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If You Are Not Comfortable Being Naked Around Other People, You Are Not an Adult
Slate ^ | December 3, 2015 | By Mark Joseph Stern

Posted on 12/03/2015 7:45:40 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

In a recent disquieting article for the New York Times, Choire Sicha investigates a curious new challenge for gyms: Some men want to shower and change without ever being publicly nude, and they expect their gyms to build locker rooms that accommodate that desire. Drawing upon the experiences of gym managers and architects, Sicha explains that over the last quarter-century, men have grown increasingly uneasy with being naked in the locker room. While older men generally remain comfortable being undressed among others, younger ones insist on maximum privacy, pining for a way to strip, shower, and change clothes without even a flash of nudity.

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To: ElkGroveDan

We were visiting in San Jose and my relatives took us to this place. It is famous for their boardwalk, but the name is escaping me. Catalina? Sorry, not sure.


41 posted on 12/03/2015 8:16:14 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Interesting. One cannot help but suspect that the author, a gay male, has a somewhat ulterior motive for public nudity and is bewailing the fact that it is not altogether attractive to some of us, and belittling those of us for whom this is the case as being immature. This is more properly to be discussed under the rubric of inhibition, I think, and as one of the "older guys" he cites I will confess it seems to be easier for me as a consequence of my experience in school and service communal showers than it might be for those who haven't the privilege of experiencing that sort of thing. It doesn't mean I like it, it just means that it doesn't matter all that much.

Nevertheless, I can't see anything all that wrong with a little natural modesty, either. Methinks the laddie doth protest too much.

42 posted on 12/03/2015 8:17:09 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: MinorityRepublican

Tolerance of Homosexuality:

SEXUALIZES lots of non-sexual behavior.


43 posted on 12/03/2015 8:17:58 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.


44 posted on 12/03/2015 8:18:42 PM PST by gaijin
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To: cincinnati65

I think your explanation is the best.


45 posted on 12/03/2015 8:18:59 PM PST by Savage Beast ("History is not just cruel. It's witty." ~Charles Krauthammer)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They ought to have the locker rooms done over like the standard girl’s locker rooms: private cubicle shower rooms with curtains.

Guys can change in private and, most importantly, take a shower if they need to. We girls hardly used the showers anyway, fellas and most of you dudes really need ‘em.


46 posted on 12/03/2015 8:19:01 PM PST by Southern Magnolia
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To: tet68

ha ha ouch ha ha


47 posted on 12/03/2015 8:19:27 PM PST by Gasshog (DemoKKKrats: Leaders of the Free Stuff World)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Impy; stephenjohnbanker; NFHale; Clintonfatigued; BillyBoy

Khent & I both agree.


48 posted on 12/03/2015 8:19:32 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: gaijin

Yes! Thanks!

I looked up and found myself staring directly into the buttcheecks of this guy. Really???


49 posted on 12/03/2015 8:21:15 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Gasshog

Oh, the fun we had.

You little puke, is that dirt under your fingernails?
Sir yes Sir!
You bite your nails puke?
Sir yes Sir!
You scratch your ass puke?
Sir yes Sir!
You eat sh*t don’t you maggot?
Sir Yes Sir.
Say it!
I eat sh*t.
Again!
I eat sh*t.
Good, now go tell that tree you eat sh*t.

Ieatsh*t
Ieatsh*t!!!

Some things you never forget.


50 posted on 12/03/2015 8:24:28 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Gee, dya think the rise of militant homosexuality has anything to do with this change?


51 posted on 12/03/2015 8:26:53 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Look, the establishment doesn't want me, because I don't need the establishment." --Donald Trump)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Homoerotica-—the old guys love to dominate the younger virile males-—Libido Dominandi——it is to recreate the baths and pederastic orgies of Ancient Greece and Olympics (nude) days. (The old men lust after the young males who are in great shape...that is why the narcissism in homosexual males.)

Why? They are males who lust after the male body (puerile, immature, narcissists who hate females (the Other-—true diversity which takes maturity (selflessness /virtue).

Homosexuals are into boys-—pederasts because they consider playing the “female” as submissive and most are abused as boys——and the macho males refuse to act like women and loathes the males that are effeminate. Roehm and the homosexual nazis hated and killed the effeminate males and used boys for their orgies.

The Greeks and Samurai preferred boys-—as the Saudis today and Afghanis (and probably all muslims since they are extremely sexist like the Spartan culture—where women are segregated.) The abused boys learn to lust after males/goats (sex is meaningless) /boys and hate and mutilate women. (Shoebat)

The Leftist elites are all sodomites -—like Kissinger and GHW Bush-—who want the boys for orgies like John Maynard Keynes wrote about and Epstein’s boat and the Franklin Cover-Up proved—that the Left in the early 1900s were going to make Man/boy sex normal again-—like it is in muslim nations and Asian countries and all sexist non-Christian cultures like the Ancient Greeks, etc.

