[Closed] Old men in gym changing rooms.

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Pah too late 🙁

Haha,,that's exactly it..Cheers Flux and Mrs Toast 😆

Funny how in communal showers - yes there are still some around - you never see anyone under 40 using them?

My boss is one of those guys... I stopped going to the gym a while back but at least once a week for a year he'd come wandering over (always [i]holding[/i] a towel) and start a conversation about work. Not the most productive conversations really.

It's a sign of true liberation from giving a shit about what anyone thinks about what you look like.

You do realise the only blokes who go to gyms are closet homosexuals and people nursing character disorders?

They've lost the insecurities of youth. Sounds like a good thing to me.

It's a sign that they no longer give a shit about common decency, probably don't have sexual relations with their wives/estranged wives and are living out some weird homo-erotic fantasy by getting their flacid cocks out in front of other blokes. There's no need.

I'm 40+ and don't feel the need to get my nob out in front of other blokes, or my daughter (reference the other thread a week or two ago). And before anyone says anything, I'm probably just about the most sexually uninhibited bloke you could have the misfortune to meet 😉

Right place, right time!

IMO of course...

It's easy - don't be a man and then you don't have to go in the male changing rooms.

Rachel

People who complain about this are usually scuttlers anyway 🙂

It's a sign of true liberation from giving a shit about what anyone thinks about what you look like.

I'm not sure about that.
When I'm at home with no "anyone" to worry about, I still put my undies and socks on before my shirt and bobble hat.

Bunch of repressed little boys!

This is where the psychological projection happens. Nothing like the simple, non-threatening, unclothed human form to function as a mirror for one's own deepest fears, prejudices and predilections 😉 *

Try going to a gym in South Korea - used to see the regulars blow drying their pubes with the communual hair drier

They've lost the insecurities of youth.

Then why are they going to a gym?

Never been to a gym but what's the fuss?, it's a naked body....big deal.

One of my old school mates was brought up by his artist/bohemian parents in a massive country castle/house that functioned as an artists/musicians retreat, sort of a commune where everyone had certain tasks in the gardens/workshops or the fields. Admittingly the first time i stayed over for the school summer holidays I was sort of shocked to find folk walking about naked, doing the gardening naked and swimming naked in the private loch but after a few days in the heat of the summer i soon followed suite. There was absolutely nothing wierd or sexual about it in the slightest, from the age of 8 to 80 it didn't matter.
Looking back with the benefit of hindsight some of the folk staying there from all around the world had experienced the most unbelievably amazing lives and I just wish I had paid more attention to their tales and stories.

It sounds as if a few people on here couldn't go to the gym because their big bag of personal issues wouldn't fit in the locker.

Marriage probably has a lot to do with it - one of the very few benefits of marriage is that Nature rewires your brian and pulls the plug on the insecurity bit. You no longer feel the need to compete with other blokes and compare yourself so you feel completely self-confident and relaxed.

I was one a witness to some manscaping in a gym changing room.

he just left the cuttings lying there blowing round like tumble weed while he filled the air with lynx.

aerosol deoderants should be banned in the changig rooms.

I'm 40+ and don't feel the need to get my nob out in front of other blokes, or my daughter (reference the other thread a week or two ago). And before anyone says anything, I'm probably just about the most sexually uninhibited bloke you could have the misfortune to meet

I go to the gym to use the climbing wall, and what annoys me are the people who change in the wall area rather than the changing rooms. This usually results in new climbers feeling uncomfortable, and the changers leaving their stuff strewn about like they own the place.

Prissy pompous twits.

It's a changing room, it's where you get changed to do "other stuff" 🙄

You think anyone GAS about you and your body?

Ohhh, you do 🙄

Sexuality and nudity differences aside, which I'm quite aware of thanks - seeing people naked/being naked outside of a sexual environment isn't an issue. Hanging around in a gym changing room with yer wrinkly bits out for considerably longer than is necessary to get changed seems rather odd IMO

They've lost the insecurities of youth. Sounds like a good thing to me.

Eventually you come to terms with what your knob looks like and stop worrying about it.

NB I am one of the older guys wandering around changing room naked chatting to people...

What on earth is 'longer than necessary'? You're in a changing room getting changed. There is no need to prudishly hide it away as soon as you can, you get dressed in the same way you would normally do when being normal, not being hung-up about having no clothes on in front of someone else.

Love the way these threads bring out the alpha males 😀

Joshvegas gets my vote for PM.

I'll be honest the only time I use the changing rooms at work is after my commute and this time of year my chap is playing hide and seek from the cold so my pants go on pretty quick. I'm definitely a grower not a shower.

I put my shirt on before my pants as I'm more embarrassed by my moobs and middle age spread being on show than my little winkie.

What on earth is 'longer than necessary'? You're in a changing room getting changed. There is no need to prudishly hide it away as soon as you can, you get dressed in the same way you would normally do when being normal, not being hung-up about having no clothes on in front of someone else.

Hanging around chatting isn't getting dressed normally, is it?

