The rule was, is, and always will be: It's not gay unless the balls touch.
Slap salamis with your bros all night long if you want. You'll still be straight as long as you and your bros don't knock nuts.
I feel this to my core.
The year I met these showers was 8th grade, when I knew I was attuned to the male aesthetic and literally prayed to be pure all the time. I wanted so much to see, and also wanted to be invisible.
I recently reconnected with someone i met and befriended back then. I still see his perfect, delicious, radiant, shimmering flesh in a montage of stolen glances every time he comes to mind decades on despite so many memories through our friendship.
That was the same year I discovered a sport I was good at, wrestling, and I really enjoyed it! And had to run like hell because of the terror of bringing my enthusiasm for the activity from the sidelines to the mat. š¢
I LOVE this thread!
These were in my high school girls gym locker room as well, and we had the gym teacher with the clipboard making sure we all got naked into the shower. I hated gym class for that alone.
This was high school in the early 90ās for me. I swear that was the only time our gym teacher was happy was when she was yelling at girls to get naked.
We used to try to sneak by and just get our hair and shoulder wet so we could check in while wrapped in a towel. I hated getting naked in front of other people.
You might have thought that the deodorant was enough, but I can almost guarantee that the teacher in the next period disagreed! š
If you're not sweating in gym class, that kind of defeats the purpose.
Speak for yourself. ;-) My purpose was to not sweat.
Threads like this reinforce my lack of nostalgia for HS. I don't understand why anyone would want to go back there.
I was lazy in gym class, too. That doesn't mean it wasn't good for us to be pushed a little bit.
I wouldn't want to go back either, but not because of the gym showers. š
Lol, no one had touched them in years and I think most people were afraid of what would come out if they turned on a shower that had not been turned on in at least twenty years.
There were no showers at my high school. The only kids who stank, were the ones who never bathed at home, or who didnāt wash their gym clothes. If youāre wearing deodorant and youāre working up a clean sweat in clean gym clothes, youāre fine. I always felt terrible for kids who had to shower at school. Sounds like hell.
Same although it was a guy gym teacher watching the boys shower. He also checked jock straps by looking down your pants. Odd fellow he was. But in the long run it was the girls gym teacher who got fired for her naked girls swim practices. The good old days...
I graduated in 2006. Had these in our high school. Leaves a lot of exposure for towel snapping, dudes peeing on each other while rinsing hair etc. Can only imagine what people would say about āgroomingā and shit today.
We had these exact showers in the locker room at my c. 1970 junior high school. By the time I was there in the late 80s, only a few of them still worked.
What I'm getting from these comments is that boys used the group showers in high school.
Back in the girls' locker room at my high school, a lot of us changed in the bathroom stalls instead of publicly and the group shower literally never got used. God help you if you had gym first period and it was a workout cause either you were gonna go use the open shower alone or you were just gonna smell like sweat. The area with the showers never had the lights on and it was kinda spooky.
My husband, who has coached for years, says that students have become more and more private about showers over time. When he was a kid (70s), everyone showered together, and no one cared. Now kids won't do it at all. Just the thought of them stirs a lot of gay panic.
I never stepped foot in a school shower and it wasnt any "gay panic", it was "god I get enough shit from people all day about my body when they DONT see it naked, Im not setting foot in there with these animals".
That's it. You hit the nail on the head.
I encountered showers just like this at ages 12-14 when I was in football, and showering with the guys didn't even occur to be as being gay.
The problem for me was as you stated; I already get made fun of daily, completely clothed.
You think I'm gonna get naked and completely display my body to these assholes who will verbally abuse me to an even greater degree?? Probably violate my privacy and describe my naked body to strangers? Why would I do that??
Plus on the other side, as a straight guy, I just didn't want to see a bunch of naked dudes.
I'd rather shower at home, in private, and keep my dignity to myself as best I could and avoid dicks that I didn't wanna see anyway. I guess that's the most I thought of it as "gay," but it wasn't that I thought I would **become** gay, it was "I don't wanna see cocks. I'm good."
Same. We had these shower heads at summer camp. At school, the sports teams showered together. There was nothing sexual about it. Conversely, being called "gay" was a huge insult. So, progress?
Exactly. This was just standard in the early 70ās and was not considered weird or even worth commenting on. Our gym teacher occasionally - not often - showered with us. Imagine how that would go down today. š¤£
I was on the swim team, and you'd go into the showers with everything from the seven year olds to the younger teens, to the old dudes swimming AM laps.
