O/T Swimming pool etiquette

I personally dont like it either! But everybody is different i suppose.

I go swimming every wednesday to Aqua Aerobics and there are these three woman who shower with nothing on! Thats why i skip the shower and wait till i get home lol!

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I think thats weird! Not my kinda thing, I have a quick wash under the showers but a proper shower at home. Personally, I dont think thats appropriate in a public shower but each to their own I suppose.

Haha, it's good you don't come to my gym - pretty much everyone goes nude in the showers - it's communal changing rooms so nobody's too bothered. Frankly I don't mind it - shaving is the thing I find nasty!

wtf!!! they shave in public showers? I'm beginning to realise what a sheltered life I lead?

Haha, tbf I've not seen that at my current place, but I have in the past. I don't really like people doing anything more than washing - I don't really approve of exfoliating etc.

I don't think it is appropriate at all unless there are separate showering areas for females and males which wasn't the case here. If it was a female only changing room then I would still be uncomfortable and would probably run away from the naked ladies!!

Hey ho its only nature we all have to do it, but still scrubbing your twopence in public is not very lady like!

I would be way too embarrassed to go in the shower if there were nudey ladies in there! It was bad enough when my niece saw me in the shower and pointed, went urrgghhh auntie whats that down there? lol!!!

I think it depends doesn't it - my gym everyone does it - so therefore it doesn't feel weird. Whereas I guess if people don't - it's like you were a bikini on the beach but probut prob wouldn't do to walk down the road!

Omg!!! thats sick! I now have these visions of a woman shaving her muff in the showers wrong I know... If I wanted to see other womens fangitas and Babylons I'd look porn!

I'm gonna go against the grain. When I 1st started at a gym I found it really weird but now I always shower in the buff. No point in showering twice, plus their showers are so powerful. H2B has just informed me that it happens in the blokes changing rooms too. Was a little weird recently showering naked next to the instructor who'd just taken the class but we had a nice chat!

I hate public swimming pools because of the changing rooms in general and wouldn't feel clean in them anyway, so would always shower when I got home. Just the thought of public swimming pools - the loo roll on the floor, the muck off people's shoes, the hairs everywhere is enough to make me want to be sick. *shudder* I do prefer it when public pools have shower cubicles though. Overall, I prefer being a member of a hotel spa and/or gym though so the changing rooms are always immaculate.

The gym is a bit different though and I don't see any problem with nudity there - though I live so close that I just run out and shower at home anyway cause it's easier to change at home for me. Do prefer if people sit on their towels in the sauna though!

Well it seems its a lot more common than I thought but unfortunately that doesn't make me any more comfortable with it. I think I'll stick to running until my usual pool is refurbed!

I think its pretty weird too although I've seen girls in the gym marching around with no clothes on before!!! Swimming pools are a bit different as there are kids and adults of all ages there so I would say its a little less appropriate.

Not for me but to each their own I suppose.

When I used to go to the gym I would baracade myself in a changing cubicle ( there were only 4), Strange really when I am quite happy to go topless on the beach. It just seems more personal showering in front of strangers.

Me too! The gym I am at now is council run and has horrible showers and changing rooms like at school. But when I could afford to go to the private gym, everyone showered naked, including myself. Ok, to start I would try not to look around just in case someone thought I was looking at their bits, but after a while you get used to it - as Blackkat says - no point in showering twice is there?

I think that's the culture in that pool. Each place tend to have their own ways and I guess that's just their way there, right?. ? Its bad pool etiquette for most people but for some its just alright. You should raise this issue to the management if your bothered so they could post something on the walls that prohibit nudity in the showers. ?

I am quite happy to go starkers in the shower at gym / pool ........
However I did live in Germany for a year and it was practically abnormal not to take your cosy off ?.

In fact I recall on a works skiing weekend, my boss mentioned that everyone was off to the local pool in the evening - i said i hadn't packed my swimming costume. "No problem" He says, "you can just relax in the sauna" ............ naked in front of work colleagues? ?

I could never go naked, not because it bothers me but because i am extreemley self concious.

Its bad enough wearing a bikini! I cringe, i hate my legs and bum and belly! We went to egypt for 2 weeks on the 1st March and by the end of the holiday my OH was like for god sake no one is looking at you stop being so self concious... which was a bit mean because i felt so crap.

Thats what gave me the push to loose weight now though...

But back to the pool thing, no i would never shower naked, i wont even go swimming as i feel too naked!

Hmmm, naked showering at the pool is a little odd seeing as it's a family place. Naked at the gym is more acceptable.

Saying that, I'd never shower naked at either! The thought terrifies me. I love my body... but if some size 8 28FF model walked in I'd implode with self-loathing!