I change in the bathroom, and I know that makes me crazy.

I feel pretty great about my body, but that doesn't make me want to strip in front of strangers.

I've always kept myself covered. I always just turn my back to the crowd and change in a corner, or slip my clothes on whilst wrapped in a towel after my shower. I look incredible naked, but only my boyfriend gets to see that.

I'm very comfortable and confident in my skin, but there's a time and place for nakedness... If I have to change my bra and underwear, I'll use a bathroom stall or changing room. Otherwise, I just change as fast as possible.

I've never been naked in a locker room, and I doubt it will ever happen, even if I had a supermodel body.

I am not ashamed of my body. I am there to work out so I do get naked in there to change into my workout clothes and back to my regular clothes when I am done.
If some people get offended by it. Im sorry, its just another human body!
I don't stare at nobody, so no one should be staring at me unless you are bi and like me. = P lol.

I have no problem getting naked in the locker room, I just don't talk to anyone when not clothed and I don't stare at anyone either. I don't think I should have to do some secret-stash changing while trying to keep a towel up, I always cover myself with a towel when walking to/from the shower. I'm not freaked at all if i have a sighting of someone else naked either- we are all women, we all have the same parts, and hopefully no one is "judging" other women's bodies bc I certainly am not if I happened to see someone else changing.

I feel great about my body, but I don't feel the need for everyone and there mom to see it. Seriously I think it's rude when people walk around butt-ass naked in the Gym Locker room. I have seen women hold conversations with one another sit down and relax etc all naked in the locker room. My big problem with this is well I don't want to see wrinkly old people or grey hair down there ahahah but seriously we are strangers and you have a towel so use it...it's a matter of respect. The Sauna is a diffrent story and I think naked is appropriate ( and therefore I don't go in there). It's almost like my personal space is being invaded.

it really makes me uncomfortable seeing other people naked, or see ppl sit their naked a$$ on a bench that i've probably placed my hand on. and it grosses me out seeing hair in the drains in the shower or on the walls of the shower or on the curtain. im a germaphobe when it comes to stuff like that. so unless i realllyyyy need to go somewhere straight from the gym, i'll dress, undress and shower in the comfort of my own clean home

I used to be totally skeeved out by getting naked in the locker room, until my husband and I bought a second home in Germany. Now, it's more embarrassing to be modest - that's when they stare at you here!

I would NEVER get naked in the locker room, I'm just too modest. I would rather change in the bathroom stall.

Oh my Sun_ Sun sitting down on a bench without a towel between a naked bum and the bench is unsanitary and should be reported to your gym as well as the suspect cleaniness of the shower area.

P.S. I'm modest but I still get dressed at the gym and have showered there before and I don't get dressed in the bathroom...I just use a towel and cover myself appropriately like more people should .......

There's a Sex and the City episode about this where Charlotte freaks out about taking her towel off in the steam room. She squeals and runs into the locker room and of course, Carrie follows her and asks what the problem is. Charlotte declares that she can't get naked in public and Carrie says the ladies locker room is not public.
Changing and showering and being naked in the women's locker room is not rude or unsanitary - its function is for changing and showering and therefore being naked. I understand feeling modest and wanting privacy but to declare being naked in the women's locker room as rude? I think that's being a little overly sensitive.
I'm not one to hold conversations while naked, but neither am I one to rush through my shower (my locker room has no curtained off shower stalls), drying my hair, toweling off, etc. and I don't feel like I'm being rude. We're all women! I've seen great bodies and not so great bodies - who cares?

I go home from work, make dinner then usually go to the gym. I'm not trying to cook a meal in my work clothes and get them stained, so I usually change into my gym clothes before I start cooking because they're more comfortable anyway. Sort of does away with the whole issue. Nakedness in no way bothers me, however I do NOT take showers at the gym. I don't like taking showers in flip flops and I'd rather just high tail it back home and shower there.

I don't have a problem with it either, but I try to keep my naked time to minimum.

i love saunas, and they're made for being naked, so that's why i hate it since i've moved to UK male and female saunas are together. WTF? I don't want to wear my bikini in sauna and don't want to sit next to some sweaty guy who is checking me out.

on the beach i prefer women's beach, were i sunbathe naked as well - i hate swimsuit lines on people, i think it's ugly like warts.

in locker rooms i don't give a damn what people would think, but i don't parade naked.

I have no problem getting nekked in the locker room or shower. I will lean towards the side of modesty if there is a child in the locker room (kids are usually around at pools).

I used to hate the locker room situation in Miami where there would be older boys in the locker room with their moms. No way. I felt weird being in my swimsuit in front of them.

I hardly have enough courage to drop the towel to jump in the pool, let alone shower or change in front of others. But when I change in the bathroom stalls located inside the locker room, I'm never offended by other people changing in the open. That's what it's there for, and kudos to them for having more guts than me. =)

I shower at the gym about 4 mornings a week. I bring my own bathsheet sized towel and if no one is around will change in a corner in the locker room camp-style over/under my towel, but if someone else is in there with me I change in the bathroom stall. I have no problem being naked, I just don't care to be it around strangers! If I was going in the sauna or steam room (which I don't) I'd go in a towel.

