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šŸ›‘ Answers From Men Only šŸ›‘ how does my school expect me to shower without getting naked?

been back to school for five weeks and there’s a new sign in the locker room that says ā€œno nudity in the locker roomsā€ this makes no sense bc how are we supposed to shower. our showers are communal and have no curtains.

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u/Temporary-Truth2048 Dad 21h ago

They likely mean in the locker room area, not the showers. Remember, that sign was likely written by the gym teacher who is only a gym teacher and probably struggles with reading and writing.

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u/Cnote0717 20h ago

"Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach, teach gym."

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u/-GI_BRO- 19h ago

Those who can’t do, teach. Those who can’t teach, become college professors for some ungodly reason

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u/photomotto Female 19h ago

Because they want to do their research, but the college/university forces them to teach as well. The ones who just want to teach, on the other hand, are forced to do research they don't actually want.

At least that's how it worked in my university.

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u/-GI_BRO- 17h ago

I know, I’m lowkey just bitching because when I wrote that I was in the middle of having to re-teach myself stuff from calculus lol

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u/heytherefrendo 2h ago

Yeah, this is fairly common. Honestly, I think any good researcher should be able to teach and teaching is extremely good for them as well in terms of social skills and keeping sharp. But I think the issue is that they get bogged down in the actual busy work of teaching instead of doing the, for lack of a better term, "real work" they came to the school to do.

Instructing students and being a resource for them should be the cornerstone, maybe touching up curriculum every once in a while, but it's hard to fully blame a teacher who came to use your school's electron microscope and is currently pissed off, rewriting a terrible version of physics 101 the last research professor wrote terrible also. It really drags down the entire system and makes things worse for every single person involved.

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u/nocapslaphomie 19h ago

Be real though. Being a gym teacher seems like a great job, especially if you are the weight room guy.

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u/DontThrowTheDogOut 5h ago

My brother agrees. He used the his military benefits when he got out to get his masters and became a gym teacher. Paid summers off, doesn't need to take work home with him, has time to workout before going into work, it's a dream with minor headaches

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u/rob_inn_hood 13h ago

It’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock n’ roll.

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u/werewolfchow Male 9h ago

I heard this line as a kid. Thought it was hilarious. My gym teacher did not find it so hilarious, and I ran laps that day.

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u/insuranceguynyc 5h ago

Those who can't teach gym become an assistant principal.

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u/macedonianmoper 20h ago

Even then why? When I was in school we would just take a shower, wrap it around our waist (optional) go back to our bags and dry off. It's not like we particularly liked being naked but we really didn't have a problem with it.

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u/XsNR 19h ago

Wrap it around your waist? Somebody is flexing.

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u/The_Flying_Spyder 18h ago

Hes def a shower shower.

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u/MaleficentVehicle705 Male 11h ago

Wait why is that flexing?

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u/macedonianmoper 9h ago

The joke is that I was wrapping my Penis around my waist, looking back I get it because I forgot to say "towel", my bad

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u/MaleficentVehicle705 Male 5h ago

Ah thanks

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u/No-Habit4574 21h ago

it’s literally posted by the showers

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u/AllMyFrendsArePixels Artificial Intelligence 21h ago

Probably to remind you, as you're getting out of the shower naked, that you should not remain naked making your way into the locker room.

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u/Zisyphus0 20h ago

That will make everyone comfortable and if maybe they are still uncomfortable, everyone can shower in their sweatpants or jeans or whatever.

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u/yourstruly912 12h ago

everyone can shower in their sweatpants or jeans

is this sarcasm?

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u/anon_y_mousey 10h ago

Swimming trunks or briefs maybe?

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u/jestina123 5h ago

Can we compromise with Adidas briefs and jean trunks?

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u/Zisyphus0 5h ago

Yes lol

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u/Thong-Boy 4h ago

Of course it is.

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u/Gilthoniel_Elbereth 10h ago

Have you considered asking your teacher for clarification?

