Hit the showers - heteros and homos

When I was a high school lad, I think I would have jumped at the chance to shower with the girls in their locker room.  And so would most of my male friends.  From my perspective on top of decades of life, I wish I had not been so cavalier about sex then and for some years after.

I think I would have fit the label of your garden variety 'macho heterosexual teenager' (this was before the word "gay" became popularized) back then, at least as far as sex was concerned.  I admit it; I definitely had a prurient interest in taking that shower.

Still, I don't think the girls would have let me shower with them.  And if they couldn't get rid of me, I don't think they would have undressed, let alone showered.

Here's something that might have gone through the mind of some of those girls:  "Getting undressed and showering in front of others is kind of a personal thing for me.  The last thing I need is for some oversexed boy staring at me like I'm a hunk of meat. Or worse yet, looking at me and thinking about ... well, you know".

In fact, I don't really believe that boys and girls are required to shower separately simply because of their different body parts. Well, a little maybe.  Today, I think one would say that those girls didn't want to be sexually harassed, or exposed to an exploitive, objectifying, demeaning environment.  Even today I don't think you could get unanimous approval from all the naked women in their locker room shower to let a few horny males in.  I wonder, could one find a shower where 20% of the women agreed to shower with the boys?

Boys. Lots has been said about boys, or rather, young men.  e.g. On average, they have sexual relations with more partners than woman do.  Heck, didn't Wilt Chamberlain claim thousands of partners?  They think about sex, on the average, more often women.  Many teenage males claim to have uncontrollable erections at unpredictable times.  At least that's how I remember it.  Males are much more willing to have sex without intimacy than women.  Don't They say "any port in a storm"?  I heard an old wise man say: "The key to a good relationship?  She gives him sex, and he gives her intimacy".  Even gay males are said to have a higher than average number of partners. (I wonder if this sentence is true?  I wonder if what that old man said is true?)

Here's one way all the above can be put together, although only one way out of many:

When a homosexual man takes a shower with hetrosexual men, will it be like the above?  After all, I would expect the nude male body to be viewed by homosexual men in an analogous way.  I could be wrong about this.  Might not the hetrosexual men feel a similar objectifying atmosphere?  Might they also feel they have the right to shower in a, shall we say, lust-free environment?

If this is true, it would pose quite a dilemma, wouldn't it?  If homosexual men needed approval to shower with hetrosexual men and didn't get it, would they be restricted to showering only with other homosexual men?  If so, what if one of those homosexual men said they would like to shower in a lust-free environment?  Would they then have to shower alone, one at a time?

What a thought!  A homosexual man's 'natural' sexual desires possibly creating a hostile environment.  What will They think of next?

From the Merriam-Webster online dictionary at www.m-w.com/dictionary:

Main Entry: anal·o·gy
Function: noun
1 : inference that if two or more things agree with one another in some respects they will probably agree in others

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