communal shower

A tiled room, usually adjacent to a locker room, but sometimes constituting an open shower area within a locker room, containing multiple showering positions, usually beneath numerous showerheads affixed to the walls at intervals of about every four feet, and one or more floor drains. The showering positions are sometimes situated around a shower pole or a shower column each of which would have between 4 - 6 showerheads affixed around each column. Communal showers are designed so that a large group of people may shower simultaneously so as to save time and avoid delay. Because they do not contain any dividers or shower stalls, communal showers do not permit for any modesty where the users of such a facility would be showering together simultaneously in the nude. Communal showers are usually designed to accomodate between 10 and 40 users simultaneously, and are usually found in institutional settings, such as at a gymnasium, swimming pool, fitness studio, high school, university, professional sporting venue or in a prison. In the United States, communal showers are segregated by gender, but at some facilities in Europe, particularly at a sauna, both genders may shower communally at the same time.

After the swim meet, the entire team would strip out of their wet racing suits in the locker room and then shower together in the nude in the communal shower to rinse off the chlorine from the swimming pool.

communal shower by Noervenich April 10, 2009

communal shower

A crazy party, loud and annoying...awesome!

Robbie: Are you coming to the communal shower tonight?

Kate: No, i can't make it.

communal shower by Ark Angel October 9, 2008

Communal Showers

Communal showers are a single group of showers put together in one room or area. They are typically used in locker rooms, schools, prisons, swimming pools and barracks. Different variations exist, but a typical setup involves a row of showers heads along a wall. Communal showers are designed to accommodate multiple people showering at the same time, so efficiency and utility are the main focus, and modesty is not a consideration. They are designed with few to no privacy accommodations, typically featuring partitions at the most, but otherwise they are open and are meant to have multiple people showering in the nude. They are most commonly only in facilities where there’s no mixing of the sexes, but it’s not unheard of for them to be used by both sexes simultaneously. Historically they are more common and prevalent as a norm in facilities used by men, and less common in facilities used by women.

After hockey practice, the team stripped out of their sweaty gear and got into the communal showers to wash off the sweat and grime, nude as hell.

Communal Showers by Baresarkr March 10, 2024