A question for geezer guys born in the 40s and 50s.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

11. A friend of mine, a year older than me,

(he was born in 1947, I in 1948) thinks his P.E. swimming class with the boys all swimming naked was more than fine. I'm totally appalled. Okay, so my high school did not have a pool, which is a bit of a factor, but perhaps more to the point until this topic came up a few years ago, I had NO idea that high school swimming classes involved nude swimming for the guys. And why the guys only and not the girls? What am I missing here? Why was nude swimming EVER ok? Why the boys and not the girls?

As to the OP's mention of germs being an issue, I can pretty much guarantee the girls were not required to swim nude, and their bathing suits were a bit more covering than the guys' bathing suits. So the germ explanation is, and was even then, total bullshit. I kind of wonder who exactly wanted to be looking at naked males.