TwoYellowSocks
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Sometimes I go to the gym, sometimes I take swimming classes (I REALLY had to push myself to do this the first time around)...so more often than I'd like, I find myself naked in the locker room.
I started out changing in the bathroom...but the bathrooms are small and people get annoyed when you take up space there just to change. Plus, EVERYONE gets naked in the locker room, and I was starting to feel like I was bringing more attention to myself by not joining in this practice.
Now, exposing yourself in a populated public place is bad enough, but to tell you the truth I think I am actually more uncomfortable with the fact that everyone else is naked. There are women conversing everywhere, exchanging recipes, talking about this, that, and everything in between...and every one of them is completely nude! No one cares; every one is relaxed and care-free. I'm the only one who is uncomfortable; I don't want to look anywhere because it might be misconstrued as a perverted stare...
So I tense up and look straight ahead; I do my business as quickly as I can, anticipating the moment I can escape, when another woman starts talking to me, breasts flopping, private areas exposed...She's saying something about the instructor or the facilities -- I don't pay much attention because I'm mortified, afraid to make eye-contact, or accidently look somewhere I shouldn't. I mutter a generic reply without giving more than a glance in her general direction; I'm trying not to seem like a perv, but I think I just come off cold and distant....
Maybe this isn't even SA. Maybe it's a body-image thing; maybe it's a nudity thing...who knows. I just wish naked people would stop talking to me in the locker room.
I started out changing in the bathroom...but the bathrooms are small and people get annoyed when you take up space there just to change. Plus, EVERYONE gets naked in the locker room, and I was starting to feel like I was bringing more attention to myself by not joining in this practice.
Now, exposing yourself in a populated public place is bad enough, but to tell you the truth I think I am actually more uncomfortable with the fact that everyone else is naked. There are women conversing everywhere, exchanging recipes, talking about this, that, and everything in between...and every one of them is completely nude! No one cares; every one is relaxed and care-free. I'm the only one who is uncomfortable; I don't want to look anywhere because it might be misconstrued as a perverted stare...
So I tense up and look straight ahead; I do my business as quickly as I can, anticipating the moment I can escape, when another woman starts talking to me, breasts flopping, private areas exposed...She's saying something about the instructor or the facilities -- I don't pay much attention because I'm mortified, afraid to make eye-contact, or accidently look somewhere I shouldn't. I mutter a generic reply without giving more than a glance in her general direction; I'm trying not to seem like a perv, but I think I just come off cold and distant....
Maybe this isn't even SA. Maybe it's a body-image thing; maybe it's a nudity thing...who knows. I just wish naked people would stop talking to me in the locker room.
