Comments on: Public Showers https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2004/09/28/public-showers/ Thought-provoking commentary on life, politics, religion and social issues. Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:51:18 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jeff https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2004/09/28/public-showers/comment-page-2/#comment-231862 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:51:18 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=34#comment-231862 In reply to Sean.

When i was living in the high school boarding house in Australia. There was no cubicles in the shower. I went to the shower totally naked with other boys, and everyone in the shower can see each other’s dick. I always got morning wood when I shower in the morning. It was normal and I just got used to have a hardon in front of other guys in the public shower.

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By: Richard Dey https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2004/09/28/public-showers/comment-page-2/#comment-217601 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 04:52:32 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=34#comment-217601 In reply to Bill.

Males in the US can expect no privacy at any time in their lives. Period. There is no respect, no expectations of respect. This does not toughen US men; it turns them into bullies. If you don’t respect me, why should I respect you. Even US nurses are shocked that any man would want (leastwise expect) privacy. At 18, every boy stands as naked as he does in Parisian bistro toilets with women wandering to and fro, indifferent to any man’s sense of ‘modesty’ or humiliation. I suspect that women’s disinterest in male nudity is at the heart of this double standard. America is a male-dominated female-fixated bullying society. If bullies have to take the humiliation, they can use it as a bullying tactic. If you don’t become a bully America, you become a homosexual. Imagine the new co-ed showers in American schools mandated by Title VII. All that presdsure put on homosexual males not to have unscheduled erections will now be put on bullying males trying to keep their eyes and hands off all those naked girls next to them! What goes around, comes around. Does anybody the movie ‘Wee Georgie’? That’s why I named my penis George. In the US, hospitals are now measuring men’s members which information is sold to condom manufacturers, passed into the files that go on to law offices and court rooms, and available to any floor waxer with a girlfriend who’s a temporary and has access to all our medical files. Wee Georgie, measured by a nurse at 20cm now, is now flashed around the world. Yes, our privates are now public. It serves those bullies right! If they don’t measure up, there’s always a grammar-school nurse or a 1st-form coed who’ll see to it that you are. Is not feminism back to Victorianism? Men always swam in the nude in England and New England; and learning to control Geordie was probably my 1st test of manhood.

Modesty is no onger a ‘moral’ value, as John suggests. It is now a feminist ethic to be manipulated as women see fit; I think Freud called it ‘penis envy’. Maybe there was something in it.

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By: John W. Redelfs https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2004/09/28/public-showers/comment-page-2/#comment-216315 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:29:58 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=34#comment-216315 In reply to ldsuk87.

So why at a restaurant do the ladies always go to the restroom in pairs or small groups, but the men are strictly one at a time? LOL

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By: Carl https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2004/09/28/public-showers/comment-page-2/#comment-146916 Sun, 12 Dec 2010 04:23:46 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=34#comment-146916 As a male, it would be nice to have some of the choices females enjoy in society. There are very shy men out there. There are men who are embarrased by their bodies, just like women. There are men who are overweight and too short, and sporting small packages, etc. Males don’t have the choices females have — separate showers stalls? OMG…males can’t even expect to enjoy the basic decency of excluding female reporters from their locker rooms. Males can’t even expect to shower in front of only males in jails and prisons, unlike female offenders only showering in front of female guards.

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By: Joseph Gulbransen https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2004/09/28/public-showers/comment-page-2/#comment-133930 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:55:07 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=34#comment-133930 Hi, I’m having difficulties loading your web site. Just more or less 50% in the page seems to load, and the remaining is just blank. I’m not really sure why…. but you might like to investigate it. I’ll check back later, this might be my browser fault.

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By: Moses https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2004/09/28/public-showers/comment-page-2/#comment-126891 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:58:58 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=34#comment-126891 We had communal showers in High School I worked after school with janitorial and the women had individual stalls.

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By: clay https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2004/09/28/public-showers/comment-page-2/#comment-113333 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:54:23 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=34#comment-113333 During the two months I was in the MTC I always showered after the 10 o’clock curfew. Every night. In the morning I would go in and use the sink and mirror but wouldn’t even look at the shower area. I wonder how many other Elders thought I NEVER showered. Yeah, I hated the shower setup there.

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By: Andy Spammer https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2004/09/28/public-showers/comment-page-2/#comment-79161 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:05:18 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=34#comment-79161 Maybe I am totally missing the point on this one, but I would have thought the need for separate showers for women was obvious. Every month to be exact. Surly the separate showers are to give privacy for the times in the month that you need to be alone.

Sorry but perhaps I am missing something.

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By: Arthur https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2004/09/28/public-showers/comment-page-2/#comment-77164 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:12:30 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=34#comment-77164 It seems that men are more comfortable with each other being naked than women, although women will shower together they would rather be seperate. Where i go to the gym all the individual stalls are always full, so i use the communal ones.

Also, the steam room is unisex, and most are naked, so thats okay, if not a bit strange..

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By: Julius https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2004/09/28/public-showers/comment-page-2/#comment-66833 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:52:28 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=34#comment-66833 well heres a way to look at it…
fitness clubs or gyms, schools and whatnot built communal showers because their cheaper and faster for people to get in and out, and less space.
as far as nudity goes in communal showers for me. i was skeptical at first when i went to the Y with my dad because i joined swim team and he used to. i was a bit nervous but when everyone else is doing it, its not so bad to become used to it.
and i belong to the Y and a private gym, me and my girlfriend go and she says theres communal showers for the girls too and they have no problem showering together.
i guess what all this means…. who wants to go home or go out with friend or go to work after being completely soaked in sweat or chlorine.

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