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.