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Subject: The Double Standard


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Nathalie
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Date Posted: 03:36:54 10/14/25 Tue
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Stumbling upon this forum has been such an eye opener. I am a mom of a now 19 years old boy. When he was around 9 or 10, I used to take him to a local sports club for soccer practice. After the end of a session, the boys would take a shower. During this time some of the moms would go into the boys shower room to help them out a little, or some of us would just go there to chat with other moms. The boys would all range from 8 to 10, as the session was divided into age groups. I guess it wasn't a big deal that we moms saw the boys naked, as nobody cared. But it was also pretty common for girls, like sisters, or players from the girls team, to be in the boys shower room. Some of these girls would be older, younger or the same age as the boys, and would see the boys totally naked. There were times when I even saw girls from my son's grade. But it never happened the other way around as dads or boys never went into the girls shower. At the time it was so normal and nobody cared about it, but looking back, it was definitely a double standard. Nobody just thought about giving boys privacy until much older compared to girls. Other scenarios also come to mind. When I used to go to the beach with my friends or sisters, we usually would have a mixed group of boys and girls children. When it was time to leave, we would make the boys upto aged 10 or below drop their trunks to wash of the sand and get changed. This was done openly. The boys would just stand butt naked for some time in full view of their girl cousins and friends, and it was totally casual. But I can't remember ever that a girl would get undressed this openly past the toddler age. They would only change privately in the stalls if those were available like us adults. Back then I never thought twice about it, maybe because I only have a son. I guess would thought about it more if he had a sister. It's not like we had any strict rules or something, it's just how things were. The boys became more private only around 11 or 12, and that is when we respected their privacy. But until then, I guess we moms just didn't thought about their modesty. Boys would also get bathed by moms alot older compared to girls. My son could wash himself by 8, by I still bathed him irregularly until about 10 or 11, until he asked for privacy. Oh and of course there was peeing openly 🤣

So from my experience of raising kids, the double standard for girls and boys nudity was definitely a thing. It was just so casual and only reading this forum made me look back and think. What do you people think??

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Anon
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Date Posted: 04:43:31 10/14/25 Tue
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For me, it was same for summer at home, ages 8-12, every single year, like what you described.

I remember I would just casually walk from the house to the backyard pool completely naked. Nobody batted an eye. No rush to get dressed either. We would stay naked after swimming naked too if we felt like it.

We'd be sitting there playing video games, naked as the day, while my mom and her friends or my older sister and her high school friends would be hanging around like this was completely normal summer behavior.

The girls our age would be in swim bottoms, and go back to the bathroom to change again. Meanwhile I am running around the yard, climbing trees, eating lunch naked.

On weekends there was even less structure and we could just play and eat without mom worrying about it much, and I'd do more of the same. I might go out to the pool at 10am and just stay naked playing in the sun until dinner time. Sometimes friends would come over and join in - their moms would drop them off, see me naked in the yard.

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[> [> Subject: Re: The Double Standard


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Nathalie
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Date Posted: 06:11:31 10/14/25 Tue
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That's interesting. Our boys never randomly hung around naked though, like playing video games naked or stuff. At most just walking around naked for a little while after a having bath but that's about it. Unusually they only got naked in appointment times, like when getting changed or washed. I already talked about scenarios like in the club shower and the beach. Other scenarios would include stuff like me bathing my son with the door open, and a guest, for example, my friend with her daughter would come to visit and they would just stand at the door and chat until we are finished. Obviously in such a case my friend and her girl would get a good look at my son lol. But he didn't mind and I didn't care. Whenever we would visit one of my sisters, I would always wash him with the door open, so in full view of his aunts and girl cousins. Same thing would happen with his other boy cousins as well. Another scenario would be when the whole family had get togethers in our parents house in the countryside. They have a big yard. Now the boys wouldn't just randomly hung naked there. But a lot of the times we moms would wash our boys outside, so naked in totally open, as there's only a couple of bathrooms but there would be a lot people then. Of course none of these scenarios happened with the girls. They were given total privacy past toddler age. For boys these types of scenarios would continue for 10, maybe 11, but after that the boys generally asked for privacy. Nobody enforced these scenarios btw, it's just how it was for us simply put. It was so casual that I didn't even think that it was a double standard back then, and only realizing now looking back lol.

