A history of nude swimming while it might be unbelievable today, boys were once required to swim nude at ymca pools — yet some recall the experience with no shame. School boards, the ymca, the boys’ club and other health clubs with pools followed these recommendations and mandated that men and boys swim naked, which they were used to doing Women and girls were allowed to wear swimming suits in deference to the view that female modesty should be respected but specified that the suits should not be dyed. 1 families were allowed to come to our mide swim meets My mother and sisters, and other mothers and daughters all came to our high school swim meets where we all swam naked. Three part documentary on the history of boys swimming nude at the ymca and public schools the following three part video is a youtube documentary compiled by an historian that did extensive documentation research into the policy requiring boys to swim nude at schools and such organizations as the ymca.
After i interviewed mecurio, i called my old ymca, spoke to the senior property manager, and asked why we weren’t required to swim nude back in the ‘70s After all, our y was in an old mansion built at the turn of the last century, and surely that pool had the same limitations. A ymca policy used to require swimming in the nude Find out how long the policy lasted and why it ended. Male nude swimming in the us remained a common practice through the 1950s, but declined in the 1960s due to technological and social changes.
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