Gay shower locker room
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Published in:November-December 2019 issue.
IN THE EARLY 1980s, I began to patronize a gym at the University of Toronto. The locker room proved interesting. The juvenile men seemed arrogant of their bodies, and normally walked totally naked to and from the showers, a towel slung casually over the shoulder. It was clearly a badge of fit masculinity to notice comfortable in one’s birthday suit.
If I remember correctly, it was in the late 1990s when first I noticed a significant switch in locker-room action. To put it succinctly: young, presumably heterosexual men stopped showering together, and have never gone back. Today, if they do shower, they make sure to walk from their locker to the showers with a towel wrapped securely around their middle. Then they make use of the private shower stalls—a fairly recent amenity, apparently installed for reasons of modesty. At my gym, there is still a communal shower option, but I see guys patiently waiting for an unoccupied confidential stall, even though there are plenty of communal showerheads available. But more typical nowadays are locker rooms with separate shower stalls with curtains or doors as the only option, with no communal s
Are Gay Guys Checking You Out in the Locker Room?
As the first active member of one of the major sports leagues to come out as gay, NBA player Jason Collins's announcement yesterday has generated praise from gay-rights supporters. Predictably, it has also prompted dire warnings about gays in the locker room from homophobes like the Family Research Council's Brian Fischer:
I will guarantee you ... if the ownership of whatever team is thinking about bringing him advocate , or thinking about trading for him, and they move to the players on that team and they speak 'How do you feel about an out active lesbian being in the same locker room, sharing the identical shower facilities with you?' they'll express no way. I don't want that. I do not want some guy, a teammate, eyeballing me in the shower.
This seems to be a concern primarily among men-women, for whatever reason, aren't half as scared of lesbians-but it's a common refrain among homophobes trying to stoke gay panic. The gay-shower scenario comes up whenever public discussion turns to gays in sports, and it was also a concern during the debate over "don't ask, don't tell," with some members of the military suggesting separate showering f
An amusingdiscussionover at Andrew Sullivan’s blog on John Amaechi noting that in NBA locker rooms guys "check each other out" all the time. One reader writes Andrew:
I don’t get this whole "taking a shower with your gay team-mates thing." I am straight. Straight as an arrow. I like women. I love boobs. I do not discover the penis sexy. Very, very straight …
And I check out guys in the shower. I am always curious what other guys look like. I am always comparing and contrasting. Any guy who tells you he does not sneak a climax is full of crap. If you shower in a gym, it does not matter if you are showering with lgbtq+ guys, straight guys, Chippendale dancers or the Dalai Lama himself … everyone is checking everyone else out.
I work out at the Flatiron Athletic Club, which was last year named the best gym in America, and my routine is workout, shower, hot tub. I now hot-tub about six days a week, and it’s awesome.
The spacious locker room dynamics are fascinating. You have some guys who are all-towel (minority). Some guys who are towel-less but comfortable (majority). Some guys who are towel-less but slightly uncomfortable (they