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16th November 2012, 12:03 AM | #121 |
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Really? Not every TG woman goes for surgery to "get it cut off". You'll be happier with women randomly appearing in the men's changing room? Are you going to check for a penis, then breath a sigh of relief? What if they keep a towel? You'll never know! Or the other way around - do a safe google image search for Buck Angel. Should he be in the women's changing room?
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16th November 2012, 03:45 AM | #122 |
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Why don't they just build one locker room with a bunch of locking cubicles to shower and change in? Then no one has to see anyone naked. I'll never understand the appeal of showering and hanging around naked in front of your same-sex friends.
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16th November 2012, 04:13 AM | #123 |
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Supposedly because it is more expensive. But, frankly, I don't technically buy that. It would be more expensive, but it wouldn't be that much more expensive. Definitely not anywhere near twice as expensive. If it is a facility that provides lockers, the lockers would have to be on some type of carrousel system. So you could access your locker no matter which cubicle you are in. If the facility does not have lockers it would be even cheaper. So the only real other answer is, tradition. |
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16th November 2012, 04:36 AM | #124 |
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16th November 2012, 08:00 AM | #125 |
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No, he is sexist. We've been over this already, stop trying to rehash an old argument.
If you do not know the gender of the person to whom you are speaking or about whom you are speaking then, you use "they" as a pronoun. Not "he." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They |
16th November 2012, 08:00 AM | #126 |
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16th November 2012, 08:52 AM | #127 |
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16th November 2012, 08:55 AM | #128 |
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People with penises should not go into locker rooms with little girls and whip it out. Why is this difficult to understand?
There's a bunch of feigned outrage idiocy going on here. It's ok, really, to support gay rigts and other stuff and still think it wrong to expose children to the conceits of adults. |
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16th November 2012, 08:58 AM | #129 |
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By the way, I can attack my own position better than you clownish meme regurgitators.
There are cultures with frontal nudity around the world and they don't collapse. Boy, that was easy. You guys suck at thinking. |
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16th November 2012, 09:05 AM | #130 |
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Why is seeing a penis -or any other body part disturbing at all????
I honestly don't get it. Without penises, there would be no children.... These parents/college admins/whoever sent a pack of small children into a locker room with adult strangers, knowing those strangers would be in various stages of undress. I knew when I was three years old that sometimes people have odd body parts. Would exposing a third breast be "mildly disturbing"? How about having a surgical scar? Being in the third trimester? Would seeing a navel inside out disturb little Mary? How about wounds? Will little Baby Jane have nightmares if she sees a recluse bite or a long row of sutures? If those children are so small and so delicate and so fragile and have such refined sensibilities, why in hell did anyone allow them to enter a locker room filled with adult strangers? |
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16th November 2012, 09:10 AM | #131 |
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16th November 2012, 10:38 AM | #132 |
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That is my preferred system, a communal both sexes area with lots of cubicals where people are expected to dress in privacy and then you take your clothes to a nearby locker. There is no nudity outside of a cubical. There are single cubicals but you also get larger ones for families who are OK about being nude in front of each other.
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16th November 2012, 11:34 AM | #133 |
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16th November 2012, 11:52 AM | #134 |
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No. That's "the love of money".
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16th November 2012, 11:58 AM | #135 |
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So money penises are right out, then? And it was such a good theme for a party!
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16th November 2012, 12:50 PM | #136 |
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This is absolutely ridiculous. Not sure what fantasy world you live in, but here in the real world, it IS a crime and should CONTINUE to be a crime for men to go showing their genitals off to little girls. Utterly disgusting, and it's quite a bit more disgusting that there are individuals on this very forum encouraging that kind of behavior.
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16th November 2012, 12:57 PM | #137 |
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Some cultures do not distinguish between nudity and sexual activity, except in very narrowly defined circumstances. There is also some entrenched sexism that makes male nudity much more taboo than female nudity. A nude female is the victim of the lecherous observer, but a nude male is the perpetrator of an aggressive sexual act. Culture is, of course, full of stupid.
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16th November 2012, 01:00 PM | #138 |
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16th November 2012, 01:01 PM | #139 |
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16th November 2012, 01:02 PM | #140 |
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16th November 2012, 01:05 PM | #141 |
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And yet taking a young girl to a nude beach is legal. That is because one is a form of non consensual sexual relations and the other is just being naked.
You will note that exposing himself to young boys is the same crime as well, instead of no big deal like you seem to be arguing. |
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16th November 2012, 01:12 PM | #142 |
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In the sauna facility that I frequent, everyone sits, swims, and walks about with all body parts bobbing and dangling freely. People of all ages can see them, and nobody seems to take any notice, including the little children. I don't think the sauna bathers are all criminals.
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16th November 2012, 01:12 PM | #143 |
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16th November 2012, 01:24 PM | #144 |
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I am sure it is the same in many other countries, it is in the UK. However, it is not illegal for a young girl to accidentally see a naked man in circumstances where there is no intentional flashing by the male. In some countries nudity is not really an issue at all, depending on the circumstances. In the UK it is not acceptable at a public swimming pool.
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16th November 2012, 01:30 PM | #145 |
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The swimming pool/sauna I went to in the Hague was not nudie at all. Neither was one in Zurich. But other places have been, including a hotel in Salzburg where we were prepared to strip off, but as people heard us speaking they all got into their costumes or covered themselves with towels. I assumed it was because they associate us with being a country that does not do public nudity much.
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16th November 2012, 01:34 PM | #146 |
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You don't?
I do it daily after hot yoga and it rocks. I love the communal nudey showers, and I'm not a dyke. It's just girls together, dude. On age... we have young girls of eight/nine upwards who shower with us after doing some of class. Kids over that age are allowed to come and do the second half of class if their parent/guardian is in the class. I think it's good that girls that age see grown women's bodies. They learn that most women don't look like the bikini-clad celebrities in the magazines. I realise this is a bit off-topic from the OP, but we've drifted a bit. |
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16th November 2012, 02:51 PM | #151 |
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Bolding mine. Yeah I have had the same issues. There are individuals on this very forum who believe that gender does not exist at all, and that everyone should just be showering together because it's not a big deal to them, so that means everyone else should think that way as well.
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The Northern Europeans are not so bothered. A friend who has run a few marathons in Germany has found communal showers were provided where many of both sexes stripped off. Then I was watching a new series with Michael Palin traveling around Brazil and some tribes there clearly have no issue with nudity.
There are still certain rules as such, like many hotels do not allow topless women inside, but are quite happy for them to lounge around the swimming pool. |
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