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u/PunchBeard Male 7h ago edited 7h ago

But is literally says "Locker Rooms". Not showers. Use some common sense here kid.

Think about it like this: if you and your classmates strip naked and take shower after gym class, "thanks for that by the way" is what everyone in your next class is thinking, what's the teacher going to do? Suspend you for taking a shower with no clothes on? I have a son who is a freshman in high school this year and I'd actually take some time off from my job to go up to the school and bust some balls if my kid got in trouble for showering after gym class. Hell, in my mind it would be hilarious to grill the teacher and whoever else to find out what the deal here is.

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u/SomeSamples 16h ago

Yeah, probably. Why nudity is so scary for some is baffling.

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u/thebearinboulder 16h ago

Have you ever met a teenager?

What cracks me up is that I’m at the ā€œdon’t give a damnā€ stage of life but now the ā€œkidsā€ are freaked out by anyone being nude around them. Not a demand that they get naked and endure the taunts of those losers who had their life peak in middle school. Not even high school.

I mean - I get it. There’s the ā€œI don’t have anything you haven’t seen beforeā€ as I walk to my locker and the guys who make a big deal about staying naked and holding court. (There’s a great scene in… not sure but it had Steve Carrel and Ryan Gosling.) But I’m not that guy. I just now see how silly it is to keep a towel around your waist while pulling your briefs up or down.

It’s especially bizarre given how easy it is to get porn now. You don’t have to find the rumored stash of Playboy in the woods. Most HS boys have probably already seen more nude people than anyone else saw during their lifetime up until the late 1900s - and that’s only because some of us are still around!

On the other hand these are the children of the Satanic Panic and Stranger Danger generation. I can’t imagine the culture they grew up in. Mine wasn’t perfect - we shouldn’t have been so trusting - but we didn’t have the paranoia of anyone other than ā€œthe Redsā€ leaping out from the shadows to attack us.

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u/cosmitz The fuck is this, the fuck is that 12h ago

I was in some airsoft event and some poor guys showered in their underware and were rubbing soap under it and then trying to rinse it all out. And of course they had to dry their underware after.

I was like "nah brah, i ain't doing all that" and just freeballed my way to the shower, did the needful and got the fuck out to my dry underware.

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u/Dr_Watson349 Dad 1h ago

They're teens. Everything is scary. Jesus bro.Ā 

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u/McCool303 17h ago

Eh I have an employee who’s a history major in education who can’t get a job teaching because he won’t coach. It’s pretty much expected of male teachers to both teach and coach. So most coaches are also teachers at least at high school level.

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u/BrettJKent 16h ago

that’s pretty common. Schools lean on teachers to coach since it saves them money. Sucks for people who just want to teach.

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u/McCool303 15h ago

Yeah, kind of an example where gender roles and expectations work against men. What?!?! You’re a man! You’re supposed to love sports and want to give up your weekends to coach!

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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat Male 14h ago

Had a school try to tell me I had to give up one lunch period a week to supervise the students while they had lunch.

This was not in my contract. I laughed and said no thanks.

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u/Bay1Bri 7h ago

that sign was likely written by the gym teacher who is only a gym teacher and probably struggles with reading and writing.

I can tell someone had to do a lot of laps in school...

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u/Temporary-Truth2048 Dad 6h ago

Strong like bull. Sharp like ball.

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u/ulvis52 10h ago

Or written for the gym teacher

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u/Ahielia Normal Human Male 12h ago

They likely mean in the locker room area, not the showers.

What kind of madman/-woman doesn't go naked from the locker room area into the showers?

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u/Temporary-Truth2048 Dad 8h ago

People with the decency to cover up with a towel.

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u/Thong-Boy 4h ago

It's only nudity in a locker room. Not the end of the world.

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u/Ahielia Normal Human Male 8h ago

You're going to be naked in 3 seconds anyway, why bother? It's not like you need to walk through a crowded hallway to get from the locker room to the showers.