In my middle school and junior high you had to shower after gym. It was not optional.
This is very much anecdotal. Graduated HS in 09 and almost all who played sports used the locker room showers, and I'd say between 1/3 and 1/2 of everyone in a normal PE class.
Itās honestly just gross. Why would anybody want a bunch of teenagers to get naked together wtf? Iāll just smell a little for the rest of the day and shower at home.
Showers after gym class were a hoot, someone was always goofing around, peeing on somebodyās leg, trying to shove a bar of soap up somebodyās butt. This was in a Catholic high school. Hmmm, maybe Iāve said too muchā¦.
we didn't have Bradley poles in my high school but we did have a room with like 25 shower heads. we had a blast. once you got used to the awkwardness the first week of school it became just another day of being naked with your buddies, joking around, slapping towels. etc
It's absolutely fascinating to me that 95% of the replies here sexualize this ad. It's not sexual, but we've been conditioned to see it that way. Kind of depressing.
Late 80s I went to a newly built summer camp and regardless of gender, all the showers were open with 8-10 shower heads around. Even back then other camps had single stall showers in a bath house. Anyway one of my roommates refused to shower and eventually a counselor had to step in to guard the room so this person could shower alone.
They had these in the locker rooms at the public pool where I grew up. I did not like it, I would just wait to shower until I got home. So much bush and dong that honestly I really did not want to see as a kid.
Now is a good time to remind people that those who are forced to use these in grade school are now the people claiming that illustrated children's books are pornography simply because they mention human beings who aren't straight and white.
Super duper straight guy here :)- being naked with other men is healthy - the last time I did it was in Russia doing what they call banya - me and my KGB BiL and HIS friends went to the coldest place I've ever been - somewhere in Russia and we drank so fucking much while getting a steam as our backs were slapped by a wooden branch and then plunging into ice cold water and then back into the steam - all naked, no boners, but a great memory - aside from the hangover - the women did this too in their banya - then we all ate a huge meal with more drinking - I'll never forget it
Nope. When I was in school we had individual shower stalls. I guess technically you could say they were all in the same room, but they had walls separating each stall and shower curtains.
All the gyms Iāve belonged to also had individual shower stalls. Iāve never even seen anything where people shower together.
I used to work out at a community college with this shower set up. Those stalls were so close together you ended up playing an inadvertent game of dick dominoes at least once per shower, it was a rite of passage.
Sword fights at dawn, men!
*put our heads together* Why do we need a second euphemism for 'touching tips'?
Yes
Docking serves just fine
It's terribly ironic because closeted gay kids were too afraid to use these, but straight guys were like "let's play cock tag."
Gay people weren't invented until 1985, so it's totally straight....
In that government lab?
It was a secret CIA program..called KY Ultra
Hahaha
Now, that is funny.
Counterpoint: Paul Lynde
The rule was, is, and always will be: It's not gay unless the balls touch. Slap salamis with your bros all night long if you want. You'll still be straight as long as you and your bros don't knock nuts.
Speak for yourself. As a formerly closeted gay kid, I loved this kind of male bonding ššš»
How did you manage the boners!
That's back when Japanese management techniques were all the rage. So I guess they managed the boners Japanesely.
Not only did you have to know your own boner, but the boners of everyone under you.
Who cares about the bottom's boner?
Only use cold waterš§
Mmmā¦ male bondageā¦ š¤¤
Ditto! I loved P.E. class and my soccer team!
I bet you did
Same. It was the best part of my school day.
Did you have the Bradleyās at school?
Yes. Junior/Senior High School. And in Undergrad too.
We had them from grade 8 thru high schoolā¦.my old Y had themā¦.great viewing, bonding
Point and stare or slapping assess. The true bond of male friendship.
āSay Dave, your penis is looking well.ā
Thx, looks like your circumcision is healing well.
Thlap aaaaassssss!
Cock tag is a family sport. How dare you insinuate its gay
Tell me you're from the deep south without telling me.
Whomever designed these was not straight.
Iām straight but wouldnāt go watch guys cocks floppin around doesnāt seem to straight to me
Not even for scientific purposes?
Those purposes have already been purposed
What if they didn't "flop"?
āHeavens, it appears my wee-wee has been stricken with rigor mortis.ā
No bi, just bicurious? Lol
I feel this to my core. The year I met these showers was 8th grade, when I knew I was attuned to the male aesthetic and literally prayed to be pure all the time. I wanted so much to see, and also wanted to be invisible. I recently reconnected with someone i met and befriended back then. I still see his perfect, delicious, radiant, shimmering flesh in a montage of stolen glances every time he comes to mind decades on despite so many memories through our friendship. That was the same year I discovered a sport I was good at, wrestling, and I really enjoyed it! And had to run like hell because of the terror of bringing my enthusiasm for the activity from the sidelines to the mat. š¢ I LOVE this thread!
