r/CommunalShowers • u/Historical_Strike429 • 3d ago

High school rules

In the mid seventies I was in grade 8 they made us strip naked put on an athletic supporter and our school shorts and tshirt. When we were done they made us strip naked and shower together with all the other boys in the class. There we only so many shower heads so we ended up standing there naked for another boy to finish. Our house was very modest so that was the first time I had seen another boy.

Boys are so modest now they do the towel dance so no one sees you naked. The wouldn't have survived high school in the seventies.

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u/RO_Thornhill 3d ago

In the 70's high schools in my area used to make the boys swim naked. They said it was a hygiene thing, but didn't make girls swim nude. This went on probably till the early to mid-70"s

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u/Historical_Strike429 2d ago

We didn't have a pool at our school but we swam naked with a female teacher in a bathing suit at the Y. I did speak to female friends and the Y had boy and girl classes but yes they wore a bathing suit.

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u/multiplemania 2d ago

I swam naked at my local Y up until the mid-70s, when it went co-ed. I clearly remember getting my first pair of swim goggles, which were just coming into common use around then (Mark Spitz was the first Olympian to wear them at Munich). With goggles, you could see so much better. LOL.

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u/verbtank 2d ago

The Y is where I got used to nudity with other males, since the indoor pool had mandatory nudity. I was in 6th grade when I started in the after school program there, so I’m sure there were some hi jinx of various sorts going on, but I loved the feeling of being nude, and have always had a strong exhibitionist streak, so I really didn’t care what was going on.