Talk:Communal shower

What about the connection between communal showers and the gay community?

The fact that communal showers are also more culturally accepted in the USA & UK then any other western country should be added.

The content of the article seems to be pure nonsense to me (and contradicts the above statement). In most of europe, communal showers in gyms, baths and also baracks are just plain normal. --PaterMcFly talk ^contribs 10:39, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

I've seen communal showers appear in TV shows quite a bit, and they all seem to follow the same format: one character is too embarrassed to shower in front of his peers but eventually loosens up and uses the communal shower at the end of the episode. Think it's noteworthy enough that television has a tendency to use this plot? --24.3.79.47 (talk) 01:47, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Maybe, yes. But it has to do with what I question: The first paragraph now reads: Though not as widely used in the West today, communal showers are often present in school locker rooms for use in personal hygiene after physical education. They also continue to exist in some gymnasia and many swimming pools. I think that's quite a lot of nonsense/OR because it says that it's not common or even rather rare. It may be that it is so common to tv shows, because it is uncommon or also because it shows that someone is an outsider because he thinks it's uncommon. I'm not a big watcher of tv shows, but I doubt I've ever seen this format in an european show. So the question really is: Is it that uncommon in the States? In either way, the sentence has to be changed to be more generic. --PaterMcFly talk ^contribs 17:57, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Completely generational in the United States

Guys 50+ years old, don't care, communal showers are completely normal. Public schools from grades 7 through 12 in the US used to have gym class. Gym class included hard physical exercise. Competitive sports of all kinds, running, wrestling, climbing ropes, lifting weights, etc.

After gym class your teeshirt, underway, and shorts were soaked in sweat. You hit the locker room, peeled off your sweaty clothes, stuffed them in your gym bag, walked naked to the shower room with 20 to 40 other sweaty naked guys, and took a quick shower with soap and water. Grabbed a towel on the way out, dried off and changed back into your street clothes. Every school grade and after school (if you did sports), for 5 years.

Join the Army (or get drafted), do real hard physical exercise: forced marches, hand to hand combat, obstacle course, boxing, etc -- hit the barracks and shower with 50 to 100 stinky sweaty soldiers. Hell the commodes didn't even have stall walls in the John -- just take a seat do your business. The three S's were a morning ritual in the barracks for years.

Now you go to a so called 'men's gym' and you see 30 year old guys trying to shinny out of the underwear under a towel. Their hysterical -- like watching little girl's they are so modest. And of course if you travel all over the world you find out American sensibilities on nudity are just bizarre. Walk into a sauna in central Europe, coed and naked, nobody thinks anything about it except the Americans. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.134.38.146 (talk) 01:39, 8 June 2010 (UTC)