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[Kozak]

:lol :lol

Feels Good Man

 

[Razorskin]

What's the fuss? i see girls naked in the locker room all the time.
Although i suppose less frequent than what you would see at the men's side.

insecurity, homophobia etc.....

 

[Google]

I'm member of one. So much for generalizing.

I don't care about who it is or what they're shape is. I don't care that they're naked, I'm not homophobic, nor immature.

I have noticed that it's the older dudes who sit around and chat in this form. The fact that it's widely observed on GAF it quite hilarious to me

No?

 

[Binabik15]

insecurity, homophobia etc.....

I don´t like naked old men almost bumping into me when I change. I dont want their hairs, their dick, their crotch or any other part of their old, sweaty body to touch me. ZOMG homophobe!

 

[Roto13]

:lol

You go to a bathroom cubicle to change your pants? :lol

The best part is that he claims that this is civilized behaviour. Like being full of shame is progressive and being comfortable with nudity is backwards and not the other way around.

 

[Android18a]

The simple fact is that real men like the peenis. If you've never wanted to have hot man love, you're only half a man.

 

[rainking187]

I don´t like naked old men almost bumping into me when I change. I dont want their hairs, their dick, their crotch or any other part of their old, sweaty body to touch me. ZOMG homophobe!

Yeah, I love how people throw homophobia around despite the fact that there's no way of knowing if anyone involved in the story is homosexual. Not wanting some strange dudes junk in your face doesn't make you homophobic.

 

[SnakeSlashRO]

Seriously dood? Get over your self.

 

[Kinitari]

Maybe the OP was a litte bit... overly worked up about the situation, but is it so crazy to think that some people aren't exactly comfortable seeing other peoples sexual organs if they are not sexually attracted to them? I am not personally repulsed or anything, but I don't really enjoy getting an eye full of unattractive breasts and scrotums. If a person is not attractive, I want to see as little of them as possible, and the shock value of seeing their genetalia compounds the issue.

edit: Realize that unnatractive remark was a bit more callous than I intended. I meant it more along the lines of - people I am not sexually attracted too, I don't want to see any more than what I am used to seeing.

 

[GodofWine]

insecurity, homophobia etc.....

Ah, extreme-reaction-GAF.

Where the f*ck exactly does homophobia get in here...Call Perez! There are naked men in the gym, must be a gay issue.

I don't personally care if they are bi , straight, or gay...if they want to brush their teeth, while on a cell phone, while sitting anus first on a public bench, I want them to put a towel on.

Its a gym locker, not a turkish bath house!

 

[C.Dark.DN]

The chance at seeing someone naked in the changing room is 100%

What's the difference between seeing the same person naked in your peripheral vision, instead of different people in your peripheral vision?

Ass is ass, balls are balls. You're simply becoming annoyed at them specifically and hearing their voices. And now you're being passive aggressive bitching online.

As far as I know, there is not sociological study on why group A stands in the locker room naked for extended amount of time.

So, if you have a complaint, tell the manager about it. He can decide if he wants to put in a no loitering sign or not.

If he doesn't, get used to it.

A good argument would be "these guys could be perverts who like staring at multiple men naked, they need to stop loitering."

 

[Zeliard]

Yeah, I wouldn't call it homophobia. These guys seem perfectly okay with young naked men in locker rooms. It's those old people that are oh so troublesome. It's gerontophobia.

 

[CrankyJay]

My gym locker room is the same way, there's even an automatic hand dryer installed extra low so people can dry their boys quickly. :lol

 

[MWS Natural]

I don't really care, just keep to myself and change/shower. The only thing I hate is being a grower so I can't walk around swinging and shit.

 

[soundahfekz]

No?

Nope. Is it funny that it's always the old hairy dudes and others have noticed this? Yeah, that's comedy. Do I feel the need to make a thread about it, or speak on how much I destest it? No. It's not what I look foward to when going into the locker room, but I couldn't care less about it. Nice try at boxing me in, though.

 

[jbbb]

My gym locker room is the same way, there's even an automatic hand dryer installed extra low so people can dry their boys quickly. :lol

What???
Now this sounds disturbing...

 

[Ogni-XR21]

I was in a steam sauna once where we got some salt to rub yourself, to do this we all had to go outside. When on my way out the line slowed down causing the old man in front of me to take an unexpected step back. His ass touched my dick!

OMG HOW AM I STILL ALIVE??? :lol :lol

 

[Dark Octave]

I was in a steam sauna once where we got some salt to rub yourself, to do this we all had to go outside. When on my way out the line slowed down causing the old man in front of me to take an unexpected step back. His ass touched my dick!

