Gawker's suggestions for shower curtains in the H.of Representatives' shower room

[UTUSN]

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http://gawker.com/5489845/confirmed-congresss-male-shower-room-is-a-hotbed-of-naked-gazing/

Confirmed: Congress's Shower Room Is a Hotbed of Naked Gazing

Salty sailor and homoerotic harasser Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) recently described a naked confrontation with Rahm Emanuel in the Congressional gym's locker room, where they "don't have shower curtains." They need Extreme Makeover: House of Representatives Edition.

Massa—who either groped or "tickled" male staffers until they accused him of sexual harassment—told a harrowing story about being "naked as a jaybird" in the Congressional shower room, "and here comes Rahm Emanuel not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest and yelling." Which is some people's idea of salty foreplay, but not Eric Massa's: "Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man?"

True that. We have independently confirmed that Congress's male locker room lacks shower curtains, rendering the leaders of the free world "naked as a jaybird" for all to see and poke with their fingers. (No word, yet, about the female locker room. Anyone know?) Which is why we are now volunteering to redecorate it. How will they ever reconcile health care if they're busy having gay bacchanalias? (bacchanaliae?) A modest proposal for promoting modesty in elected officials.

(Six pics of shower curtains, at link.)

Send an email to Maureen O'Connor, the author of this post, at [e-mail].

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[DURHAM D]

1. I have always assumed that male locker rooms don't have curtains -

for fear it would cause too many "drop the soap" incidents.

[RKP5637]

2. Camera and a picture are worth a thousand words! Maybe more! LOL n/t

[Stevenmarc]

3. Rahm was showing him who the big dog was

[Toasterlad]

4. There Are VERY Few Members Of Congress I'd Wish To See Naked.

[The Genealogist]

5. Funny...I always thought of locker room etiquette as being a generational thing

My personal experience of etiquette is that (generally, not always) younger men tended to try to make themselves invisible in the locker room. Changing clothes in stages so as to never be naked, going to the emptiest area of the room possible, rarely showering at the gym. Older guys, heck, they often just let it all hang out (literally!) and seemed to be totally without care of who saw them showering, changing or whatever. This whole story makes me think back over 15 years of going to the gym...I cannot think of a single incident where something like this every happened. At the least, it sends a strange sort of message, and the worst, it is threatening in a quite unique way...in your face, balls and all, literally!

[Mugweed]

6. It's still the same way

I will never shower at the gym. Since I visit the gym on the way home from work, I put back on my work clothes and go home to shower. But that's because I'm a germ-phobic and my imagination of what kind of filth is left behind in those showers makes me shiver. I'm not some deluded bigot who thinks someone is going to gawk or come on to me. Meanwhile, the old folks are naked all over the place, yakking it up to each other as through standing around having a conversation naked is normal.

[The Genealogist]

7. My tendancy too was to be a locker room minimalist

It was not always avoidable due to the way schedules often lay out. I often had no alternative but to work out before work, which pretty much required me to shower and get ready at the gym. I still minced around the locker room as much as I could. I was super paranoid of catching some sort of foot or nail fungus in the showers, even though the places I worked out were kept quite clean.

[madmom]

8. When I was in high school, oh so may years ago, we had to shower after gym, there

were no shower curtains or dividers. There was ONE closed off shower stall for "that time of the month". Hubby showers at work, one large shower room, no dividers no curtains. I think it's time the Washington elite GROW UP!!!!