People who are gay using changing rooms

No, unless the ladies changing room is full of lesbisns.

Once you get past the early teenage years, nudity in a non-sexual context is not especially arousing. If you go to, say, a nude beach you're going to see the genitals of whichever gender it is you're attracted to - this is true whether you are gay or straight - but do you become sexually aroused or intrigued by this? Generally not. The truth is that the partially-clad body, or the body that is dressed to impress, is generally more alluring than casual or accidental nakedness.

If you've ever used unisex changing rooms, you'd realise that nobody wanders around checking out all the nude people and staring at them. Everyone does their best to keep to themselves, and at a stretch might steal a glance (men and women). But people in general want to be respectful rather than creepy perverts.

And after the first couple of times, the "novelty" is gone anyway, and it becomes a distinctly asexual environment rather than a buffet of naked bodies.

Excepting "gay sauna" clubs (do any of these even exist anymore), I expect gay men don't find the gym changing rooms particularly tantalising, despite what the OP's imaginary friend may have said. Especially when you realise that 90% of men walking naked around changing rooms are wrinklies 60+ and wobbly, chubby hairy feckers.

Once your out of your school years you realize been nude around the same or even opposite sex isn't arousing. I remember one lad in our class in school used to shower fully naked and lads use to run out of the showers when he came in. I laugh now, the efforts we used to go to covering yourself while you dressed. I'd be in the gym changing room now and I'd often find myself chatting to someone, both of us naked for about 10 mins and wouldn't give it a 2nd thought.

As one poster mentioned, you just keep to yourself and act normally. I might steal the very odd glimpse if someone was hot but I definitely wouldn't be leering at anyone like a perv.

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Who even cares, I'm one of those people who walks around the gym changing rooms bollock naked with no hang ups. I think I got over it in my early 20s. Unless dudes are like staring my dick/body out of it (and why wouldn't they I'm gorgeous), I couldn't really care less.

The OP and his friends.

It is a lethal combination of Victorian attitudes and catholic guilt. It seems we are getting more prudish then we were previously. God forbid anyone might see a bit of flesh.

I don't know that it has to do either with Victorian attitudes or with Catholic guilt. I think it's a consequence of a culture which is generally more open about sex, and therefore more sexualised; we are more likely to read sexual or erotic significance into events or situations that, in the past, we would have seen as having negligible sexual significance.

We see this in changing rooms where younger adults (who are nevertheless old enough to be beyond the age of adolescent self-consciousness) are more inclined to cover up as much as possible while older people are more comfortable being naked in a changing room because, hey, it's a changing room; that's the whole point.

Yeah, on reflection I think you're right. Contrast the attitude to nudity in saunas and swimming pools, say, between the UK/UK on the one hand and the Nordic countries on the other.

I don't think it's a Catholic/Protestant thing, obviously, since both the US/UK and the Nordic countries are historically predominantly Protestant cultures. And it's not even a puritan thing, since they are both marked by puritanism in their own ways. Maybe it comes down to the US being puritanical about sex and alcohol, and Nordic countries being puritantical about alcohol but not sex (and Ireland being puritanical about sex but not alcohol).

Maybe you're just nothing special to look at 😁😋