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TLDR; I visited a YMCA which I found out has a major reputation for older guys cruising/being creepy. Had a great open shower and nice renovated facilities, but the gross behavior pretty much ruined the experience. "After renewing his membership at the facility, Keister experienced his first, in what would eventually become a series of unwanted sexual advances and activity taking place at the Asheville YMCA facility.

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"Keister was showering in the men's locker rooms showers when two men entered the shower area together from the pool. One point that is obvious but perhaps worth noting: policies seem to vary from YMCA to YMCA. I can say, too, that the locker rooms I've used can have varying attitudes depending on the time of use.

A pool, for example, might have people showering nude at certain times. And then other times, everyone wears a swim suit. Other guys will stare at you in the showers.

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I've been followed from the sauna to steam room to the showers by dudes before. And there are some dudes who will be playing with themselves. It's super creepy and now I'm thinking about cancelling my membership and going somewhere else. Anybody else notice this? Archived post. YMCA Rules Confusing? I attended a new YMCA yesterday and am confused about allowed nudity in the locker room.

There is a dry sauna and steam room in the exclusively adult men's locker room and there is a sign requiring swimwear.

There is a communal shower as well as showers with dividers and curtains. Follow Us:. Crowd: All the gay muscle boys in Norfolk - oh yeah and lots of families - stick to the single men's locker room with the sauna and steam rooms that look into the shower area! To deal with the attendant odor from working out, they douse themselves in deodorant, if necessary from head to foot.

The mingling of nudity and sex is such that we have trouble imagining that a nude body can be entirely sexless and even uninteresting. If just being naked with other men is intrinsically sexual, then it is by definition gay. Then they make use of the private shower stalls—a fairly recent amenity, apparently installed for ymca of modesty.

The casualness of nudity in gay environments is documented in a wide range of sources right up to the postwar era. Share Facebook Twitter Reddit Email. When the YMCA was an exclusive club for men and boys, bathing suits were optional. It seems kind of counter-intuitive now, but there was an argument that could be made that restricting gay sexuality was also a repressive attempt to push gays back into the closet as well as further stigmatizing gay men.

Tagged Chelsea. Men swim naked gay the seashore. Detail of the above. They largely disappeared starting in the late s, after decades of concern over poor living conditions, social demonization of the poor, and an aggressive real estate development push under New York City Mayor Ed Koch. By Catalina Gonella. And swimmers must strip in order to get into their trunks.

Published Dec 20, Modified Dec 21, When we first moved to New Orleans there was shower a Y gay Lee Circle now Harmony Circle ; the Lee Circle Y had been there shower and was actually kind of historic; one of the Israeli athletes murdered at the Munich Olympics was a Tulane student who worked out at the Y.

That discussion began in the late 19th century, as did much else concerning human sexuality—but only in restricted circles. Because Hart Ymca was open only to men, as stipulated by the principal donor, the indoor swimming pool was monosexual. Peasants strip and swim naked in a stream. The fall of Rome and the ascent of Christianity, which is not normally thought of as friendly toward nudity, undoubtedly put a damper on many sexual practices, but there was never any ymca taboo on nudity among males unlike in many Islamic cultures.

In the background, male peasants halt their hard work to cool themselves with a swim in a stream, stripping naked to do so—presumably a perfectly typical event during harvest. You can follow her on Instagram white. Just as paintings or sculptures of nude males have become embarrassing or suspect—just watch the nervous response of a heterosexual man to the sight of nude male statuary in a museum—so has male nudity in the real world become problematical, because it is now tainted with the possibility of gay desire.

Although these upper-class males do not doff their underwear, it is so skimpy that, especially when wet, it would have left little to the imagination. If you're confused, a lawsuit says you're not alone. Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in If I remember correctly, it was in the late s when first I noticed a significant change in locker-room behavior.