ZephyrHawk
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- Feb 15, 2007
I think my school has a pool now. It got remodeled about 10 years back.
My high school had a pool but what freaks most people out: We were required to swim naked. This was early 70s and I have no clue why that was the case. Seems like it might have had something to do with storing wet swim trunks...but then the girls didn't have to swim naked, just the guys. So what did the girls do with their wet swimsuits? When I talked to some people who went to the same school a couple of years after me I ask and they say they wore suits, so it must have changed shortly after I graduated.
what??? Geez was Jerry Sandusky your swimming coach??
what??? Geez was Jerry Sandusky your swimming coach??
I'll summarize my previous note, and say it's because no one could think of a reason why they should wear suits, especially since being nude in showers, particularly in the military, was expected of young men.Joking aside, it wasn't particularly uncommon for boys' swimming classes to require the boys to swim in the buff, back in the day. I have no idea why (probably storing wet swimwear), but more than one older fellow has told me that was the case when they were in high school.
My high school had a pool but what freaks most people out: We were required to swim naked. This was early 70s and I have no clue why that was the case. Seems like it might have had something to do with storing wet swim trunks...but then the girls didn't have to swim naked, just the guys. So what did the girls do with their wet swimsuits? When I talked to some people who went to the same school a couple of years after me I ask and they say they wore suits, so it must have changed shortly after I graduated.
what??? Geez was Jerry Sandusky your swimming coach??
it was considered the norm for men and boys to swim naked. Such was the case at the YMCA my father, brother, and I attended. Nobody gave it a second thought
we had no air conditioning!