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Marie
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Date Posted: 11:21:52 10/14/25 Tue
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This struck a little nerve with me because of an experience I had only once as a teacher.
A colleague was on sick from work one day and I was asked to step in to supervise his class (aged 8/9) for PE. To my surprise I was told it would be ok for me to supervise the boys in the showers! The girls were mature enough to not need a teacher in there. It would never have been permitted for a male teacher to watch the girls!

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[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: The Double Standard


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Nathalie
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Date Posted: 14:42:52 10/14/25 Tue
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The idea of girls being more mature definitely plays into all this. Now I think part of this idea is because it's actually true, girls are usually more mature than boys. A particular example that's coming to my mind right now: when my son was about 10, I was about to give him a bath, we just got inside the bathroom and just then a friend of mine came to pay a surprise visit. She was with her daughter who is my son's age and in the same grade. They stood at the door and we all chatted while I washed my son. My son wasn't at all bothered that he was standing butt naked in front of a girl his age, with everything there for her to see this whole time lol. He just chatted casually like us. Now thinking about the opposite scenario, like me and my boy standing and talking in front of the bathroom while my friend washing the girl, I just can't even imagine it, the girl herself would have never allowed this. So yeah it is true from my experience that girls are more mature than boys about these things. However, I think there's another thing as well, that girls also get encouraged by the moms be more modest. That's why they become body conscious from such an early age. But that's not the case with boys. Not that I remember we moms encouraged the boys to be naked or something, but we just didn't care about their modesty until they themselves asked for. For example, when we visited beaches and it was time to leave, we won't bother taking the boys to changing stalls or anything. We would just make them stand, pull down their trunks, give them a little wash and then give them fresh clothes to wear, all this in open. But for the girls, we would take them to changing stalls with us, and if unavailable, the moms would tell just them change after going home like the adults. This different behavior towards boys and girls definitely played a big part in shaping their mindsets.

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stevem552001
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Date Posted: 03:04:46 10/15/25 Wed
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Nathalie,in my day, we boys up to age 12 swam nude at the YMCA, and the Olympic size pool had bleachers along the side for spectators to watch practice or competitions. The spectators were mostly moms, since at that time there were more stay at home moms, but it included siblings as well, and yes, siblings definitely included sisters, as well as sisters' friends who might have come along for the entertainment. The double standard was absolute in those times (1960s).

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Nathalie
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Date Posted: 06:14:25 10/15/25 Wed
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The double standard still exists I guess. Maybe not to the extent it used to in those times, as nobody really randomly hangs out naked now. But as I have mentioned so many scenarios, it definitely still exists to a lesser extent from my experience. Or at least it still did about 8-9 years ago when my boy was a kid.

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Marie
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Date Posted: 12:22:46 10/15/25 Wed
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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: The Double Standard


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Adam
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Date Posted: 19:01:20 10/16/25 Thu
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My experience was a little different than Steve at Y. During the summers, I swam in a college program that was more of a comprehensive conditioning camp, incorporating weights and running in addition to pool time from 13-17.

There was a clear double standard, even in our all-boys class. Our assigned swim time was at 7 a.m. when the gym was supposed to be empty. Practice was always nude, and completely normal. The only other person typically there was a female college volunteer who organized schedules and events. Our sessions often ran late, sometimes by 30 minutes, overlapping with the pool's public opening. We just got used to the lack of modesty and would finish our practice while the other lanes started to fill.

After swimming, we had a 30-minute break before weights or calisthenics. We’d walk down a 100-foot hallway to the showers to rinse off the chlorine. The immodesty really continued in the locker room. It wasn't unusual for a few college girls to come into the men's room to use the stalls, or for mothers to bring their young sons in for the next class. A few teens girls were in with younger brother too. On occasion younger girls showered too. It was hippie times and uncool to complain about that.