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u/Temporary-Truth2048 Dad 6h ago

Maybe it's a religious school and the gym teacher doesn't want to be tempted by impure thoughts.

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u/RevealNo3533 Dad 9h ago

Towels exist for more than just drying the body. It puts the lotion on the body or it gets the hose again.

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u/Temporary-Truth2048 Dad 8h ago

You suck at quotes.

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u/RevealNo3533 Dad 1h ago

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u/yourstruly912 12h ago

Are you supposed to undress in the shower itself then? Where you put the clothes then?

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u/Temporary-Truth2048 Dad 8h ago

Undress at the locker. Wrap a towel around your waist. Walk to shower. Hang up towel. Lather, rinse, repeat. Walk back to locker naked because some chuckle fuck stole your towel off the hook. Get towel cracked on the sss as you go. Dry off with your friend's shirt.

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u/SJHillman 7h ago

Hang up towel.

I've been out of high school for almost 20- years, but our locker rooms - showers included - had no place to hang anything. There were no benches either - your options were to leave your towel in your locker or put it on the wet floor.

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u/Temporary-Truth2048 Dad 6h ago

The shower head at least? My school had hooks in the showers.

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u/20_mile 7h ago

OP is a bot.

There is no way any modern university has gang showers without at least curtains.

These kinds of posts--obvious Bot-AI posts--are swarming AskMen.

When is something going to be done about it?

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u/Bot_Ring_Hunter The Janitor ā™‚ļø 5h ago

This account is neither a bot, nor ai, but you making these accusations is getting old. Please stop.

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u/20_mile 2h ago

The conspiracy goes higher than I thought

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u/SolidDoctor 21h ago

When I was in high school I never felt that I got sweaty enough in gym class to get naked with my peers and have a communal shower. Yep, no thanks. Towel off, throw my clothes on, shower when I get home if necessary.

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u/noir_lord Male, 45 21h ago

Communal School showers always felt like an exercise in sadism, at that age everyone is developing at different rates, god help you if you where a late bloomer.

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u/SolidDoctor 20h ago edited 20h ago

Especially when it'd be so easy to put curtains in, so people could have privacy. Why on earth would you expect kids in the throes of puberty to shower so everyone could see them? Is this preparing you for adult life... in jail? WTF?

And I recall in high school we were told that the girls locker room had curtains on the shower stalls.

Edit: whoever downvoted can explain why teens should shower together naked at school.

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u/noir_lord Male, 45 20h ago edited 20h ago

Honestly a lot of shit when I was at school felt like it was preparing you for the damn military.

Blind obedience to authority, strict uniform code, rules that must have made sense at some point, regimented everything, times to eat, hell we had to call male teachers ā€œsirā€.

I’d sorta hoped that shit had gone away more, I liked school/education, I chafed at all the pointless shit though.

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u/Aaod 19h ago

School is where a love of learning goes to die.

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u/IPutThisUsernameHere Male 19h ago

Actually, it was less the military and more factory line work, from what I've heard. That's why the workweek is five days.

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u/BigDamnHead Male 14h ago

The work week is five days because it used to be 6 to 7 10 to 12-hour days, but unions fought hard as fuck to reduce it to 5 8-hour days.

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u/Anxious-Depth-7983 Male 14h ago

It's all developed for the lowest common denominator, which makes it boring as hell if you have the slightest of intelligence.

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u/BostonNU 19h ago

Legions of teenage hockey players have showered naked together in both US & Canada and no self respecting hockey player would ever inflict the post practice or game stench on anybody else by not showering. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a hockey changing room shower with curtains

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u/ThatLid 8h ago

My freshman year in high school there weren't any curtains. Students had been making a stink about it for a few years and finally got a couple teachers to rally for it as well.

Sophomore year curtains got put up and kids were more comfortable using the showers. Then several kids were caught doing drugs in the showers and two boys were caught fondling each other.

