, got dressed and moved on. As I look back on it now I know we both wanted to but I was too young, too nervous and too inexperienced to make a move and Bill probably thought of the trouble he'd be in for seducing a kid half his age if it ever got out. I still wish it would have happened but Bill probably made the right decision.

A slightly different experience I've had is being naked in the changing room after showering and suddenly realising that the attendant cleaning up and collecting used towels was a female, though she showed no reaction to the naked men so I suppose she was used to seeing so much naked male flesh.

I have been to many optional clothing resorts that have exercise rooms that are well equipped - Usually it is required to wear shorts while using excercise equipment but other areas of gym clothes are not required

We were nude when going into the showers after working out in gym class. Otherwise, I was also nude when I took swimming lessons at the YMCA as a young boy (must have been about 7 or 8 at the time). The male instructor had a swimsuit, but none of the boys were allowed to wear suits.

I rememberin Jr. High changing in the locker room, , and I was by the entrance, and people opened the doors, and a female classmate happened to be there by the dors, and she saw me naked. So that was interesting.

My uncle was a nudist. I learned a lot from him. He assured me at at early age that it was ok to be nude. So when I was in my teens and went swimming at a YMCA in Canada where bathing suits were not allowed I thought nothing of it.

Seems like the ymca was a first time experience for lots of people, as it was for me. as a young boy we took swim lessons nude. it was a scary, but erotic experience...

I've done a few quick workouts in the nude at bathhoues. Can be kind of hot.

I wonder why they require swim suits in the YMCAs now? That was a different ecperience for me as I wasn't nude at home at all...very proper. I gues it felt good to swim in the nude there.

A couple of places I've been in switzerland have been compulsory nude. first was a spa complex attached to a big 5* hotel. second a spa in a local sports centre.

also onsets (baths) I've been to in Japan have been compulsory nude.

all these places were mixed sex

Been to Naturist swimming nights in Uk - so there bound to be nude Gyms around.

Strange how times change. Once there was 1 big open area where you all showered and changed, now it's individual spaces. Yet other shwers ahve gone from barely see thru glass to 100% clear.

I was doing some work for a school for a few years and on weekends I'd sometimes strip off and play in the gym - jump on that horse, swing on those bars. Now if only the gym teacher came in on a weekend to find me like that and have bent me over the horse LOL.

Can somebody explain to me why the YMCA required the boys to swim naked.

It sounds like a means for the men to select the boys they wanted to fuck.

First to answer Switchablesusie. We were told it was to ensure you were clean. I can remember going into the area where the pool was and having one of the staff rubbing my wrist to ensure I had taken a shower and washed. I must have been around nine and it was no big deal not to be wearing a suit, that is until girls showed up in the balcony! A few years latter I was sent to a private boarding school and a life of open showers with other men began. In school I had "gay" urges but never followed through. I was told that those were bad.

Big D, I don't know...a bathing suit leaves practically all the body exposed, so they can certainly see if you are clean. In either case, they could have just required the boys to hop into the shower before the pool.

The same naked requirement was never in place for the girls. I wonder why not, if cleanliness was the real issue.

True, back then about the only suit around was a speedo, but then again at age 9 there really wasn't much to show.

That may be true, but it is also true that is the age when pedophiles introduce the boys to cock sucking and butt fucking.

Far too often in the locker room at the gym, older guys walk around completely naked for what seems like hours. Not sure if they are remembering the old days when it was more common, or trying to show their stuff to younger guys. Either way, it's kind of weird and uncalled for. Just shower, change and get out of there...

Switchablesusie, it wasn't just the YMCA's. I am in my mid-fifties, arriving after this went on. The NTSC in Manhattan allowed nude swimming until it was forced to allow women regular memberships, not just social memberships, and this was not that long ago. Intramural swimming at Ivy League colleges was nude in the (1960's-1970's?). So it was a widespread cultural thing not limited to Y's. I (was told? read?) that pool managers claimed something about swimsuits could block filters and can state that the aquatic director of the Y in Maine makes type of swimsuits allowed based on filter concerns. Like gowns entering medical practices over time, I can attest to nakedness in lockers, going back and forth to showers, etc. That said, was it the guys empowered to make the rules, like the folks who came up with posture photos again at Ivy League colleges in the nude?