What surprised me at first, though, wasn't the lack of privacy. It was that you could do the calisthenics nude and team required meets nude to show more confidence.

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Cal
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Date Posted: 18:39:07 10/17/25 Fri
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My double standard was really quite simple.

When under 11 or so when ever we went to beach my mom kept me naked even though I had sister 5 and 7 years older than me dressed. When close to 11 sisters were not around much any more though.

This started early when my friend my age went naked and I just kept doing it and enjoyed it. Sometimes I still dream about it and being naked on beach mile from car with no clothes.

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CH
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Date Posted: 10:48:52 10/18/25 Sat
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I have a very similar experience

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: The Double Standard


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Tor
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Date Posted: 11:16:04 10/18/25 Sat
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For me, I was more like some described.

I was raised in small community. I was friends with a boy and girl nearby and boy was naked often. I was closer firends with girl and we went everywhere together. I fianlly asked why boy was naked and girl got her mom. They explained they were raising boy naked as healthy and I should too. I thought my mom would get mad but she really was indifferent and said do same at home too.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: The Double Standard


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Rorry
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Date Posted: 07:13:50 10/19/25 Sun
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Back in the day, you'd hear talk about a 'double standard,' I suppose. Folks treated girls a little differently, and left them on a pedestal you could say.

Didn't matter much to me, though. I grew up playing with the same boys and girls in the neighborhood, and that was just how it was. The girls were usually in homemade sundresses and sandals, and us boys ran around in shorts and t-shirts.

In a backyard pool, nobody wore much of anything. It was out at the lake where you'd notice it more. We'd spend the day drifting on a big pontoon boat, and all the little kids would skinny-dip. But once you got to be about eight or so, the girls would get modest, and it was just the boys jumping in and spending day naked. It was no big deal, though; we were all just having fun.

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Tor
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Date Posted: 17:21:27 10/20/25 Mon
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I think it was seen as healthy and easier to to take care of when warm. It was only at home and lakes though.

I did but never saw much objection but certainly a different time.

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Nathalie
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Date Posted: 07:44:50 10/19/25 Sun
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So nudity for boys was seen as healthy?? That's interesting! As much as nudity of boys upto a certain age was common in my family and culture, I don't think any of my friends or sisters thought that it had any added benefit. I guess the closest thing to any benefit was for us boy moms, as a lot of the times things would be much easier for us than for girl moms. For example if boys need to get changed, you don't need to find any private place for them as you can make them naked anywhere. If they need to pee, no need to find any public bathrooms, they can pee anywhere. And let's just say we boy moms always took full advantage of this lol

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curious to Nathalie
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Date Posted: 10:12:38 10/19/25 Sun
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>So nudity for boys was seen as healthy?? That's
>interesting! As much as nudity of boys upto a certain
>age was common in my family and culture, I don't think
>any of my friends or sisters thought that it had any
>added benefit. I guess the closest thing to any
>benefit was for us boy moms, as a lot of the times
>things would be much easier for us than for girl moms.
>For example if boys need to get changed, you don't
>need to find any private place for them as you can
>make them naked anywhere. If they need to pee, no need
>to find any public bathrooms, they can pee anywhere.
>And let's just say we boy moms always took full
>advantage of this lol

in what way did you moms take "full advantage of this lol"? like, what "advantage" is there by having your son naked? did you always oversee your son going pee when he was naked? i'm not being critical, just curious.

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Nathalie
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Date Posted: 11:22:36 10/19/25 Sun
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I was talking about taking advantage of the situations. Like for example, if we are outside and my kid needs to pee. Now if I had a girl, it's a hassle, I would now have to look for a public bathroom. But since I have a boy, it is a lot easier, I can just tell him to pee by the side of the road. No hassle! This is the advantage I was talking about. I explained this in the reply too, so not sure what are you curious about.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: The Double Standard


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Tor
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Date Posted: 15:09:28 10/21/25 Tue
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I think people today find the topic scandalous but every summer as a boy I saw a dozen boys play naked off and on and more at beaaches. Girls saw penises all summer and grew up well adjusted.

