Open Showers

[Workoutbud09]

I checked it out. Thanks.

There is also Monkey Butt.

I’m envisioning a lockerroom full of naked guys, out of the showers, all slathering on their balls all of these lotions. Nice!!!

 

[ScottTheJockGuy]

My daily lecture as a former PE teacher. In the era when PE programs were mandatory and provided participants a good sweaty workout, in larger schools shower facilities
had to of adequate size to shower down perhaps 100 or more students in approximately 3 minutes allotted. The 5 nozzle pole showers along with multi head wall shower fixtures performed the task, but ideally the shower room needed one shower head for each student so you guys can do the math.

The image with the windows was a a required calisthenics class for freshmen at Missouri University. I do not know the design or size of the locker room shower facilities at MU or for the two other exercise groups shown but I would wager they were group showers, likely pole showers rather than cubicles with shower curtains.

Some of you may remember the "tunnel" showers shown in the first two images. While far less common than the open showers, they were found in some military, swimming pool and school PE locker rooms. The simple straddle pipe design on the left was more common, but the fancy Bradley tunnel shower fixture was used for many years in the Yale University locker room. Add a chemical foot bath at the end and the class was ready "and attired" for swim class! I suspect the "undercarriage" sprays could have presented a problem for the shorter students, especially if he shower line slowed or stopped when they were astraddle. As I recall the sales literature promoting the tunnel shower systems indicated they were fast, thorough, provided an efficient method to record shower roll call and prevented UNDESIRABLE BEHAVIOR often found in other shower systems.

My curious mind made me wonder what they meant by undesirable behavior.

I can’t help but wonder about those tunnel showers. It doesn’t seem like it gives an opportunity to soap up. I could see this being fine for showering on the way to the pool, but what about an after gym class shower?
Or was soaping up in the locker room showers not really a thing?

 

[BillyC]

I’m envisioning a lockerroom full of naked guys, out of the showers, all slathering on their balls all of these lotions. Nice!!!

What’s NOT nice are the guys in the locker room who use powders and get it all over the counters, benches and most annoyingly the floor. Assholes!

 

[BillyC]

I can’t help but wonder about those tunnel showers. It doesn’t seem like it gives an opportunity to soap up. I could see this being fine for showering on the way to the pool, but what about an after gym class shower?
Or was soaping up in the locker room showers not really a thing?

It was when I was in middle school and after — the coaches and team managers would sometimes make certain we soaped up.

 

[Workoutbud09]

What’s NOT nice are the guys in the locker room who use powders and get it all over the counters, benches and most annoyingly the floor. Assholes!

Totally agree with you. Powder gets everywhere.

 

[Workoutbud09]

It was when I was in middle school and after — the coaches and team managers would sometimes make certain we soaped up.

I’ve never seen tunnel showers.

 

[Absolute1906]

OMG…..the different scents. Your right! I forgot about that part. Wasn’t Old Spice one of them? Talk about remembering your youth. LOL How about Cruex? Aerosol spray for your nuts. It burned when it got sprayed on. Do they still sell it? I use happy balls lotion. Rub on like a lotion, dries into a powder.

I love happy balls!

 

[Monty_Ross]

What’s NOT nice are the guys in the locker room who use powders and get it all over the counters, benches and most annoyingly the floor. Assholes!

There’s a guy at my gym who puts a towel down on the floor before he dumps half a bottle of powder all over his balls and crotch and ass. He thinks he’s doing a good thing by putting the towel down. Fucker doesn’t realize that he’d have to cover the whole area with the amount of powder he sprays everywhere. And then, he picks up the towel and uses it… with the side that was touching the floor!!

 

[Workoutbud09]

There’s a guy at my gym who puts a towel down on the floor before he dumps half a bottle of powder all over his balls and crotch and ass. He thinks he’s doing a good thing by putting the towel down. Fucker doesn’t realize that he’d have to cover the whole area with the amount of powder he sprays everywhere. And then, he picks up the towel and uses it… with the side that was touching the floor!!

Plus all that powder flying off the towel. Why hasn’t one or more people complain to management?

 

[ScottTheJockGuy]

OMG…..the different scents. Your right! I forgot about that part. Wasn’t Old Spice one of them? Talk about remembering your youth. LOL How about Cruex? Aerosol spray for your nuts. It burned when it got sprayed on. Do they still sell it? I use happy balls lotion. Rub on like a lotion, dries into a powder.

That’s one of those things I miss from high school. Not just the smell of sweat and balls, but the smell of the soap and the ridiculous amounts of axe body spray that were used

 

[BillyC]

There’s a guy at my gym who puts a towel down on the floor before he dumps half a bottle of powder all over his balls and crotch and ass. He thinks he’s doing a good thing by putting the towel down. Fucker doesn’t realize that he’d have to cover the whole area with the amount of powder he sprays everywhere. And then, he picks up the towel and uses it… with the side that was touching the floor!!

Men are pigs — no question about us. Some of us more than others, obviously, and in not great ways.

 

[Workoutbud09]

Men are pigs — no question about us. Some of us more than others, obviously, and I’m not great ways.

Axe body spray. Lol yes! And don’t forget old spice on the old guys….. which I’m turning into. lol

 

[billTO]

Axe is sickening. The female equivalent is/was Scheherezade. Headache inducing especially in an elevator.

 

[Bigbubble12]

I went to a gym years ago that had an open shower plan with 6 shower heads, but only soap dispenser was on the opposite wall, so there were times you’d get some soap, turn around and all the heads were being used and you were forced to share a shower head. Most guys were used to it and a little bump was to be expected. Great memories actually.

Yes same here…there’d be 8-10 guys and only 4-6 shower heads…bumps and curious eyes were expected !

