No shaving in the sauna

[e.e.cummings]

This is actually on a sign outside the sauna at our gym! Who actually SHAVED in the sauna to get that on the sign????

[Bike Chick]

How gross:eek:

[papaver]

Looooooooooooollll

[OakLeaf]

ewwwwwwwwwwww


Is it a co-ed sauna, or is it in the women's locker room?

[e.e.cummings]

It's is for the women's locker room sauna .... each time I read it I get a mental image that is hard to shake - walking in on some woman shaving her armpits or legs - ewwwwwwwwwwwww....

[lph]

I can think of even worse :eek:

[e.e.cummings]

Laugh out loud! I gotcha...

[snapdragen]

It doesn't surprise me. At the gym I used to go to, there was a woman cutting her toenails in the steam room. Ewwwww......

[redrhodie]

It doesn't surprise me. At the gym I used to go to, there was a woman cutting her toenails in the steam room. Ewwwww......

When I lived in NY, I'd see all kinds of personal grooming on the subway, especially fingernail clipping. I once saw someone cleaning her ears. I can't imagine what her bounderies would be in the sauna.

I may never go in another steam room after thinking about this.

[bikerHen]

Human behavior never ceases to amaze me. The gym I go to must keep a sign painter on staff. There seems to be a new sign up for stupid human behavior every week. Such as, no boys over 4yo in the womens locker room, the use of picture phones prohibited in the locker room and my personal favorite, that showed up last spring, Please wipe muddy shoes on outside grate before entering the building. Thankfully, no signs about shaving in the sauna, yet! Ewww!! Do people have no common sense or courtesy any more? :confused: bikerHen

[kenyonchris]

Gross. Gross. Gross.

[snapdragen]

I may never go in another steam room after thinking about this.

This is why I sit on a towel....:rolleyes:

[channlluv]

A week or so ago I was just leaving one of the shower stalls Nd passed a young girl around ten showering naked in the open shower area right outside the stalls. I walked past her around the dividing wall to the drying area and nearly ran into a boy of 7 or 8 and his mom. I stopped her from going further. "There's a girl showering right here," I said.

"Oh, he won't mind." She said. "I bring him with me all the time. I can't send him through the men's locker room alone."

They were heading for the shower stall I had just left. I didn't let him by me. "If this little girl is anything like my daughter, she'd be mortified."

"Yes, well, I wish they had a family locker room." The woman put a towel over his eyes and pushed on past me. I couldn't believe it. Maybe he was just big for his age, but holy cow. Still, what's a mother with a son in tow suuposed to do?

Roxy

[ny biker]

I used to belong to a gym that is in a hotel, so it has paying members plus hotel guests. You have to walk through a locker room to get to the workout floor. There is a sign at the front desk saying no boys over a certain age (4?) are allowed in the women's locker room and a male employee will escort them through the men's locker room if there is no adult male with them.

I once changed my clothes in front of a boy who was about 10 because his mother and grandmother decided he should stay with them. And not just to walk through the locker room, but to stay there for several minutes using a locker. I didn't realize it wasn't a girl until after I gave him a full-frontal topless show. I later told my sister about it, and she said her son who was about 10 at the time would have been freaked out if she took him into a women's locker room like that.

As for the woman who thinks it's okay for her son to see a naked 10-year-old girl in the shower, I would have filed a complaint against her with the gym management. That is NOT okay and if she doesn't understand the impact on the girl then she should lose her membership at the very least.

[Bike Chick]

I agree. A woman at my gym brought her 8 year old son in the locker room with her. One of the older ladies spoke up and said what the rest of us were thinking and told her that her son was a little too old to be in the ladies locker room. Her reply was that she didn't have anyone to accompany him in the men's locker room.

I understand her position because I raised a son but I would have never brought him in the ladies room at that age. I now have an 8 year old grandson and he certainly pays attention to the female anatomy.

This young man was all eyes and it made me uncomfortable. I can't imagine how it might have affected an 8 year old girl if she had been undressed when the young man came in. The young mother took her son and left. The following day there was a sign up on the door of the ladies room that no male children under the age of 4 were allowed in the locker room. Another sign!

[Crankin]

I agree. When my kids were in elementary school (like 7 and 9), I taught classes at a hotel health club. It had mostly outside members; not too many hotel guests used the club, and it was fairly small. One day after work, I bribed my kids to come with me so I could work out and they went to the child care room. The bribe was that I would take them for a swim in the pool after my work out. So, when we were done, they went into the men's locker room to shower and change. I completely trusted them and I knew most of the members there at that time of day. However, they were taking a really long time and I was getting very impatient to leave. I couldn't go in there, so when I saw the superintendent of our school district come out of the locker room, I asked him to go in there and check on their progress (one of the advantages of living in a small town). He came out and reported that,"Scott was blow drying his hair and Josh is looking at himself in the mirror."
My kids were furious at me and embarrassed that I had asked someone to check on them. But, what was I supposed to do? They couldn't come in the women's locker room at that age; they would have been very aware of the female anatomy!

[lph]

Oh yeah, I've done the same thing. 'cept I asked a total stranger to go check on them. They weren't mortified, just a little annoyed at my nagging. We had a bus to catch! And I figured it was less embarrassing than me opening the door and yelling "Hey, hurry UP already!"

The first time I persuaded my son to go into the men's locker room at the pool alone, age 6 or so, he came out the other end soaking wet and stark naked, carrying his swim trunks... Poor guy was a little stressed. :D

[Tuckervill]

I am not afraid to stand at the door of any men's room and holler inside. I have even given a count of three warning before I went in or heard someone answer. I have all sons--if something has happened to them I don't give a fig about some random guy's privacy. I'm going in there to find out what's happening.

Karen