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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nude swimming? That was really a thing?? Why couldn’t people wear bathing suits? [/quote] The widespread development of public swimming pools, often through YMCAs, pre-dated the development of synthetic fiber swimsuits by four or five decades. So there was a lot of concern early on about the fibers clogging filters. Apparently they looked around and decided that boys did not need to be wearing them. (Girls, for the most part, were thought to require more modesty.) This tradition then just held on. TMI, but swimming nude is *soooo* much nicer. (Not that I would have been thrilled to do it in middle school, but I probably would have just adapted, like everyone else did.)[/quote]
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