Received this in an email:
"Dear Boomers and Gen Xers:
What is the deal with you all marching around the gym locker rooms with your dicks and saggy balls flopping around? Can't you cover that shit up?
Millennial"
Probably because we were not raised to be ashamed of what we were born with. In fact, when we were growing up, swimsuits for guys were banned from the YMCA and indoor school pools. Showering was required after Physical Education classes, too. Add to that that for most of us, the military draft was still in place, so a good number of us served in the armed forces where more communal nudity was required.
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Now, let us ask why you seem to be so shy and modest at the gym but then take and post all kinds of dick and boner pics?
P.S. Dear Anonymous: If you'd bother to check, you would know that I have never censored your comments. Your guys are the ones censoring and banning books. In fact, you'd find that I have even responded once in a while. Mainly in observation that I keep waiting and hoping you'll actually address policy issues. Alas! you only spout demeaning rhetoric. Why in the world would I say anything snarky about a shooting incident? I don't think anyone getting shot, or anyone getting killed is funny or good. I am not one who wishes for or promises a "bloodbath" over an election. Those are your guys.
26 comments:
Coucou
Dans les vestiaires (piscine ou salle de gym) tout le monde n'est pas nu, moi suis nu et d'autres également, à priori cela ne gène personne...
Je suis bien d'accord avec ta réponse...
Amicalement
Jeff (Bordeaux)
Well said! I gotta say, though, back in the 80's and 90's, I was a fitness instructor for Bally's in East Providence and always showered after giving a class. There were a LOT of guys back then that just had an absolute fear of being naked in front of other guys; it's not a Millennial thing. Predominantly witnessed in the Hispanic and Portuguese (heavily Catholic) member community (East Providence has a large population); the guys would just wear their workout gear into the shower (sans socks, shoes and tee shirts) and shower. I'd catch them nervously shoving a handful of lather down into their shorts and jocks to give the boys a quick scrub. Then wrap the BIGGEST fucking beach towels around their waists to get back to the lockers, leaving the towels in place while stripping the shorts and jocks (always a jock strap) off to rapidly dress. I always found it amusing. Especially since we had our share of just BRONZE (workout) MUSCLE GODS who just let everything swing and sway. Sure, there was a small percentage of men who would fuck around in the steam room, but this dichotomy in the general population between prude and nude was always fascinating to watch.
I was born in 83 and do change (and shower) at the gym. It may seem "weird" to some of my generation, but only because mandatory showers ended in 1989 due to a court ruling.
Should also note that it's more boomers and hers who support Trump. Once you get under 50, his support starts dwindling; it's just that older voters vote in greater numbers.
I saw my first adult cock at a YMCA pool. I was amazed that they had hair and were so big. In Junior High we swam nude in swim class. It was there I learned I was a late bloomer. All through Secondary school we had to shower after Gym class. If it bothers those guys so much, then don't look. I am nude whenever I am permitted. We are naked most times around the house. Answer the door nude and it will stop church groups from pestering you.
Dear Millenial,
As whkattk said, when we were in high school, after Phys. Ed. (gym) class, we all had to shower. It was a communal shower room, where everyone could see everyone else showering, and you walked from your locker to the shower naked (you got a towel on the way back). It was not a big deal. The purpose of the locker room is a place to change clothes (which involves getting naked) and take a shower.
We don’t understand why you’re so shy about being naked in the locker room, when that’s what a locker room is for.
In the changing rooms (swimming pool or gym) not everyone is naked, I am naked and others too, a priori it doesn't bother anyone...
I completely agree with your answer...
Kind regards
Jeff (Bordeaux)
@ nakedswimmer - I never could make sense of that court order. If you can shed some light on it, it would be appreciated.
Amen. And on your P.S. to anonymous: I can only think of one party whose platform is “revenge and retribution.“
Hugs and bisous.
If the right get there way us boomers and Gen-x's won't have to worry about it. They will be making us all wear layers with no skin showing, knowing those idiots.
And not far off? There is already two gyms in this area I hear where you have to wear a swimsuit in the showers! The reasons I hear range from young boys with fathers shielding from seeing other guys naked, straight men uncomfortable naked around the gay guys,(nevermind some of them are getting their cock sucked by a gay guy on the down low) and for the people feeling uncomfortable with nudity.
I'm opinion? Stay the hell home then.
I grew up seeing my male friends and classmates naked, and with them seeing me naked for brief periods several times a week, from elementary school PE, through high school sports and as an adult in public gyms. Goofing and fooling around with your friends naked is really good bonding time too.
A sane and very sensible response. Thank you.