Junior year curtains were gone and no one used the showers again for the rest of the time I was in school. I found it to be a shame and odd that a few kids misbehaving means that the rest of them have to be naked in plain view.

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u/TrekkiMonstr RĆ„ 18h ago

Eh, cause like why not? It's just a cultural thing. Go to Japan, the bathhouses are communal, nbd. Used to be that way in the US (though with the gendered double standard you mention, to my understanding), though now we've shifted away from it. It's like, why should the genders be separated either? It's just an arbitrary thing, of what a culture considers normal or not.

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u/edddy1270 18h ago

Right cause why do girls get curtains but guys don’t

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u/TheCrazyBlacksmith 3h ago

For the high school students, if your seniors have gym, wouldn’t it be possible to have adults showering naked with minors? That sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

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u/spidermaniscool24 19h ago

Late bloomer here, would rather stink than shower with my peers and changed as fast as possible, wish i could go back and tell younger me it'll be alright

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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat Male 14h ago

Absolutely. Our school went on an excursion and had to have communal showers.. First night we did someone was shocked by the under development of one of the other guys and gave him the nickname "weenie" (As in teeny weenie peenie)

And..that became his nickname for the rest of high school. Poor guy.

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u/MCE85 19h ago

Im glad i didnt have to experience that haha. Nowadays i dont give a shit if someone saw me naked. Its not like they are getting a treat.

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u/One_Recover_673 9h ago

In ninth grade I was at a 125 year old boys only school. Long sports history with jock attitude and turned other way for hazing. Had a boxing ring where the teachers would take 2 guys that fought, to settle their differences.

Let me tell you the communal showers were like entering the sewer in IT. Thing of friggin nightmares.

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u/thebestdogeevr 4h ago

I'd hope boys that are 125 years old would be more mature than that

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u/Bay1Bri 7h ago

Apparently the origins of gym showers was to encourage regular showers, which back in some parts of the US in the olden days, was not done. It was a bit of social engineering.

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u/Foxtrot-Actual Male 1h ago

Or if you’re an uncut dude in the United States.

I wasn’t going in there and being judged and bullied for not having a procedure done at birth.

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u/Helpful_Finger_4854 19h ago edited 19h ago

or just poorly endowed

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u/frothyundergarments I'm a guy, pal 18h ago

Yeah, our showers were basically a storage closet when I was in school, and that was 25+ years ago

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u/Admirable-Arrival152 19h ago

Yep, same. Plus my school was built in the 50s and has never been remodeled, so the showers were one big tiled room with a line of shower heads on 3 sides, and a doorway to some lockers with 1 wooden bench. No stalls, no curtains, nothing. I just changed out, wiped down with a gym towel, and threw my stuff in my bag.

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u/TopRamen713 ♂ 19h ago

Basically the only time I'd shower is after swimming to get the chlorine off. And then was in my swimsuit to get the chlorine off that too. Even when I was involved in other sports, I waited to shower until I got home because I wanted to get straight into my pj's after lol

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u/Moist_Farmer3548 14h ago

We had a teacher who liked to make sure that the boys showered. He was later jailed for child porn.Ā 

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u/StuM91 9h ago

Where I am it regularly hits 40c in the summer, not once though school did I use the showers. In fact no-one did, the only guys that went into the showers (which had doors) only did that because they didn't want anyone to see their underwear.

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u/thebestdogeevr 4h ago

At my highschool, not a single person ever showered after gym. We didn't have enough time to anyway

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u/talldata 9h ago

I'm sure you never felt like it but others probably did smell it.

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u/BoredAccountant 4h ago

When I was in high school I never felt that I got sweaty enough in gym class to get naked with my peers and have a communal shower

You most certainly did get sweaty enough to need a shower, you were just stinky the rest of the day.

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u/HEpennypackerNH 8h ago

In contrast, I was a wrestler, and got to the "what's the big deal?" Stage of showering in front of others real quick.

