Another article about the wonderful practice of young men swimming naked, this time at the University of Maryland.
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Another article about the wonderful practice of young men swimming naked, this time at the University of Maryland.
Thank you, lint!
by Anonymous | reply 67 | August 22, 2023 2:17 PM |
A rare example of Americans not sexualizing nudity.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 4, 2023 2:46 PM |
Can't wait for trans nude swimming.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 4, 2023 3:03 PM |
Once again, this thread is useless without pics.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 4, 2023 3:08 PM |
R3 They were told to bring nothing but a towel. Where would they hide a bully old camera and flash bulb?
by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 4, 2023 3:10 PM |
Bathing suit "lint" clogging pool filters theory invented by pedo or perv who came up with a great excuse to see some naked flesh...
by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 4, 2023 3:12 PM |
I can think of one place, but it would be too dangerous. Better yet they have a photographer on hand to document this phenomenon.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 4, 2023 3:13 PM |
R5 Those guys all have nice dicks
by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 4, 2023 3:15 PM |
It’s fun to stay at the YMCA!
by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 4, 2023 3:41 PM |
Those guys don’t seem to know about shrinkage.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 5, 2023 1:59 AM |
We used to have naked swimming at the YMCA downtown during adult swim hrs. There were just men, as women had the YWCA. Fortunately for me, the Y was right on campus of the local university, so, on weekends, the pool was filled with naked college boys. The good old days.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 5, 2023 11:08 AM |
ALL of the photos of the naked male swimmers are fake. Men did swim naked at the Y and in many high schools up until about 1980 but there are no real photos posted here.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 5, 2023 11:30 AM |
I choose to believe in the nude photos.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 8, 2023 1:18 AM |
R12 pic is strangely unsexy.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 8, 2023 1:22 AM |
It's weird they were only worried about lint from the men's swimsuits and not the women's. Also, I would think men's pubes clogging the drains and filters would be more of a concern. As R6 said, probably some perv.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 8, 2023 1:48 AM |
[quote]probably some perv...
It was the same guy who invented Lycra.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 8, 2023 1:51 AM |
I mentioned this to a woman I work with and before I could finish the thought, she interrupted "OH YEAH! Yeah! That used to be a thing back in the 60s with Catholic schools. I don't know about all Catholic schools but everyone I know who went to one, we all had to swim naked!"
I told her it was a recommendation of the American Public Health Association and she said "What the fuck, man? I always thought it was another perverted Catholic thing."
by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 8, 2023 6:49 AM |
^ never happened.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | June 8, 2023 9:09 AM |
I was on a swim team in the seventies. We never swam naked, and I promise everyone that men swimming nude alongside women in suits was not a thing.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | June 8, 2023 10:37 AM |
Male nude swimming in public was certainly a thing in America from the1800s to the mid 1900s. However, swimming was usually sex-segregated, and women always wore bathing suits for modesty. However, in the early 70s, after title IX was passed, equal access to facilities for both sexes were mandated. Co-ed swimming became the norm, and that was the end of male nudity in public pools.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | June 8, 2023 11:33 AM |
People are so uptight nowadays. Bring back naked men swimming at the Y...or at least at my Y.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 20, 2023 7:04 PM |
I love men's legs.
I love men.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | June 20, 2023 7:05 PM |
Paywall - OP is worse than tRump!
by Anonymous | reply 27 | June 20, 2023 7:06 PM |
My father was one of four boys, plus stepbrother and stepsisters, in Chicago. My Uncle told me that at both public and Catholic high schools in the 60’s, all swimming was nude. If you think about it, it makes sense because then there isn’t the headache of wet swimsuits, mildew, dressing into cold wet suits in Chicago winters, etc.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | June 20, 2023 7:09 PM |
There was still nude swimming when I was at Cornell in the early 80s. In the 80s there was still nude swimming at gentlemen's clubs in NYC, for example the Yale Club where my boyfriend and uncle were members.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | June 20, 2023 7:37 PM |
I was on the swim team at Case Western in the late 80s. No nudity in the pool then, alas. Lots of it in the locker room though
by Anonymous | reply 30 | June 20, 2023 7:42 PM |
We swam nude in Jr. High. this was the 60's and of course not coed. It was to save the cost of laundering the suits. There weren't many problems, although when I was in 8th grade, I heard about two 9th grade boys who tried to sneak in when the girls were using the pool. They got caught before they got very far. They got sent to the vice principals office who paddled their asses with three major swats according to the rumor. Paddles were common at my school.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | June 20, 2023 7:50 PM |
Neither my HS (Cleveland area) nor my college (state school in Ohio) had nude swimming in the 70s and I never heard about anyone doing it at the Y and we had two different Y Councils near us. I also never heard of it at other high schools (including the Catholic ones) or colleges. My much older brother never mentioned it. Perhaps, it was done in some all male environments in some places, but I doubt that it was the norm.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | June 20, 2023 7:57 PM |
NYC's-famed Downtown Athletic Club... in '76 or '77, my Dad had a friend who had a membership. I attended every Saturday for a time - we swam naked. It was the first time I saw a naked adult man, the swim coach. It's not a memory that's retained in technicolor, but I do remember seeing him (he was in fine shape) and his cock and wishing I would grow up to look like him.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | June 20, 2023 8:16 PM |
R1 summed it up, perfectly.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | June 20, 2023 8:23 PM |
not sure it's the same thing but my dad belonged to the Elk's Club (this was in california) and all the men lounged around, swam and even played basketball naked.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | June 20, 2023 8:57 PM |
When was this, r35?