Maybe I was slightly embarassed when closer to 12 and told to what younger boys swim n ocean and still played naked but, I also got over it quickly as place was rural and no one said much of anything about it.

It was a gift to your mom to stop washing clothes.

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Trent
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Date Posted: 01:00:45 11/02/25 Sun
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My double standard was in a gym too!!! lol

When a teen years ago we did training year round in different activities. When weightlifting a bit older, I would take nude swim afterwards or sit in sauna for 20 minutes often.

There was boys with moms in mens room most days. A few girls showered with dads when under 9. One of the female coaches entered boys room all the time

It used to be a boy thing to hang out naked sometimes. We would sit on edge of pool and talk sometimes too for an hour after done.

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[> Subject: Re: The Double Standard


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Gnome
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Date Posted: 07:41:05 10/26/25 Sun
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I saw the same thing as Nathalie when 17-20, like her boys experiencing the double standard though.

I was A student in modest community and got free tuition to state college. Since I was still 17 I went to nearest univesrity instead of "best" in state as was done with HS and no connections that far away. I did not want to be in a dorm, as grew up in tough environment and did not really want to be around my peers, so before schools started with a few thousand I drove to area and look for place and job 20 minutes from the college. After no success, I went to nearby community gym. I immediately knew the older woman at the front desk and told her my situation and she offered me a cubicle to study and said I could work there for min wage part time, and even found apartment in rust belt that saw batter days. I just avoid classes after 3pm. While I did sports after school against this team and they were good but did not know them well though.

I got thrown in immediately since they knew me and they got me a lifegard cert, had me do soccer coaching, and monitor weight room most days for several hours. This was long time ago with a double standard not seen today though. Kids I watch were 7-13, and older boys group 13-17. Gym had huge pool nice weight room, and biys room was down hallway with no door to open big rectangle with open showers and sinks and lockers.

Pool rules had hygeine very important and boys did not wear suits still in late 70s. There was also mens swim hours in AM that was nude.

I couched lifeguarded and helped out with kids all I could and was well liked. I never saw so much double standard tough.

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[> [> Subject: Re: The Double Standard


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Nathalie
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Date Posted: 04:39:00 10/27/25 Mon
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That's so interesting! Nowadays I don't really see kids swimming or playing naked anywhere, whether boys or girls. Even when my son was a boy, so like 9 or 10 years ago, most kids at least wear swimsuits while swimming. It is only when changing swimsuits, bathing etc. where you get see the double standard between boys and girls. Even today when I go to beaches I see majority of the young boys get changed openly. As for locker rooms, I had said how girls of any age would come inside the boys shower room if it was a session for just young boys, but it was the case about 8-9 years ago and I don't know if it still happens today. I don't have much to talk about from my own childhood though. I grew up with girls and without brothers or boy cousins close to my age. And my friend group only had girls as I went to a all girls institute. I don't really remember whether boys swam or played naked back then or not. I asked my sister the other day about this and she said it used to be much more common for boys to be randomly naked when we were kids than it is now. I guess since it was a normal sight, I never paid any extra attention during childhood and so now I don't have any memory about it. All my memories of this double standard are about my son and his peers. I think the double standard still totally exist, and it's the standards of nudity that has changed

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Gnome
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Date Posted: 14:44:29 10/27/25 Mon
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I can understand your curiosity if you never experienced this! When I grew up, you might see boys nude occasionally or even boys, and girls. No one got offended and you might chuckle and move on. Now I would not do the same of course. I had one neigbor, whose boy played outside on warm days and might be seen. Nothing was ever said of it, as it was normal for time.

As for the gym near college, I always swam nude and told to join other boys. Some wore a suit at mens hours in am. The double standard was not minded much by boys and common to see. You would shower and walk across hall to pool nude and way it was. After class instructor, in blue one piece and moms would go in and talk to boys changing. So swim class was hour or ninety mins and then rinse off to warm up. Sometimes we had classes back to back and I stayed nude for both. There was horse play after gym too of course and it was mostly let to happen for bit before told to go change.

The part that was never seen anymore though in summer we month long day summer camp and nudity was common during day in field too. It was boys only group though.