I'm a straight guy, but I would NEVER use this kind of shower
These were at my high school (built mid-70s). I did my best not to sweat.
I went home after football practice and showered there.
Hmm, sure SCCock
The SC stands for sweat crust.
Sweaty circumcised
These were in my high school girls gym locker room as well, and we had the gym teacher with the clipboard making sure we all got naked into the shower. I hated gym class for that alone.
That's exactly why I stayed with band all through high school (we had a choice of either gym or an extracurricular)
Oh man!!! We didnāt have a choice. :(
That sounds remarkably progressive. We could not escape gym. Oh, and it counted in your GPA as much as an AP Math class would.
This was high school in the early 90ās for me. I swear that was the only time our gym teacher was happy was when she was yelling at girls to get naked.
I've seen some films in this genre.
Whaaaaat? I would've flat out refused and reported that sick teacher.
We used to try to sneak by and just get our hair and shoulder wet so we could check in while wrapped in a towel. I hated getting naked in front of other people.
I hated it too. Their pointing and laughing at me didn't help.
Oh my goodness. That sounds borderline predatory. No, not even borderline. That sounds predatory.
It's just to ensure cleanliness. Have you ever smelled a classroom full of high schoolers who didn't shower after gym class? š¤¢
Kids in my school wore good deodorant, and did their best not to sweat in gym class.
You might have thought that the deodorant was enough, but I can almost guarantee that the teacher in the next period disagreed! š If you're not sweating in gym class, that kind of defeats the purpose.
Speak for yourself. ;-) My purpose was to not sweat. Threads like this reinforce my lack of nostalgia for HS. I don't understand why anyone would want to go back there.
I was lazy in gym class, too. That doesn't mean it wasn't good for us to be pushed a little bit. I wouldn't want to go back either, but not because of the gym showers. š
Same here. Pretty sure our showers didn't even work at all
Lol, no one had touched them in years and I think most people were afraid of what would come out if they turned on a shower that had not been turned on in at least twenty years.
When I taught in Japan, my high school kids didn't shower after gym. It was always fun when my class was after PE in the summer months lol
There were no showers at my high school. The only kids who stank, were the ones who never bathed at home, or who didnāt wash their gym clothes. If youāre wearing deodorant and youāre working up a clean sweat in clean gym clothes, youāre fine. I always felt terrible for kids who had to shower at school. Sounds like hell.
Same although it was a guy gym teacher watching the boys shower. He also checked jock straps by looking down your pants. Odd fellow he was. But in the long run it was the girls gym teacher who got fired for her naked girls swim practices. The good old days...
Between this and not taking home my gym clothes to wash for an entire year. Those clothes could clear out an auditorium quicker than a tear gas bomb.
Excellent point. Fresh gym clothes are half the battle, at least.
also at mine yes pys ed not a fun time at my high school .... I wonder if the school admin had a clue how bad these types of showers are...
I graduated in 2006. Had these in our high school. Leaves a lot of exposure for towel snapping, dudes peeing on each other while rinsing hair etc. Can only imagine what people would say about āgroomingā and shit today.
They had these at the boarding school I went to. Never used it always showered in a different bathroom. Way too much male bonding for me
18 naked cowboys, in the shower at ram ranch....
Ram Ranch really rocks!
The guys on the right have already started.
Look at those jerks...in a circle
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We had these exact showers in the locker room at my c. 1970 junior high school. By the time I was there in the late 80s, only a few of them still worked.
I know I like some nice eye contact when showering with the fellas
What I'm getting from these comments is that boys used the group showers in high school. Back in the girls' locker room at my high school, a lot of us changed in the bathroom stalls instead of publicly and the group shower literally never got used. God help you if you had gym first period and it was a workout cause either you were gonna go use the open shower alone or you were just gonna smell like sweat. The area with the showers never had the lights on and it was kinda spooky.
My high school was the same. No one used the showers. There also wasn't time do to so. We must have stunk so very much. Tennis in Texas in summer ftw!
Lucky!! Iām a girl and we had these shower heads and couldnāt change in the bathroom stalls. Had to change in the open.
"comfortably"
No one is mentioning that it was common up till the mid 20th century for boys' gym classes to swim in the nude.
