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Nudity amongst men was kinda common in swimming pools up til the 1970s. http://treyspeegle.com/010113/2021/1/24/for-50-years-the-ymca-amp-most-schools-required

• cheese_van 3y ago
  During my freshman year in North Chicago we swam nude. That was 1970. There was no controversy among the students about it, and I don't recall any adult discussion about propriety. There was a very large concentration of military dependents at the school, and I was one, and military disregard for personal preferences about nudity was considered normal and expected. Nude swimming perhaps got us ready for that experience? The effect of diminishing body shame was probably beneficial as well. Eh, I escaped high school unscathed and I suppose brought away that nudity and sexuality were two very different things.