Yup, that. No-one thinks they’re suddenly going to get assaulted by the horny, horny gay people. But when you really don’t want sexual attention from strangers of any variety, the idea of dropping trou in front of someone who’s attracted to your gender (regardless of their gender) is a little worrying. It’s not enough of a concern to keep me out of public showers, though. People are generally good about behaving like adults.
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I don’t want to shower with anyone except my wife. I’m not a teenager anymore. Showering with guys was part of athletics. More than likely at least a couple guys on the team was Gay. But we didn’t know back then who was straight or who was gay. I didn’t particularly care anyhow. A teammate is a teammate.
I’m a bit old to be showing my love handles & hairy ass to anyone else now.
I’m gay, and you don’t have to worry about showering with me . . . unless you are my partner.
Wow - there are a lot of non-group shower people here. I guess I’ve been going to the gym so long I just assumed the world was full of people who were cool with it, no-one seems to care there.
I wouldn’t think of those situation as showering “with” someone, but of showering “at the same time” as someone. I prefer individual shower stalls, but when they aren’t available what bothers me is their unavailability (which usually involves a lack of availability of places to put towels or shampoo), not the sexual mores of the women around me.
I don’t really do activities anymore that lead to group showering situations but when I did and if I do it again it wouldn’t bother me in the slightest. I have been in a communal shower situation with guys I knew where gay. Meh, so what?
Yeah…sharing a shower with someone I’m not also sharing a bed with is almost beyond imagining. Unless it was a decontamination shower, but I imagine that we’d be too worried about removing the deadly toxin to be worried about modesty.
It doesn’t strike me as a sexual situation, so no, no issue with it.
I don’t quite buy that.
I’m a straight male. If you told me, “Time for the group shower. Your choice, the room full of gay guys or the room full of lesbians,” I’d be soaping up with the dudes.
Is this the shower situation in male changing rooms? Because in every gym I’ve belonged (in London) the women’s area always has separate shower cubicles.
I’ve had guys make passes at me in the locker rooms of public pools (many years ago, when I was inmy 20s.) I can only assume they were gay. It was especially ickky because it was so unexpected, I was naked and they were already trying to touch by time I figured out they weren’t just being overly friendly. It doesn’t take many of those situations to make you wonder if that other guy in the shower (gay or not) is looking at you funny.
I guess they have a small point. After all, if showers with a gay guy should be no big deal, then co-ed showers should also be no big deal.
Now having spent a little time in the naturist comm, then no- mixed showers really aren’t that big of a deal. But some think otherwise.
I only voted that I would be a little uncomfortable with it because the idea of showering around people, period, makes me a little uncomfortable. Me + naked + other people of whatever stripe = uncomfortable. But I certainly wouldn’t worry that a gay person might jump me or something. Geez, they’re gay, not jerks! Of course the two aren’t mutually exclusive, but still. 
Well I haven’t been in any female changing rooms, but every changing room with a shower that I’ve been in for men has had communal showers.
I’ve been showering in the gym for years (and I’m running out of soap!) and they’ve all had private stalls. I think the last time I saw and used a group shower was in college, late 80’s. These days I walk to and from the shower naked, but while I’m in there, it’s private.
I’m not concerned if someone of my own gender finds me attractive.
I didn’t vote because I do not voluntarily shower with anyone that I’m not already in a sexual (or soon-to-be sexual) relationship with. This is one of my environmentally friendly initiatives–doing my part to reduce our national reliance on brain bleach.
If I were to shower with other people, their orientations would not concern me.
And I’d go join the ladies. Our culture has a really strong taboo against being naked with people of the opposite sex unless you’re partners.
It’s interesting to think through the implications of these kinds of things and I’m enjoying the thread. (Plus I thought I’d chime in since CitizenPained was taking flack for the idea that objectification is a legitimate worry to some people.) But realistically when I walk into a public shower I’m worrying about slipping and falling on my ass, not about people’s sexual preferences.
“Opposed to the notion of showering with a gay person but will suck it up”
I see what you did there.
+1
If I was showering with gays, they wouldn’t be attracted. 