 

[BillyC]

Yes same here…there’d be 8-10 guys and only 4-6 shower heads…bumps and curious eyes were expected !

Same.

 

[Workoutbud09]

Same.

The trick was being there when nobody cared. Otherwise you were screwed.

 

[BillyC]

The trick was being there when nobody cared. Otherwise you were screwed.

Thinking back, I can’t recall anyone ever caring at all. The horseplay was necessary — otherwise our raging teenage hormones would drown us. And the coaches didn’t give a shit unless someone cried or had to go to the nurse. Fortunately nobody among my classmates was a pussy and cried from their turn being the butt of the horseplay, and if they got hurt, they toughed it out.

 

[Workoutbud09]

Thinking back, I can’t recall anyone ever caring at all. The horseplay was necessary — otherwise our raging teenage hormones would drown us. And the coaches didn’t give a shit unless someone cried or had to go to the nurse. Fortunately nobody among my classmates was a pussy and cried from their turn being the butt of the horseplay, and if they got hurt, they toughed it out.

You’ve got that right. Billy, did you grow up in Hawaii?

 

[SwimmerJock]

Reminds me of when I was traveling through Europe during study abroad. At my hostel in Prague, the men's locker room had 5 shower stalls, no curtains, side by side. I got up one morning and took my dopp kit and towel to get ready. I didn't know that the prior evening a high school group from Germany checked in. So you can imagine my surprise when I, half-asleep and in my sleeping shorts, walked into the bathroom to find about 15 naked, BEAUTIFUL, fit, and hung German boys frolicking and messing around. There were at least 2 guys in each stall showering together and another group wrestling naked in the center area, all soaped up and slippery. It was a real life Bel Ami movie (without the sex) and it was wild. They sprayed me with water and encouraged me to join them. Sadly, I didn't, because I knew my erection would betray me but I still kick myself to this day for letting fear get the best of me.

Fantastic! I’ve also happened upon similar situations during a few (of many) trips to Europe, especially Germany. [Naked] body acceptance is part of the European cultural landscape, even guys showing healthy erections without shame, embarrassment or self-awarenes. Also, seen a few guys openly masturbate to ejaculation in showers and saunas…. the prevailing attitude seems to be “I‘ve grown a nice boner, and might as well enjoy it for what it’s worth.” ….and, we’re all men here, so, I pity the poor S.O.B. who can‘t relate to raising and pleasuring his own penis ! Sadly, even basic nudity on same-gender fitness/spa/health/cleansing evnironments is not well-appreciated in American facilities any longer. Now, those places relaxed enough to allow/encourage nudity must be sought as the exception.

 

[SwimmerJock]

My old gym had the same setup and the men would sometimes have to share the same shower heads. Bumbing was expected and I am sure in some situations, encouraged. I know I had gouged a few guys with my sword, but it seemed less offensive when your all lathered up with body wash... it turns really interesting if a guy dropped his soap!!

We would sometimes find it convenient, and expedient to soap each other’s backs at the YMCA showers, especially when the gang showers became overcrowded with more guys than available shower heads. The facility was old, and several shower heads would simultaneously be “out of service,” thus, overcrowding the remaining showers. We often visibly appreciated the forced camraderie… a great bonding experience !

 

[SwimmerJock]

I can’t help but wonder about those tunnel showers. It doesn’t seem like it gives an opportunity to soap up. I could see this being fine for showering on the way to the pool, but what about an after gym class shower?
Or was soaping up in the locker room showers not really a thing?

Open showers at my junior high and high school back in the day, still there as far as I know. Our local Y had open showers but installed private changing stalls with showers after they remodeled the lockerroom. The gym I belong to has a traditional lockerroom with individual showers and shower curtains. No action there yet but I'm always hoping!

 

[Absolute1906]

We would sometimes find it convenient, and expedient to soap each other’s backs at the YMCA showers, especially when the gang showers became overcrowded with more guys than available shower heads. The facility was old, and several shower heads would simultaneously be “out of service,” thus, overcrowding the remaining showers. We often visibly appreciated the forced camraderie… a great bonding experience !

Absolutely a bonding period, this is the beginning of a Bathhouse!!

 

[SwimmerJock]

It’s hard to imagine or calculate simply the amount of maintenance/cleaning efficiency that is sacrificed in a newer shower room full of divider walls, partitions, shower curtains , and doors, as compared to the simplicity, efficiency, and thorough cleansing of a shower room with an unobstructed floor, four tiled walls, and clusters (or aligned) of shower heads. That fails to mention the bonding and body acceptance lessons that are lost by not seeing and accepting another guy in his natural form. What are we protecting each other from by hiding our natural selves from each other? The irony in this is that so much nudity in the form of sexual expression is forced upon us through the internet, that we soon believe that there is no other cause/reason for our nudity except in a sexual encounter.

 

[Absolute1906]

It’s hard to imagine or calculate simply the amount of maintenance/cleaning efficiency that is sacrificed in a newer shower room full of divider walls, partitions, shower curtains , and doors, as compared to the simplicity, efficiency, and thorough cleansing of a shower room with an unobstructed floor, four tiled walls, and clusters (or aligned) of shower heads. That fails to mention the bonding and body acceptance lessons that are lost by not seeing and accepting another guy in his natural form. What are we protecting each other from by hiding our natural selves from each other? The irony in this is that so much nudity in the form of sexual expression is forced upon us through the internet, that we soon believe that there is no other cause/reason for our nudity except in a sexual encounter.

I conquer! Well said..

 

[Workoutbud09]

I conquer! Well said..

What’s next? Covering up and hiding our feet in public?