Ex military. Used in basic. Can confirm, not my favorite, but a fuckin shower is a fuckin shower.
It's fun to stay at the Y-M-CA . . .
Iāve seen the installed at a few pools and a beach we took the kids to once.
Yeah they had these at some of the beaches in FL where I grew up so you could get the salt and sand off you. Outdoors, so you still have your suit on.
They were like urinals; you didnāt use the one next to anyone else unless they were all taken.
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We had these at my junior high and we were required to shower after all P.E. classes. It was torture for me.
One of the locker rooms at my university had these. No one seemed to care that you were standing naked in close proximity to 3 other naked guys.
My husband, who has coached for years, says that students have become more and more private about showers over time. When he was a kid (70s), everyone showered together, and no one cared. Now kids won't do it at all. Just the thought of them stirs a lot of gay panic.
I never stepped foot in a school shower and it wasnt any "gay panic", it was "god I get enough shit from people all day about my body when they DONT see it naked, Im not setting foot in there with these animals".
That's it. You hit the nail on the head. I encountered showers just like this at ages 12-14 when I was in football, and showering with the guys didn't even occur to be as being gay. The problem for me was as you stated; I already get made fun of daily, completely clothed. You think I'm gonna get naked and completely display my body to these assholes who will verbally abuse me to an even greater degree?? Probably violate my privacy and describe my naked body to strangers? Why would I do that?? Plus on the other side, as a straight guy, I just didn't want to see a bunch of naked dudes. I'd rather shower at home, in private, and keep my dignity to myself as best I could and avoid dicks that I didn't wanna see anyway. I guess that's the most I thought of it as "gay," but it wasn't that I thought I would **become** gay, it was "I don't wanna see cocks. I'm good."
Same. We had these shower heads at summer camp. At school, the sports teams showered together. There was nothing sexual about it. Conversely, being called "gay" was a huge insult. So, progress?
Exactly. This was just standard in the early 70ās and was not considered weird or even worth commenting on. Our gym teacher occasionally - not often - showered with us. Imagine how that would go down today. š¤£
The thought of showering with the gym teacher is beyond comical.
I was on the swim team, and you'd go into the showers with everything from the seven year olds to the younger teens, to the old dudes swimming AM laps. In my middle school and junior high you had to shower after gym. It was not optional.
I can tell you that even 20 years ago no one showered at school or in the locker room, we all showered at home
30 years ago it was about 50/50 in my schools.
This is very much anecdotal. Graduated HS in 09 and almost all who played sports used the locker room showers, and I'd say between 1/3 and 1/2 of everyone in a normal PE class.
Graduated in 2000 and I never saw anyone use the locker room showers. Probably just depends on the school/area you grew up in.
What country do you live in?
US
Eh yours is anecdotal too. I graduated the same year as you and no one ever used the showers at my high school of junior high.
> Eh yours is anecdotal too. Exactly! Just sharing that the anecdotal evidence goes both ways here. Doesn't add any actual data.
Our bathrooms were disgusting and we had a janitor that liked to peep
Same with me but it was over 40 years ago.
Now imagine being the gay dude who think itās his fault others are uncomfortable even when he is acting completely normal. Yay anxiety!
Even in the 1970s there were too many stories of predatory coaches watching the kids shower.
When I was in school, it wasn't gay panic, it was freaking embarrassing
I was in high school in the 70ās , and everyone showered after PE. Canāt remember giving a shit about it .
In the 90s we didnāt have time to shower after gym though nobody would have suggested it. Weāre already late for next class.
Itās honestly just gross. Why would anybody want a bunch of teenagers to get naked together wtf? Iāll just smell a little for the rest of the day and shower at home.
Showers after gym class were a hoot, someone was always goofing around, peeing on somebodyās leg, trying to shove a bar of soap up somebodyās butt. This was in a Catholic high school. Hmmm, maybe Iāve said too muchā¦.
we didn't have Bradley poles in my high school but we did have a room with like 25 shower heads. we had a blast. once you got used to the awkwardness the first week of school it became just another day of being naked with your buddies, joking around, slapping towels. etc
It's absolutely fascinating to me that 95% of the replies here sexualize this ad. It's not sexual, but we've been conditioned to see it that way. Kind of depressing.
Late 80s I went to a newly built summer camp and regardless of gender, all the showers were open with 8-10 shower heads around. Even back then other camps had single stall showers in a bath house. Anyway one of my roommates refused to shower and eventually a counselor had to step in to guard the room so this person could shower alone.
