Hot tub etiquette

When I was a kid in the 60's my dad took us to the local YMCA to swim.  That Y had a men's and a women's pool. (I don't know if that was the norm for YMCA's at the time or not) 

I can't speak for the women's pool, but I can tell you that there were quite a few men in the men's pool who were naked.  My brother and I had endless hours of laughter over it, but there you go....it is what it is.

Used to go hiking around Barton Creek in Austin when I was a kid.  Lots of people would skinny dip and that's where I saw my first pair of real-life boobs.  They were perfect!

This has nothing to do with your story, I just wanted to share.  Carry on...

Over here (UK) people would look at you weird if you had shorts on in a tub that was in the mens locker room.

Other places in Europe it'd be weird in men and womens shared area too.

Private hot tub, do as you wish.  Public hot tub, follow the rules as posted.  Not too difficult.

It would be a big deal if someone showed up at my pool, that requires swimsuits, and decided to put in a few laps nude.  Why do you think a hot tub, that requires a swimsuit, is any different? 

 A bit OT, but back in the early 60's our small town YMCA in Indiana prohibited grade school age boys from wearing swim suits; something about it being "unsanitary". 

We had a Saturday morning gym & swim program and there would be about 30 of us swimming around buck naked for an hour or so. The only exception was for a Mennonite boy who was allowed to swim in a tee shirt and long black pants for religious reasons.  And of course our swim instructor/lifeguard (who I thought to be about 90 years old) wore his suit.

Obviously, their were separate swim sessions for boys and girls (who were allowed to wear suits and were required to wear swim caps - the old style with the chin straps). 

And of course we had to wear to suits during family swim sessions.   

Different times.  Can't imagine anything like that today.

Mark   

If it's a hot tub in the locker room I don't have a real problem with it.  C'mon it's the locker room that's what you do is get naked in the locker room.  I don't go commando in the locker room hot tub but that's just me.  I see some of the old dudes rockin' the commando look all the time in the locker room why would the hot tub be any different. 

There was an old timer last night going from row to row, naked, engaging anyone who would talk to him about his recent colonoscopy and the polyps that were removed.  I was broke up laughing.

I have no idea if he made it to the hot tub.

I want to move there.

and I thank you for that

How was the editing selective if I captured exactly what you meant?  I agree, it wouldn't be a big deal to me either, but I can understand that to some people, including presumably the OP, that it might be a big deal being faced with some guy's junk when the rule at that hot tub prohibit junk on display.

Public hot tubs are nasty and to be avoided IMO.

A little off topic - strange denizens of the gym hot tub.  A friend of mine used to work at a gym.  One time there was a guy pleasuring himself in the hot tub.  He got a police escort out of the gym.

I've been less inclined to get in public hot tubs after hearing that.

Just for the record, I'm not bothered by nudity in a men's locker room.  Rather, it's nudity when you aren't expecting it.  This hot tub can seat about 6 men comfortably... so maybe you can understand my plight when men are already in it and I innocently enter not knowing that some of them are w/o shorts... and in a hot tub that size, when a man stands up to get out, you come face-to-face with his manhood... it's a surprise attack.

Our gym has hot tubs and cold plunges in the locker rooms.  They used to have a sign about bathing suits being required, but it wasn't always followed.  They took the sign down.  Problem fixed.

It does skeeve me out a bit, especially when they get in WITHOUT showering ahead of time, and I'm imagining what's floating on the surface.  Though when you really think about it, what does a layer of spandex/lycra/polyester really do?  Maybe just a "visual" aid.

I still use the tubs, especially the cold plunge.  Seems to really help with recovery.  And I'll wear whatever shorts I was working out in, AFTER rinsing off in the shower.