Why was it so disturbing to some YA folks when somebody asked if it was true that guys used to swim naked in school before the 1970's. We used to take showers at school, also, but that was discontinued in many schools due to funding after the 1970's. Why was that simple question so troublesome to a few folks.
2006-10-05 11:46:49 · 7 answers · asked by OU812 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
Is my question so unclear that only "JustCurious" gave an answer related to the question.
2006-10-05 11:53:28 · update #1
In the 50's I distinctly recall it was a practical matter at the Y. Most times kids didn't have a suit because they hadn't intended to swim that day. They probably disallow it now out of a fear of perverts and pedophiliacs (sometimes grown men swam nude along with the boys). Don't know why or even if that question was troubling. It wasn't to me.
2006-10-06 13:27:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if it's true or not, it's a legitimate question and you can't change history one way or the other.
Not that my school had a pool or anything.
It's odd what people find offensive these days. Plastic surgery on TV--sure! Nudie boys...um, that's just WRONG. I don't know. I guess since there's so much more violence and bullying these days (or it *seems* like there is since there's more media coverage, or at least coverage of shootings) that people are weirded out by the idea of something that could cause more embarrassment and comparisons and therefore, more merciless guy pecking-order bullsh!t.
More nudity. It makes it harder to hide a firearm to shoot people at school.
2006-10-05 11:51:24 · answer #2 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
this entire enterprise of "bare swimming" is a hundred% authentic. I m a fifty 8 year previous male and it replaced into my journey in Junior extreme college between 1970 and seventy 3. This replaced into in Western manhattan State and that i HATED it. This replaced right into a typical center type suburban community and our public faculties had vast indoor swimming pools opposite the well-being club. Swimming and well-being club-type weren't co-ed...for sure. yet in evaluation to what most of the different gents have published here approximately it being a various time and technology and it in actuality being widely used and time-honored, i could argue that it replaced into basically time-honored on the time because of the fact WITH it being a various time and technology, the accepted attitude replaced into little ones have been little ones and adults have been adults and we basically had to DO what we've been informed, yet that doesn t recommend that we enjoyed it. I additionally never understood why basically the lads have been subjected to this and not the girls. No clarification replaced into given. It replaced into basically strange to be subjected to that for the period of those awkward years while your physique is going with the aid of puberty and little ones could be cruel. What made the journey seem much greater keeping apart and unusual, exceptionally in hindsight, is that the swimming instructions that have been taught in the highschool that i eventually went to, which replaced into precise down the line from my JUNIOR extreme, have been taught with all of us wearing swimsuits, so it made you seem back and picture, "What replaced into the factor to that nude BS?"
2016-10-18 21:30:42 · answer #3 · answered by dampier 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in the 50's the men and boys swam naked at the YMCA here.
other than that, skinny-dipping has been around as long as man and water got together.
2006-10-05 11:50:14 · answer #4 · answered by arkie 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
a lot of things that were the norm 30-40 yrs ago is shunned now,,,
2006-10-05 11:50:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
we live in a paranoid country...................
2006-10-05 11:55:10 · answer #6 · answered by mark22059 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I dunno either.
2006-10-05 11:47:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