According to my research males were once required to swim in the nude. The American Public Health Association mandated nude swimming from 1926 until 1962, and thousands of high schools around the country enforced the tradition.. The first recreational indoor pool in America was a YMCA in Brooklyn New York in 1885.Because swimsuits back then were made of wool, and their fibers would clog the. Going back in time, however, swimming was nude from the time of the building of the very first YMCA pools (Boston 1885) because that was simply the practice.
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by Frank Senn Many older men say they experienced swimming naked at the YMCA. Could you write about that? Warning: nude images I included information about the YMCA's swimming program in Frank Answers About Swimming Naked. But the Y played a big role in naked swimming in the U.S., Canada, and elsewhere. In 1885, the Brooklyn YMCA opened America's first recreational indoor pool and required men to swim nude. Wool swimsuits were potential traps for disease and bacteria, and fibers clogged the. Swimming pools were introduced by the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in the 1880s. In the following decades, the Y began offering their "Learn-to-Swim" classes, which was an. Nude swimming is the practice of swimming without clothing, whether in natural bodies of water or in swimming pools. A colloquial term for nude swimming is "skinny dipping". In both British and American English, to swim means "to move through water by moving the body or parts of the body". [1]
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Crotalus November 10, 2006, 11:53am 5 I graduated from a Catholic high school for boys in Maryland in 1972. We had to swim nude as part of gym class, but the swimming team wore trunks for their practices. There was speculation among the students about the reasons for this, but I never heard an official explanation. The experience most men had of swimming naked in school and the YMCA eased the transition to naked interaction in the military as millions were drafted or volunteered for service during the war. Photo of U.S. Marines on Guadacanal in 1943 bathing and having fun with a makeshift water slide. Boys Swimming in River at Bronx Park, NY - 1922(Click on photo to enlarge)In the photo to the left, a group of naked boys at various ages swam in the river that is part of the Bronx Park and next to the famous historical Bronx Zoo. The photo evidences that during this period, boys swam nude at many public swimming areas, even in the US. [1] : 1 For the first decades of the 20th century, male nude swimming was associated with a trope of the "old swimming hole" as representing childhood innocence and adult masculinity. In their own classes, nudity was rare for girls based upon an assumption of modesty, but might include young children.
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The Dayton Y is a substantial facility with several gyms and a large pool. Most swimming was nude except for family night on Friday evenings, when there were swim meets, or for a few classes where females were admitted on occasion. Later I joined the Y as a youth member, which cost $20 per year. Historic Archives - Nude Male Swimming - A. Swimming Class News Articles A. Swimming Class News Articles Add Headings and they will appear in your table of contents. The following news.
@LarsBosteen it does have to do with hygiene. Fibre from swimwear would clog up the filters, and because bacteria and fungi can easily multiply in dirty swimwear. From what I hear, the nude swimming era as a whole (not just YMCA) pretty much ended in the 70s--although it was probably a long decline from the 60s. (There was someone who suggested nude swimming to keep the pool cleaner, and they stopped making that suggestion in the early 60s. But, of course, it took years for the practice to fully fade away.)
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Actually, few of us had seen a lot of naked people when we joined scouts. And there was anxiety the first time you got naked in front of the other kids. But you got over it or you were teased. And the "fat" kids had a harder time. But being fat in 1967 was pretty much like every kid now. We were almost all skinny (except one guy). Imgur Harrisburg, Penna, YMCA female members Eileen Barrett and Linda McKenna challenge 'nude swim,' time-honored policy of closing swimming pool to gen membership so that adult males can swim without.
