Hit the Showers

Lately, I have been spending a lot of time in locker rooms. There are two reasons for this, first Hayden is involved in swim lessons this summer and second, we have been going to the pool (it is summer after all).
I don't like locker rooms, never have. They kinda gross me out. They just feel dirty. And every time I walk threw a door of a locker room, I am brought back to high school and P.E class. All the feelings of an over-weight, shy, self-conscious teenager come rushing back to me.
I hate those feeling and for the most part gotten over them. So I really dislike it when things bring back little twinges of those feeling back.
Anyway, enough about that. Now on to the current reasons, besides the grossness, that I dislike locker rooms.
Both of the locker rooms that I frequent have signs outside the door that say, "Children of the opposite sex allowed only until the age of 4." I think that I understand the reason but really? I understand that at 4, a child can be more curious about the opposite sex's body. So what? It is just a naked body.
But the thing that I have a problem with, is that I am suppose to let my 4 year old son go into the mens locker room all my himself? I have a problem with this, any one else?
I feel that 4 is just to young. I don't know the people that are in there. Not to mention, that Hayden would get lost or distracted and I would never see him again.
I mean, let me be a parent and talk to my child about what he will be seeing and what it appropriate and inappropriate. There is nothing wrong with the naked human body.
That leads me right into my next point. It kinda goes back to the first thing I said. I believe that the human body is beautiful and no one should be ashamed of being naked but lets face it, some bodies are more beautiful to look at then others. I have one of those bodies that is not bad but is also not the prettiest one to look at.
Let just put it this way: if a woman saw my naked body and knew that this is what happens after children and child birth. She might just never want to have kids. I can't handle that responsibility.
It just seems that in the locker rooms, that I frequent, are full of beautiful people. I just don't like changing in front of them. I don't like showing how the body can go wrong.
Now that being said, here is my solution. I think that all public places where there is a pool and/or the need to change, should have a family locker room.
We went to one water park that had this and it was great. There were about 10 stalls were families: moms, dads, and kids could go into together. Each stall had walls and doors with locks to change in. There was a separate place to shower, with a curtain, and a separate place to use the bathroom. We were able to keep Hayden with us at all times and there was no episodes or feelings of embarrassment.
I don't see how this idea was missed. I mean, who frequents pools, water parks and gyms? Usually, moms with a bunch of kids. I would like (and try) to keep all my kids together. So why can't there be a family locker room?
Because lets face it, if I have to let my young 4 year old son go into the men locker room by himself, I am going to be going in there to retrieve him when he doesn't come out because he has found something interesting to look at and has become totally distracted. I don't want to and I bet dollars to donuts men don't want this either. But what else am I suppose to do?