Naked Men Showering Together

Those of you who go to the gym or do sports like rugby or football will be familiar with the consequences of these activities. You get sweaty, or dirty, or both. And so, naturally you need a good showering off.

Now, when you have a shower at home, it's usually quite a personal experience - the cubicle is designed for one person so you go in and have your shower without involving anyone else in the process.

But in changing rooms, you're thrown in with a load of other people who you may or may not know and are expected to shower with them. Now, I don't know if you've noticed this, but when such communal showering occurs, invariably there is a total segregation of the sexes. Men are expected to shower together. Women are expected to shower together. But the men are expected to shower completely separately from the women?

Why is this?

Is it because if you put naked people of mixed sexes together in a shower it can become a sexual turn on? Doesn't sound too unreasonable, does it? People generally like seeing members of the opposite sex without any clothes, and since the act of showering after a sports session is for no other purpose than to get clean and freshen up it makes sense to separate the sexes.

But what about gays?

If there's one gay bloke in the men's showers, well, to him it would be equivalent to a straight bloke being in the women's showers. In fact, if a whole rugby team are showering together then statistically out of 13 men (15 in the case of Rugby Union) there's bound to be one gay. How does he stop himself getting a raging bonk on? Does he have to close his eyes and think of Carol Vorderman?

So, what should we do about this? Should we have gays men showering in the women's changing rooms? Similarly, should lesbians shower with the men?

Excuse me, I'll have to go now. I'm getting a raging bonk on.

Mike 17 Dec 2001

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