[Closed] Old men in gym changing rooms.

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

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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...

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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!!!

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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!!!!

Well I can't remember whether I'm British/English whateversacceptable these days 🙂

@fasthaggis you've got a point though - snapchatting your bits to someone isn't exactly unheard of these days.

Considering the general response in this thread, I find it amazing how much hand wringing occurs when some female flesh is shown.

This thread is very telling.

The Yays: Tripods
The Nays: Weeners

Don't see what all the fuss is about personally 🙂

I find it amazing how much hand wringing occurs when some female flesh is shown.

Never heard it called that before...

Worked with a lady who was a canteen assistant at the local leisure centre, they asked if she would do some overtine for a naturists group, she mis understood naturist naked people for Naturalist,bird and animal watcher .

She turned up for work working at the till expecting Bill Oddie bird watcher types, first bloke was a well endowed totally naked middle aged man, who she latter recognized as her neighbour.She said she got a shock when he put his tray down on the serving shelf,exposing himself a bit more than she expected.

Growing up and still being a competitive swimmer I can confirm there are certainly a group of old, usually portly men who enjoy spending a lot of time naked in front of everyone in changing rooms. They also seem to do their very best to engage you in talk about football or some other such shite whilst flossing their balls or spending too much time drying their nether regions.

Funnily enough after training we can all chat whilst getting changed without the need put one leg on the bench and have a five minute conversation whilst everything air dries. It's weird. Stop it.

Only the brits would confuse nudity with sex, I'm sure no one else in the changing room is concerned with thoughts of having sex with the contents, old men with dangly balls or not.

A sign of insecurity if ever there was and ageism at it's worse, how do y'all feel about black blokes in changing rooms then? How about old women in Saunas?

Ridiculous.

Yes I'm old (ish) and yes I hang out naked in changing rooms and sex is the last thing on my mind and no, I'm not looking at your teeny weeny pecker.

So, logic dictates anyone who does feel uncomfortable about older males naked must fancy younger ones, nothing wrong with that, but typical of the genre, not wanting 'ugly' in their world.

yes I hang out naked in changing rooms

There are clubs for that sort of thing I think.

Post gym workout (which doesn't happen enough these days), I'm usually pumping out so much heat and sweat that it takes a long long time to dry off enough to get clothed...so if I'm not in a hurry, I'll happily wander around naked in the changing rooms (though I don't usually engage in conversations!)

My take on it is that it seems to be old men because us old men invariably played old fashioned team sports at school, bathed in communal showerooms and certainly I was more than used to all sorts of females copping a glance on their way through to the bar at the rugby club. I've never worried about who thinks what about my body and although I try not to expose myself in public if it ever happened i.e. Towel of shame dropping off in the car park whilst post ride changing.
The majority of younger men never had to shower after games at school or mum and dad would pick them up drop them off ready clothed at the pitch side. They have therefore become self conscious of their own nudity and insecure about their bodies round both males and females.
That's my theory on it. ❓