Geez people weren't lying about old dudes walking around nude in the YMCA locker rooms

There's this party I really like in São Paulo called "Hotline" that is based on the Hotline Miami soundtrack and one of the regulars of the party is a nudist and I always have to warn people I invite to the party that they're going to see a guy totally naked but that is OK, he always do it and he dosen't harass or bother anyone. At first is kinda shocking, but you get used eventually. I'm actually came to enjoying it, in a "this party is so fucking good and relaxed that he can express himself without anyone making a fuss" kinda way. There's also this guy who have a mini-projector in his shoulders and PS4 controllers and you can play videgames from him.

My first job was washing towels at a relatively upscale gym/fitness center/YMCA type place.

I personally don't give a shit about nudity, but spending that much time in the locker room you see some shit.

There was the guy who would always be naked pretty much the second he got in the locker room, and would go about his business nude. He was like 50, over 6 feet tall, had a huge head of long blond hair. He was kind of tan/sunburned always in a kind of unhealthy looking way. Huge alcoholic perfectly round beer guy, and a literal knee slapper of a dick. I always thought he looked kind of like a male lion personified.

Then there were the shower shitters, which luckily I didn't have to clean and was very uncommon.

The ones that would get to me would be the old guys who sit nude in the pleather easy chairs reading the paper or whatever. Wildly unhygienic just stamping your asshole around a public place, but the way their scrotums would stick and make noise peeling off the pleather was unforgettable.

This was all almost 20 years ago holy shit that brought back some memories.

After the managers left we would run and jump on the front of the sports drink machines and all take home like 4 powerade or whatever got knocked out.

Oh and my boss called me and told me if I couldnt finish the job by a certain time of night for closing, i should clock out and keep working until the job is done.

Middle-Aged Man In Gym Locker Room Puts Shirt On Before Underwear

FREDERICKSBURG, VA—Unable to fully avert their gaze as the situation unfolded, sources in the men’s locker room at Capital Fitness confirmed Thursday that a middle-aged gym patron put on his shirt before his underwear. “I swear the guy’s pair of briefs were sitting right there on the bench, but he just ignored them and went straight for his shirt,” said onlooker Mike Housakos, who noted that instead of continuing to dress himself after buttoning his shirt down to his waist, the man then walked all the way to the opposite side of the locker room to deposit his towel in the bin. “And it’s not like he was in any rush to get his underwear on after that. He even picked up his phone and looked at it for a little bit. Jesus.” Sources confirmed that at press time, the half-nude man was putting on his socks.

Half of me thinks this should be totally normal and our aversion to nudity is rooted in puritanical nonsense. The other half of me thinks these dudes are basically sexually assaulting people.

Fun fact, Lenin was into nudism.

imo this is what locker rooms are for.

the design can have a lot to do with it though. the old YMCA near me was downtown and had a locker room with multiple rows of waist/chest high lockers in an otherwise open space, and communal pole showers. made it easy to be social. its demolished, the replacement is outside the city center, a weird alienating locker room design and only private showers.

People not wearing clothes in the room for not wearing clothes

Found the uptight American.

I'm in Europe right now. Nobody cares. Half the continent is nude most of the time, and everybody just nods, eats baguette or eel, and carries on.

In a country with a very strong sauna and communal swimming hall culture this sounds so familiar.

Was just at a summer cabin, happily reading my book by the lake and my view was a naked couple doing their sauna in a nearby island. It's so funny in a country of supposed introverts, but you can't go anywhere in the summer without seeing naked people on lake shores.

We grow up doing the sauna with family, often extended family included and family friends. You see so many bits of different ages so maybe it should just feel normal, but personally I would still prefer some privacy. I know people bond in the sauna here, like work colleagues do it together.

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