This is all about making males look at others with lust—making males into objects-—in destroying normal true selfless (Christian) male friendship and turning into an evil lust and warping friendship into an immature lust and fixation in latency—(narcissism).

Without virtue in males, civil society collapses.

Destroy Virtue and mature masculinity for the vile use of the human body and you will collapse culture. Paglia stated that the end of civilizations always ended with rampant homosexuality and pederasty-—child orgies like Kissinger and the evil sodomites in Hollywood sponsor 24/7. They are satanic-—look at the filth they produce for children....it is evil....even the neo-Freudian literature for children now.....which forces destruction of virtue formation (on purpose.)


52 posted on 12/03/2015 8:32:01 PM PST by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Homosexuals are no longer closeted. Gyms often have a cellphone ban in the lockerrooms because of homosexuals taking illicit photos of strangers while they are changing.

But somehow it is the fault of those who value their own privacy.


53 posted on 12/03/2015 8:33:40 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The goal of Socialism is Communism. Marx and Lenin were in agreement on this.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
If You Are Not Comfortable Being Naked Modest Around Other People, You Are Not an Adult

There. Fixed it.

54 posted on 12/03/2015 8:33:41 PM PST by FourPeas
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To: MinorityRepublican

Oh good, I was tired of “adulting” anyway. If anyone needs me, I’ll be in my blanket fort.


55 posted on 12/03/2015 8:37:40 PM PST by brothers4thID ("We've had way too many Republicans whose #1 virtue is "I get along great with Democrats".")
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To: SamuraiScot
I've noticed this. I think it is the self-consciousness induced by the thought that there could be homos watching. One of the side-effects is that lots of kids come to train for team sports at my gym, but don't shower after practice at the gym--or, going by the atmospheric evidence, at any time. They reek. You can tell when they've been in the elevator. This will not be good for public health. When I was in school, any kid who tried to skip the shower after practice would be thrown in with his clothes on.

That's okay, there is a new motivation that solves this problem. These men can shower with the women and not be refused access to check out their neighbors.

56 posted on 12/03/2015 8:39:25 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The goal of Socialism is Communism. Marx and Lenin were in agreement on this.)
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To: William Tell
A couple years in the military cures any shyness.

I well remember the row of non-cubicle toilets in the old brick barracks at the Presidio of San Francisco, 6th Army HQ.

57 posted on 12/03/2015 8:52:01 PM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: hecticskeptic

Modesty is a major Christian concept and virtue includes modesty. Communes (collective/socialistic) cultures were the “nude” ones-—where everyone is reduced to animal-—only humans wear clothes and think dignity is acquired by having the concept of privacy-—esp. about intimate matters which can’t be moral if a “group” thing. Humans are designed to unite one man with one woman.....and to not commit and take responsibility for the dignity of that person and the “Love” that is needed to be EXCLUSIVE for happiness and security. People need love and to be completed by the opposite sex to fulfill their design. To be used and tossed is devastating for the human psyche. All humans need to feel special and intimate with one other for life.

Individualism (Christianity) is what created Western Civ and the Age of Reason/Modern Science and dignity and worth of the individual included marriage of one man to one women—which took morality and modesty to respect the nature of male and female which is DIFFERENT and unique.

Not teaching the virtue of modesty is destroying the civility and the intimate/private “nature” of human beings. Privacy is essential to dignity of humans unlike other animals.

Dogs have sex in public—moral people know that intimacy requires privacy-—it is why all immoral, evil vile cultures always had major orgies which always includes children (like Afghanistan today and Greeks/Samurai of yesterday). All evil people use others as if they are dogs-—to be used and tossed. There can be no Freedom and no civil society when the masses are evil and cultures are socialistic—no privacy. Mystery and curiosity is what drives civilization and improves it and makes it so fun.

Western Civ (Christian cultures) far exceeded all other cultures to the EXTREME because of Romance/Chivalry/Modesty and that curiosity and excitement and “HOPE” (esp. in childhood and why innocence is so important in children). Modesty is essential for Romance and the beauty and excitement in human life. No surprises and you have a boring, dull life,


58 posted on 12/03/2015 9:01:26 PM PST by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: a fool in paradise

This column reminded me of the California court case in which a screwed up (”trans-gendered”) boy wanted to use the girls locker room. The school elected to let him do so but put in privacy curtains for the girls. He sued to force them to take the curtains out. No resolution yet. But if it were my kid sister in the locker room being forced to undress in front of him I would find him and issue extensive corrective therapy to him.


59 posted on 12/03/2015 9:08:09 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: MinorityRepublican

Getting hit on by homosexuals is tiring. They won’t take no for an answer and you have to threaten them and chase them off.


60 posted on 12/03/2015 9:22:00 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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