Open Showers for Men - A fond memory or still in use?

Recently there was a discussion on the YMNA2,(Young Men's Nudist Association) Yahoo group. It started when an old advertisement for Bradley Showers was shared (see photo above). Actually, the changes in acceptance (or tolerance) for nudity between men in places where it was formerly both accepted, required and even encouraged has caused there to be a lot of similar discussion in men's circles for many years now. One such example, a lengthy one, on a straight men's discussion board can be found at: http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=294839&page=0

Here is the discussion over the past few days:

atitlan wrote: My thanks to the blogger who found this. I can't believe that the artwork for the advert wasn't done by someone with a wicked sense of humour - "pull and turn", the equipment says.

Pete added: Judging by the expression on their faces I would guess they've all pulled and didn't have far to 'turn'!
Can only have been done by someone with a great sense of humour or completely naive.

Aussie Kevin replied: I LOVE the eye-line on the guy on the left!


Actually, this is really heart-warming...and sadly something that most young guys would avoid, in Australia and the States anyway. Showering together, enjoying it openly, just being free and open and natural with buddies! it actually has a really nice energy to it. From days gone by though, sadly.


James of Louisville added:
Here's another ad for the product and a similar product in use.
The Bradley company is still in operation. http://www.bradleycorp.com/

RESPONSE by atitlan:
Thanks, James, for

these - excellent research! I remember moving from one gym with its long line of gang showers to another gym that had pole showers. I didn't like the pole variety overmuch. They were rather too intimate for comfort if all the shower jets were taken. Because we were so near one another, there was little personal space and always a risk of backing into people either side. Yes, that might not always have been unwelcome, except then there was then a further risk of developing a hard-on just inches away from a group of ostensibly straight men.


Pedro chipped in:
Those are the type I had in high school. A friend of mine would soap up my back for me.
This is where I started to develop my reputation as a tough guy.
I took cold showers.


Jason brings up his point:

I have fond memories of the pole type showers like Bradley Corp makes. We had them in junior high and high school both! talk about having nowhere to hide and really getting to check out your classmates!

I haven't seen one in use since then in all of my travels around the States, so I am not sure who is buying these products from Bradley! Even the new gyms I go to which have gang showers have the shower heads built in to the walls around the room. They don't have the 6-person "pole" variety. I do wish I could go to a shower room that has them though!

William wanted to know:
Several years ago I frequently went to the gay bath houses......like The Club, or Midtowne; they had the Bradley shower heads, and everyone loved them. Have no idea if they still use those or not. Anyone know?


ZeroFear replied:
The YMCA I belong to in New Hampshire still has a locker room with gang/open style showers that has both the shower heads built into one wall, and then in the middle of the room it has two of the pole showers. Each pole has either 4 or 5 showers heads on it.

Sunbuns (Kelly - that's me ) adds his experience:

The pole shower is still used in places like public beaches, where close contact isn't expected to cause a problem. You

can find the 'Bradley' type showers along public beaches in Hawaii and Spain (I'm sure many other places, too).


What's nice about them is that you can take a shower in public and stand close to some guys while each of you is occupied with the getting clean without appearing to leer or be inappropriately 'interested.' It's fun when a guy pulls

his swimsuit out from his body (or even down somewhat) to help wash out the sand. You can sometimes get a glimpse of his pubic hair, ass or even more.


It seems obvious to me that some guys - straight ones - seem to enjoy this chance to do a bit of mild flashing - at least in the sexually repressed US.
Sometimes, a few teenager or older young men find it the perfect time to horse around - such as pulling down a unwary friend's suit, and so on. So when I hang out at the beach, I find it very entertaining to stay not very far from the Bradley public shower.

On the nude beach at Gandia (Spain) in Sept this year, it was nice watching guys use these open-air showers either alone or together and, especially when I had timed my shower with some other dude's.

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Ass flashing

A discussion by guys who get off showing off their butts.

bradjup :=D:
May I flash?
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 3:03 pm Post subject: flashed and sucked swedish guy

So i go to this place after work, only a few dudes, 3 others today,
oral sex club mainly but nudity is allowed, since there were only few people i took it all off and the first dude touched me in the patio mainly observed.

I like to keep walking and not get too involved since my main purpose is to flash my erect cock and ass, inside another young dude grabbed me and did a hand job, while an older husky guy watched.
We simulated fucking while he had his pants on, later went to the patio where a third guy, older but attractive was really into grabbing and touching then he pulled his pants down and took shirt off and put a condom on. By the way one of the men that work at this place was smoking a cigarrete in the patio and saw it all.
I never get fucked but he had a smaller dick and i just spread my cheeks so he could take a good look and all of a sudden he fucked me.

