Yeah, you don’t properly shower before a pool in France normaly. You change into your swiming gear, then shower (all gendered areas) with gear on, then pool. The swimming gear is suppose to keep the filth in, so only tight enough gear is allowed. In Sweden for example it is a bit opposite. Get naked, shower (gender separated areas), put on gear, pool. You have showered and washed your hair out, you are good to go.
Until you’ve swum in a public pool that requires full body wash and shower, naked, you don’t realise the difference it makes to the chlorine amount required to keep the pool clean. Denmark has explicit instructions about where to wash, pre-soaped single use sponges that must be used, but hardly any chlorine in the pool water.
Humans are filthy, yo. I’d rather everyone cleans properly before I have share pool water with you.
And even then, I’ve been a competition swimmer and am from Denmark and our training slots were mostly in the evening after public access hours. The pools were filthy as fuck. And that’s with the higher hygiene standards here. People are just filthy animals.
Yeah, the issue here in France is that you absolutely can’t trust people to do the right thing. A lot of them would skirt the rules and not wash properly.
I know it was absolutely a thing in the past, my parents talked about it for example, but I’ve never seen all-gender changing rooms in a French swimming pool. Though I’ve seen the obvious signs of the retrofit in a few places, where you can clearly see that it used to be one big room that got separated in two.
I think you’re right that they don’t trust us to properly shower before going into the pool though, because to this day, I still see like ~40% of people barely showering enough to rinse their sweat off. A lot more people are actually showering than when I was a kid though (myself included)
Edit : actually, I’ve been in some pools that were constructed more recently that have mixed changing rooms, but these have individual stalls and the showers are still gendered
TLDR : the showers aren’t all-genders as far as I know. The “changing rooms” sometimes are but in this case it’s just a big room with stalls and lockers so privacy isn’t really an issue.
Both men and women are required to cover their hair in pools?
In most public pools yes. Prevents hair from clogging filters. Or that is the official line.
Yeah, you don’t properly shower before a pool in France normaly. You change into your swiming gear, then shower (all gendered areas) with gear on, then pool. The swimming gear is suppose to keep the filth in, so only tight enough gear is allowed. In Sweden for example it is a bit opposite. Get naked, shower (gender separated areas), put on gear, pool. You have showered and washed your hair out, you are good to go.
So when kids pee in the pool all the pee stays inside their pants I’m sure…
I guess they have not solved that one.
Mandatory underwater heat camera’s it is.
Until you’ve swum in a public pool that requires full body wash and shower, naked, you don’t realise the difference it makes to the chlorine amount required to keep the pool clean. Denmark has explicit instructions about where to wash, pre-soaped single use sponges that must be used, but hardly any chlorine in the pool water.
Humans are filthy, yo. I’d rather everyone cleans properly before I have share pool water with you.
And even then, I’ve been a competition swimmer and am from Denmark and our training slots were mostly in the evening after public access hours. The pools were filthy as fuck. And that’s with the higher hygiene standards here. People are just filthy animals.
Yeah, the issue here in France is that you absolutely can’t trust people to do the right thing. A lot of them would skirt the rules and not wash properly.
FTFY
…here in the states its like a before and after thing. We are allowed to take two showers lol
I know it was absolutely a thing in the past, my parents talked about it for example, but I’ve never seen all-gender changing rooms in a French swimming pool. Though I’ve seen the obvious signs of the retrofit in a few places, where you can clearly see that it used to be one big room that got separated in two.
I think you’re right that they don’t trust us to properly shower before going into the pool though, because to this day, I still see like ~40% of people barely showering enough to rinse their sweat off. A lot more people are actually showering than when I was a kid though (myself included)
Edit : actually, I’ve been in some pools that were constructed more recently that have mixed changing rooms, but these have individual stalls and the showers are still gendered
TLDR : the showers aren’t all-genders as far as I know. The “changing rooms” sometimes are but in this case it’s just a big room with stalls and lockers so privacy isn’t really an issue.