OMG HOW AM I STILL ALIVE??? :lol :lol

:lol :lol That would ruin my life.

Spoiler

You're gay now forever

 

[Holepunch]

I'm going to have to (for the first time) agree with Docpan on this one. Its not that its bad enough having naked old and/or dirty men walking around the locker room, I swear some of these people are there to do it EXCLUSIVELY. I've seen what appeared to be a disgusting bum washing his balls naked in the shower, with no attempt to face the wall. If anything he was trying to face towards the other patrons. I ignore him and leave the shower, only to come back an hour later and he's STILL in the same shower, STILL washing his balls.

WTF. I shouldn't have to be subjected to crazy naked pervs whenever I'm in the locker room. Not only is there perpetual naked people showering, there are the old men who's sole purpose in life is to wander back and forth around the locker room and try to strike up conversations with you. Usually it goes like...

Crazy Old Man: Hey there man, how's it going?

Me: Uhh, good (starring intently at my own open locker door, not facing him.)

Crazy Old Man: Sure is hot out, isn't it?

Me: (Still looking away, enter lull of silence.)

He eventually gets the message and walks away, only to try it again on another patron. Sorry for not letting to make eye-contact with you, crazy old man but I really don't want to see wrinkly old wang in my peripheral view right now, please dear god find a towel.

 

[Masamuna]

Let them be naked. More sugar daddy possibilities for me!

GET PAID! MY

Spoiler

BIKE

MONEY!

 

[Jason's Ultimatum]

What???
Now this sounds disturbing...

Nothing wrong with that. I blow dry my asshole pubes with the automatic hand dryers.

 

[Barkley's Justice]

Except, in Japan, the old men make fun of you for having a big penis. (My one real experience to a public Japanese bath was me, my roommate, and a bunch of old Japanese guy. It was an odd experience.)

i had two really weird bathroom experiences in japan:

one was i was pissing in a urinal next to an older businessman, and he was just straight up looking over and down at my thang thang. not really sure how long he had been at it when i noticed...

then this second time i was in a club pissing, and this really drunk "hip" japanese dude more or less stumbles over to the urinal, and leans on the side of it like he's my homie and wants to tell me a good old war story or something. and i'm there pissing and he's talking to me in japanese laughing, and drunkenly sliding all over the place, and i'm talking to him in english saying, "yo motherfucker...you need to back the fuckup..." and i'm looking at him right in the face and he's still just standing there talking to me in japanese...

when i got out of the bathroom they had rocky playing on the tv which i thought was ironic given the circumstances

 

[Always-honest]

what the hell are you people doing to your balls?

just dry them with the towel......................

 

[Binabik15]

Nothing wrong with that. I blow dry my asshole pubes with the automatic hand dryers.

Wouldn´t it get really hot before they´re fully dry?! Ouch.

:lol

I come straight for the gym and you see, the guys today were cool, dressed up quickly and then started talking instead of standing around the door with their wangs out.

Then some other days someone will sit down before their lockers, legs wide open, letting their balls hang free in their pube jungle facing the door with the inner door right open. That means everytime someone walks in or out the outer door to the locker room the whole bar and entrance areal gets flashed. Niiice :lol

That kind of stuff is what I dislike.

 

[Jason's Ultimatum]

Nope. I just bend over, spread my cheeks and hope nobody comes into the locker room.

 

[Snuggles]

I work at a health club, so I see men's dongs on a daily basis. You do get used to it after awhile, but it was kind of awkward the other day when I went into the locker room and some guy came out of the shower with a massive hard-on. Also, there are people that will try to strike up a convo while fully naked. To make it less uncomfortable I usually just get naked too, so we're on an equal playing field.

 

[Manus]

Man have none of you guys played sports growing up? During high school football we were always walking around naked in the locker room. We even had to take showers together since we had the huge room with multiple shower heads. Would always make fun of the freshmen who would never take showers because they didn't want anyone to seem them naked. People need to get over it and move on.

 

[Zeliard]

Nope. I just bend over, spread my cheeks and hope nobody comes into the locker room.

You're lucky the old guys don't bring Viagra to the gym.

 

[-NeoTB1-]

what the hell are you people doing to your balls?

just dry them with the towel......................

Balls are serious business.

 

[gamergirly]

I work at a health club, so I see men's dongs on a daily basis. You do get used to it after awhile, but it was kind of awkward the other day when I went into the locker room and some guy came out of the shower with a massive hard-on. Also, there are people that will try to strike up a convo while fully naked. To make it less uncomfortable I usually just get naked too, so we're on an equal playing field.

