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Nude swimming

Another article about the wonderful practice of young men swimming naked, this time at the University of Maryland.

Thank you, lint!

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by Anonymousreply 67August 22, 2023 2:17 PM

A rare example of Americans not sexualizing nudity.

by Anonymousreply 1June 4, 2023 2:46 PM

Can't wait for trans nude swimming.

by Anonymousreply 2June 4, 2023 3:03 PM

Once again, this thread is useless without pics.

by Anonymousreply 3June 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 Anonymousreply 4June 4, 2023 3:10 PM

Even in co-ed classes, it seems.

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by Anonymousreply 5June 4, 2023 3:11 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 Anonymousreply 6June 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 Anonymousreply 7June 4, 2023 3:13 PM

R5 Those guys all have nice dicks

by Anonymousreply 8June 4, 2023 3:15 PM

Someone here posted this swimming video

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by Anonymousreply 9June 4, 2023 3:16 PM

Hot

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by Anonymousreply 10June 4, 2023 3:18 PM

It’s fun to stay at the YMCA!

by Anonymousreply 11June 4, 2023 3:41 PM

Damn

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by Anonymousreply 12June 5, 2023 1:52 AM

Those guys don’t seem to know about shrinkage.

by Anonymousreply 13June 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 Anonymousreply 14June 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 Anonymousreply 15June 5, 2023 11:30 AM

I choose to believe in the nude photos.

by Anonymousreply 16June 8, 2023 1:18 AM

R12 pic is strangely unsexy.

by Anonymousreply 17June 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 Anonymousreply 18June 8, 2023 1:48 AM

[quote]probably some perv...

It was the same guy who invented Lycra.

by Anonymousreply 19June 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 Anonymousreply 20June 8, 2023 6:49 AM

^ never happened.

by Anonymousreply 21June 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 Anonymousreply 22June 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.

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by Anonymousreply 23June 8, 2023 11:33 AM

All swim meets should be like this: naked.

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by Anonymousreply 24June 20, 2023 6:51 PM

People are so uptight nowadays. Bring back naked men swimming at the Y...or at least at my Y.

by Anonymousreply 25June 20, 2023 7:04 PM

I love men's legs.

I love men.

by Anonymousreply 26June 20, 2023 7:05 PM

Paywall - OP is worse than tRump!

by Anonymousreply 27June 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 Anonymousreply 28June 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 Anonymousreply 29June 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 Anonymousreply 30June 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 Anonymousreply 31June 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 Anonymousreply 32June 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 Anonymousreply 33June 20, 2023 8:16 PM

R1 summed it up, perfectly.

by Anonymousreply 34June 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 Anonymousreply 35June 20, 2023 8:57 PM

When was this, r35?

Nude basketball sounds really awkward.

by Anonymousreply 36June 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 Anonymousreply 37June 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 Anonymousreply 38June 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 Anonymousreply 39June 20, 2023 10:57 PM

How does everyone feel about nude diving?

by Anonymousreply 40June 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 Anonymousreply 41June 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 Anonymousreply 42June 20, 2023 11:17 PM

Schools and universities simply must return to this tradition.

by Anonymousreply 43June 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 Anonymousreply 44June 21, 2023 12:49 AM

Downtown Y, R32.

by Anonymousreply 45June 21, 2023 11:56 AM

R36 early 80's

by Anonymousreply 46June 21, 2023 12:13 PM

Report in nude swimming. Pt 1.

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by Anonymousreply 47August 21, 2023 10:27 PM

Pt 2.

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by Anonymousreply 48August 21, 2023 10:28 PM

Pt. 3

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by Anonymousreply 49August 21, 2023 10:29 PM

The Yale Club used to have naked all-male swimming when I moved to NY in the 80s.

by Anonymousreply 50August 21, 2023 10:40 PM

It really needs to come back. For men and boys, that is. Keep those vaginas covered, ladies.

by Anonymousreply 51August 21, 2023 10:48 PM

Bring it back!

by Anonymousreply 52August 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 Anonymousreply 53August 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 Anonymousreply 54August 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 Anonymousreply 55August 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 Anonymousreply 56August 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 Anonymousreply 57August 22, 2023 2:01 AM

Nudity would be an uncomfortable reminder that gender is biology.

by Anonymousreply 58August 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 Anonymousreply 59August 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 Anonymousreply 60August 22, 2023 4:39 AM

Was it done in Catholic schools?

In the movie Heaven Help Us it is.

by Anonymousreply 61August 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 Anonymousreply 62August 22, 2023 4:44 AM

"It was to save the cost of laundering the suits"

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by Anonymousreply 63August 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 Anonymousreply 64August 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 Anonymousreply 65August 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 Anonymousreply 66August 22, 2023 1:23 PM

I’ll be sure to do my windmills so I get my respect.

by Anonymousreply 67August 22, 2023 2:17 PM
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