STW finds yet another subject to be bitterly divided about shocker. FWIW I don't think anyone is saying they have a problem with nudity, or seeing other men naked, it's the guys who "hang out" for inordinate amounts of time around the changing rooms and who are just a bit too comfortable being naked.

I don't care if some oul guy's got moobs, a distended gut and his balls are dangling around his knees but I don't want to start a conversation with said guy, nor do I want to see him finish his post workout stretching right beside me. But like as not, that's the guy who will be strutting about in the buff for the entire time it takes someone to get showered, dried, dressed and leave. You know who you are.

bearnecessities - Member
Love the way these threads bring out the alpha males
Joshvegas gets my vote for PM.

If by PM you mean unelected dictator I tend to agree.

Hanging around chatting isn't getting dressed normally, is it?

Jim jam knows what I'm talking about.

Would you get dressed before talking to your wife?

No, but if I did in in front of her sisters or friends I'm not too sure anyone would be overly impressed

Anway, jimjam has it covered

vermillion

Jim jam knows what I'm talking about.

Wherever you go, the culprit will invariably look like this.

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Its a great place to go to thoroughly depress other males. 8)

There is a big daddy lookalike in my gym who is usually walking about naked with flip flops when I enter the gym and is quite often still walking about naked with flip flops when I leave the gym. At no point do I ever see him enter said gym.

Also, unfortunately, I don't think people drying themselves all over with a hairdryer is limited to South Korea. Towels aren't obviously good enough for some people.

Working in haulage I use truckstop/public/communal showers most days of the week. These people on the whole, do not have gym body's. Some might not have seen their own manhood for some time. Initially, I guess it is odd chatting with Trev the tarmaccer whilst he rubs soap over his bulging hairyness or noticing Stobart Stu turn away to put his socks on before his Ys but you just get used to it. You get on with it.

Maybe it's because they're old and a bit senile. Maybe you should offer to help them get dressed. Care in the community. Do your bit.

Or maybe just don't stare

Its a great place to go to thoroughly depress other males.

I thought face sitting was banned. Or was it only the filming of it?

Either way, getting changed is one thing, windmilling is another. If you want to really air-dry the goolies just head to a sauna where it's more likely to be expected.

http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/message-for-older-gentlemen-who-use-the-gym

I'm only 30 but have no problems with being naked in the changing rooms. I'm not an exhibitionnist but find it strange how many people tare determineed to ensure they slways cover up or just don't have showrrs after exercising.

I'm going to blame the fact that schools no longer make kids wash after PE.

Its when they use it to hang their towel you've got to worry.

Its when they use it to hang their towel you've got to worry.

Other men have tried to hand their towel on your knob?

My record is 5 etc etc

😉

My record is 5 etc etc

Wet or dry? It makes a difference to how impressed I might be.

dry coz everone uses the hand dryer these days hadn't you heard?

I don't get the tackle out convos tbh.....

I'd be more worried about that thang where you bash asses in a busy changing room ...me being a speccy git

I don't really have any nakedness hang ups. Probably used to as a teenager, but having fathered 3 strapping lads in quick succession I'm pretty secure that my tackle is up to the job it was meant for. I don't really care what it looks like or what other people think of it. At the gym I do tend to just crack on with getting changed, pardon the pun. Because of this I don't really notice how long other people stay naked for, and what else they are doing. Seems some people spend a bit too much tine taking in the view.....do you do this in the toilets too?!

Serious question, what is "too comfortable being naked"? How uncomfortable should I feel? I mean, I don't exactly go around slapping strangers in the face with my cock, but I don't get scared at the idea that someone else might see it.

I can certainly remember the insecurities of youth, but don't feel any duty to maintain them.

He doesn't specify old me here.

The old men are great. Who else is there to help you wash your out of reach bits?

Always very obliging and helpful at our gym. I wonder if I should tip occasionally

And great with the kids when you have your hands full

Sadly it was last acceptable to towel whip someone at school. 🙁

I was renowned for towel whips 😆 er..

Pah,some real lightweights on here.
A real test is when you get asked to wash a hairy arsed Yorkshire man's back in the showers. >>Pithead Baths<<
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thecaptain - Member

Serious question, what is "too comfortable being naked"? How uncomfortable should I feel?

I used that phrase euphemistically, referring to the guys who go to gym to hang out in the changing rooms, as opposed to working out. It appears to be a relatively common phenomenon.

For context I went to art school and spent longer than most people staring at wrinkly old balls and saggy old tits. I didn't enjoy it, but I wasn't repulsed by it either. When the models took a break they'd put their robe on, have a cup of tea/coffee and have a chat and look at our work. It was all very normal, apart from one woman who strolled around in the buff. Most of my classmates, girls especially found it a bit off to say the least.

Apart from our partners, almost all of our social interactions in this society happen when we're fully dressed. Changing rooms and public showers are a means to an end, that end is getting washed and changed. Some people seem to treat it like a social club, or I suspect a free peep show for the w*nk bank.

dry coz everone uses the hand dryer these days hadn't you heard?

youll only do that with a Dyson Airblade once...

