Yes, this question is un-PC in the extreme. But it’s something I’ve always wondered about. The other thread about locker rooms here got me thinking about it.
I’m a straight male and if I were to somehow find myself in a women’s locker room and I happened to see an attractive female undressing, I’d probably sneak a peek, or two…or a hundred.
Queer female answering:
No, it’s too unsexy an environment. Especially in the early morning. It’s all about toiletries and personal hygiene. There are women of all ages, shapes, and sizes flossing their teeth, shaving their armpits, walking around with tampon strings hanging down, and peeling off sweaty clothes that leave weird marks on their skin from the elastic. I’m usually too busy taking care of my own business to even care who else is there. Even if a woman is drop dead gorgeous, it’s not particularly appealing when you’re mostly thinking, “I hope she doesn’t get to the hair dryer before I do; she looks like she’d take awhile. And wow, how much deodorant does she think she needs anyway?” I think I’d be entirely too respectful of another woman’s privacy in any case.
One thing I did find strange for a time was that I was really self-conscious about being a gay woman in a woman-only milieu that is designed to be a place where women were free from prying eyes. I was pre-occupied with the worry that I might make someone else feel uncomfortable and was quite the closet case. I’m over that now, because I realized it’s silly.
I will say though that there was one time a woman had a tattoo just above her pubic area that caught my attention and I did want to see what it was because I was curious. It looked like some kind of glyphs, but I couldn’t think of any tactful way of asking: “Hi, I see you have some cryptic tat over your bush, can I see it?”
It doesn’t really do anything for me. I can’t really explain the difference from a gay perspective. When talking to my straight male friends their fascination of naked women seems so juvenile. I just don’t get it. I can’t relate it to my own viewing of naked men.
Queer guy here. Locker-room nudity doesn’t do anything for me sexually. If I’m in a locker room, I’m in a hurry to get changed so I can go exercise, go back to work, or go home.
Out of respect for other peoples’ comfort, I make an effort not to look. However, I confess to wanting to stare, simply out of curiosity. I think it’s my inner 6-year-old at work: What’s a guy that fat look like naked? Is that *really *a tattoo of a beer can on that other guy’s ass? Do old men get gray pubic hair?
That’s an interesting attitude. My wife, who’s straight obviously (at least as far as I know 
), confesses to doing the same thing, especially when she was in college and wanting to see what some of the other girls on her dorm floor looked like naked.
In a word, no.
I think even if straight people shared a unisex locker room, people would mostly keep their eyes to themselves just out of courtesy. It’s so retarded to goggle at someone when it’s obviously not the time or the place.
Gay female here. It does nothing for me. Don’t know why. Mind you, I also don’t get turned on by seeing women walking around in bikinis which show pretty much everything.
I’d say sometimes. I mean, if a guy’s attractive, a guy’s attractive, whether he’s in the locker room or someplace else.
Gay female here. Most of the time, no looking (especially because you don’t want to get caught looking). I’m much more apt to check out a clothed woman’s shoulders, calves, etc.
Gay female here. I can’t imagine finding anyone attractive in a locker room because it’s just not an attractive environment.
Here’s why not:
In addition to what everyone else has said, I wanted to mention that in the US at least it’s rare for women to walk around nude in the locker room. Most change their clothes pretty quickly and without showing much skin. So even if you were taking “a hundred” looks, you still wouldn’t be seeing all that much more than you could have seen out in the gym.
Yes. obvs, I look. And not out of generalized curiosity. I look because I am sexually attracted to men, and naked men are generally sexually attractive. I look in the men’s locker room in a different way than I would look in the women’s locker room. In a not-as-a-scientist-but-rather-as-a-libidinous-male-homosexual way.
If there’s a hot body or a nice ass or a big dick in the locker room, I am going to look. I’m certainly not going to avert my eyes out of some kind of gay guilt.
Gay male here - and it sort of depends; for instance, at a popular Gay gym in West Hollywood, the guys there were all drop dead gorgeous for the most part, and also about 90% Gay. So going to the shower there was pretty much considered walking the runway during Fashion Week in NYC - that was the point of taking a shower, to show off the bod. Lots of guys would simply skip the showcase and dress and shower at home.
However, in a “normal” gym, not really. Sure, I would take a glance at a great looking guy, but I am not going to sit on the bench and drool while taking photos with my cell phone.
