The fabled ivy league nude posture photos have been written about but seldom seen Incoming college students were photographed fully nude to gauge posture, detect scoliosis, and address other correctable body issues… all while emotionally scarring the participants. Posture photographs have become rather notorious over the years Their fame results at least partially from ron rosenbaum’s article, “great ivy league nude posture photo scandal” that appeared in the new york times magazine a few years ago. In fact, it was revealed that many of them were involved in the ivy league nude posture scandal This exposed a series of photo shoots conducted on college campuses in the 20th century, raising profound ethical questions about consent, privacy, and the exploitation of young students ‘for science.’
As part of a mandatory “posture” class focused on personal and physical refinement, female students were regularly weighed, rigorously measured, and photographed fully nude 50 times more often than their male counterparts. What notorious nude rite of passage was once required by all ivy league schools A fascinating nugget of information, new every day. Episode 4 of “stupiracy” delves into the bizarre world of the ivy league nude photo scandal, uncovering the strange and scandalous practice that once was a rite of passage for incoming freshmen at prestigious universities like harvard, yale, and princeton. The ivy league nude posture photos were taken in the 1940s through the 1970s of all incoming freshmen at certain ivy league and seven sisters colleges (as well as swarthmore), ostensibly to gauge the rate and severity of rickets, scoliosis, and lordosis in the population.
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