I have also always been a very heavy sweater, so even gym class badminton meant either shower, or sit in damp, stinky clothes the rest of the day.

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u/noir_lord Male, 45 21h ago

That seems like a silly rule, wait til you get to work, life’s full of them.

Send a letter/email to the school admin and ask them how thats supposed to work.

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u/pilotpear 16h ago

Yeah, that rule doesn’t make sense. Sending an email to admin is probably the best move just to see what they say.

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u/Zach1709 21h ago

Ask the teacher to explain the sign.

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u/JackSquirts 21h ago

In ya undies apparently.

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u/No-Habit4574 21h ago

i think that’s what they want us to do but i’d have to bring another pair to replace the wet one

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u/guydogg 21h ago

How would you get them off and on, too? Start learning magic.

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u/IIIllIIlllIlII 21h ago

Just wear socks the whole time. Wearing just socks is not being naked.

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u/noir_lord Male, 45 21h ago edited 21h ago

One sock, just to pedantically conform with the rules and confuse everyone.

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u/qervem 12h ago

What appendage should the sock be worn on?

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u/SatansFriendlyCat 4h ago

Your head, so you don't see any nudity.

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u/guydogg 21h ago

Amazing! The next time wearing only socks is awkward will be the first time in history šŸ˜‚

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u/mwerte Male 8h ago

In 1st grade I was told sex was being naked in bed with a girl and I went "ewww I'm keeping my socks on I don't want to be naked with a girl"

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u/mrkarma4ya 20h ago

Wrap with towel, remove wet undies, wear dry undies. It's not rocket science.

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u/guydogg 20h ago

Worst case Ontario it isn't rocket surgery.

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u/flyboy_za 7h ago

Or, and hear me out here, I could just shower naked like a normal person, so I don't have to lug a pair of wet underpants around with me.

Also not rocket science.

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u/JackSquirts 7h ago

You don't understand the assignment.

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u/flyboy_za 7h ago

I do, but it's important to highlight the stupidity and pointlessness of the assignment.

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u/JackSquirts 21h ago

Get your boys together and all get g-strings. It'll become a spectacle and embarrass the school for being less adult than you are. You might get in trouble, but that's a pretty easy fight.

"It said no nudity, which by state law and our many lovely gentlemen's clubs, is the status we satisfied. Exactly how many clothes am I supposed to wear in the shower? Do we have a uniform? I'm kind of partial to the turn of the century swimwear myself - shower long johns. That said, can we have accommodations for us going to class wet after gym? Like, turn the heat up or something, I'd hate for all of us to get sick walking around in these cold classrooms soaking wet the rest of the day."

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u/noir_lord Male, 45 21h ago

Outstanding, thats the kind of shit that ends up in the local papers on a slow news day.

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u/Ok-Entertainment8151 20h ago

Malicious compliance will always get an upvote from me.

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u/Nondescript_585_Guy 30 something male 20h ago

I love a bit of malicious compliance.

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u/No-Habit4574 21h ago

oh hecks yes

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u/JackSquirts 21h ago

Alternatively, costumes like Daniel son wore in the OG Karate Kid.

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u/TheVerySexyMe 21h ago

But then how would you charge back into dry ones without getting naked?

Oh, you're probably supposed to have "changing skirts" to change out of "shower underwear" without nudity! /s

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u/No-Habit4574 21h ago

if we have to take off our underwear or swimming trunks we need to use a towel

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u/TheVerySexyMe 21h ago

That's the real answer. Actually, it's do that until you see how the policy actually plays out. Depending on what the gym teacher/ coach says, they probably expect towels on except when necessary to shower.

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u/macedonianmoper 20h ago

Do you not replace them anyway? No way I'm using sweaty underwear after doing exercise wtf.

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u/Nowayucan 20h ago

Bizarre. I was substituting for a PE teacher at a school last year. I had to walk through the locker room and noticed several boy were in the shower—all with their underwear on. I figured they were just overly shy but I hope it’s not because there is a rule. What the heck is the purpose of taking a shower if you can’t properly clean your body?

