I'm old so many things have changed in my lifetime but I never thought blokes being shy about themselves would be one.
As a kid I didn't like my introduction to communal showers where we all had to strip and have one after games and PE but as the years went by it got less and less of an embarassment to the stage that it no longer even become a thought any more.
I've enjoyed sport through my life so I've showered with loads of naked blokes - many of them complete strangers - after the football, badminton, basketball, whatever, I've been playing.
But these days, unless it's just the gym and leisure centre I use but there now seems to be individual shower units, where people tend to enter partialy clothed, undress, shower then put their clean boxers on, whilst the rest of us queue up picking our noses, awaiting our turns to wash away the sweat.
Now I'm certainly not missing looking at a group of naked hairy arsed blokes - I'm not that way inclined but it does surprise me that the young men of today seem very shy of anyone seeing their todgers.
Now I'm nothing special to look at and wouldn't ever consider going naked on the beach but for the last 40 years or so I've never had an issue dropping my sports shorts, having my shower then getting changed in a public changing room.
Now it seems that is a thing of the past.
Is it like this everywhere now or is it just the soft southerners around where I live who are shy to show their winkles?
As a kid I didn't like my introduction to communal showers where we all had to strip and have one after games and PE but as the years went by it got less and less of an embarassment to the stage that it no longer even become a thought any more.
I've enjoyed sport through my life so I've showered with loads of naked blokes - many of them complete strangers - after the football, badminton, basketball, whatever, I've been playing.
But these days, unless it's just the gym and leisure centre I use but there now seems to be individual shower units, where people tend to enter partialy clothed, undress, shower then put their clean boxers on, whilst the rest of us queue up picking our noses, awaiting our turns to wash away the sweat.
Now I'm certainly not missing looking at a group of naked hairy arsed blokes - I'm not that way inclined but it does surprise me that the young men of today seem very shy of anyone seeing their todgers.
Now I'm nothing special to look at and wouldn't ever consider going naked on the beach but for the last 40 years or so I've never had an issue dropping my sports shorts, having my shower then getting changed in a public changing room.
Now it seems that is a thing of the past.
Is it like this everywhere now or is it just the soft southerners around where I live who are shy to show their winkles?