Wow

 

[NomarTyme]

Man have none of you guys played sports growing up? During high school football we were always walking around naked in the locker room. We even had to take showers together since we had the huge room with multiple shower heads. Would always make fun of the freshmen who would never take showers because they didn't want anyone to seem them naked. People need to get over it and move on.

Not in my high school. No working showers, the school was too poor to fix it. Go to class with bad BO. Luckily I scheduled my gym class at the end of the day.

 

[Google]

Man have none of you guys played sports growing up?

Quite obviously, a few of them havent.

Christ, from the age of 11, we were forced to shower in the communal showers after P.E.

As a kid, playing rugby on the weekends, you had to have a shower after the game (being that you're caked in mud) and the only showers available were the big rectangular communal types.

Who cares?

 

[Zeliard]

Quite obviously, a few of them havent.

Christ, from the age of 11, we were forced to shower in the communal showers after P.E.

As a kid, playing rugby on the weekends, you had to have a shower after the game (being that you're caked in mud) and the only showers available were the big rectangular communal types.

Who cares?

The sort of reactions in this thread really shouldn't be any surprise. Look at what happened with the big blue penis in Watchmen. Some people just can't get over their insecurities.

 

[Dali]

i had two really weird bathroom experiences in japan:

one was i was pissing in a urinal next to an older businessman, and he was just straight up looking over and down at my thang thang. not really sure how long he had been at it when i noticed...

then this second time i was in a club pissing, and this really drunk "hip" japanese dude more or less stumbles over to the urinal, and leans on the side of it like he's my homie and wants to tell me a good old war story or something. and i'm there pissing and he's talking to me in japanese laughing, and drunkenly sliding all over the place, and i'm talking to him in english saying, "yo motherfucker...you need to back the fuckup..." and i'm looking at him right in the face and he's still just standing there talking to me in japanese...

when i got out of the bathroom they had rocky playing on the tv which i thought was ironic given the circumstances

:lol

Wow. I guess that's just a culture thing. No matter how drunk anyone gets here, I doubt they'd ever pull some shit like that. It's subliminally planted in us over the course of our lives like some sort Huxley dystopia.

 

[ZephyrFate]

I work at a health club, so I see men's dongs on a daily basis. You do get used to it after awhile, but it was kind of awkward the other day when I went into the locker room and some guy came out of the shower with a massive hard-on. Also, there are people that will try to strike up a convo while fully naked. To make it less uncomfortable I usually just get naked too, so we're on an equal playing field.

Best post in the thread.

 

[Count Dookkake]

The sort of reactions in this thread really shouldn't be any surprise. Look at what happened with the big blue penis in Watchmen. Some people just can't get over their insecurities.

Um, no.

I got no beef with wangs in movies. I loved Watchmen and the early works of Verhoeven have plenty of wang. Lots of porn has copious wang. FWIW I think it is strange when people get worked up over a few minutes of wang in a movie.

I have been to gay clubs and seen all kinds of literally gay stuff. I have been in barracks' showers. I have been in tons of gym showers. Nudity is not the problem.

I just don't like it when dudes act weird in the lockerroom. Changing is not weird, but hovering around for an extended time, trying to make friends is.

 

[Zeliard]

Um, no.

I got no beef with wangs in movies. I loved Watchmen and the early works of Verhoeven have plenty of wang. Lots of porn has copious wang. FWIW I think it is strange when people get worked up over a few minutes of wang in a movie.

I have been to gay clubs and seen all kinds of literally gay stuff. I have been in barracks' showers. I have been in tons of gym showers. Nudity is not the problem.

I just don't like it when dudes act weird in the lockerroom. Changing is not weird, but hovering around for an extended time, trying to make friends is.

Honesly, I go to the gym quite a bit, and I've never had an old geezer trying to strike up a conversation while in the buff. :lol

There are quite a few old naked men there, but they tend to either keep to themselves or chat it up with other old naked men. I'm usually in and out of the locker room so fast that it barely even registers.

I'm just puzzled as to why you guys feel the need to hang around in there. It shouldn't take that long to get changed, and you should be able to very easily avert your eyes. Stare at your locker while you're getting dressed, or something.

 

[Count Dookkake]

Honesly, I go to the gym quite a bit, and I've never had an old geezer trying to strike up a conversation while in the buff. :lol

Then you are a very lucky young man.

When I lived in NYC, I frequented a gym and became friendly with one of the trainers there. He was a flamboyantly gay guy, like super gay, and even he would get creeped out by this type of behavior.

 

[GodofWine]

I'm just puzzled as to why you guys feel the need to hang around in there. It shouldn't take that long to get changed, and you should be able to very easily avert your eyes. Stare at your locker while you're getting dressed, or something.