I’m a straight guy and in my experience it’s not a super big deal being around naked women in a non-sexualized situation. The place I live has a sauna and there are semi-regular sauna nights. We tend to be entirely naked and it’s co-ed. Normally there are at least a few women in the sauna, often young and pretty. What I find is that it doesn’t really faze me. Sometimes I check them out initially, but in most cases I leave it at that (I’d say it’s not as different as you might think from checking a clothed person out). The exception is when it’s someone I’m already interested in or attracted to. In that case it takes me a bit longer to stop focusing my mind on the presence of their naked body, but most of the time I get over it. I’ve never had a problem (that I can recall) with an embarrassing erection. For that matter I’ve never noticed any of the other guys having that problem in the sauna either (though I’m not looking for that so they could have hidden it).
I think that once you get used to being around naked people of your preferred gender it tends not to faze you as much.
Lesbian here (or, to follow thread tradition, gay female. For some reason, the term “Gay Female” makes me think of a leather-faced, eyes squinting from the cig smoke drifting from my pursed lips, overly-exaggerated and verbose drunk older lesbian trying to pick up a young chick at a bar. Which I’m not. At all.)
But I digress.
Seeing other naked women, especially in a locker room, has never created any sexual or physical reaction in me, unless you count revulsion.
Granted, there are some nice looking women who work hard for their very attractive assets. I do enjoy looking at women and admiring nice muscles, definition, etc., but I prefer to peruse magazines. I have shared Eats_Crayons thoughts that my lesbianism ***may ***make others uncomfortable or wrongly assume a look their way is a subtle sign of super-hot lesbian lust bubbling to the surface, causing them to shampoo their hair with their eyes wide open, in case I try to sneak in their shower or snake a wet, sensual hand across their thigh to get a hold of their innocent yet subconsciously throbbing clit, thereby getting soap in their eyes, and spend the rest of their prep time sniffing and peering tear-eyed past the towels (minimum of 6) they use to keep every inch of their hot and sexy bodies covered so that the raw animal lesbian will remain tame and contained… :rolleyes:
Unfortunately, the only ladies I have had a hard time keeping my eyes off of were the super-duper Nastinas that paraded around grossly out-of-proportion body parts, out-of-control hairy muffs, or odors that seemed to take on lives of their own.
Then there was the large woman who took the fashion mag advise to use some sort of juicy, pitted fruit to wash with, but only after biting into, slurping, and orgasmically moaning with and about said fruit, leaving pulpy remains and a large pit in the drain. She smelled the worst. Especially after the shower. :eek:
No no no, this can’t be right. I know because I’ve seen the videos, and I can personally attest to the fact that there is never anyone in a women’s locker room who isn’t a perfect knockout with shapely curves and glistening, oiled skin. And I further know that they are extremely prone to being “playful” with each other, casually rubbing suds across each other’s perky breasts and ripping towels off all over the place.
Whew, fantasy kept intact. That was a close one.
Lord, no. For one, that would require attractive people, or at least people under the age of ancient, and pretty much everyone else who goes to my cheap-ass gym is either an obese housewife or over the age of 50. Even if there were attractive people, it’s still a gross setting, and my goal is generally to get out of there ASAP.
Also, my neurotic tendencies ensure that I don’t see much but the floor in the locker room, and even if I was looking I’d be too busy worrying what other people thought about me. Which is why I change in the toilet stall - it reduces the chances of getting an eyeful of old and/or fat ass, and means other people aren’t thinking their own nasty thoughts about me.
Jesus, I wish the people out here in my corner of the US knew that. You want to use the open shower and not one of the two curtained stalls? You’re a freak, but, uh, fine. You want to, for reasons entirely beyond my understanding, walk ass-naked from locker to shower and back again? Fine. For decencies sake, please at least put your underwear back on before doing your hair (and seriously, you don’t need to clip your nails and floss your damn teeth in public; that’s disgusting, but if you absolutely must, put your fucking clothes on first, you exhibitionist freak).
I like to look, but I try to be careful not to be caught doing it. But I don’t get aroused from it, it’s more like what CWThree said, my inner 6-year-old and his curiosity. It’s hard to explain, but some men are just very attractive to me, which means pretty much by definition that I am drawn to look at them.
I also look at attractive men walking by or working out in the gym itself. Just yesterday there was someone running on a treadmill who was just delicious to look at from the back. Unfortunately, there wasn’t any machine I could use that was facing that way so I could only stand there long enough to mop my head with a towel and take a swig of water. Then I had to move on.
Roddy