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Cell phone policies in locker rooms
Return to DiscussionsI recently quit my membership at the YMCA for LA Fitness. The Y was mostly 60+ whereas the average age at LAF is likely half that. I was expecting there to be less nudity in the locker room, but am shocked that not only do millennials wear shorts in the sauna, but gym shoes, jackets and head phones too. Then I realized an important difference: the YMCA had a no cell phone policy to protect privacy, but LAF does not. Perhaps it's common courtesy not to take pictures of people (naked or otherwise), but there doesn't seem to be any intention to make the men's locker room a private zone. In that case, I imagine it makes as much sense to be naked there as any other public space, except that women aren't allowed. Maybe it's just common sense that younger people are modest: they're not particularly shy, but neither are they stupid.
1. a kid never should be in any locker room w/ out a dad/older brother ( 18+)/ cousin/ uncle any way for you to worry bout being naked in a ""MENS LOCKER ROOM"""
2. the topic is """CELL PHONES"""" in a lockerroom not being naked in a locker room w kids
3. not every locker room will have another male in it at the same time you are in it, ive been in a locker room im the only person in it
I go to 2 different gyms LA FITNESS n LIFETIME FITNESS both gyms say no phones allowed in the locker room, however people are checking emails, texts, and some are on men only apps ( i dont have to list what those apps are) there are staff members at both gyms that go through the locker rooms regularly and they dont say anything to the members. some has even taken selfies in there to show their process. There are several guys at both gyms that take tier phone into the sauna n steam room(s) to listen to music while in both rooms. i thing the no phone policy should state no photos allowed insted of jsut saying no phones allowed. This being phones are every ones life pretty much, ones wife may say honey on the way home could you pick up ..... , ones work may need to get a hold of the worker, and if have kids never know when one could need to go the hospital and they wife is letting em know this to meet the mom n kid there....many reasons that phones should be allowed in the locker room
1. a kid never should be in any locker room w/ out a dad/older brother ( 18+)/ cousin/ uncle any way for you to worry bout being naked in a ""MENS LOCKER ROOM"""2. the topic is """CELL PHONES"""" in a lockerroom not being naked in a locker room w kids3. not every locker room will have another male in it at the same time you are in it, ive been in a locker room im the only person in it
My parents stopped supervising my walks to and from school and the roller disco neighborhood shenanigans soccer swimming and the store and arcade by 6. I was fine under my own steam. I had a University of new Brunswick id for the lockerroom cause someone got salty about the kids of faculty going to lessons alone. So they issued us all university id cards. The same one got you into the student pub but I had to wait 10 years to 16 before that was believable. In the summertime we'd go off biking and go miles and miles away to the seashore and drink beer and jump off the pier. 11 or 12 onwards.
I grew up in the era of group showers and group lockers. I always felt like group nudity was part of becoming an adult male. Its a shame my son wont have those experiences because all the showers have been turned into individual stalls. Nudity is rarely seen at my gym so cell phones are not much of an issue anymore.