And then there's the coy towel dance that many younger blokes do in the gym locker room. They don't seem to realise that the awkward hauling on of underwear while trying to make sure the towel doesn't slip attracts a lot more attention than simply taking off the towel and putting on underwear normally. For goodness sake, we're not going to be surprised by what you've got under there and even us gay and bi guys ain't going to look specifically at your junk. We're at the gym for a workout—nothing else. If you've got some good muscle definition going, I'll notice that and appreciate it. When I want to look at dicks I'll do that in a different venue—I just want to shave, shower and get out of there.
The only time I don't simply strip off in my current gym is when the younger female cleaner is in the immediate area. I've never noticed anyone sneaking a peek—I wouldn't care if they did—but the younger ones studiously pretend I'm not there and the older guys don't care to bother.
I was a very shy lad, prone to comparison (as a result of an emotionally distant Dad who could have set me right) and despised the mandatory showers at school. The comment about showering in jocks/shorts really hit home.
Then at 19 I did some work experience at a mining camp with communal showers that I couldn't avoid and despite the initial anxiety, discovered it was not that big a deal. I think it was the cruel ribbing and bullying that many boys received at school that was my issue, but I saw it dissipated and lost the cruelty in the adult situations, I guess as men mature and recognise the reality of diversity and how it doesn't define you.
I "grew up" in the 70's and have been an athlete for over 50 years. We skinny dipped naked in the boy scouts, showered naked from junior high school through college, and I would guess that half of the guys I see of all ages shower naked in the gym. I think some guys think that if you see a naked guy it will turn you into a homosexual, and they are probably homophobic.
LOL. Millennials. Poor little snowflakes. All those cocks and balls in their faces. Sigh. I have experienced this first hand... not in a gym shower room, but having come in contact with members of this and younger generations at the prairie. They seem to have very specific rules of conduct... unless it's advantageous for them to do otherwise. You kind of want to slap them and tell them to get over it, but... that's where their head is at, so we must accept it... just as they should accept where our heads (literal) are at and accept that as part of life, too. Getting older is not a crime. Being older is not icky. If they are lucky? They, too, will experience the sting of those with other attitudes and beliefs which clash with their own. In the mean time? I shrug my shoulders and say F 'em. Kizzes.
I think you nailed it.
And I agree with you, this generation has grown up sending dick picks and baring their lives on social media and worry about a floppy dick in a gym??
XOXO
This is all my opinion so take it with a grain of salt. But it seems to me there are fewer and fewer actual places for guys to just hang out together. I'm only 58 and have always lived in a small town. Ranching area. So yeah a lot of open country around me. But I remember as a kid boys would leave the house during the summer in the morning and not show back up until dinner time. And a lot would go in groups into the woods. Not suggesting anything sexual happened. But I know a lot of nudity did happen in those woods. It always seems when you put a group of guys together some of them are going to whip it out to try and impress the others. But it seems that in the past 30 to 40 years this happens less and less. Mainly because of parents fear of kidnapping and molestation. So now guys don't really hang out as much growing up. And parents seem to push fear of abuse onto kids more. So they compare nudity to sex more. Especially male nudity.
I am 80 and we always had to shower after gym class or other sports. All in a communal shower. Nudity was no big deal. Now the gym showers are stalls. This whole new system is dumb. Let boys be boys and quit pampering them. The real world any more is going tohell in a hand baskeyt!
I can't remember the case name, but it basically decided that forcing kids to shower after gym was unconstitutional due to the free exercise clause (since some religions might emphasize modesty).
@ Maddie - Are you fucking kidding? You HAVE to wear a swimsuit to SHOWER? Oh, for fuck sake. Ridiculous. We really MUST win in Nov.....
@ rphillips - I think you're right that parents are to blame for instilling the nonsensical fear.
@ jean - Right? Dems aren't the ones threatening civil war if they lose.
@ Anon, July 17, 2024 at 7:35 AM - Thanks for that. Never mind the importance of health and hygiene, I guess.
In my time the frats pledge were huge, on vacation my male family two uncles, dad, grandad and cousins used to be constantly naked together. In our frat was common ritual the pledgers jerking off standing up naked in front of the brothers. The brothers make you do it in public to show the pledge nothing is sacred between brothers.
Older people dont seem to care about nudity.
Not old but just missed out on being put in with the Millenials but nudity took a while to come to terms with it. Now not an issue but for a while it was (more awkward than anything else).
When you go in a male change rooms your going to see dick. Everyone in there has one. Including yourself. When you look at them older guys dicks all floppy and slapping around thats going to be your fate too MF if you last that long.
The younger ones; they are a mixed bag of everything. They seem to go from one extreme to the other with very few stops in-between. You have some that are normal, some you would like to slap sideways into next week and others life will catch up to them when they have kids of their own. Karma will hit them with a brick.
The dic pic things; I would think twice about putting them out there as companies now hire people to go through your Socials (including Only Fans now). Any red flags come up, company reviews it and will reject job applicants based on what they find. Even currently employed are not safe either.
The newspaper clipping is probably from the Appleton (Wisconsin) Post in 1961.
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