Particularly since “bathing” pools in “bathhouses” were the earliest incarnation of these facilities. A 1938 bulletin issued by the american public health association reads People who didn’t experience boys swimming naked in the ymca and in many physical education programs in the public and private schools in the us find it hard to believe that this was done
Ymca Swimming Classes
Yet this was the practice
Boys swam naked in the ymcas, in boys clubs, and in school physical education classes from the time pools were first installed in these institutions in the late 19th century.
Remember when swimsuits weren't allowed A history of nude swimming while it might be unbelievable today, boys were once required to swim nude at ymca pools — yet some recall the experience with no shame. 1 families were allowed to come to our mide swim meets My mother and sisters, and other mothers and daughters all came to our high school swim meets where we all swam naked.
A ymca policy used to require swimming in the nude Find out how long the policy lasted and why it ended. After i interviewed mecurio, i called my old ymca, spoke to the senior property manager, and asked why we weren’t required to swim nude back in the ‘70s After all, our y was in an old mansion built at the turn of the last century, and surely that pool had the same limitations.
As best as i can determine, nude swimming was the official policy of the ymca since its inception in the 1840s, both in america and canada