The thing about swim suits and filters is ridiculous.

If that were a problem, girls and women should have been forced to swim naked for the same reason.

It IS common for many swimming pool operators to prevent people from wearing cut-off jeans in lieu of a proper bathing suit because those do clog filters. Real bathing suits do not.

I've never practised public nude swimming or gym.

Been nude often, like others, in the locker room.

Only time I am nude at the gym is in the locker room and showers. We have communal showers. Lots of nudity.

I grew up in a household with two older sisters. Therefore, my father and I would often shared a bath. I entered puberty rather early and had no reservations about showing my body when 7th grade showers became mandatory. I would often work out with my father, and his friends, at the local Y. Again, I displayed no hesitancy in the locker room setting. I go to the gym at least four times a week now and always shower and shave there. Common locker room nudity is natural and enjoyable; however, the attempted "pick up" is quite a turn-off to me. Not the place or the time!

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The thing about swim suits and filters is ridiculous. If that were a problem, girls and women should have been forced to swim naked for the same reason.

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I used to go to a YMCA that had mandatory nude swimming back in the 60's. And indeed, for whatever reason it was that nudity at the Y swimming pool was required, I hardly think it had much to do with clogged drains. A bit far-fetched and silly as reasons go. That sounds like it's a somewhat contrived justification for other reasons.

I've read of many reasons why nude swimming was required in the Y. Sometimes one reads that back when the YMCA was first instituted, many poorer families could not afford swimming apparel and so a democratic compromise was thought up to make nudity in the swimming pools mandatory, so giving no one a sartorial advantage or to prevent poorer boys from signing up.

I've also read that it was thought to be a way of preparing boys for the later lack of privacy they would certainly experience when doing their military service. This was in a day and age when military service was considered to be a given for any healthy male in the US. The only drawback for this justification is that nude swimming was already in vogue in many Y's before the military draft was made into law during WW I. Nude swimming was already instituted in many Y's prior to that war. However after WW I this does sound like a very plausible and believable reason, especially during the late 40's and 50's and 60's when a WW III was considered to be an inevitability and American males thought to be lacking in many virtues that make for a good soldier. A bit of toughening up at an early age was thought to be advantageous to American male youth. This reasoning would very well account for the differences in mandatory nude swimming between the YMCA and YWCA, why girls were not required to do so.

And while it may be impolite to suggest this, as another reason, I often wonder if nude swimming wasn't part of YMCA custom simply because many counselors or coaches or whatever they were called, just liked looking at naked bodies. What better place for people with those tendencies to be a supervisor? And this is something that would not have been confined to any particular time or era. And once again, this is a predilection that is found mainly in males - hence nude swimming in YMCA pools and not in YWCA pools where the supervisors, counselors would have been female.

And there is also the double standard as discussed in DarthJerek's post here:

http://www.zity.biz/index.php?mx=forum;ox=display;topic=25436.0

I'm glad to see these posts. I grew up when the YMCA made nude swimming mandatory. When I tell this to men much younger than myself, they do not believe me.

I do not know the reasoning behind the practice but I remember it well. Many memories during those days. I do remember a large number of older men around.

Rodger

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I'm glad to see these posts. I grew up when the YMCA made nude swimming mandatory. When I tell this to men much younger than myself, they do not believe me.

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When I came to live in Europe I sometimes told about the nude swimming back in the US. My classmates thought I was an inveterate liar and teller of tall tales and to say the least, did not believe a word of what I said. And this was back in 1960's when many YMCA's still had nude swimming. So the practice was still going on across the ocean and yet the concept was completely alien to their view of how the world functioned. There was no allowance for different cultural practices in yet otherwise quite similar countries.

I went to the pool over the weekend. Then after showering naked, while I was drying myself, a little boy noticed me and smiled. So that was a nice experience for me.

I don't have a lot of issues with being nude at the lockers. I got used to it at the university gym, where we had lots of foreign students and older staff members that did not have the puritanical modesty of most Americans. Besides, I lost a lot of weight, so I am proud of my body.

I have started using the swimming pool at my current university and I have noticed that guys are very relaxed about nudity, especially older guys and Asian/foreign students. The Asian graduate schools actually bring their sons and shower nude together, which seems less tortured than some of the American kids trying to change under their towels.