What type of changing room user are you?
Since using the Nuffield Fitness and Wellbeing Gym i have been observing the habits of the womens changing rooms. Not in a weird pervy way of course but its always quite fascinated me how different peoples comfort levels are about being naked in front of people.
I'm not a prude at all and quite like to have a good gander at a nice fit body of any sex and even a butchers at the not so perfect always helps keep your insecurities in check. Oh come on everyone has a side ways look now and again.... Sometimes i find myself taken aback by peoples 'strange' behaviour.
Yesterday a fully clothed woman wearing her coat returned to the changing rooms found her friend who was totally starkers and drying her private bits in the communal area and had a fully blown conversation. My brain just computes this as wrong. Am i wrong?
See if that was me i'd have stopped drying myself covered myself in the towel had the conversation and then resumed drying.
Another woman come to open her locker after her shower and literally put her fanny in my face last week. She was totally naked, just holding her towel in her hand, untrimmed and centimeters from my face!
It might be me, maybe i am a prude but if you've got a towel just use it even if its just a little bit?!
If you really must dry every inch of your lower regions with that much enthusiasm then grab yourself a changing cubicle, for the love of God.
Saying all of this i have an admission to make...
The other day i found myself surrounded my a group of elderly ladies, all somewhat larger ladies and i stripped right off, blinding them with my 34 years and resent weight loss. I left feeling a million dollars.
God you make me laugh Sarah! I totally agree once i was in a gym and I couldnt believe it one lady cocked her leg up on a bench and dried her bits for about five minutes.
ReplyDeleteAnother time I took Little man swimming, I was rushing and when my towel fell off I didnt put it back on again as I wanted to get him dry. Then a crowd of children walked in who had just finished their swimming class! And you can guess where their lockers were. . .yeap right next to me! oh the shame!
Hahaha so true, good on you for the ego massage too
ReplyDeleteB xx
So true!!!
ReplyDeleteI am a size 18 and go to the sauna regularly. Don't have a problem with being naked at all but drying off my private parts as you describe is 'not done'. What I find funny is that occasionally other people have a problem with my size or perhaps more the fact that I am very self assured. That confuses some people apparently:-)
LOL I've always observed the changing room habits and been quite amused. I'm in no way a prude and certainly dont try and do the whole "Towel covering body whilst putting underwear on thing" I'll just do it starkers, but I do respect that other people dont nessercairly want to see you starkers and with your full genitals on show however some people do wander around like they have no care in the world and like no one else is even in the room and that does make me a little uncomfortable!
ReplyDeleteIt does freak me out a bit when people walk round completely starkers! I find myself trying extra hard to maintain EYE contact! I think I'm quite a shy person when it comes to nudity and would rather look a plonker trying to get my knickers on under my towel! Haha! I know, I'm one of those ones! Certainly not a prude though, just shy! If I had that confidence I'd be flaunting it!
ReplyDeleteWhy is it that even if no one else is in the changing room guarenteed the first person in next will have their stuff in the locker next to yours?
ReplyDeleteIt doesnt bother me at all if I see other women changing at the pool/drying themselves. Personally I use a cubicle but thats cos I have a very horrible body ( I kid ye not) If I were slim and didnt have all the stretch marks and my boobs were a little more solid/stable lol then changing in front of people wouldnt bother me I dont think. If there are no cubicles free then I dont get changed
ReplyDeleteYeah a fanny in the face is always a bit too much i find ;<)
ReplyDeleteBeing serious though, i find as i get older the less i give a shit. Where once i would have got dressed one handed with the other holding the towel, while i wiggled items of clothing on and off, now i just hold my breath and try to get it over and done with quickly.
It doesnt bother me at all if I see other women changing at the pool/drying themselves. Personally I use a cubicle but thats cos I have a very horrible body ( I kid ye not) If I were slim and didnt have all the stretch marks and my boobs were a little more solid/stable lol then changing in front of people wouldnt bother me I dont think. If there are no cubicles free then I dont get changed
ReplyDeleteIf it were a good friend of mine, I would have just kept drying off and not cared what she saw. I'm not at all shy about my nude body around other females. I'm not trying to showoff by any means, I'm just not shy about being nude around other females.
ReplyDeleteIf someone that I didn't know, or barely knew, were to approach me while I was nude, I would probably cover up a little bit, strictly so I didn't make them uncomfortable.
When I lived in the women's dorms at college my roommates and I carried on conversations while we were in the nude while we were all getting ready in the morning, or to go out at night. The moment one girl exited the shower, another one of us was standing there in the buff and climbed into the shower. With 4 girls sharing one bathroom we saw each other nude a million times and no one cared in the least.