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Swimming baths" and pools were built in the late 19th century in poorer neighborhoods of northern industrial cities of the US to exert some control over a public swimming culture that offended Victorian sensibilities by including not only nakedness, but roughhousing and swearing. Such behavior had become an issue in the 18th century, but laws prohibiting public indecency had little effect. Naked swimmers from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to New York City, mostly boys and young men, ignored the laws and sometimes flaunted themselves intentionally in view of more upper class passers-by. [1] :9–10 In 1920, a review of swimming pools found similar concerns for hygiene at the collegiate level. "In men's pools, where bathing suits are not ordinarily worn," inspection of swimmers was done by attendants to see that a thorough preliminary shower was taken. [51] Questioning and decline of nudity [ edit ]

a b c Manheimer, Wallace A. (1940-01-01). "Reducing Health Hazards in the Swimming Pool". The Journal of Health and Physical Education. 11 (1): 25–63. doi: 10.1080/23267240.1940.10623710 . Retrieved 2023-07-07. Rules Girls Must Wear Swim Suits: School Board at Detroit Acts After Mothers Protest". Iowa City Press Citizen. Highland Park, Michigan. January 15, 1947. p.1 . Retrieved 2022-04-29. Craig, H. W. (1941). "Safety and Hygiene in the School Swimming Pool". The Journal of Health and Physical Education. 12 (4): 242–279. doi: 10.1080/23267240.1941.10620207. ISSN 2326-7240 . Retrieved 2022-10-29. Swimming Classes - Iowa State College Pool". Ames Daily Tribune. 1939-06-13. p.3 . Retrieved 2022-10-13. During the transition to gender equality, attempts were made to retain male nudity by limiting access to the pool by women to certain hours, but since they had full membership, this plan was deemed discriminatory. [25] Boy's clubs [ edit ]

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a b Hopkins, Charles Howard (1951). History of the Y.M.C.A. in North America. Association Press . Retrieved November 3, 2022.

Taylor, Wayne G (1947). A Survey of the Requirements in Physical Education for Boys in Region One of the Utah State Athletic Association (Thesis). Utah State University. By the 1950s, new developments in pool chlorination, filtration, and nylon swimsuits led to the gradual elimination of nudity from recommendations for pool sanitation. [52] The APHA abandoned its recommendation of nude swimming for males in 1962. [28] However, the custom did not immediately cease, the rationale switching from hygiene to the cost savings and maintaining a tradition of male behavior. [53] [54] [55] [56] Outside the United States during the same time period, the issues of hygiene were recognized, but close supervision of swimmers and control of bathing suits was an alternative to nudity. In Canada, public health recommendations allowed for suits, but nudity was recommended in pools used exclusively by men. [20] In England, it was recommended that suits for both men and women be inspected and stored by the facility. [21] Public pools [ edit ] Young Men's Christian Association [ edit ] Male nude swimming remained a common practice in the Midwest and Northeast through the 1950s, but declined in the 1960s due to technological and social changes. After the passage of Title IX in 1972, requiring gender equality in physical education, most schools found mixed-gender use of swimming pools to be the easiest means of compliance. A generation later, nude swimming in public pools as a widespread practice was forgotten, and in the 21st century sometimes denied having existed. Gage, Stephen (1926). "Swimming Pools and Other Public Bathing Places". American Journal of Public Health. 16 (12): 1186–1201. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.16.12.1186. PMC 1321491. PMID 18012021.When I was eight years old, in 1983, my parents sent me off to a nudist camp; not a camp for adults who voluntarily chose nudism as a lifestyle, but a summer camp for young boys where nudity was encouraged. At Timberlake, nestled in the woodlands of Vermont, boys swam in the nude, slept in the nude, even played Whiffle ball in the nude. Craig, H. W. (1941). "Safety and Hygiene in the School Swimming Pool". The Journal of Health and Physical Education. 12 (4): 242–279. doi: 10.1080/23267240.1941.10620207. ISSN 2326-7240 . Retrieved 2023-07-23. BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! - The Magazine will be officially launched at the "BOYS! BOYS! BOYS!" exhibition at Fahey Klein Gallery in Los Angeles from June 10 -- June 30. There will be further events worldwide including during Photo London in September. Swim Schdule Set by Recreation Department". Sheboygan Press. 1961-06-09. p.2 . Retrieved 2022-10-12.

In 1966 and 1967, the Manitowoc, Wisconsin Recreation Department held evening recreational swimming utilizing school pools, families on Tuesdays, women on Wednesdays. On Thursdays, part of the session was for fathers and sons, while the final hour was for men only. Women were supplied suits if they did not bring their own; for men and boys, suits were "permitted...those wishing to wear trunks must bring their own". Children's classes were on Saturday, with separate sessions by age and sex. Only girls were required to bring a suit. [49] :12 [50] :29 Colleges and universities [ edit ]Manheimer, Wallace A. (1914). "Studies on the Sanitation of Swimming Pools". The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 15 (1): 159–186. doi: 10.1093/infdis/15.1.159. hdl: 2027/nnc2.ark:/13960/t3xs6gg9m. ISSN 0022-1899. JSTOR 30073404 . Retrieved 2023-07-07. Inside Recreation Calendar Is Announced by Department". Sheboygan Press. 1953-11-11. p.6 . Retrieved 2022-10-11. In 1935 the school superintendent in Pontiac, Michigan approved nude swim classes for boys in high school, saying it recalled "the days of the old swimming hole". [29] In 1940 a New York City school official continued to favor boys wearing bathing suits only in pools visible to both sexes. Girls were issued cotton suits that could be boiled to disinfect them between uses; the wool suits used by boys could not because they would shrink and lose their shape. [17] In addition, fibers from wool swimsuits could clog pool filters. [28] Swim classes were advocated not only for exercise, but as a recreational activity that, once learned, could become a lifelong pursuit. The swim classes were also looked upon as an opportunity to teach children proper hygiene. [17] a b Mrs. Richard J. Jarvis (June 22, 1954). "Know Your Schools: Recreation Department Conducts Eleven-Day Swimming Instruction Course At Central H. S. Pool". The Sheboygan Press. p.10. The Naturist Society's Bibliography of non-fiction works (includes academic papers on children and nudity)