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>Can we get over the generations concept soon? The article isn't about broad, inter-generational disparities. It was about one in particular (and perhaps even
by forgetsusername 11y ago
>Can we get over the generations concept soon?
The article isn't about broad, inter-generational disparities. It was about one in particular (and perhaps even exclusively American): comfortability with being nude around other people.
Having grown up around locker rooms, I don't think twice about hopping in the public shower. Maybe that's not everyone's cup of tea, but the idea of being completely averse and uncomfortable to a point strikes me as odd. Where does it come from?
- adevine 11y agoMy own personal hypothesis? An explosion of sexual content in media, coupled with, somewhat ironically, much more tolerance of gay people, means that for a lot of people their only exposure to nudity is in a (potentially) sexual context.
- dragonwriter 11y agoApparently, as the article references, the practice of the social expectation of participation in post-PE showers in high school (the actual requirement to do so had stopped most places by the 1980s, AFAIK) pretty much collapsed during the 1990s (why that happened might be an interesting question) -- as a result, adults of the millennial generation haven't been socialized into that being a context where nudity with strangers is normal. That really seems to be the whole of the effect.