Why are pro athletes deprived of their privacy in the locker rooms?

Probably because they make millions in the name of entertainment so by being a public figure they by common sense sign their life to the public audience and they have to represent their team to each teams standard and be interviewed. It’s sort of this system american entertainment in sports has. Journalist make money off sports players, sports players make more money by being popular. It’s a win win deal imo

Most of them have beautiful bodies and like to flaunt them!

It is part of the job. If they didn’t,the press couldn’t question them. Sports and the press are symbiotic, the press needs the athletes and the athletes need the press.

The reporters are not forced to go in the locker room, they want access! And sexual harassment of whom, the reporters? The reporters, including women, want to be in there. Athletes can get their privacy if they really desire it for when they are nude.

Maybe because they give up some degree of privacy when they get paid obscene amounts of money to play a game.

I doubt that reporters are forced to go into locker rooms.

Huh? These folks (men and women) are not private people. By playing professional sports, they have become celebrities. And that means that they have opened their lives to all sorts of observation, including post-game interviews in the locker room.

I have no sympathy for the poor basketball player who makes $120,000 each game, having to appear half dressed.

I kind of agree that interviewing them in the locker room is unnecessary and inconvenient for the players. When I am in a locker room I don’t want to worry about a camera in there. But, I guess since it is a nornal thing, the athletes know the cameras might be on.

As far as changing in the locker room, most lockers rooms I have been in people change out in front of each other, some people choose to change in private. I would assume the locker rooms do have a couple areas where people can have privacy,

They do not have to talk to the press. But most of them want to.
But I was just thinking…
Western female reporters are required to wear hajib in some Middle Eastern countries.
Using this logic, I think reporters should be naked when they go in the locker room.

Celebrity or not, filthy rich or not, or not everybody deserves a basic level of decency. It is recent practice isn’t it? I guess due to pressure from the news outlets to be the first one to get the soundbites. So, the reporters are forced in that sense.

I thought we all agreed nudity is natural and those who are against it are puritanical???

So, @rooeytoo your employer should take away your rights just because he’s paying you obscene amount of $$?

Added:”...we all agreed nudity is natural…” ?

If you sign the contract, then yep, that’s the way it goes. And as I said way up there^^^^ I don’t think they care. Is anyone in particular complaining???

It’s about bonding. Then the reporters run in there and pseudo-bond. With their wimpy little clothes on. Ha ha ha ha!! You have to be nekkid to bond right.

@flo What do you mean about recent practice? Is since the 1950s recent? And reporters aren’t really standing around watching athletes shower or use the toilet, they are in the general area of the locker room.

Reporters want access so that they can get a response while they are on deadline. If they wait, they may be too late to file. And women reporters fought for equal access so that they can compete.

Rationalization sticks its head again. Media room, for media people, locker rooms for changing. Otherwise abuse by employers.