Communal showers
I’m new to the world of communal showers, because for years I managed to avoid P.E. at school by presenting a forged note from my mum and then slipping over the fence to the local greasy spoon café to play Asteroids and smoke.
But now I’m a member of a gym, and so I find myself regularly in a shower, in the nude, with other men. I often work out with my mate Matt, and have absolutely no inhibitions about being naked in front of a friend of 27 years. Equally, I have no shyness about nakedness in front of a group of complete strangers.
But occasionally there are people from work in the changing rooms. They’re perfectly pleasant chaps who I’ll say a cheery hello to at the coffee machine, but I find myself unexpectedly ill-at-ease being in the buff in front of them.
Legions of grateful ladies will attest to the fact the dimensions of the Bruce Juice Introducer® are nothing to be bashful about, so I find it odd that I should feel this way.
Are you comfortable getting your bits out in the presence of co-workers? Does my discomfort reveal deep psychological trauma—or, even worse, issues? Do tell.
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i work in an office filled with lovely ladies. i’ll let you know if i get uncomfortable or not once we start doing communal showers at work…
March 8th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Well, I play 5-a-side with people from work some lunchtimes, so I obviously need to use the communal changing rooms, shower and so on. Well, either that or be all sweaty and horrible (well, more so than usual) all afternoon.
So I’ll get changed/ showered/ etc as and when it’s appropriate. I don’t feel uneasy about it, but I wouldn’t go as far as your phrasing “comfortable getting your bits out in the presence of co-workers” because it sounds like you’re meaning it’s something that would otherwise happen on a quiet afternoon in your office…
Also, I’m puzzled that you feel the need to state that you shower “in the nude”. I’ve never heard of anyone showering “clothes on”, as it were…
March 8th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
The ‘Bruce Juice Introducer’?
Good God man, you should be in PR or advertising. Or something. Just how long did you take to think that gem out?
March 14th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Why thanks Ian - it took me no time at all; it just fell out of the keyboard!
March 17th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
“it just fell out of the keyboard!”
I’m glad that it fell “out of” and not “on to”. Of course, if you were typing with the old chap, that would officially make you a clever dick.
March 19th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
i just started using the public shower at school this year(08) and at first i was nervous about it but i acjusted when i got to know the people i was showering with better and now i just strip to the buff and get it done
May 29th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Well im 21 and having gone threw high school as the big jock, I have grown used to using communal showers with a bunch of the guys from my team. Well, it makes things easier because I have a really well sized dick- I’m not kidding my mine is bulging out of my pants all the time. So there isn’t any shame for me to bear it all in front of anyone, so if you too have a big one you should be just as confident as me. Hell, when I’m taking a piss i just stand back and relax, if people wanna take a glance I have not the slightest shame. Like after long movies when you’re in a bathroom with 20 other men and all the urinals are taken up, people are all crowed to the wall trying to cover up the same thing we all have- Hey there! were all grown men, no point in covering up you’re dick, spread out- no one cares.
June 25th, 2008 at 3:40 am
Hm. Here in Norway, communal showers are pretty much the norm, and I’m very comfortable with showering in the nude. But I admit that suddenly seeing someone you know (but didn’t expect to be there) is a bit strange - it seems the brain is eager to tell me that “You’ve never seen each other naked before…”
Most of all, however, I think communal showers is a very healthy concept.
September 12th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
I was always a big jock in High School and now in College. I’ve been using communal showers with the guys on my teams for years and it has never bothered me. We have a pisser in the locker room running around naked and hitting the showers together. Sure guys rag on other guys because of the size of thier dick and shit but you have to be proud of your body bro. I didn’t go through puberty till I was 16 so a number of guys had pubic hair before I did but now most of us guys shave our pubes so it was all bull shit any way. Showering with other guys on your team is a bonding experience and has made the guys on my team like brothers to me. I don’t understand why so many guys are afraid to shower in front of other guys. They must be queer.
October 17th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Never tried communal showers before, our school had them but no one ever used them. I sit here and think that I would probably be freaked out to shower with other guys in the nuddy, but I reckon if I actually did it, I would probably get “excited” for a second, then I would get over it and just shower like normal.
November 16th, 2008 at 10:47 am