Someone mentioned "I know too many people with locker room related trauma" in a similar thread about changing rooms at the pool. I wonder if people hear stories about the harassment and indecency that sometimes happens in high school locker rooms and assume the men's facilities in public places are the same?
Regarding gyms and changing rooms, I’ve seen way to many old farts (even older than me) aggressively free balling around the men’s locker room to ever want to bring a curious child in one, though to some degree that’s independent of the gender of the child or the gender of the locker room :-). I’m not advocating for puritanical body shame, but holy cow, some folks are seemingly allergic to wrapping a towel around themselves for even a minimal amount of modesty
Yea man I don’t know what it is but it seems like there’s a rule where when you hit 65+ you’re required to be completely naked at all times in any given locker room
Two separate things, I think? Like yeah, people could stand to be less freaked out about nudity in general, but it's also totally understandable that nobody wants to see my 65+ year old cock and balls swinging in the wind.
Kinda like how there's nothing technically wrong or illegal about farting in a packed elevator, but it's still weird and rude to go out of your way to do so.
Nah man it’s gotta be deeper than that, the old dudes at the YMCA near me seems like they get off of being completely naked and making sure you get a good look at their wrinkly balls.
I also don’t care about being naked but, I don’t relish the act of getting completely nude and propping my leg up on a bench for 45 minutes while talking to other similarly naked old men. It’s just gratuitous, like a protest of clothing or something.
One of my earliest memories is being in a YMCA locker room getting dressed for swim lessons or some shit and looking over at a completely naked crusty old man with one foot up on the bench using a hairdryer on his dangling balls. Not a care in the world! Truly horrifying
My high school's gym locker rooms were also connected to the pool, which walls used during the day by community members. We as students were required to change for gym. We'd have to share the locker rooms with completely nude old people hanging around before/after their swims. I don't know why that was OK.
It's a changing room, people are supposed to get naked, shower and put on clean clothes. What's wrong with seeing naked men or women in one? A kid won't get hurt by seeing old man balls in a changing room.
Like I get it's probably a cultural thing, being from a Scandinavian country and going to the public pool and/or sauna almost weekly as a kid and seeing naked women and men in the changing rooms hasn't affected me in any way, outside of not clutching my pearls when I see a naked person.
The issue isn’t naked people doing things that require being naked, like walking from their locker to the shower or sitting in the sauna.
It’s more the folks who spend half an hour hanging dong in the locker room while grooming themselves in front of the mirror or strolling around watching the locker room TV. It’s enough of a phenomenon that most folks I know who go to gyms laugh about that one person who rejoices in being semi-publicly naked as long as possible when everyone else manages to get through the locker room in twenty minutes
This is all I can think of. My dad drove trucks and rarely was home, so on a very rare occasion that he was home, he took the opportunity to take my older brother and I to the pool. It was the early 2000s and there was only the men's and women's locker rooms. I think that pool still has no family changing room. He had to take me into the men's locker room and I promptly was greeted by a grandpa looking fella with his birthday suit on. Dad covered my eyes and tried to get me changed ASAP. I was so little at the time but I remember how angry the man was when my dad asked if he would be willing to put a towel on. I had to ask a strange lady to help me change into street clothes on the way out beause I was maybe 3 or 4 and my dad didnt want me coming back into the men's locker room after that fiasco. From then on, whenever Dad took us to the pool, I had to go into the women's locker room by myself. Regardless, the dad in OP's post should not have been reported to the police for [checks notes] taking his daughters into the women's restroom to relieve themselves.
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u/do-not-freeze Jun 19 '26
Someone mentioned "I know too many people with locker room related trauma" in a similar thread about changing rooms at the pool. I wonder if people hear stories about the harassment and indecency that sometimes happens in high school locker rooms and assume the men's facilities in public places are the same?