Isn’t it funny how easy it is to mix up “guy” and “gay”? 
May I just add that as a gay man I heartily concur with these rules. I have no interest in meeting men in shower rooms for any purpose. I don’t care if someone thinks I’m gay (if they know me well enough to ask, they already know); I just don’t want anyone in the shower to think I’m interested in cruising them. I mean, the idea!
Roddy
The other day, while pissing at a urinal, my boss came in, came to the one NEXT to me, and, while we were both pissing, clapped me on the back with his “free” hand and said, “you’re doing a great job, buddy.” (in reference to our work)
:eek: :eek: :eek: x infinity
Ooh, cozy!
I wonder what the OP would do in the steam room. Sit across from each oether, so that you’re staring at each other’s glistening naked firm bodies? Or sit side by side which increases the chances of bare knees touching. I get all tingly just thinking about it.
I’ve been in a lot of gang showers and most of the guys seem to get along OK, joking and chatting like normal non-boar killing guys. Once in a while a guy will walk in who is clearly uncomfortable with the situation and he really sticks out (so to speak). But at least I applaud him in that his interest in personal hygene trumps his fear of other guys seeing his pee-pee.
5 military guys at one shower head? Simultaneously? There must have been interesting dancing going on to avoid “incidental” contact.
Hey I just live by the man laws I don’t write them.
Yeah, it was kinda hilarious actually. If your group was organized you could form a rotating circle of wet-lather-rinse but if you’re group wasn’t organized it was more like nude twister while trying not to bump into each other too much.
Sounds like a gay porno fantasy but the reality is anything but[del]t[/del].
Quit trying to spoil the nice image I had going on!
This is because one of the Man Rule amendments states, “The greater the level of nakedness, the more, and louder, the conversation shall be should it be required.”
The level of nakedness at a urinal is insufficient to warrant any conversation at all, despite the quality of the nakedness. (See Urinal Etiquette Rule #3)
Steam rooms require towels around the waist, and cigars and scotch if you can swing it. The only permissible topics are sex, money, and golf.
It’s a lot easier than you think. When I was in Basic, you didn’t have that much time to worry about that. Get in, get showed, get out. And it’s somehow genetically programed into us how to avoid another guy in a shower.
Once there was I think a good fifty guys in a showering area with about ten shower heads. Towards the end of the shower I dropped my little shampoo bottle. Time slowed as I watched it slowly fall to the ground. The echo of it hitting the ground resonated in my ears.
I just bought a new bottle.
Man Rule 2a: The Man Rules Do Not Exist
Heh.
Speaking as a woman who knows nothing of weird guy shower rules, I still find it bizarre that he chose to shower rightnexttoyou. Personal space, dude.
(I keep trying to think of a “wide stance” joke to fit in here, but it’s just not working out. Anybody?)
Gentlemen, obviously you need to do as I do and add to this…the repository of Man Law.
Some customer brought a drink in our bathroom and set it on the top of the urinal. So here I am taking a leak and another employee comes it REACHES THEIR HAND OVER THE LITTLE PRIVACY DIVIDER and picks the drink up off the urinal. :eek:
I was in mid STREAM!
I think I own that movie…
I dunno that if the naked thing really relates to being seen as gay, or not, maybe its just not wanting to be seen naked, period. There are usually a very small number of people you want to see you naked, and usually only one at a time.
Speak for yourself…
See, this is the kind of Man Code violation that pisses me off. Though clearly a face-punch offense, you can’t just turn around and deck him in the middle of doing your business. Besides the mess, intentionally turning around to face a man with your junk hanging out, even for the purpose of inflicting grevious bodily harm, is itself a violation of both Man Code and urinal etiquette. And you can’t go after the guy once he’s left as the punishment must be administered heat-of-the-moment, as it is not severe enough to warrant anything harsher.
Bet he knew it, too. Bastard.
There’s a part of me that feels like I wandered into the wrong rest room by accident and I should just sidle out again, hoping no-one noticed.
But I stayed to look at the whole thing. 
Knowledge is power - I love reading the threads about the other half.