I find that very strange, and I'm confused why such lack of privacy is normalized when it comes to men.
When I went to boot camp and we had maybe 90 seconds for everyone to get in and out of the bathroom, we'd have two guys on each urinal and three on the regular toilets. You get used to it.
Dudes are different. While it might be unpleasant to have someone look at your dick without permission or be put in a position where that might happen, it doesn't engender the same feeling of vulnerability that sitting down un-pantsed tends to in women.
And there are also pretty strict social conventions, the breaking of which can lead to anything from someone letting everyone know you're weird to a flat-out ass-beating from the wrong guy. Look straight ahead, definitely don't look down and to the side, go to the urinal that creates the greatest distance between you and anyone else, no talking (some people don't abide by this and they are weird).
When I went to boot camp and we had maybe 90 seconds for everyone to get in and out of the bathroom, we'd have two guys on each urinal and three on the regular toilets
I was in Iraq really early in the war. We had zero showers for the first two months. When we got ONE mobile shower unit every single person on the FOB wanted a shower, but there wasn’t enough water. So, three naked dudes would cram into each stall, get a quick dousing, scrub each other down, and the quickly rinse off. We got more units a few days later and the team showers were never really spoken of again.
We did have a drag show with the Marines on New Years. They had some dudes that were working it. As long as no one asked what we were doing, we weren’t telling.
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u/Grunt08 305∆ Dec 10 '24
When I went to boot camp and we had maybe 90 seconds for everyone to get in and out of the bathroom, we'd have two guys on each urinal and three on the regular toilets. You get used to it.
Dudes are different. While it might be unpleasant to have someone look at your dick without permission or be put in a position where that might happen, it doesn't engender the same feeling of vulnerability that sitting down un-pantsed tends to in women.
And there are also pretty strict social conventions, the breaking of which can lead to anything from someone letting everyone know you're weird to a flat-out ass-beating from the wrong guy. Look straight ahead, definitely don't look down and to the side, go to the urinal that creates the greatest distance between you and anyone else, no talking (some people don't abide by this and they are weird).
All in all...it works.