That would have never happened in the schools were I live. None of them have swimming pools & we had our swimming lessons at a nearby public pool. Other than square dancing, it was the only gym activity that was coed in our school district.

As a country, we're not aware of how much privacy we've gained, he said.

That's because it's so much easier to tell how much we've lost.

Some New York City schools also required naked swim classes thirty or so years ago.

Everyone should swim naked.

No, I'm not thinking of nekkid bewbs, hawt rods, or pedo-bear bait.

This is simply because there are no comfortable men's swimsuits. If you know one, send me a line. I haven't found it.

OK, enough is enough. Here. Use it. With this story there is no denying it's need to exist.




// I don't see no horns on you

He recalled how in a small Texas town near his childhood home there were free public baths, one for males and one for females - the only source of hot water for many area residents.

As a country, we're not aware of how much privacy we've gained, he said. "The world then and now is so different it's unimaginable."

THIS. I know that in a lot of countries there are public baths/house/spas that are used by adults. Separated by males and females; we should do this here.

Psh. Anyone ever been to Schlitterbahn in New Branfels, Texas?

Or swimming, ever?

It's basically the same thing as being nude.

Just with tighter... scarier.. bulges.. of fat...

we had swimming lessons most of the year - Ice, I tell you, on the pool. And always too much chlorine

Just RTFA.
Man up Nancy! I've got a dick. You've got a dick. Girls don't, but under all them clothes they're nekkid too.

I was naked for the first time in front of many people once, too. I got over it in about 5 minutes. May take some longer, but we're all naked under out shirts, so if it bothers you tough cookies.

Might as well fret over the fact your teeth fell out, or your balls got hairy while you're at it. Only by accepting what is can progress begin.

cretinbob: OK, enough is enough. Here. Use it. With this story there is no denying it's need to exist.

// I don't see no horns on you

You did notice that this practice wasn't confined to Texas, right?
Oh, I know, you want to make fun of a state so much that you will lose all intellectual honesty just to do so. Hey, good luck with that! Are you an idiot New Yorker or a California moran?

My Dad used to tell us stories of his all-male High School (Lane Tech in Chicago) having naked swim class in the mid-60's.

Apparently girls did this too. Can we get this discussion going in the right direction?

untaken_name: cretinbob: OK, enough is enough. Here. Use it. With this story there is no denying it's need to exist.

// I don't see no horns on you

You did notice that this practice wasn't confined to Texas, right?
Oh, I know, you want to make fun of a state so much that you will lose all intellectual honesty just to do so. Hey, good luck with that! Are you an idiot New Yorker or a California moran?

I'm a Florida native. So go fark yourself. It was agreat state until the idiots from everywhere else started showing up. But if you've been around fark.com long enough, you will have seen plenty of reason to have a Texas tag.

I'm surprised that the "fibers clogging the drains" explanation was apparently so widespread, even if it once held validity with the old-time woolen suits.

"Wet swimsuits will mildew in lockers" would have been my first guess, and in the 1960's I can imagine that girls would have been thought more conscientious about not leaving them there to grow stuff.

Also...

I graduated HS in 1979... the boys had communal showers, while the girls had individual ones. The school in question was built in the early 1970s.

/wasn't peeking
//visiting athletic teams used the opposite-gender locker room
///that's not to say I didn't want to peek at the bewbies

cretinbob

Did you hear a swooshing noise a few minutes ago in the vicinity of your head? Too late, it's gone now.

I am a Texan, so of COURSE I know all about those idiots that move here from other states and then do stupid shiat to give us a bad name. You know, like a certain President of a certain country did.

/Of course it's non-natives doing all the stupid shiat.
//Lalala Iamnotlisteningtoyou lalala

cretinbob

Oh, and re: your excellent suggestion: I am at work and I'd get fired for doing that. But when I get home...


/How'm *I* doin'? Rowr!

Come on in, the water's warm!

(Just don't ask how we got it that way)

This was until the school boards around the country came to a startling conclusion about their gym teachers and told them,

had 4 years of it in high school.
didn't think it was unusual at all.
1960-1964 western new york.
can still smell the chlorine.

At the risk of ending my chances of becoming a district attorney, I went online and Googled the search words: "boys," "nude," "gym" and "class."

Lo and behold, there was an online forum on the topic:

Oh I bet.

Spore Pedobear 2 (Dancing)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdUR4HCs8Tc (pops)

Texass - It's like a whole other country of jackasses.

Gridlock

Actually, it's all just a major conspiracy to keep you (specifically )out of Texas. I, for one, think it's tax money well spent.

/I know, I know, oh you wouldn't want to come here anyway blah blah
//Sour grapes...nah, sour steers? sour cacti? sour cowboy hats?

AndreMA: Also...

I graduated HS in 1979... the boys had communal showers, while the girls had individual ones. The school in question was built in the early 1970s.



graduated in 1981 - boys locker room had communal shower and toilets with no stalls, just out in the open

cretinbob: untaken_name: cretinbob: OK, enough is enough. Here. Use it. With this story there is no denying it's need to exist.

// I don't see no horns on you

You did notice that this practice wasn't confined to Texas, right?
Oh, I know, you want to make fun of a state so much that you will lose all intellectual honesty just to do so. Hey, good luck with that! Are you an idiot New Yorker or a California moran?

