Quote from: AnneK on March 23, 2017, 07:57:54 AM
Ummm... That actually happened back when I was in high school. We all used the change room and had to shower after gym class. There was often some joker who'd snap his towel at someone. One other thing I noticed was the girls didn't shower after their gym class and that was certainly noticeable in the following classes.
These days, I often go to a public pool. I am amazed to see so many guys feel they have to hide themselves, when getting changed. That certainly wasn't the way things were done when I was younger. I suspect this is a very unhealthy trend, where people are taught to be ashamed of their bodies.
I know that because of the fear of predators, many parents are, and have been, teaching that your privates (or even secondary parts of you) should be hidden at all times from others unless mom and dad say it is okay... eventually as the kid gets older you talk more about who you can share these parts with.... but it leaves you ingrained with the impression that your body is to be hidden....
Which is why I find it absurd that some parents I know tell these things to their daughter while wearing a VERY low-cut shirt and a mini skirt that barely covers them. They tell their daughters to hide their bodies while exposing everything... I have no problem with the outfit, wear what you want, but the hipocracy is frustrating.
In my gym class you changed and that was it. Showers were only used by the sports teams after practice. (while I was in JROTC I had many friends in regular gym and we shared experiences and talked about differences)
They said they all changed as fast as possible, one of my friends keeping her gym clothes under her reg until class and only fully changing after. My sister said the rule was look down and do it fast. lol
My mister said it was often similar in the boys locker room. No unders ever came off so genitals were never an issue. And a trans teen would easily be able to slip by by wearing a tank that they do not remove in the locker room.