I did see dozens of things you would never see today.

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Nathalie
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Date Posted: 04:00:19 10/28/25 Tue
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I understand. It's also seems like nudity continued for boys much older than it did for my boy and his peers or cousins. I stopped bathing my son permanently when he was about 11 or so I think, when he declared that he would only bath alone from now on. It's usually the age our boys start asking for privacy, and so after that I gave him full privacy. I don't think after turning into a teenager he ever got naked in any public or open place even for a quick change. But here I see people talk about all the time how nudity wasn't a big for boys well into their teenage years like 15 or 16 or so.

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Date Posted: 04:58:33 10/29/25 Wed
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I think you are absolutely right and I respect your decision to ensure your son's privacy after entering puberty. However, children continue to be under parental control and parents are delegated the right to make decisions on behalf of their children until puberty. Until then, children of this age are considered minors and dependents. Therefore, complex privacy laws do not apply to them. Therefore, parents have the right, and sometimes are obliged (due to medical regulations) to accompany and attend examinations and cheks, involving partial or complete nudity including in their private area.
In this sense, have you ever seen your son naked for reasons beyond his or your control after entering puberty, and if so how did he accept these events.

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Nathalie
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Date Posted: 09:59:05 10/29/25 Wed
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I stopped going inside the room with my son for medical exams after I started to give him privacy. Since he started puberty, I haven't seen him fully naked, other than accidental nudity on a few occasions, which happens when you live together. But I think accidental nudity doesn't count anyway. So no I haven't seen my son properly naked since he hit puberty.

The closest thing to nudity in front of me after puberty would be him openly peeing in front me. Out of all the nudity things I have mentioned in other replys, peeing openly is the only thing boys here continued to do a couple of years after hitting puberty. (By openly peeing I mean not being discreet when peeing. Of course even adults sometimes pee outside, but they do so discreetly in a hidden place). For example, my son didn't bother to close the bathroom door if he needed to pee. Or if we are outside and if he needed to go, he would just go anywhere. When we stayed at his grandparents, the boys would only pee in the yard lol. This continued even after puberty, like until 13 or maybe even 14 for my son. So if this counts, it's the one anomaly and the closest thing to nudity that continued after puberty age.

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Gnome
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Date Posted: 01:35:49 10/30/25 Thu
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I used to swim out to a floating dock and sun and swim back put shorts back on and ride bikes when a boy all the time. At that public spot I stopped around 12 I guess.

Most nudity I saw though was at that gym being college assistant for boys. Like you mentioned moms, and sisters would enter boys room before and after activties. When I was still 17 I joined olders boy class there in late afternoon, and other times I was assistant for other classes. Saturday AM was usually mens hours too but not enforced and some women swam too towards end of period.

I would not see any people from college use gym, but often saw a teen girl my age watching a younger boy in boys room. I would shower when she was around often and she was obviously enjoying situation.

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Sean
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Date Posted: 14:52:29 10/30/25 Thu
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I am trying to remember details of what I saw as a boy.

Like others mentioned I would see boys nude occasionally at a local park playing when girls are clothed. Some were maybe 8ish, I am not sure. I would join them too.

What I saw more often was one girl I played with, had her younger brother often naked at home. After visiting a few time at house the same mom said it is too and take of shorts too, in nice manner. I did of course and they were intentionally raising this boy nude at home. I was 10 when I started doing that too, but not too concerned at that age still.

I still went naked at lakes and beaches till 16 though. Both were remote and few people around and other boys did it too. I was required to go nude on beaches though and always did if other boys were naked. Sometimes there were only a few and sometimes maybe 1/3rd of boys were naked.

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Spelvin
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Date Posted: 09:05:11 11/02/25 Sun
Author Host/IP: 72.78.201.247

So nudity in the home was not only permitted, but mandated!
I have found a few cases similar to this.
What are some possible reasons for such a policy?
There are at least 5 reasons:

----for disciplinary purposes

Tina (2019, Voy 223876) had two brothers whom their mother undressed “to keep them under control.” Although the boys eventually became more accustomed to Tina and her friends seeing them nude, they never stopped having erections.

