showering nude?

[Irulan]

I've also noticed that older women seem more comfortable being nude than younger. That always made me laugh because you'd think it would be the opposite, right? We generally look better nude when younger! I figured it was just that it takes a few decades to get comfortable with your body. I'm certainly more comfortable now, approaching 40 yrs, than I was when I was 20 or 18.

I was offended in the locker room this summer when I was there with my daughter and a woman was loudly criticizing people's habits of using the cubicle shower and the curtained off changing room, instead of the open shower and the rest of the locker room. My 16 yr old is NOT comfortable being naked in front of anyone, and while I'm ok with all of that when complete strangers are around I wasn't comfortable with it around her either. (That seems weird to me-- that I'm more comfortable being naked around strangers than around family. But there it is!) Anyway it wasn't that woman's place to be judgmental about it.

It's pretty rude to be loud and judgmental anywhere.

Teens are notoriously modest. I think that's pretty developmentally common, even in homes where nudity is a common factor. It's how they start to learn boundaries.

[channlluv]

My daughter has been coming with me to the Y for a couple of years now and she was shy about changing clothes in the locker room at first, but now she strips down just like everybody else, at 13. She's got a pretty healthy body image, I guess. Of course, when we're in there, we're often there alongside teens from the swim team who are just as naked as they day they were born, too, and completely comfortable around each other. I think she's taking her cues from them.

Roxy

[shootingstar]

This whole thread reminds me how little I use public fitness facilities and their communal /shared changing/shower facilities.

I just rarely use indoor fitness facilities because I haven't used the equipment/paid fees for their use.

As for public jacuzzis, I'm only familiar with co-ed ones which require swimming suits. I used to use them but found the warm/hot water dried out my skin.