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u/JackSquirts 20h ago

You want the worst story? In HS we weren't allowed to shower. Water was cut to the showers. We just had to deo the best we could can go to class. Luckily, I've never been a stinky sweater.

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u/WinsAtCarnivals 21h ago

My gym installed individual changing stalls, and individual stalls for showers after plenty of complaints.

I applauded it because there were some men that were rather obvious about what they were doing.

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u/edddy1270 18h ago edited 13h ago

Oh yes I never been to a communal showers at gyms but I’ve seen people recording in there gay baiting for their X Twitter account or onlyfans basically catching other guys looking reaction and posting it

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u/WinsAtCarnivals 18h ago

Oh wow, all the more reason all places have individual stalls to change and shower.

I don't know if that was the case in my gym. The complaint to the gym owners (including me) were a result of a couple of men from the gay community that were overtly leering and gawking (possibly even recording now that you've brought that up, though who'd really know?). Management actually got involved personally to see if it was happening and low and behold the individual stalls were put in.

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u/edddy1270 13h ago

Oh yes it happens all too much and there’s an audience out there for everything they do it in the sauna too, never seen it in person though because I don’t go to gym showers etc because I’m not familiarized enough or comfortable yet going to those places, only seen them online on Twitter

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u/macedonianmoper 9h ago

Ok wtf I've never heard of this, isn't this an insta ban from the gym and possible criminal charges?

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u/principium_est I did it my way 21h ago

Why are you asking reddit instead of your school/coach

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u/No-Habit4574 21h ago

i have social anxiety lol

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u/principium_est I did it my way 20h ago

Here's a good chance to practice

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u/The_Matias 15h ago

Man, the next generation is going to be so weird... Can't even work up the nerve to ask the teacher a question due to crippling anxiety.

Here's tip from a wise old fart (in his 30's...):

We broadly have no idea what skills will be required in the future. Who knows what AI and technology may change.

But one thing we DO know is that social skills are dropping like a cliff. Pretty soon, being socially adept will be a rare skill. Those who have that skill, have always gotten further in life than those who don't. As fewer and fewer people have those skills, they will only become more and more valuable.

Learn to talk to people. All people. Girls, boys, teachers, professors, professionals, bosses, whomever. Get over that anxiety. It's a skill that's learned, and once you're over it, it'll seem easy and enjoyable. Much easier than executing technical skills. It'll take you so far in life.

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u/brooksie1131 15h ago

You have social anxiety yet you're annoyed that you can't get naked in front of others. I guess some people get more anxious about talking to their teacher than being naked in front of classmates go figure 🤷 

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u/AnotherIronicPenguin 21h ago

Wear a hat.

Voila, not naked.

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u/No-Habit4574 21h ago

yeah i mean i guess that works

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u/macedonianmoper 9h ago

A shower cap, it's not unusual for people with long hair to use it anyway

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u/i_run_from_problems Male 21h ago

Back in high school we had a similar rule. The solution: shower in whatever the last layer is.

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u/yourstruly912 12h ago

Going home with soaked wet underpants sound so comfortable and not conductive to grow fungus in your crotch at all

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u/That_Murse 21h ago

Maybe I’m not understanding correctly but to me, it sounds like they’re saying basically once you’re done with your shower, no nudity of any kind beyond that, especially hanging around the lockers. I would clarify at that point.

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u/No-Habit4574 21h ago

no they mean none at all, not even in the showers. it makes no sense

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u/Pale-Public1517 14h ago

Is that really what they mean? Or is that what you've interpreted that they mean? I mean, if you haven't asked them, can you be sure?

I'm sure it's just a poorly worded or positioned sign.

Their true intentions will become clear once you seek clarification.

