Same with being a music major. Lots of changes in rooms and busses, and a lot of people took off more than they needed to just because they loved being seen. We all checked each other out, but not one person would admit to it.
I once played piano off stage for a production where people changed. It was very difficult to perform with half naked people around me changing. There was no modestly and severe lack of maturity, too. Lots of bare nipples being placed next to my face to try to screw me up.
I was so nervous and hated performing so much, though, that it wasn't really a turn on, and of course off stage these women (and some men, I guess) acted clueless and would deny everything, of course, as though none of that ever happened.
I also remember a good friend of mine joined a community theatre. He was a sheltered kid, and I joked about him seeing naked people back stage. He assured me this wouldn't happen and such. Of course a few weeks later, he couldn't wait to tell me something (this was loooooong before cell phones), so we met in person over pizza very late one night and he told me that he saw so many people naked, both genders and all ages. He couldn't believe it. It was the best "I told you so, ever!"
Opposite of that, there is a high-profile professional theatre near me and I know lots of people who perform there, and they actually do NOT change in front of each other, and quick changes have a set-up off stage where the performer ISN'T seen changing at all. I am not sure if that's getting to be normal or not, or if its just that this place that was built only a few years ago and it's the modern way.
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