Hello:

Thanks for admitting me to this support group, I have a lot of scarring in my past, but I would like to share one of my experiences with you.

In middle school, I had to take gym class. It was my first introduction to communal male nudity and I had a lot of body issues, including the secret knowledge I was gay. After each gym class, we were required to take a shower in a communal shower before our next class. I tried to open my locker door and quickly re-dress and leave the locker room after each gym class. I remember that the guys made some nasty remarks about homos. Well, someone told the gym teacher that I wasn't taking showers. After gym one day, The gym teacher suddenly showed up at my locker, where I was dressing for the next class. He loudly ordered me to strip, turned on a shower and bodily threw me naked into the shower and ordered me to soap up. I looked toward the doorway and the whole class was standing there, laughing at me! This trauma has been with me my whole life. Late in life, I became a nudist in part to help overcome my body shame.

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