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Naked man making phone call after steam and shower at local health club. Any guy who’s hit the locker room after a workout at the gym knows the guy I’m talking about. He dabs with a towel a bit, but he prefers to air dry. While waiting for evaporation to work its interminable magic, he takes a few calls in front of his locker, often with one leg up on a bench, pausing long enough to make small talk as he stands a little too close to you (with a towel wrapped around your waist and your undershirt wet from being pulled on before you completely dried off). Naked man making phone call after steam and shower at local health club is the reason you have a home gym. But is he suddenly an endangered species? In The Atlantic (Gift Article), Jacob Beckert reflects on the The End of Naked Locker Rooms. “Though public nakedness isn’t completely gone, many of the everyday spots where Americans once encountered unclothed bodies—locker rooms, school showers, public pools, bathhouses—have either vanished or shifted away from collective nudity.” This article suggests the downside of this trend. As a person who sleeps in jeans and a t-shirt and doesn’t feel comfortable disrobing in front of myself, it makes me think I might want to join a gym again. I’m not even worried about the PTSD I could experience by re-encountering Naked man making phone call after steam and shower at local health club. I probably won’t even recognize him with his clothes on.