I don't care if other people want to change/be naked in the locker room, sometimes it is just annoying though when someone is doing it standing behind the mirror that I'm trying to dry my hair/put on makeup in, cause then I have nowhere to look!

I don't generally get naked in the locker room since I often don't change there, but when I do I generally just turn my back and get undressed and redressed quickly. I love my body, and I'm not modest in any other area, but for some reason I just don't like being all naked in the locker room. Doesn't really bother me when other people do it, though.

I'm not ballsy enough to walk around starkers. Maybe if I still have this body when I'm 70...my milkshake will bring all the boys to the yard. Of the retirement home. In their power scooters.

'Til then, I just change quick, only sit my semiclothed tush on a towel, not bare on the bench, and I don't stare. I'm not in there to stare!

I have no problem to change in front of anyone. I am in master swim team, everyone change swimsuit in front of others. It is actually awkward if one of us change inside a stall.

I definitely DO NOT mind changing in the locker room, that's basically what it's there for! Take this morning for instance, I worked out and when I was finished, took off my work out clothes and wrapped a towel around me and went to take a shower, in the NUDE, and then did my hair and make up with my towel wrapped around me.. a woman is a woman is a woman and i'm not making it a point to stare at you if you're naked and i don't think anyone gives to farts to look at me when i'm naked.. i definitely just have a towel wrapped around me in the sauna as well : ) I guess i'm just super comfy in the nude esp. around just women

I think people from europe is more used to the naked body, due to nude beaches and toppless tanning.
I always shower at the gym, naked of course! Hey, that saves me heap on my electricity bill:)I dont like how my body looks, but thats in front of myself, not others...dont really care what they think

I'm comfortable being naked in the locker room, and being around other naked women. I was formerly on a swim team, too, so it's no big deal.

Truthfully, I think it also helps that I'm content with my body.

i vaugely remember changing in the locker rooms in high school, it wasn't a big deal...i just changed really quickly!

the only other time i would've been naked in a locker room was when i used to swim at the Y. that was the worst...i don't know if they still do this, but they would let little boys up to the age of 6 into the locker rooms with their mommies. you HAD to cover up lest some little boy be standing there staring at you...super awkward. it was like "um, hello there...where's mommy? go stare at her, please... :("

wow, I would have thought that more commenters here would be comfortable with changing in the locker room. American culture is so messed up when it comes to aging, the human body and nudity.

However, I think sitting nude on the bench is a huge no-no

ack....no way...never was comfy with it..not even in middle school, high school...if i had to go to the shower i'd go as fast as possible.....wouldn't want scare anyone!

I'm comfortable changing in the locker room. Of course, I don't parade around naked but I usually change into my workout clothes at the gym. I don't shower there because I'm a mild germaphobe and would much rather high-tail it home right after my workout to undress and shower.

Eh, I'm kind of over it - I've discovered that it's just not practical to worry about being naked in the locker room. I don't exactly go around flaunting my nakedness, but I can't be concerned about it either - I only have so much time to get in and out of there. Besides, it gets a little irritating when there are only a few showers or bathrooms, half a dozen people waiting, while someone is hogging the stall like it's a private dressing room.

I'll change and shower in the locker room, and be naked during those brief intervals, but I'd never just walk around aimlessly naked like a lot of women do at my gym. I just don't feel the need to subject others to my nakedness that didn't sign up to see it, like my boyfriend did

WOW I expected a few "I don't get naked in the gym" answers but not that many.

I'm from Germany and here if you go to a sauna you are expected to be naked (or wrapped in a towel if you must) bathing suits will get you strange looks. And in my gym there are no individual changing rooms and there are signs up saying "please don't change in the bathroom stalls" so unless you want to go home sweaty you have to change in the open. You only make it a big deal if you act all weird about being naked.

I'm also really surprised by the responses here - especially ones suggesting being naked is rude to others (shaving in the shower and sitting naked on benches is another issue). I also live in Europe and the body is just a part of everyday life. I definitely get naked in the locker room, and while I don't hurry to cover up, I don't do a song and dance saying 'look at me!'

I do really wish women would become more comfortable with their own bodies, and perhaps one of the ways of achieving this is to get more comfortable with other women's bodies.

It doesn't make me uncomfortable when other chicks get naked (especially people who aren't perfect or older ladies - love them for not caring), but I'm not comfortable doing it.

I am a total prude when it comes to this area and I'm glad to read I'm not the only one. I know it's completely absurd and I even feel silly, but having moved from the U.S. to Europe my prudishness seems even more pronounced. I think I'm gradually overcoming this "issue", but I do think that Americans tend to be more conservative than our friends from the other side of the ocean (UK excluded perhaps)

Another one from Europe.

I honestly never found changing in locker rooms weird - it's just something we used to do from an early age at elementary school after gym and swimming lessons, and continued to to until graduation from high school, at least. The first time with a new class would always be a bit weird, but it quickly adjusted.

Like that, I've had no problems when I started going to the gym as an adult. It's just body parts - we've all got them.

