Gay athletes cannot have a shower?

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The whole point of separate changing rooms is to protect intimacy from people who might find you sexually desirable, since actually some people find it disturbing that other people around them might get aroused or fantasize about them. It is more of a cultural thing, but everybody is entitled to privacy.

I belonged to some sort of drama club once, and sometimes we performed under less than ideal circumstances. That means, that among other things, guys and girls shared changing rooms at times. And nobody made a fuss out of it. Because the sirturbing nature of being watched is a completely subjective experience and by no means is a measurable degree fo sexual harassment (If it may even be called by that)

IMHO the most practical solutions seems to be coed showers with private comparments or cubicules. That way anybody can keep his/her privacy without any form of discrimination having to take place.

Wow that article is ridiculous, but yeah since its Rush Limbaugh he probably actually does think that way and isn't just joking...But yeah so essentially he believes if one is attracted to someone else they will sexually assault them. Because we all know people typically have no self control whatsoever and will immediately lose all respect for anyone they find attractive and try to rape them.


I wonder if I was in a locker room shower if the other females would think I am a lesbian because my arm-pits aren't shaved and my legs are not clean shaven . I honestly don't really care if someone sees me naked in a locker room shower, its really only awkward if the other person/people finds it awkward. But I digress there should be an option everyone is comfortable with....like maybe private shower stalls for people who are uncomfortable about it with still having the group shower set up since there are people who could care less about being seen taking a shower.

Or maybe nudity shouldn't be so sexualized in society.

The obvious solution is to have individual shower cubicles, each unisex, large enough for people to go in fully dressed, shower and put on a change of clothing in privacy. This is how most holiday / camping sites are in France. It assumes there is adequate space though as this solution takes up a little more space to handle the same number of people, but not significantly so.

I reject all attempts to conflate nudity and sexuality.

ETA: Apparently, Poe's Law works the other way, too. Fundamentalism is indistinguishable from an advanced satire of fundamentalism.

Wish I could . . . maybe it's because I never had any brothers, but I was totally uncomfortable in co-ed showers. Flight response. 'Course, I barely find it bearable to shower with women too. So maybe it's just me. And then the whole gender angle - for various reasons someone could find someone else sexually arousing. Cubicles are the way to go.

I was an only child so that may have something to do with my aversion to shower with anyone around me.I think if someone had sisters or brothers they would be used to getting in the tub or shower naked when they were little.I hated having to change in the dressing room for PE.My old fashioned mother had me wear girl's undershirts under my clothes when I was little,and when I got changed the first time it was apparent that no other girls moms had them wear these.I was a laughingstock.I hated PE with a passion.I got a doctor's note later to be excused from it in that grade,thank goodness.I just set on the bleachers and read,but the kids still made fun of me.They called me Pinocchio,I guess because I always had my nose stuck in a book.
Middle school was horrid,the bullies were the worst ever.

But aren't you pushing nudism on others?

All this is, is Rush Limbaugh doing what he does best. --Being a demagogue.

Under his idea, what would be the recourse if one of the guys in the 'gay shower' was being sexually harassed by another? --None at all, because with gay people such behavior is to be expected.