I'm a board member for our swim club.
Last nite there was mention of a complaint from a senior high school swimmer who was uncomfortable with using a locker room with the adult master swimmers. We practice at the same time a few days out of the week.
This became an bigger issue last nite because we have a desire to run USA swimming at the same time as a few masters sessions in the evening and our coach voiced concern about everyone using the locker room at the same time and kids being uncomfortable.
Does your club run practices at the same time?
Have you run into issues like this?
How did you handle/manage locker room time?
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Former Member
I went into the men's faculty shower room for my university pool once and a guy was in there with 6 or 7 naked boys that were, I dunno, maybe 6 or 7.
He herded them all out, but told one, "You stay here."
I'm very nearsitghted, but I was aware that the boy on the other side of the shower room was looking at me with a great deal of curiousity - I had just taken my suit off and was soaping my stuff.
I glanced over, I tried to focus my myopic, astigmatic eyes, and then realized the "boy" was girl.
I was instantly aware of potential (but admittedly unlikely) legal repercussions for me and hightailed out of there. The headline that popped into my brain was "Missing girl found naked in shower room with naked man."
I got out so fast, I had to rinse off when I got home.
I don't have kids and I have a European kind of attitude towards nudity, but that still made me uncomfortable. Heck, even if it had been a close friend's daughter and he said "It's OK, she's used to nudity," I would not do that.
A stranger?
Aside from whatever the girl experienced, the guy who left her there was exposing both himself and me to hellish legal problems.
I went into the men's faculty shower room for my university pool once and a guy was in there with 6 or 7 naked boys that were, I dunno, maybe 6 or 7.
He herded them all out, but told one, "You stay here."
I'm very nearsitghted, but I was aware that the boy on the other side of the shower room was looking at me with a great deal of curiousity - I had just taken my suit off and was soaping my stuff.
I glanced over, I tried to focus my myopic, astigmatic eyes, and then realized the "boy" was girl.
I was instantly aware of potential (but admittedly unlikely) legal repercussions for me and hightailed out of there. The headline that popped into my brain was "Missing girl found naked in shower room with naked man."
I got out so fast, I had to rinse off when I got home.
I don't have kids and I have a European kind of attitude towards nudity, but that still made me uncomfortable. Heck, even if it had been a close friend's daughter and he said "It's OK, she's used to nudity," I would not do that.
A stranger?
Aside from whatever the girl experienced, the guy who left her there was exposing both himself and me to hellish legal problems.
