my dad said back in the day guys locker rooms were intentionally designed to have no privacy and pole showers were the norm. this layout/design was intentional for guys because in the old days it was considered manly and masculine for guys to not have privacy when it’s all guys there. he said it was almost unheard of for there to be shower stalls or curtains in a men’s locker room. it was thought men did not need privacy and should not be embarrassed or humiliated being naked since it’s all guys there. he said guys would go to the urinals and line up and weigh in butt naked for wrestling and stuff. He said any guy that would change in a toilet stall would be considered a “sissy”. plus the layout was good for team building and comraderie amongst the guys. I find this shocking. was this really the line of thinking in the old days and was it really like this? what about privacy? submitted by /u/Major-Resource925
Originally posted by u/Major-Resource925 on r/AskMen
Can confirm, from the Southern USA, back in the 1990s anyways.
Yeah, our school had completely open shower rooms for gym class. It made me very uncomfortable, so as a result I didn’t participate in school gym sports and as a result I failed gym, for not participating.
After school, I enjoyed the hell out of bicycle riding and tree climbing, which basically helped meet my food pyramid exercise of eat one bicycle a day, or however that worked…
Still, those open school gym showers gave me the absolute fucking creeps!