Nude basketball sounds really awkward.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | June 20, 2023 10:06 PM |
My brother told me about nude swim classes at his all-male college. I was twelve at the time, and the thought of it turned me on SO much.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | June 20, 2023 10:43 PM |
When I went to summer camp, they told us we had to swim nude because the suits soaked up too much chlorine.
I later wondered if it was just some perv who wanted to see pre-teen boys naked.
I did get to see my hot counselor's huge dick though.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | June 20, 2023 10:52 PM |
Suburban Buffalo high school (class of ‘78) and the boys swam nude. Nothing weird about it but you will never convince people that it was no big deal (even those of us who were late to puberty).
by Anonymous | reply 39 | June 20, 2023 10:57 PM |
How does everyone feel about nude diving?
by Anonymous | reply 40 | June 20, 2023 10:58 PM |
I'll never understand how a gay guy could do this without getting a boner. Not in a million years.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | June 20, 2023 10:59 PM |
My member is a member of a nude swim team. Only a fool swims with clothes on by choice.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | June 20, 2023 11:17 PM |
Schools and universities simply must return to this tradition.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | June 21, 2023 12:14 AM |
There's always the annual genderfluid nude Daisy Chain shindig at Vassar. And nude parties were popular at Brown for years, until prudish Gen Z shut it down. MIT had their naked run. Gone, but not forgotten.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | June 21, 2023 12:49 AM |
Downtown Y, R32.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | June 21, 2023 11:56 AM |
R36 early 80's
by Anonymous | reply 46 | June 21, 2023 12:13 PM |
The Yale Club used to have naked all-male swimming when I moved to NY in the 80s.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | August 21, 2023 10:40 PM |
It really needs to come back. For men and boys, that is. Keep those vaginas covered, ladies.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | August 21, 2023 10:48 PM |
Bring it back!
by Anonymous | reply 52 | August 22, 2023 12:36 AM |
I graduated HS in 1983 but in previous decades boys swam nude in the school's pool for PE though it wasn't coed.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | August 22, 2023 1:09 AM |
Bring back nude swimming for men even if it's only a couple of days or nights during the week. It feels so good.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | August 22, 2023 1:46 AM |
When nude swimming was prevalent, gay people were not 'out.' Nowadays the many of the straight guys and the younger gays would never go near the pool if men were naked. Damn, these uptight males won't even shower at the gym with closed shower stalls.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | August 22, 2023 1:56 AM |
My Dad, 100 years old, confirmed that the boys swam naked at Bayside High School (Queens) in the 1930s. The girls wore swimsuits.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | August 22, 2023 1:59 AM |
When I was a teenager in the 1970s, my daddy neighbor (married with kids) used to tell me he went swimming naked at the local YMCA in Boston. This was such a turn-on just to hear him say it. I wish I could have gone swimming with him, but never did. By the time I was going to the Y myself, nude swimming had ended, goddammit.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | August 22, 2023 2:01 AM |
Nudity would be an uncomfortable reminder that gender is biology.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | August 22, 2023 2:11 AM |
Oh shut up, R58, Jesus.
And all of you are missing the most important change in society that has eliminated gang showers and nude swimming and nudity in locker rooms... and it's not just that gay men are out and straight men are aware of the chance of being oggled.
It's cell phones. Specifically, cell phone cameras, and tiny digital cameras that can be put anywhere. And then spread all over the internet.
The huge scandal of the guy who videoed naked wrestlers weighing in at wrestling meets in the 90s ("Straight off the Mat") ended most public male nudity in shared spaces.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | August 22, 2023 4:33 AM |
How about if nude swimming came back for men 18 and over?
No kids to avoid the suggestion of sexual abuse allegations.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | August 22, 2023 4:39 AM |
Was it done in Catholic schools?
In the movie Heaven Help Us it is.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | August 22, 2023 4:43 AM |
Hell, I remember old geezers in the Senate whining that they couldn't swim naked anymore because of (gasp) women Senators that wanted access to the Senate Pool.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | August 22, 2023 4:44 AM |
"It was to save the cost of laundering the suits"
by Anonymous | reply 63 | August 22, 2023 5:02 AM |
The types who stand around the Y locker room and want to talk about the theory of relativity while you want the towel to go back on, around the waist as opposed to the neck.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | August 22, 2023 5:37 AM |
R59, yes - the ubiquitous cell phone or spy camera prevents health clubs, gyms, college facilities from allowing men to use the pool all-natural (who needs the headache of lawsuits). But please remember, life becoming co-ed starting on the 70s killed off this kind of activity as well. YMCAs were no longer just for men. Even setting aside time for men and women to swim nude (separately) couldn't be created.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | August 22, 2023 10:54 AM |
You can swim nude at the gay bathhouses... until they are forced to cover up when the SJWs sue to allow women in
by Anonymous | reply 66 | August 22, 2023 1:23 PM |
I’ll be sure to do my windmills so I get my respect.
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