showering nude?

[skhill]

This has all been very interesting!

At the Y I use, we have shower stalls with curtains, and the norm is to wear at least a towel while walking around. A few change in the toilet stalls, but most of us are at the lockers, making some efforts towards modesty (facing the wall while putting on underwear/bra). However, there are quite a few older women who do walk around naked. It's kind of wonderful, how comfortable they are in their own skin.

[NbyNW]

People really can have different attitudes ...

Last winter I was at a mountain resort in Canada, getting dressed after my shower .... it was a small locker room so I couldn't help but notice that a mother with small children, juggling all of her things and her kids' things, had taken her things to a toilet stall to change.

Moments later, her little girl, maybe 5-6 years old, exclaimed in shock: "MOM! THERE ARE PEOPLE CHANGING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LOCKER ROOM!"

I couldn't her the mother's reply, but then the girl yelled back to her, "BUT ISN'T THAT RUDE?"

Which set off chuckling throughout the rest of the locker room.

[shootingstar]

It is rude and arrogant for anyone to suggest that modesty has anything whatsoever to do with negative body image. Personally I think my body is fairly terrific -- but being forced to parade around nude to satisfy someone else's idea of what is correct? Not going to happen.

I would tend to agree with Pam. I know that part of my modesty is how I was raised as a child. It was not religious upbringing but simply parents who grew up prior to the 1940's when still alot of Chinese women in China, did not show much skin unless they were Westernized.

So my parents carried over the same old fashioned standard when they immigrated to Canada in the 1950's.

I have a good body image that since I am aware many women in my age bracket probably envy me ..based on their comments to me. And cycling often has helped me alot in weight control.

But still, the most skin I even show are my legs in shorts. I don't even wear cropped tank tops...because I'm small up top.

So maybe I don't feel totally la-de-dah butt naked in a women's change/shower area...because I'm small busted... a hang over from teen years.

Ach,.....I haven't seen my sisters totally naked as a adults, except when they were babies and helped my mother by taking their baths, as the eldest kid. We're very polite to each other....we turn away from each other to change. But don't worry, doctor sister will smarten us up if she needs to examine us.

[Selkie]

Do what makes you comfortable and don't worry about it. IMHO, walking around naked, without a towel, in a single-sex locker room is acceptable and no one else should be shocked/offended by it. People can choose to towel up or go au naturel. If someone wants to look/judge, then that's their issue.

[Blueberry]

Do what makes you comfortable and don't worry about it. IMHO, walking around naked, without a towel, in a single-sex locker room is acceptable and no one else should be shocked/offended by it. People can choose to towel up or go au naturel. If someone wants to look/judge, then that's their issue.

Very well said!

[malkin]

Do what makes you comfortable and don't worry about it. IMHO, walking around naked, without a towel, in a single-sex locker room is acceptable and no one else should be shocked/offended by it. People can choose to towel up or go au naturel. If someone wants to look/judge, then that's their issue.

This.

Also in an unfamiliar place I would (do) probably take cues from others and do what seems normal in that space, since I don't care very much. I will also wrap up more if I am freezing!