 It felt good to feel penetrated while standing naked in the patio, anybody could have come out and watch me

getting penetrated.But I didn't want him to cum or me to cum and so I went back in. 

This time a Swedish guy just came in, young and built, immediately all the other guys were following him to suck him but he saw me walking around naked and got interested, he followed me back to the patio and undid his pants, I sucked his uncircumcised 8 inch cock while he moaned, and I pulled his pants down all the way and touched his ass.

I wanted to lick his ass but he was only into getting sucked, a few min later

he came on my face.
He told me he had arrived from sweden a few hours earlier hehe.
This all happened in a matter of an hour or so, i got out and saw some coworkers on the street, it was kind of weird since i was still high from all that sex


Response by  sunbuns
Desperately flashing nobody

Location: Hawaii, San Diego, travel a lot US,Asia, Europe, etc
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:11 am Post subject: bradjup

Your experiences always get me horny... wish we had a bar/place like the one you've described here often... that is almost 'public.'

Not to say I don't get my chances for sex with anonymous guys.. but they are normally in a private area inside a gay baths/sauna (so people can't free enter).

Still there are TV rooms and lounges inside these where semi-clothed guys (usually wearing a towel or a gown) come to sit/rest. I love being the only totally naked guy in those rooms, and it's really hot when one of more of them takes a big interest in my ass-ets (butt or cock)..

Every once in while, some guys (or guys) will initiate sex or try to get me stimulated to cum... or start sucking or rimming. It is truly hot being watched having sex by other guys and knowing that it's really turning them on too.

So I know what you must be experiencing .. thanks for sharing those times..

Kelly
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 bradjup
May I flash?

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 4:22 pm Post subject: thanks yeah it has become my thing to do on Fridays after work, I grab a beer and take it in, undress and walk around naked while i drink,
I love to show off for fully clothed men, it is interesting at this place since most of them are respectful and wont grab me unless i let them, i love when they get curious and just examine my bod,
spread my ass cheeks and look inside, or open my peehole, sniff me while i just stand there as others watch, i just stand there patiently.

Once things get more involved it is hot to be watched and moan and grunt a little to show others how i am

enjoying the experience.

There is a new place i found on mondays and it has a few folks. I have a huge curved dick so guys always love watching it since it is so different,
but the biggest turn on for me is to have a guy spread my ass cheeks while another watches, once this dude was sniffing and this other dude was asking him what my hole smelled like and the dude was talking about the smell, and sweat, while i was just there spread open silent just letting them examine me.


 sunbuns
Desperately flashing nobody

Location: Hawaii, San Diego, travel a lot US,Asia, Europe, etc
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:47 am Post subject: Another hot experience..wow!

 That's really cool that you are so turned on by being naked and having clothed men watch or examine you. I know that is what takes me back again and again to the gay saunas. 

It's hot too - that although you have a big cock (let's see it sometime LOL).. you really love have your ass observed and explored. But you never mentioned what some guys really love (getting their asses fucked).

I think you are really into CMNM (clothed male / naked male) -- the point of it being an absolute turn-on for you. Evidently, it is for the guys who watch you and sniff your ass or who put their noses or fingers in your hole. This site / board is called 'dick flash' but obviously there is a lot more to it than showing one's penis in public.

I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to keep my tongue out of your butt -- if I found you naked like that in one of those bars/clubs or maybe something more solid (*he he*). I'm sure you have to 'fight off' some penile invaders - every once in a while (LOL). The trouble with me is that I can't fight off the temptation - once my ass gets the 'royal' tongue/finger treatment then -- it seems to ache for something bigger. So it's all over pretty soon after that - especially if a few guys are watching me get fucked (or fucking somebody esle) - it puts me over the edge in no time at all.

If you'd allow, I'd like to re-post these specific conversations on my CMNM blog: Guys into CMNM. There are guys into that - who would never consider themselves 'cock flashers' and might not ever visit this site.

By the way, I recently found the video of a guy on Xtube who loves flashing his erect cock and naked body in public restrooms (in Japan) - all the while videotaping himself and the guys who watch and sometimes grope him or his dick. His id on Xtube is: matuatama

Look him up or check out one of his vids on my CMNM blog (linked above).
Kelly
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Exhibitionism leading to Public Sex Outdoors

Exhibitionism and Public Sex Outdoors

As an ardent would-be exhibitionist, I find that I'm really more like a avid nudist/naturist who would like to be seen by other males. Although true trench coat cock flashing is a rare activity, love to get naked where it's not quite expected and love getting others to be naked with me. I write about this on my blog or at dickflash dot com. 

