3/7/2023 0 Comments High school gang shower![]() I think it’s safe to say that many women, especially American women, feel uneasy being naked in front of complete strangers, even when those strangers are other naked women. Cautiously, I turned around, my eyes carefully fixed on the floor. It was impossible to stand facing the wall without it dripping into my eyes. ![]() The water came out first frigid, then scalding. I kept my eyes fixed in a death stare at the wall as I fiddled with the levers. There were no hooks in the vicinity of the showers so I left my towel on a plastic chair and shuffled across the slick linoleum to one of the open faucets. The fear of stripping completely in front of one’s peers was far worse than going a bit stinky to Algebra. It was exactly like the shower in the dungeon of the girls’ locker room back in my high school - except there, no one ever took a shower after gym class. The women’s shower at the Sundhollin pool in downtown Reykjavik consisted of only one L-shaped basin with no stalls, no curtains: just a row of faucets spaced about every two feet. The actual pool facilities require swimwear but pre-swim showers, completely in the buff, are first mandatory.Īnd not just any showers, either. ![]() ![]() Under each, a slim, long-legged woman rinsed off beneath the steaming water which, in Iceland, comes in only two temperatures: frigid or scalding.Īs a rule, I try to avoid public nudity, but if you’re traveling in Iceland, and want to enjoy the country’s plentiful hot baths, a little bit - or a lot - of stripping down is required. Every other faucet in the shower room had already been taken by the time I arrived. ![]()
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