# Gym rats: are men in locker rooms more modest than they used to be?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gym-rats-are-men-in-locker-rooms-more-modest-than-they-used-to-be/380196>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 13, 2006, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gym-rats-are-men-in-locker-rooms-more-modest-than-they-used-to-be/380196 "2006-11-13T04:42:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2016, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gym-rats-are-men-in-locker-rooms-more-modest-than-they-used-to-be/380196/161 "2016-05-29T00:44:23Z")

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> [@sweat209](#):
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> I wonder how this is going to impact sports like swimming, Boxing, kickboxing and MMA? You are almost nude in these sports.
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> Guys don’t wear t-shirt and girls just wear a bra!! They both wear tiny shorts and almost nude…

I’ve talked to a lot of men and women of the generation before me who practiced swimming at school _in the nude_ (segregated, boys and girls). This would be a generation before “sexuality and LGBT [were] all out [in the] open” - in other words, during the past where no one talked about that (apparently). That generation would seem to be among the people in this thread talking about how nudity in the lockerroom is no big deal.

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**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2016, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gym-rats-are-men-in-locker-rooms-more-modest-than-they-used-to-be/380196/162 "2016-05-29T20:56:18Z")

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> [@mr\_wolf](#):
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> Also approaches to nudity tend to be culturally uniform. These guys were asians and the japanese, on the sexual level, are stereotypically a bit …hummm… deviants?

I don’t know what you are trying to say, either.

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**Author:** ![olderguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9fc348/32.png) [@olderguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/olderguy)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gym-rats-are-men-in-locker-rooms-more-modest-than-they-used-to-be/380196/163 "2017-08-24T08:16:08Z")

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When the local high school ended gym showers, the newspaper article stated it was because bacteria requires time to grow and there would not be enough time between gym class and getting home and showered for it to be a problem.

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**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gym-rats-are-men-in-locker-rooms-more-modest-than-they-used-to-be/380196/164 "2017-08-24T17:02:45Z")

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[Obligatory illustration from The Oatmeal](http://theoatmeal.com/pl/minor_differences2/locker_room) (possibly NSFW if your office has very strict rules)

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