Frank Answers About Swimming Naked – Frank Answers. I recently attended a reunion of the class of 1.

Bennett High School in Buffalo, NY. As part of the weekend events we were given a tour of our high school to see what had changed and what remained the same. The guide asserted, “Well, I think it was barbaric. I don’t know what the rationale was for such a practice.”I didn’t press the issue, although I thought as a retired teacher he probably should have found out what the rationale was. But here’s the answer. It was traditional for boys to swim naked and no one saw any reason to break with the tradition until cultural mores changed radically after the 1. People who didn’t experience this find it hard to believe.

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Many men over 5. 0 testify that they swam naked in high school and college. Many people under 5. The following photo of a swimming class with naked teen age boys was even featured in Life magazine in 1. It reminds me of what I experienced at Bennett High School in Buffalo during my freshman year (1. Among other changes, our tour guide pointed out that the diving boards had been removed from the pool because of a fatal diving accident. It was undoubtedly traumatic that such a thing happened. But thousands of boys had learned to dive off those boards, including me.

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I was never a good diver because I was nearsighted and was always worried about where I would land. But I at least had the experience of trying it under supervision. These boys are younger than 9th grade, but the diving board looks similar to the one I remember in our high school pool. When we got to the gym our guide pointed out that the climbing poles and ropes had been removed and climbing was no longer a part of the school gym curriculum.

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Apparently there had been some accidents. Divx Movies Dvd Ripped (2017) on this page. I was sad to hear that the ropes and poles were gone because I had actually done well in climbing in the 7th and 8th grades  and did it in the boys gymnastic show in P. S. 6. 1. We were often shirtless in elementary school gym class, which was a situation in which adolescent boys were often insecure because our bodies were developing at wildly different rates. Maybe it was because in swimming we shed those school- issued shorts that accentuated skinny legs. My swimming teacher wore briefs, but some male teachers were naked along with the students.

Reasons for this Blog Article. Why would I even be interested in responding to the issue of naked swimming in the schools in the old days with a blog article? For two reasons. First, here was a practice most men experienced as recently as fifty years ago, and is a living memory for many of us, and people don’t know about it.

Some even deny it happened because it doesn’t fit our current cultural mores. So this article is an exercise in social history to discuss what  was standard practice in America until around 1. Boys swam naked in American high schools and sometimes teachers or coaches were naked too (although my swimming teacher always wore a swim suit). I set this in the broader context of naked swimming in America.

Second, it fits in with my ongoing “return to the body” project that is evident in many Frank Answer articles and in my book, Embodied Liturgy  (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2. Rather, I was created as a body; I am a body with a mind and a soul. There may be issues of which I am ashamed, but not my body as such.

Yet there is body shame. Our society today tends to have crazy attitudes toward the body. The body is glamorized in the media (using impossible models for the rest of us) and this in turn leads to issues of body shame (sometimes producing eating disorders). Let’s not think that body shame is only a women’s issue. Men also feel that they are physically inadequate when they compare their bodies to media- glamorized images of the male body.

Even when I was a youth there were muscle magazines encouraging boys to bulk up so they wouldn’t be the skinny kid having sand kicked in his face on the beach—in front of his girl friend, who then walks off with the muscle guy! Today youth use steroids and consume protein shakes to bulk up in order to compare more favorably with ideal models. But many remain dissatisfied with their bodies because the results are never quite as perfect as they desired.

Religions have also played a role in inculcating negative attitudes toward the body, for example, by their emphases on modesty in dress. Whether intended or not, people picked up from this the idea that there’s something not quite good about the human body. But God said that what he created was “very good.”  That includes our bodies.

It was Adam and Eve who concluded that they had cause to be ashamed and wanted to cover themselves. God asked them, “Who told you you were naked?” Being ashamed of our bodies is not what God intended. It’s caused by situations of our own making.

But Christianity affirms that the body is God’s good creation and as such it needs to be honored and respected. Lint and threads from the cotton and woolen bathing suits worn at the turn of the 2. It’s been claimed that chlorine also degraded the swim wear and sometimes burned skin. More importantly, there was concern that bacteria could cling to woolen bathing suits and spread disease. The American Public Health Association recommended in 1.

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.

The photographer for Life apparently saw no problem with walking into a boys shower and taking a picture of naked boys for an article that would appear in a popular national magazine. When I was in elementary school there were “shower periods” in which children were called out of classes to take showers in the separate boys and girls locker rooms in the interest of promoting public health, if their parents signed a permission form. But with the installation of home showers, and more than one bathroom in the home, boys and girls became more used to privacy when bathing. Mothers especially began to question the practice of boys swimming naked in schools. It was pointed out that swim suits were being made of synthetic material. Chlorination in the water in the pools was better regulated. Filters were improved.

The following story from the Appleton Post in 1. Left click on the image to be able to read the article.)The American Public Health Association removed its recommendation of nude swimming in 1. But the weight of tradition kept the practice going in many places for a decade or more longer, as many men testify. The History of Naked Male Swimming. Where did this tradition come from? Quite simply, it had been the custom for men and boys to swim naked outdoors. Benjamin Franklin was interested in the science of swimming and swam naked in the Thames while in London in the 1.

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By the late 1. 9th century public bathing beaches had developed and if men swam at the same beaches as women they were required to cover up. This photo from Atlantic City in the early 1.

By the early 2. 0th century men’s fashions reduced the top part to tank tops and the shorts became shorter. But not until the 1.

Nevertheless, men did continue to bathe naked in less public places, as this photo indicates. A common experience shared by many men who were drafted during World War II was being naked together in the military for medical exams, showers, and even swimming.

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. The following photo shows U.

S. Marines on Guadacanal in 1.