My most memorable 'flashing' experience was in a public park on Tokyo Bay (at Odaiba) in June a few summer ago. I was sitting nude (there were other people in various states of undress, but none completely naked) in a semi-secluded area (regular pedestrian parks goer couldn't easily see, but anyone who had mind too could get an eyeful. 

I was far enough away from the other people or from the Rainbow Bridge in the distance to not be obviously exposing myself naked. Still, I had a few guys come up and get a glimpse (one even chatted a minute). But the highlight of that afternoon was when a cute Japanese guy about 20 year old who seemed overly curious, arrived and noticed me. He kept getting closer and closer, pretending to be looking out the ocean scenery, but obviously throwing glances at the naked foreigner. 

When I started pulling on my now erect cock, he took the bait and eventually came up and stood nearby. He was just too intrigued and wanted to see my cock and see me jack off, so he stood almost over me - in the end, he stood right over me, spreading my legs wider with his own, and giving me soft verbal commands to beat off until I ejaculated. He didn't get naked himself, but it was one of the hottest exhibitionist experiences I have had - to be approached by a perfect stranger who turned me on and was himself turned on my public sexual behavior. 

It was one of my first CMNM) (clothed male-naked-male) experiences that involved sex (well - I reached ejaculation - although it wasn't mutual). That experience sort of ratcheted up the level for what I expected from flashing and exhibitionism from myself- but since then, I've not really had the same of level of exhibitionist experience. Having sex at a gay nude beach is pretty hot especially while other guys watch - which is definitely why I go to gay baths or public cruising spots (it's being seen nude that is so arousing), but it's almost expected there - meaning it's not that out of the ordinary.

Recently, taking a new friend to a nude beach - and getting him to go naked with me was a really fun time. But it was about sex, really. I could go on but will stop and continue enjoying other guy's stories.

Virtual Flashing and Social Networking - What's the difference?

Anyone who's a member of Flickr or Facebook or Xtube (and the alternatives) like the young man above probably knows that there seem to be thousands of people who like him (and me too) 'flash' their nude bodies and genitalia for strangers whom they have designated as 'friends'. By the way, he's got a LOT of genitalia worth showing off, too. In some case, they just make their nude and/or explicit photos open to the public (Flickr usually catches up with them and deletes their accounts). The same is true for video-sharing websites which seem to be proliferating so fast I can't keep up with them all (e.g. Xtube, etc).... 

I'm not complaining -- I do the same thing myself. 

Before some religious-right morality freak goes on an anti-flashing terrorist rampage and condemns real-live dickflashing, they should just take a look at all the 'flashing' happening virtually.

 We don't categorize them as exhibitionists just because they are putting up nude photos of themselves but what's the differences if they are putting them up just SO they can be viewed (via the Internet) instead of live. The other day I was commenting on a Flickr contact's pics coincidentally while he was uploading them. He wrote back.. "please write more comments because it gives me a big hard-on knowing that people are viewing my pics. " Of course, I did -- but is that what we've all come to - vicarious 'flashing'. I guess he should set up webcam.. the feedback would be a lot quicker. 

All of this guy's pic are nudes and all are open to the public. He's a Flickr contact - but perhaps he got other reasons that just showing himself - I think he's selling himself (not for sex) but as a future partner. 

I realize defining what it really flashing and what is 'virtual flashing' is probably a matter of intent and also has something to do with the will of the audience/ viewer. A 'real' flasher (true exhibitionist fetish) seems to need to be seen by people (whether or not they want to see him). The most extreme fetishist needs to be "seen" doing sexual things (being naked or jerking) in order to get off. Just posting yourself in nude pics or even showing yourself aroused or engaged in masturbation or sexual intercourse in photographs might be exhibitionistic but it doesn't make them (us) a true flasher ... I suppose. Maybe I'm just self-talking (this post or my blog) to try to justify or rationale by own use of virtual flashing. 

I guess I'm trying to say that there seem to be a lot of people with exhibitionist tendencies -- so many that I find that my own form of peekaboo flashing and 'accidental' exhibitionism (wearing skimpy or revealing clothes, or going to nudist beaches, being naked in hostels with clothed roommates, etc ) to be not that extreme. 

Sexual preferences, fantasies and fetishes are unique and sometimes strangely so. But societies love-hate

relationship with sexuality and sexual behavior - especially male-male sex -- is even weirder.

What's your take on it?
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