I'm a Florida native. So go fark yourself. It was agreat state until the idiots from everywhere else started showing up. But if you've been around fark.com long enough, you will have seen plenty of reason to have a Texas tag.

It wasn't a state until the idiots from everywhere else started showing up.

Lol at the retarded americans and their FEAR of the human body, show us anything violance drugs just dont show us tits. Nuke the whole farking country someone

I graduated in 2000, the boys still don't have doors on their toilets....

That's gym teachers for you.

bongmiester: boys locker room had communal shower and toilets with no stalls, just out in the open

Bet those got used a lot.

this article is f*king hot.

doglover: Everyone should swim naked.

No, I'm not thinking of nekkid bewbs, hawt rods, or pedo-bear bait.

This is simply because there are no comfortable men's swimsuits. If you know one, send me a line. I haven't found it.


That's why I wear a kilt to swim in. If you're size normal or smaller, you're probably comfortable with trunks. ... Those at the other end of the spectrum find them quite confining.

/Montgomery Blair Sibley FTW

bongmiester: AndreMA: Also...

I graduated HS in 1979... the boys had communal showers, while the girls had individual ones. The school in question was built in the early 1970s.



graduated in 1981 - boys locker room had communal shower and toilets with no stalls, just out in the open

I graduated from an Iowa high school in 1987. The swimming pool and lockers were built in 1974. The girls' showers were communal. Most of us never thought anything of it, but other girls would shower while still wearing their bathing suits.

mrapier: He recalled how in a small Texas town near his childhood home there were free public baths, one for males and one for females - the only source of hot water for many area residents.

As a country, we're not aware of how much privacy we've gained, he said. "The world then and now is so different it's unimaginable."

THIS. I know that in a lot of countries there are public baths/house/spas that are used by adults. Separated by males and females; we should do this here.

I was just at a spa like that in Queens NY. Not so rare. No age separation either. All ages together.

/not really my cup of tea
//so to speak

Fedor


Retarded?
Learn how to spell, asswipe.

AndreMA: Also...

I graduated HS in 1979... the boys had communal showers, while the girls had individual ones. The school in question was built in the early 1970s.


And until recently girls were the ones with all the body image insecurity problems. Now boys are having them as much.

Connection?

NYZooMan: AndreMA: Also...

I graduated HS in 1979... the boys had communal showers, while the girls had individual ones. The school in question was built in the early 1970s.


And until recently girls were the ones with all the body image insecurity problems. Now boys are having them as much.

Connection?

this

It wasn't the naked swimming classes I minded. I just never understood why we had to strip off for mathematics classes.

AngiTig: I graduated in 2000, the boys still don't have doors on their toilets....

Same here. Urinals are one thing, but having toilets out in the open always freaked me out. They had the big communal shower, too, while us girls had stalls with shower curtains. I was in marching band, so I never had to take PE in high school, but that just means I had the distinct pleasure of touring about a hundred locker rooms all across the Southeast.

In Leni Riefenstahl's documentary 'Olympia,' the swimming and diving guys are all naked. So 60s Texas was a lot like Nazi Germany.

azureus: bongmiester: AndreMA: Also...

I graduated HS in 1979... the boys had communal showers, while the girls had individual ones. The school in question was built in the early 1970s.



graduated in 1981 - boys locker room had communal shower and toilets with no stalls, just out in the open

I graduated from an Iowa high school in 1987. The swimming pool and lockers were built in 1974. The girls' showers were communal. Most of us never thought anything of it, but other girls would shower while still wearing their bathing suits.

Cheaters.

Not just Houston: Cleveland Heights High School in 1968. Then one freezing February day some idjit mixed the wrong chemicals in the chem lab (almost right above the pool) and the high school was evacuated suddenly, my class to the street with street clothes and wet hair in the 15-degree weather.

CanadaHauntsMe

While in the Army, I saw a few latrines where the walls were taken down and the toilets were visible. Usually, the First Sergeant's knee jerk response against graffiti. Walked in to one to use the urinal and there's some guy pushing out a turd.

For some reason, the windows in the showers opened upward and the women were on the third floor. One morning after a cold shower (the base had an energy conservation program that limited the barracks to 25 days of hot water which translated to about 15 days), I heard some giggling and looked up to see two women laughing. It was a cold shower, I tell you. There was shrinkage!

bongmiester: graduated in 1981 - boys locker room had communal shower and toilets with no stalls, just out in the open

that's how you solicit for a blumpkin

Naked boy swimmin' also common practise at the Batavia, New York YMCA in the early 1960's. No big deal ... plenty of shrinkage.

Compare experiencing other's bodies via cold pools and showers to steaming porno movie hot-bods and I can see why people are becoming so much more insecure today.

"Fifty years ago, many Houston schools required naked swim classes for the boys."

Obviously, integration changed all that...

Fedor: Lol at the retarded americans and their FEAR of the human body, show us anything violance drugs just dont show us tits. Nuke the whole farking country someone

But if the USA were to be "nuke[d]", then who would provide your garbage dump of a country with food, running water, and flush toilets?

TTIWWP!