I live in Northwest Ohio and belong to the YMCA with my wife. And i am proud to be a semi-smoothy ( pubic region and back fully shaved everywhere else trimmed)I proudly walk to and from the shower. Just carrying my towel and soaps. I used to get a lot of strange looks. Especially from older gentlemen, being fully shaved. Don't below, but not so much anymore. As younger generations have started to pick up on the freedom of being smooth, i never mind it, people staring or giving me confused. LooksI was just there to take a shower after working out lol!
It seems to me that the younger generation is less comfortable being nude in the locker room or seeing others who are than the older members. Do you believe being shaved reverses this?
Possibly. You think the younger generation being more woke would make a difference?And they wouldn't care as much, but I guess being shaved kind of levels the playing field, if that makes any sense?
I think that it is more that the older generation grew up in a culture where communal male nudity was common.
All of the YMCAs in my area seem to have very rigidly enforced rules against any sort of nudity in the locker rooms, changing areas, and definitely in the sauna (if they even have one). Both of the nearest Ys actually have posted signs stating "ANY STATE OF UNDRESS WHICH EXPOSES SKIN FROM WAIST TO KNEE IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED AT ANY TIME AND WILL RESULT IN EXPULSION AND FORFEITURE OF MEMBERSHIP" There are also signs stating that a swim suit is required in the shower. These Ys only have individual shower stalls with curtains that are to be clipped with a hook-and-eye mechanism near the top and bottom of the shower curtain. There is only one YMCA, approximately 60 miles away, that has a sauna. I understand that they require shorts to be worn in the sauna which is only accessible during defined "adults only" hours.
I don't think this level of restrictions are because of "bad behavior", I think it's truly just a societal/cultural fear or prudishness. It's really sad that our larger community has gone to that extreme.
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