Tales from our Disturbed Gym

I was in high school in the 1970's, so this was a pretty long time ago. And yes, at our school the coach's office (with windows) was right next to one of the two shower rooms! So ALL the boys using that shower would end up walking naked right by the coach's office, when going to and from their lockers! There is some incredible compunction drilled into Gym coaches, that dictate all boys MUST Shower at all costs.

You might take it that Gym coaches have some fantastical mission for compelling semi-public nudity upon youth. We dealt with it as best we could. Many guys turned their business away from coaches office when parading to or from the showers. It seemed a bit like the Nature Channel doing an expose on Human anatomy and male development.

Also, this same arrangement happened either at the beginning or the end of wrestling practice (I was not a wrestler). But I saw an even weirder situation when all the wrestlers stood in line for weigh-in,. and these dudes were all NAKED. This whole group of guys (literally) hanging-out.... waiting to be weighed. The coach did the weighing one guy at a time. I always wondered if he was to try to make the boys more relaxed with their nudity, because the coach doing the weighing would be naked as well. So, a room full of maybe thirty 14-18 y.o. naked boys and ONE naked adult. (I doubt that would even be allowed today.)

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