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VIP (Very Important Poll): am I a prude?

So I'm a member of the gym at my work. I usually go after work, and I change into my gym clothes there and then wear them home (I don't shower there or anything). Generally, I am pretty discreet - e.g., I take off my shirt and then put my sports bra on top of my regular bra, which I then pull off . . . you know the drill. I am, at no point, naked.

But! Many people are. Just wandering around, nude. And recently, one of my closer coworkers started at the gym and works out at the same time as me. She apparently is not so shy, and is chatting with me while her bra is off aaaiiiiiiiieeeeeeee it's so awkward. 

Am I crazy for being bothered by this? 

 

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Re: VIP (Very Important Poll): am I a prude?

  • I have lost any and all modesty after 2 kids (I picked the 1st choice)

     

     

  • I picked "other".... I mean, it's not like I'm prancing around in the nude, but if my coworker sees a little nip, "ehh" who cares.
  • If it was a random gym, I'm all nude all the time who cares... but if I thought I was going to see a coworker, that's totally different and I'm totally with you.... one thing at a time, no nudity.
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  • imageArtslvr:
    If it was a random gym, I'm all nude all the time who cares... but if I thought I was going to see a coworker, that's totally different and I'm totally with you.... one thing at a time, no nudity.

    This, sort of.  Not totally nude all the time, but not super modest.  If I knew that a friend or a coworker would be there, that totally changes everything.  Not in a million years would I ever stand there in the buck talking to someone, even a stranger!

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  • imagech ch ch chia:
    I picked "other".... I mean, it's not like I'm prancing around in the nude, but if my coworker sees a little nip, "ehh" who cares.

    I'm in this category. I change very quickly, and I'm discreet, but I don't put my sports bra on top of my regular bra or anything like that. I'm topless for maybe 2 seconds.

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  • I definitely am not comfortable walking around naked at the gym and I definitely would not with my co-workers. Weird.
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  • imageWinesNotWhines:

    imagech ch ch chia:
    I picked "other".... I mean, it's not like I'm prancing around in the nude, but if my coworker sees a little nip, "ehh" who cares.

    I'm in this category. I change very quickly, and I'm discreet, but I don't put my sports bra on top of my regular bra or anything like that. I'm topless for maybe 2 seconds.

    Ditto.  You need another category between hide it all and flaunt it all. 

  • imagech ch ch chia:
    I picked "other".... I mean, it's not like I'm prancing around in the nude, but if my coworker sees a little nip, "ehh" who cares.

    I actually picked the first one but this is probably more accurate.

    My modesty is a result of my wishing to cover up the flab. Back when I had a body worthy of some public nudity, well, I still didn't stand around chatting with my lady bits flapping in the breeze, but I took of top and bra, then added sports bra and tank. Took off bottoms down to the g string and then layered back up.

  • Incidental nudity is to be expected in a gym locker room, but I wouldn't converse with a co-worker while changing. It's like carrying on a conversation when you go into a bathroom stall...that's private time.
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  • i don't go to a gym (laaaaazzzzy) but if i did, i certainly wouldn't be parading around nude. i would probably strip down the top half while facing a locker or something - not face out to the rest of the locker room, but not keeping every bit covered.
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  • imageDCtoLowcountry:
    Incidental nudity is to be expected in a gym locker room, but I wouldn't converse with a co-worker while changing. It's like carrying on a conversation when you go into a bathroom stall...that's private time.

    Agreed. At the bikram yoga studio I went to, people where all the time just lounging and chatting in the buff. It was totally foreign to me. In every other locker room I've ever used the amount of nudity was kept to a minimum. 

  • imageWinesNotWhines:

    imagech ch ch chia:
    I picked "other".... I mean, it's not like I'm prancing around in the nude, but if my coworker sees a little nip, "ehh" who cares.

    I'm in this category. I change very quickly, and I'm discreet, but I don't put my sports bra on top of my regular bra or anything like that. I'm topless for maybe 2 seconds.

    I agree with these. I don't actually belong to a gym now, but have belonged to several in the past and I fit somewhere in the middle. I wouldn't put one bra on over the other, but change quickly and discreetly. It used to drive me crazy when people would hang out naked while blow-drying their hair and stuff. I mean, what's the point?!?

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  • I don't think you're a prude but I guess I am! Before kids I would discreetly dress out in the open. Now post stretch marks I hide in a stall. I don't really care if other people wander around naked but a co-worker would definitely weird me out. 
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  • imagejulie5220:
    imageWinesNotWhines:

    imagech ch ch chia:
    I picked "other".... I mean, it's not like I'm prancing around in the nude, but if my coworker sees a little nip, "ehh" who cares.

    I'm in this category. I change very quickly, and I'm discreet, but I don't put my sports bra on top of my regular bra or anything like that. I'm topless for maybe 2 seconds.

    Ditto.  You need another category between hide it all and flaunt it all. 

    this is really more where I fall in, I certainly don't try to be naked but if I happen to be, I don't care

     

  • I'm also in the middle of the options.  I don't do contortionist moves to change discretely but I don't walk around naked either.  And frankly I don't really notice what other people are and aren't wearing in the locker room.  I guess I just get in there, change, and get out...perhaps becuase I'm generally running late! 
  • I go to a gym where I don't really know anyone, and don't have a problem getting nude in the locker room.  I face the locker and change, one piece at a time so I'm not hanging out for a long time.  I would not feel comfortable hanging out, chatting with other people in the nude.  Also, if it was a gym at work, I would not feel comfortable with a co-worker seeing me.  That's just too familiar.
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