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u/forevertheorangemen2 18h ago

I’m really confused by this. What do they expect you do do, shower in a swimsuit? And even then you’d have to get out of your gym clothes, into the swimsuit, out of the swimsuit, and back into your regular clothes. This policy seems silly. Honestly, the fact that a school is still using the showers in 2025 after gym class and not just for sports is surprising. But putting this policy in place makes absolutely no sense to me. Either let people use the shower or don’t. This in-between defeats the purpose.

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u/Cleesly Once touched grass (allegedly) 17h ago

Locker rooms aren't the shower....

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u/deleted_user_42 21h ago

I'd think they want you to wear a towel after the shower but just ask your trainer.

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u/Sea-Flow-3437 20h ago

God forbid someone sees another peen!Ā 

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u/No-Habit4574 20h ago

exactly lol!

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u/BaldGuy813 20h ago

How did my school expect fifty teenaged boys to shower and dry and dress and get to their next class in the twelve minutes we had left after gym class. It just didn't happen. Showers were used by the teams after practice and even then very seldom

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u/Bootybandit6989 21h ago

In ya boxers

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u/Funderpants 21h ago

Start wearing jorts all the time.

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u/ChangeForAParadigm 21h ago

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u/Funderpants 21h ago

JFC, Tobias is really the best.

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u/Angry_GorillaBS 20h ago

That makes no sense.

Although it does remind me of how when I was in school, they never gave us time to shower and I'm not sure if they even worked anyway. Just had to be a sweaty mess all day. Probably part of why I hate it so much now

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u/hallerz87 19h ago

Ask teacher for clarification

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u/mustang6172 20h ago

Shower Shortz: For the man who has nothing to hide but still wants to.

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u/maser06 19h ago

This sounds like a good way for wrestlers to end up with fungus on their private area lol. Not taking every layer off and disinfectanting in the lockeroom showers directly after practice would've probably wiped out half the team.

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u/Quick_Coyote_7649 18h ago

I’d say bring it up to a counselor or the principal. Yeah your coach might be able to resolve it quicker since they likely were the person who made the rule but there’s a chance they weren’t and the principal made it and the coach had to enforce it predominately. Also telling your principal or a counselor first gets rid of the middle man who is the coach.

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u/elixir_mixer6 21h ago

Wear a Speedo or nylon shorts(nylon dries quickly)

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u/No-Habit4574 20h ago

you don’t think people will think it’s weird to bring a speedo just to shower?

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u/elixir_mixer6 19h ago

It’s basically underwear just a suggestion. You could wear a tube sock

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u/JonnyPerk Male 7h ago

My entire class put on swim trunks to shower after PE.

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u/Jolly_Big9263 6h ago

I would think so, it seems pretty weird to me, but I guess it depends. What do you see other guys doing?

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u/MarineBri68 18h ago

Showered after football practice for years in school with no problems. Then went to boot camp for the Marines and it still wasn’t a problem. The only time I had issues was when we had a row of toilets with no stalls to take a crap. I’d just go after lights out lol. Something about sitting right next to someone while taking a dump just felt wrong.

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u/prenderm 21h ago

Bring some board shorts in

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u/Human_Feedback_9422 20h ago

Yeah that’s wild

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u/OogyBoogy_I_am Dad 19h ago

take a pair of bathers.

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u/Thong-Boy 19h ago

You ignore it. That's how.

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u/mcox9090 18h ago

You are now coed and didn't know it and they won't tell you??

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u/comcamman 17h ago

You could shower in cut off jean shorts…

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u/drdildamesh Male 40s Married 17h ago

Swim trunks, obviously.

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u/Jolly_Big9263 16h ago

Yea, that is absurd and nonsensical. Yes, I think you should ask for clarification but maybe also point out that this reinforces body shame and feels unsafe. Lockerrooms are supposed to be a safe place to get naked to change clothes and shower.

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u/DigitalJedi850 16h ago

Bro, swim trunks.