😀

Austrian (or various other European - Austria is just where I experienced this most recently) mixed saunas would really blow the minds of some of you lot. I found it quite amusing on a multinational selection event there I was the only Brit to do what everybody from all the other countries did!

I do find it a bit strange what hang ups people seem to have about this. OK so I am an old man now, but have been regularly training at the canoe club since my early 20s - communal changing there, sometimes very full changing room after a session, and unlike gyms we all know each other quite well so busy chatting away (and taking the piss) whilst getting changed - I couldn't say I pay much attention to how many clothes anybody has on.

[quote=jimjam ]Some people seem to treat it like a social club, or I suspect a free peep show for the w*nk bank.

I do find it interesting that you suggest that - it's not something which had ever occurred to me.

I've used saunas regularly since the age of 13.
So kinda use to seeing flesh as the European norm.

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I prefer the latter. Hate holding my stomach in.

Ah, but the one I mention above was at a selection event for a sporting competition, mostly under 30, all sporty and athletic, and both genders using the sauna. Though admittedly not quite the same as the top picture in one respect...

aracer

I do find it interesting that you suggest that - it's not something which had ever occurred to me.

Well I think my first suspicion of that type of activity was at swimming classes at school. I was about 12ish, obviously my classmates were too. The swimming instructor (who fitted the fat, old, bald description perfectly) used to come in and chat to us as we were getting changed. He'd be in the buff of course, and acting as if it was oh so natural. I never liked the guy, and sensed something was off.

A few years later I heard he was arrested for being a child molester. I think he had a massive heart attack and died before his trial.

I've done numerous team sports in my youth and into adulthood, and I'm not a prude, but if you want to have a conversation, put your dick away. Doesn't seem like a big imposition.

^^^^ jimjam has a point. When I was in secondary school the hot, young, (natural) blonde biology teacher (she fitted the stereotype perfectly) asked 15 yr old me to her birthday party. I thought it was awesome/'cool' (80s remember) that she did so, as we'd talked about bands and stuff, had similar tastes etc, but I didn't feel confident enough to go along in the end. Nonetheless, since then when I see hot young blonde women around I do tend to expect that they will invite me to their birthday parties. I sometimes give them a wink, so they know that I know that they want me to go. At which point they often scuttle away (obvs they are secretly shy. Which also fits the stereotype). I keep a cake on my person just in case.

*edit My wife says that my prior experience lead to me being 'traumatised in the wrong sense', which has coloured my opinions - which only leads me to ask - how could one be traumatised in the 'right sense' ?

Really, some people don't seem to have left the ridiculous vestiges, hangups and pomposity from the Victorian era.
From a very young age I have partaken in mixed skinny dipping together with mixed communal showers afterwards. You know what the really sad thing is, the number of people who shower in their underpants. What on earth do are they worried about....
I spend most of my time abroad these days, and without fail, it's the British who are overly concerned about 'protecting their modesty'. People from other nations of all ages, particularly the Germans and French just get on with it. Getting changed on the beach into swim gear is just that. No towel dances or friends holding a screen. Just a couple of seconds and job done.
Time for some people to move from the late C19th to the C21st!! Come on.

Oh and what do you do when you've been out biking in the cold and wet. Getting naked in a car park appears to be pretty normal away from trail centres...

fasthaggis - Member
Pah,some real lightweights on here.
A real test is when you get asked to wash a hairy arsed Yorkshire man's back in the showers. >>Pithead Baths<<

You do realise the only blokes who go to gyms are closet homosexuals and people nursing character disorders?

Does being bitter and twisted come naturally, or is it something you have to work at?

It's a sign of true liberation from giving a shit about what anyone thinks about what you look like.

I've used saunas regularly since the age of 13.
So kinda use to seeing flesh as the European norm.

The one question needing answered is at what age do you become an old man ❓

For some it's about 35 😉

The one question needing answered is at what age do you become an old man

When you start whining like one/behaving like one IMHO...

Sauna fun - first business meeting in Finland, meeting Swedish girlfriends parents, swiss ski resort with women lying flat out with legs akimbo....hard to know where to look especially when you are with your son!!!

^^
See, that's what's wrong with British society. Conflating nudity with sexuality. The Swedes and Finns have it sorted!!
Kids grow up seeing other peoples bodies with all their incumbent normalities as just that. Normal.

^^ Yep English seem to still the have weird hang ups with nudity.....

[quote=Malvern Rider ]When I was in secondary school the hot, young, (natural) blonde biology teacher

You checked the collar and cuffs matched?

Conflating nudity with sexuality.

Otherwise known as when things are looking up.

Yep [s]English[/s] Brits seem to still have the weird hang ups

..and yet some are fine at exposing [s]their personalities[/s] themselves on the internet 😀

I have no problem with it and do not mix nudity with sexuality, in fact the opposite. If I am on the top bench of a suana, I would prefer not to have a strange women smiling at me 😉 from the bench below.

Keep your legs together dear!!!!