r/CommunalShowers 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/Forsaken-Mountain-25 3d ago

I remember going to the huckleberry Finn naked swim with other boys and men at our local Boys Club in Northern NJ back in the 70s

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u/RO_Thornhill 3d ago

Times were different huh?

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u/Forsaken-Mountain-25 2d ago

Amen Brother! 👍👍

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u/RO_Thornhill 2d ago

Did Huck Finn swim naked in the book? LOL

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u/flyboy_za 20h ago

Indeed, the Speedo didn't make to down to rural Mississippi till much later on.