Locker Room turnoffs (Page 5)

my Husband, from South America, gets SERIOUSLY grossed out when he uses, it seems, ANY American locker room.  He is very sensitive to "excessive" nudity and carries on about the unexpected hair you guys have.  (he is SMOOOOOTH). 

Can you all just tone it down so I don't have to hear about it? 

But it is kinda funny......

I agree about the cologne/perfume taste in the water. I thought I was the only one who noticed that....

Speaking of smells, yesterday at the pool someone was cooking popcorn (I don't know where) in the swim center and the delicious smell permeated the pool area and made me cut my swim short so I could go home and eat dinner. Talk about a distraction!!

I have to agree with everyone else on this. A 5, 6 or 7 year old may be old enough to dress themselves, but they are not nearly old enough to defend or be responsible for themselves in that environment. Your discomfort at having those kids in the locker room with their parents is nothing compared to the discomfort a child that age would feel being sent alone into an adult locker room.

It would be irresponsible and somewhat cruel to send a child that age into an adult locker room by themselves.

Well, at least blindfold the little f***ers.

(I'm half joking.)

At least he wasn't walking around saying "Hey Little Boy.  I've got something sweet for you."

Of course, this also leads to the *reason* that the parents don't let the 5-7 year olds go into the locker room alone.

I don't think people are "scared" of naked humans, they may just be uncomfortable.  If you were raised with a sense of modesty it may not be the easiest thing to be around people who just let it all hang out, literally.    I respect the fact that some people feel the need to walk around the locker room naked although I don't understand it.  What is the big issue with simply wrapping a towel around you when you step out of the shower?

Just when I was about to write, "my YMCA locker room is pretty normal"... I was prven wrong.

 This morning I came around the corner of my row of lockers to see an 80 year old, very wrinkled man in front of the hand dryers mounted on the wall. He had his back to the dryer, and was using his hands to SPREAD HIS BUTT CHEEKS to dry "in there". I nearly stopped at the local "adult news shop" on the way to work just to cleanse the image from my brain!!!!

Just out of curiosity...what is the reason why people do not want to throw on a towel when they come out of the shower?

Tri-County in Menomonee Falls, weekdays between 5:30 and 8:00 a.m.