Locker room scene

[kengr]

Ok, I need input from those of you who had to use the boys locker room in high school. The more recently the better.

Had a concept force itself on me, and I realized that I need other viewpoints to make a scene come out right.

So, it's the first day of the school year, and you are in the locker room for your PE class. And a student with long hair and definite breasts walks in.

What do you do?

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[mikkop.livejournal.com]

A story from a different culture, so not directly relevant, but might be interesting:

In Finnish upper secondary schools (which are close to what you think of high schools) the PE is, as in most other places, usually segregated by sex, so different classes for boys and girls. At least when I attended in the beginning of the Nineties, the curriculum was very dependent on the teachers.

In my school this meant that the girls' PE consisted of aerobic, some dancing and such, and boys' PE was volleyball, floorball, table tennis, bowling or Finnish baseball. Even after asking multiple times, the girls couldn't budge their teacher, so some then attended the boys' class.

This wasn't so bad especially as that course was mostly volleyball, and none of us could play particularily well, and the girls were the more athletic ones. So, it was one of the most fun PE courses in my upper secondary (the dancing one was probably the best, it was practicing for our dance, which was during the second year as the seniors left... this would need more explaining, though, and not relevant here. :)

So, I have the recollection that for some reason some of the girls took to using the boys' dressing room at least on some occasions. I don't remember even comments about it and I remember some usual chatter in the dressing room.

I like to think we were somewhat open-minded even here, but I don't have experience in other schools. I think it wasn't that unusual but not very uncommon.

Of course we knew each other so it wasn't a surprise and at the time the sex of pupils was kind of clear. I still don't think nobody would've that much batted an eyelash in that kind of situation. A lot would depend on the long-haired student's behaviour - be cool and everybody would be cool, but being nervous would probably have just caused embarrasment for all of us.

[kengr]

Well, given that I understand that saunas are coed and used by folks from kids on up in Finland, I'm not surprised that there's no problem.

In much of the US there'd be a definite problem.