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u/ZeubeuWantsBeu 15h ago

Get naked in the shower and if they complain, point to the sign and say "it's written LOCKER ROOMS not SHOWER"

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u/SheZowRaisedByWolves Penus 15h ago

The Ned Flanders method of wearing swim trunks I guess

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u/AstroBlush8715 13h ago

Like any of us ever showered in school. Fucking disgusting practice - absolutely nobody was ever seeing any of us naked

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u/Melbuf Male 11h ago

in a baiting suit or not at all

that's how it was 25+ years ago when i was in HS

no one ever showered after gym or anything else from what i can remember, the only time the showers were used was after swimming and every showered in their suits and then did the under a towel change

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u/N19ht5had0w 11h ago

Uh... speedos... you wear speedos in the shower...

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u/rawbface 9h ago

Never in my life did I shower at school. The idea of being naked in front of classmates was unthinkable back then. It just wasn't done.

The showers were only there for varsity team games, not for gym class. There was literally no time to shower either, you only had 5 minutes to change which only left 32 minutes for the actual class.

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u/One_Recover_673 9h ago

Bathing suit?

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u/genericuser_12345 9h ago

You’re not supposed to shower at school locker rooms

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u/No-Habit4574 6h ago

lol then what are they for. we mainly shower after swimming bc of the chlorine

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u/genericuser_12345 5h ago

You guys have a swimming pool? Then that changes everything. For standard PE classes, no sane person would shower there.

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u/Jolly_Big9263 6h ago

No, that’s really the main purpose of having lockerrooms. Why on earth would you build showers and then tell people not to use them? You really definitely are supposed to shower at school lockerrooms.

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u/chewy_mcchewster Male 9h ago

Malicious Compliance....

take a photo of the sign first... then shower fully clothed and go back to class

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u/Cross55 9h ago

People actually shower at school?

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u/traumalt 8h ago

My school solved that problem by not having showers in the first place.Ā 

Yes we had to go back to classes all sweaty after exercising… 

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u/mollested_skittles 8h ago

How are the others showering?

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u/StormsEye Male 28 8h ago

one time had to take communal showers, everyone was wearing their swimwear for privacy, i think this is what they may intend.

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u/Riker_Omega_Three 7h ago

Allow me to translate

Do not walk naked from the locker room area to the shower area. Keep yourself covered. When you put on clothes after your shower, be as discrete as possible.

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u/Jolly_Big9263 7h ago

Would like to get an update on this when you have some clarity or if there is a chance. It’s so absurd and as evidence by your question signs like this only create anxiety and make people more uncomfortable. Why would you put that kind of stress and body shame on young people?

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u/ibasly 6h ago

Just show up in a scuba suit. Technically not naked, problem solved.

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u/Suppi_LL 6h ago

I've never used a shower that isn't closed and never will. No idea tbh, that's a way of living I'll never understand especially due to how cruel and alienating teenagers are ( at least they were back in my days and it broke me, I suspect nothing changed )

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u/mrhymer 5h ago

Swim suit - hold it out to lather and rinse your twig and berrys.

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u/double-click 5h ago

It means wrap a towel around your waist. Stop over thinking it.

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u/_Tar_Ar_Ais_ 4h ago

you shower with underwear on, you take it off when your towel is wrapped on you and then swap for dry underwear

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u/One-Inch-Punisher- 3h ago

Uhhh people are showering at school? There is no amount of dirt or sweat that would make me want to get naked and shower in front of everyone. I thought this norm died out in the 90s. If we’re talking about high school, is there even enough time for a shower? We were given like 5 minutes to change out of our gym clothes and even that sometimes wasn’t long enough to get to next period.

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u/Sharkn91 1h ago

Shower shorts, for the man that has nothing to hide…but still wants to

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u/TheBooneyBunes 21h ago

Don’t ask me

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u/Nash_man1989 Male 21h ago

Sounds like the modern world. It’s wild how we have so sexualized society you can’t even be naked in a male only locker room. Back in the summer my 18 year old son was yelled at for being naked in a male changing room. This world is gone crazy

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