This little known historical fact seems incredible or outrageous to modern American sensibilities, but America's strapping young lads used to grow up swimming in the buff.
Young men were expected to conform and not complain about their privacy. The prevailing masculine ideal of the time viewed modesty with suspicion or even contempt.
No skimpy speedos, swim trunks, or even underwear and usually no hair caps or swim goggles. courses, and even at well-attended swim team meets, totally, bollocks naked. swam in YMCA pools, at countryside swimming holes, in high school and college phys. For several decades in the 20th century, young men in the U.S.