NO.

We don't hang around there...we are puzzled as to why the naked old men decide to hang out there naked. They treat it like a bath house / naked man social club and not like a locker room.

And CMON! do people posting here really think its normal, to stride naked to the mirror in a busy locker room, and towel dry your balls for 5 minutes, then air dry them for 5 more??

That ain't normal human behavior.

 

[GrapeApes]

Then you are a very lucky young man.

When I lived in NYC, I frequented a gym and became friendly with one of the trainers there. He was a flamboyantly gay guy, like super gay, and even he would get creeped out by this type of behavior.

He's obviously a homophobe.

 

[Kinitari]

I remember a few times at the gym there was this 'young' guy (young compared to old people, he was probably 35-40) who me and my buddy would see on a regular basis. We'd never see him there actually working out, just in the change room. And it seemed like whenever we caught him he is in mid change - he would have a wife beater, or a t-shirt on, and nothing else. And he'd stand around in all these awkward poses trying to strike up conversation with random people. Most of the guys were just "uhhh... yeah cool man" but some would get kind of annoyed when they'd be on the bench tying their shoes and he'd come up, stand about 3 feet away, put one foot up on the bench and start chatting.

Yeah, I can take a bit of naked, but I don't want some dudes dong at eye level, flailing around with his deep bellied laughs.

 

[ZephyrFate]

NO.

We don't hang around there...we are puzzled as to why the naked old men decide to hang out there naked. They treat it like a bath house / naked man social club and not like a locker room.

And CMON! do people posting here really think its normal, to stride naked to the mirror in a busy locker room, and towel dry your balls for 5 minutes, then air dry them for 5 more??

That ain't normal human behavior.

It was before Victorian-era Judeo-Christian values. Being naked isn't "abnormal" human behavior in the slightest.

 

[Google]

He was a flamboyantly gay guy, like super gay, and even he would get creeped out by this type of behavior.

You mean gay guys don't automatically want to kneel down and suck the cock of a 70 year old man while getting changed after a work out?

This surprises me.

 

[Kinitari]

It was before Victorian-era Judeo-Christian values. Being naked isn't "abnormal" human behavior in the slightest.

I'm sorry is this 800 years ago? Maybe it's because I am not as gung-ho about history as you are, but there is a lot of shit that was once normal, that no longer is, and I could not care less. I don't think the old men walking around change rooms naked striking up conversation are doing it because they feel a renaissance is in order.

 

[ZephyrFate]

You mean gay guys don't automatically want to kneel down and suck the cock of a 70 year old man while getting changed after a work out?

This surprises me.

No, we don't.

And wow, history lesson much? Victorian era was 200 years ago, and lasted until the turn of the 20th century. I didn't know being naked was against some sort of moral code. Wow, our country is waaaay too scared and insecure.

 

[Count Dookkake]

You mean gay guys don't automatically want to kneel down and suck the cock of a 70 year old man while getting changed after a work out?

This surprises me.

:lol

That is exactly the sentiment I was expressing.

Spoiler

Was hoping to counter the idea that all of this must be homophobic.

 

[Google]

:lol

That is exactly the sentiment I was expressing.

Spoiler

Was hoping to counter the idea that all of this must be homophobic.

Well, I'm glad you expressed this to me, as I was under the impression all gay guys fucked anything and everything, regardless of stench.

 

[TheyCallMeMoney]

Maybe those guys are just playing a hardcore version of the penis showing game.

 

[Kinitari]

No, we don't.

And wow, history lesson much? Victorian era was 200 years ago, and lasted until the turn of the 20th century. I didn't know being naked was against some sort of moral code. Wow, our country is waaaay too scared and insecure.

I admit, I don't know shit about history - but you keep trying to paint this as something it really isn't.

Most people are not comfortable with naked men waiting in locker rooms who do nothing other than chat people up. I personally do not really want to see anyone I am not physically attracted to naked. And because that makes me uncomfortable I am scared and insecure?

Also I don't think I am from the same country as you.

 

[Replicant]

I was in a steam sauna once where we got some salt to rub yourself, to do this we all had to go outside. When on my way out the line slowed down causing the old man in front of me to take an unexpected step back. His ass touched my dick!

OMG HOW AM I STILL ALIVE??? :lol :lol

:lol :lol :lol

Seriously though, this is not homophobia issue for most people. However, it is quite condescending towards old people. Just remember guys, old people were once young too. Maybe we'll turn like them one day.

I've had a teacher telling me once that after you reached a certain age, you stop worrying about what other people think of you. Maybe they just get tired of putting up a front and following what society expects them to do in certain situations.