No . . . with rare exceptions.
Forget the “inner 6-year-old.” I have an “inner 14-year-old.”
If I see someone who is my “type,” I’ll subtly check him out. But it’s rare to see someone that type in a gym locker room (I’m not into a lot of muscles).
It’s never as much fun as back in high school, when we had to swim naked and take showers after gym. There were no secrets.
Straight guy here, I agree that even in unisex environments the utility of the whole thing kind of kills most of the sexuality. My first year in university a long chain of events led to the only girls’ combined bathroom/shower being 3 floors above mine, and most of the women on our floor didn’t feel like making the walk, so they would just share the guys’ room. We had open showers and very marginal privacy, but everyone of both genders were fairly nonchalant about the whole thing- I even remember seeing a woman I had an enormous crush on in several stages of undress during the term, and she never managed to be even remotely as sexy or alluring as she was in normal dress when we were hanging out.
So at least for my money, it has to be about context. ^^
Gayness is wasted on the gay.
Kinda. Bear in mind, however, that most gay men have encountered a LOT more naked men in the flesh than the average straight men has seen naked women. So there the novelty in sneaking a peek simply isn’t there.
I mean, after you’ve seen more knobs than most locksmiths, just one more isn’t going to rock your boat. Coupled with this, most men - even in gyms - aren’t anything special to look at.
Heh, I’m not gay, but in my opinion as a straight guy if one was used to unisex nudity the thrill would be gone almost instantly, and common politeness would dictate that one avoid staring or doing anything else that makes others uncomfortable.
Other posts have it covered. It’s a combination of manners, un-sexy environment, and social contract - I don’t want to be uncomfortable so I try not to make others uncomfortable.
Locker room exhibitionists are weird but so are the extremely modest people. By the time you’re done with middle school, high school, and maybe college, I would think any curiosity/thrill/embarrassment would be long over.
I’m a woman and I’ve been attracted to people of both genders. However seeing 99% of the human population naked would do absolutely nothing for me. So the answer to your question, for me, is no. Because it’s so rare to encounter anyone in my daily life that I find hot.
Honestly even seeing someone who has an amazing body naked isn’t a big deal. Nudity in and of itself isn’t particularily exciting to me unless it’s in a sexual context with someone I am both mentally and physically attracted to.
Straight guy here. I can vouch for the fact that in my gym at least, the only people parading around naked in the locker rooms are the old guys who don’t give a damn anymore. Except for that one guy with the horse cock who just wants everyone to see it, everybody else pretty much is naked only as long as it takes to drop the underwear and pull on the gym shorts, and vice versa. Our showers are private stalls.
As a straight guy, I can’t speak for what it’s like to be a gay man in a locker room.
But I have been to a nudist resort (for work purposes mind you - I’m a reporter), and I can tell you the novelty wears off really quick. If somebody attractive walks by, you’re going to look, I’m not going to lie to you, but it’s not really much different than the way you would look at a pretty, fully clothed woman taking a walk in the park. You can’t really sit there and ogle.
There’s always a naked woman or two at the gym I go to. In fact just last night as I was putting stuff in my locker, a completely buck naked woman struck up a conversation with me. Just completely starkers.
I’ll pipe up as the exception—I’m a queer girl and I look (in a somewhat subtle way, I hope) and enjoy it. Sorry straight girls 
And God bless you. I’m glad at least one person isn’t squandering this precious opportunity many straights would *kill *for.
All this whining about how unsexy ‘average’ people look naked. You don’t know the value of water until the well is dry. Now gay up, people.
Absolutely. I (straight man) used to skinny dip in mixed company in daylight on occasion. I have to admit in the first peek at an unclothed young lady, there is a little (but only a little) bit of excitement – not in the sexual arousal sense, but more like satisfying curiousity mixed with some kind of feeling of accomplishment “Yes! Now I know what she looks like naked.”. But after that first glance and the little mental box is checked off, though, it’s like any other situation being around a young lady – the amount of clothes doesn’t really affect how much you want to stare, and does make (most people) more careful of being less obvious about whatever peeking is going on. [In other words, sure I checked out the nude ladies. But no more (and maybe less) than I checked out the clothed ladies.]
I’m usually very aware that I’m a gay guy surrounded by mostly straight guys and do my best not to look. There’s also the fact that I hate the way my own body looks and I’m usually rushing through.
However, there are a couple of guys that I cant help check out. One that is hot anyway and naked just looks like he could be a fitness model. Another is a trainer at the gym and has been in martial arts for about 20 years. He was chatting with me in the locker room (about goood brands of workout shoes) while totally naked. I was having trouble not staring and probably overcompensated by looking away. Man he was gorgeous and very well hung.
Straight guys who are paranoid their junk might be viddied by a homo in the showers need to keep two things in mind: One, say you’re at a nudist colony. After the initial novelty wears off, it’s difficult to imagine thinking of it as a sexual situation. It very quickly stops being all “ooh, she’s nekkid!” I mean, if people in real life were like a paranoid straight guy’s fantasies about gays in gang showers, all the men in a nudist colony would walk around with hardons. And that just doesn’t happen. And two, get over yourself: maybe one in ten people–if that–are exceptionally hot enough to uncontrollably arouse a perfect stranger. And in my experience, most people that are really that hot are A), used to it; they just consider part of life; and B**), have come to enjoy it to a certain degree. They’re far less likely to be self conscious getting naked because they know from experience the reaction will be complimentary.
In other words, this is really one of the least important problems in the entire history of the world, and straight guys who make an issue of it are assholes.
I wonder if this might have to do with same-sex nudity being far much easier to see than opposite sex.
I’ve read that children who grow up in nudist families, or cultures where public nudity is common generally end up without any particular fascination for seeing people naked of either sex. It’s not a big deal to them. There’s no mystique to it. They might as well be looking at somebody’s elbows.
There was a time when a woman’s bare legs were seen as a form of “nudity.” Now it doesn’t draw a second glance (well, unless they’re really nice ones). I’m guessing that nudity per se is not that big a component of eroticism for people with same-sex attractions, because it’s easy to see and has no mystery.
Ooooooh, elbows.
I’ll be in my bunk.
Wha? I never heard of this. So you use a literal fruit? Like a grapefruit? WTF?
This is actually true. Sometimes we bring in pillows, too, and have pillow fights afterwards.
We go to the Y and my girlfriend has said that women do walk around starkers in her change room, much more so than at her previous gym. I haven’t noticed much of a difference in the guys’ locker room. But the Y includes a whole “spa” element, there are steam rooms, saunas, and whirlpools, so it might just be a slightly different culture than at our old gym which didn’t have a pool or any of those trappings.
But anyway, I’m a straight dude and don’t pay attention to anyone in the locker room, except for the one guy who plucks his eyebrows because it’s kind of fascinating. It’s like watching your mom use one of those eyelash bender thingies.