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Post  Posted: June 28, 2008 - 07:32 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

I am having trouble believing that even the heathen Chinese would go naked in a changing room of all places!

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Has anyone else noticed that "old braless women" season seems to have begun? So much for the theory that smaller breasts don't sag.
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I wonder what one would be changing in a "changing room" if not one's clothes? I don't know what the changing rooms are like in China, but here in the US, they are much too small for changing such things as automobile tires....
I suppose those who are too dainty to risk being seen nude or being exposed to the nudity of others just have to go home wet.
I am much more appalled by the fact that we can hardly go into a movie theater without my kids being exposed to violent video games in the lobby showing blood spattering from gunshot wounds, people being beheaded by monsters, etc.

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I am having trouble believing that even the heathen Chinese would go naked in a changing room of all places!



Sorry, Kiwi, I can't dig you. What do you mean?

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Post  Posted: July 11, 2008 - 05:12 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

I am trying to think of a time when I been in the vicinity of a shower and not been naked.

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Post  Posted: July 11, 2008 - 05:26 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Long distance bus station, beside Shanghai railway station. Been there a couple of times.

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Post  Posted: July 11, 2008 - 05:28 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

I do so. But then, I live alone.
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In that case, do such people have the same behaviour at their homes, taking bath/shower with doors open?
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Post subject: Re: Nudity in Swimming pool changing rooms

Hi,

Its a cultural thing but its harmless and one will need to adjust. This is common in SE Asia and probably also the West. All you need to do is face the wall and go about your job. I guess maybe you find it awkward to change around your kid? There are ways to tackle all those things too. Remember that all the people around are not oggling or anything.

There are modern places in the world where this is almost absent - ie Mid East, India etc

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Dear all,

Sometimes people go full monty in the common area of the swimming pool changing rooms. They forget that there can be kids around.

Is such behaviour legal? Can a swimming pool changing room of a club house be considered as a public place, as I am sure in China there are rules again nudity in public places.

Should such behaviour be socially tolerable, again given the fact that there could kids around of different ages and coming from different cultures where such behaviour could be shocking.
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Post  Posted: July 15, 2008 - 04:55 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Men wanking in the sauna is one you hear of quite often here. Nothing wrong with getting changed though in a segregated room, thats why they have mens and womens
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COCK, BALLS !!!

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Post  Posted: July 17, 2008 - 11:50 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Which up-tight community do you come from? Of course people are naked in the changing rooms. The only people I've seen putting on underwear while covering with a towel are insecure teenagers who thinks their penis is too small.

Hang the towel, walk around naked, shower, walk around naked, communicate with other naked men, get back to your towel, dry up, walk around naked and finally put on underwear. Then do some walking and communicating half-naked.

In the sauna it's optional to wear a towel if you at least do some naked walking before or afterwards.
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ever go swimming at a YMCA

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Post  Posted: July 18, 2008 - 07:36 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

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I am having trouble believing that even the heathen Chinese would go naked in a changing room of all places!



Sorry, Kiwi, I can't dig you. What do you mean?


You must have missed the har har and smiley i guess
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Post  Posted: July 19, 2008 - 12:34 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

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Besides, how can you blow dry your privates if you've got them covered up?


Hahaha, I am in hysterics!! It's especially true here - having seen a few naked local ladies in various change rooms (somehow, my kids and I have survived it and didn't get too traumatised Rolling Eyes ), I reckon it should take them at least an hour. Add another 20 minutes for underarms.

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I am very distressed by the behaviour of most men in change rooms. They stare a lot. They spend too much time blow-drying their mass of public hair next to the sink. I have stopped going because I am so put off. I'd feel more comfortable in a changing room in the Castro.
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puhlease wrote:
I am very distressed by the behaviour of most men in change rooms. They stare a lot. They spend too much time blow-drying their mass of public hair next to the sink. I have stopped going because I am so put off. I'd feel more comfortable in a changing room in the Castro.


In the Castro the men look gay on purpose.
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Post  Posted: July 29, 2008 - 11:39 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

puhlease wrote:
I am very distressed by the behaviour of most men in change rooms. They stare a lot. They spend too much time blow-drying their mass of public hair next to the sink. I have stopped going because I am so put off. I'd feel more comfortable in a changing room in the Castro.


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Post  Posted: July 29, 2008 - 11:46 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

ro_ag wrote:
I mean the male/female only changing room but the place where there are the mirrors, the hair dryers and the storage lockers etc.



Yes yor're right. this is shocking..Only in China do people get naked in the changing rooms......Children get to see naked people of the same gender...I think the big problem in China is there is no Gender.....

Perhaps if we are together in a changhing room you could give me a hand...Please don't give me any lip

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Post  Posted: July 30, 2008 - 01:34 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

God, go to Japan and you will stop caring after a few baths. Weird as all hell the first few times though, I agree.
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Post  Posted: July 31, 2008 - 10:31 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

This happens in Canada too, but mostly with old people. I don't know why but old guys just love walking around naked. I'd prefer people use a towel but hey, i guess when people get old they just don't give a ****.
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boredengineer wrote:
... when people get old they just don't give a ****.

damn straight !
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Post  Posted: Aug 01, 2008 - 07:20 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

^ I'm glad I'm still sneaking around the changing rooms looking for cover. Wink

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Am I the only one who thinks this is totally normal, and the way it is done in most countries regardless of how "modern" they are?

I mean, there is only men in the changing rooms so why bother cover things up, I would understand the concern if it was a mixed changing room, but it's not.

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^ I'm glad I'm still sneaking around the changing rooms looking for cover. Wink


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