• Prior_Industry
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    It’s worrying that these people need a separate gym because they are unable to control their urges. Seems like they have bigger problems they should be working on tbh.

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        So what do they do once they are outside of the “safe” gym? If you need a separate workout space because women are around you in gym clothes then you’re going to struggle a lot in the rest of your life. Do they need separate beaches, swimming pools, have to stay at home during the summer months?

        I’d suggest counselling with a professional would be better use of their time.

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          For some religious people, lust is a hard sin to fight. A gym can be a tough place to ignore it. It’s not hard to understand some people like some time in a place where people understand their struggles and can blow off steam without feeling judged.

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            For some religious people, lust is a hard sin to fight.

            That line of thinking is what leads to burquas being mandatory in some countries.

            Control yourself, not other people.

            And if you can’t, then get proper help (not a preacher), don’t just mask the problem.

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            So what do they do about summertime, beaches, or swimming pools? How does this lust manifest itself? They have to go over and talk to the women in the gym and say inappropriate things?

            I get these men have issues with their ability to control themselves, I’m suggesting that a private gym isn’t the solution given how many other times in their life they will be “tested”. And why is this specific to religious people? What’s religion doing to them that getting them this sexually frustrated they can’t share a gym?

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            For some religious people, lust is a hard sin to fight.

            For a lot of atheists too, ayyyyyyyyyy (eggplant emoji eggplant emoji eggplant emoji)

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        Teaching my kids how to act normal by taking them to MAN GYM where half the people there are taking steroids to bulk up and the other half don’t know how to talk about anything but GETTING PUMPED

        To promote more serious discussion in shitpost: One of the problems of gender separated facilities is it makes everything more complicated for parents like that guy that got arrested for taking his daughters into a women’s restroom.

        There’s a lot to be said about ‘safe spaces’ but imo those spaces should not include any infrastructure like gym equipment, pools, toilets, operating rooms etc. It makes a lot of sense to separate rooms where people might be disclosing addresses, storing clothing or chatting but its maybe less necessary to separate spaces where toilets and gym equipment exist.

        This is why pools are generally co-ed but the changing rooms are usually gender segregated and its often less about protecting people and more about creating less spaces for like a couple to have consensual sex in public.