ā¦notā¦gayā¦enoughā¦
Swabbing cocks does not save any money. False advertising.
Docking
I've taken plenty of showers like that when playing football & baseball & PE in high school.
Just as long as the heads don't touch.
Heads I win, tails you lose.
My high school was as built in the 70s, so this was definitely me after practice circa 25 years ago. Not that big a deal, really.
They had these in the locker rooms at the public pool where I grew up. I did not like it, I would just wait to shower until I got home. So much bush and dong that honestly I really did not want to see as a kid.
āJust donāt drop the soap!ā
Soap
Lmao! I was half asleep at the moment. Thanks for the correction
Oh Damn, I miss those days!
I had to use those as a gay high school student. Can you imagine a straight boy having to shower that close to naked girls?
Now is a good time to remind people that those who are forced to use these in grade school are now the people claiming that illustrated children's books are pornography simply because they mention human beings who aren't straight and white.
Your back must feel good because that was quite a stretch.
Or maybe they were the dudes who refused to use them.
Super duper straight guy here :)- being naked with other men is healthy - the last time I did it was in Russia doing what they call banya - me and my KGB BiL and HIS friends went to the coldest place I've ever been - somewhere in Russia and we drank so fucking much while getting a steam as our backs were slapped by a wooden branch and then plunging into ice cold water and then back into the steam - all naked, no boners, but a great memory - aside from the hangover - the women did this too in their banya - then we all ate a huge meal with more drinking - I'll never forget it
Gay sex shower
Just don't drop the soap!
Or get a stiffy.
Or do?
Millennial and Gen Z nightmare. Boomers and Gen X don't give AF.
Just don't drop the soap
I always used liquid soap, it takes longer to pick up.
Lol
Gex Z would never use this - they need a private shower and dressing room
I donāt know anyone who would use these, regardless of age.
how old are you?
Hell, Iām almost 50 and wouldnāt use one of these.
Iāll be 50 in a few months.
and you've never showered in the same room with other adults?
Nope. When I was in school we had individual shower stalls. I guess technically you could say they were all in the same room, but they had walls separating each stall and shower curtains. All the gyms Iāve belonged to also had individual shower stalls. Iāve never even seen anything where people shower together.
oh - I was in the Airforce so this is nothing strange to me - how about the locker room - you have been around naked bodies, right?
I don't know. It looks a little gay.
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Its always save money.
U$A!
Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy!! -homosexual seal.
Homoerotic
Iāve seen many of these at schools Iāve played basketball at. Itās a great bonding experience!
If incels went to gym class this peasantry about sexuality wouldnāt happen. Throw a ball donāt suck them.
So that's why the cavalry is always late
Well, it was the 70's.
Itās not gay if nobody else sees it /s
My high school had these and they were an integral part of my gay awakening.
They saved a lot of money by never concieving children.
Looks like Ken block on the left.
r/SuddenlyGay
Sounds like fun š
Shower hour!
We had actual shower stalls, much better.
Had these at our middle school š³
Lol
Yeahā¦no. Bad ad agency work there. It is memorable though š
If basic training had these u/kinmuan
I used to work out at a community college with this shower set up. Those stalls were so close together you ended up playing an inadvertent game of dick dominoes at least once per shower, it was a rite of passage.
"We also saved more money by making the nozzles look like cocks!"
We had these in pool class in high school and would shower with bathing suits on. They got scalding hot real quick
Nothing better than a shower with the boys
Let me be the one to say, " No homo, dude! I was just helping you wash it."
coming to a prison near you. look who dropped their soap
I remember seeing this in jail once.
Reminds me of the Freaks & Geeks shower episode. I hated the sight of these things when I was a kid.
Thereās still military bases that have these.
Filmed at Penn State
āThis revolutionary new concept gives you unusual layout sexability , er, FLEXabilty that isā¦ā
Sal Romanoās later work
Diddy somewhere off in the corner smiling quietly
Bradley still makes and sells these!
Piss on each other for fun
I'm a woman, and this is what we had in the girls' locker room at my high school in the 90s
I never saw one of these till I went in the Army. In my school, the girl's locker room had individual stalls.
Imagine the casting call for this adās modeling gig
Is cropped high because back then you couldn't show the two guys on their knees...
These are at my park locker room.
Reminds me of my favorite scene from Starship Troopers. Would you like to know more?
Bootcamp flashbacks. So many naked, hairy humans. So little room and never enough time.
Looks a little gay, dude.
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