I don't care! If they see something that offends them THEY SHOULDN'T BE STARING.
Jeez.

I change in the locker rooms. When I slip out of my underwear I just simply face the locker. The only issue I have is when people strut around the locker room stark naked and then get offended when you look at them. Kinda difficult not to when they are prancing around. That has only happened to me once though.

I haven't been a member of a gym in a long time. I workout at home. But when I was in the gym, I would always arrive with my workout clothes already on and then I would go home to shower, etc.

Honestly, I don't have a problem with it. Just slip on your clothes and keep moving. It's not a big deal. There are other pressing issues in the world. Sometimes we,(Americans) can be a bit prudish about something as simple as nudity.

I've always wondered why women do this. Now I am not a prude, I have no hang-ups or anything like that, but when I am in the locker room of my gym, I practice simple modesty.

Why do some women take the opportunity to walk around a public locker room either butt naked or topless and in a thong? I mean, really, I'm curious WHY they do that? What are they trying to prove? A) there are no guys around, so unless they're trying to attract other women, why do that? B) showing off? I certainly don't ogle women.

I'm curious because this is a pet peeve of mine. It's like, get over yourself already, change your clothes, cover your naked self up and leave... *sheesh*

I don't think some women "take the opportunity" to walk around a public locker room either butt naked or topless and in a thong. You just do it. Come on, if you wash your hair, you're not gonna comb it out & dry it with your clothes on & get your shirt wet are you? you do it in your underwear or whatever.(just like you do at home, yes?)

I see women with a towel around their hair, one around their torso & one around their hips & that's a pet peeve of MINE! what a waste of energy washing ALL THOSE TOWELS! AFTER ONE USE!!

get over you issues people. it's a locker room. NO ONE CARES!

The difference between doing it at home and in public is an explanation in itself. The people here who are voicing their objections are clearly stating that they do NOT have issues with nudity nor are they prudish. What is trying to be explained is that it comes across as blatant exhibitionism on the part of the person doing it. It's a matter of public respect. To me, the people that FLAUNT nudity in locker rooms are just a bunch of narcissists who want to be noticed. I say, "get over yourself" - go pose for Playboy if you want the world to see your genitalia.

Or do so at a nude beach. I know, I am not interested in seeing naked women.

i am NOT a nekkid person - in the gym or otherwise! every day when i go to the gym i see women strolling around with nothing on, drying their hair in front of the mirror w/ nothing on and it's so uncomfortable for me. the WORST is that girls that i work with do it - and i don't need to see co-workers naked.

My gym has individual shower stalls, otherwise I don't think I'd be using them for more than a post-pool rinse off. I dunno, I'm not so comfortable baring all at the gym but I don't mind that other people do. Usually if I need to change I'll use the restroom.

I live close to the gym so I just go home and shower, but if I needed to I would have no problem changing in the locker room. I wouldn't walk around and chat naked, but I would not go out of my way to cover myself up either. That's what the locker room is for and I couldn't care less what a bunch of random strangers think of me or my body.

I'm also surprised at how many people are actually offended by nudity in a locker room. I admit I've been shocked a few times by how some (particularly old) people will just hang around nude, but hey, more power to them if they're comfortable in their skin. If it bothers you, don't look?

I'm too modest to change clothes in the common area of the locker room. My gym has stalls with shower curtains for more privacy and that is where I usually go to for changing clothes. When ladies want to change in the common area, I really don't mind because I just don't look at them.

Amethyst - there is a saying that women don't dress for men, they dress for other women. The only people we are ever trying to impress are those we deem to be in the same "order" as we are. i.e. in the gym it would be the women who think they have the hottest bodies strutting around for the other women to see.

Think of the Cockerel and how it struts around the farmyard... same principle.

They do just need to get over themselves though. It's not TOO bad at my gym but you get the odd few who will happily walk starkers from the shower area into the main changing room without bothering with a towel. Weirdos.

It doesn't mean that someone is insecure just because they don't like to walk around naked in front of other women. I understand if you need to change out of your clothes and you do it discreetly, but I get annoyed at the women who walk around completely naked because they want attention. There's no reason to take 10 minutes to put your clothes on, and despite what people say, it is really hard to just avert your eyes if someone is standing in the buff right in front of you.

I totally understand where you're coming from and I think californiagirlx7 probably explained it the best for me.

The females I am talking about are the ones who are obviously trying to attract attention, not the ones who are scurrying from the shower to the locker to change. I'm talking about the ones who primp and pose and walk like a peacock and naked as a jaybird around the locker room, put on makeup naked and act like this is a runway for nudity. You know, the show-offs who want to be noticed. Those are the ones that annoy me. And yeah, I really hope all of you, regardless of your views on this, put a towel on the bench before sitting down, for your own health & hygiene.

thanks so much for the shout-out, FitSugar! The locker room is such a crazy prism, shining a light on all of our insecurities, body fears and more. I never got the whole "showering in a bathing suit" thing - nor can I fathom the ability to sit down on a bench/stool while naked. As for me, I usually pull on a pair of shorts but will go topless - maybe a bra - while blowdrying and makeupping. To each her own!