----for educational purposes

In 2013, when Raymond (2019, Voy 223876) was 13 years old, his 10-year-old sister Joanie was caught viewing pornography.
Their mother determined that the sister’s curiosity should be satisfied.

Their mother undressed Raymond in Joanie’s presence, which gave Raymond an erection.
That brought up another topic.

Mother gave Joanie instructions about handling Raymond’s genitals.
This resulted in an ejaculation, which brought up still another topic.
From then on, Raymond was kept nude at home for Joanie to see, to observe, and ask further questions.

----to alleviate the laundry work

During the coronavirus quarantine, the parents of 13-year-old James (2020, Voy 223876) forced him to stay naked.
Their stated reason was a wish to cut expenses from using of the washing machine.

But there seemed to be another reason.
James was unwilling to comply, partly because he was physically immature.
James’ parents were insensitive to his feelings of immaturity.
His mother insisted that he was “still her baby.”
Both parents teased him by pinching and slapping his rump. When he erected, both parents poked and tickled his penis.

----for everyone else's enjoyment

In 2019, Anton wrote a couple of messages to the Voy 223876 forum, stating that he was an 11-year-old boy living in an apartment with his older sister, his older sister’s friend, and his older sister’s friend’s 12-year-old daughter.

At least Anton’s co-residents were honest about their motives.
He was pressured to appear nude when at home because all three of his co-residents thought he was cute that way.
They often patted him on the rump, which he found degrading.

----as a matter of gender but not age

In the family in which Ken (2020, Voy 223876) grew up, not only the boys but the adult males were nude. The family placed responsibility on the part of the visitors by posting a sign at the front entrance stating that “any males present would be naked and in full view of anyone who entered.”

Ken’s mother had a book club in which some of the women brought their daughters. Ken commented, “I guess they wanted them to enjoy the view and I did not mind giving them that view.”

I wonder what rationale was given by Sean’s hostess.

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Author:
Cute Little Irish Boy
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Date Posted: 16:06:23 03/28/26 Sat
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>So nudity in the home was not only permitted, but
>mandated!
>I have found a few cases similar to this.
>What are some possible reasons for such a policy?
>There are at least 5 reasons:
>
>----for disciplinary purposes
>
>Tina (2019, Voy 223876) had two brothers whom their
>mother undressed “to keep them under control.”
>Although the boys eventually became more accustomed to
>Tina and her friends seeing them nude, they never
>stopped having erections.
>
>----for educational purposes
>
>In 2013, when Raymond (2019, Voy 223876) was 13 years
>old, his 10-year-old sister Joanie was caught viewing
>pornography.
>Their mother determined that the sister’s curiosity
>should be satisfied.
>
>Their mother undressed Raymond in Joanie’s presence,
>which gave Raymond an erection.
>That brought up another topic.
>
>Mother gave Joanie instructions about handling
>Raymond’s genitals.
>This resulted in an ejaculation, which brought up
>still another topic.
>From then on, Raymond was kept nude at home for Joanie
>to see, to observe, and ask further questions.
>
>----to alleviate the laundry work
>
>During the coronavirus quarantine, the parents of
>13-year-old James (2020, Voy 223876) forced him to
>stay naked.
>Their stated reason was a wish to cut expenses from
>using of the washing machine.
>
>But there seemed to be another reason.
>James was unwilling to comply, partly because he was
>physically immature.
>James’ parents were insensitive to his feelings of
>immaturity.
>His mother insisted that he was “still her baby.”
>Both parents teased him by pinching and slapping his
>rump. When he erected, both parents poked and tickled
>his penis.
>
>----for everyone else's enjoyment
>
>In 2019, Anton wrote a couple of messages to the Voy
>223876 forum, stating that he was an 11-year-old boy
>living in an apartment with his older sister, his
>older sister’s friend, and his older sister’s
>friend’s 12-year-old daughter.
>
>At least Anton’s co-residents were honest about
>their motives.
>He was pressured to appear nude when at home because
>all three of his co-residents thought he was cute that
>way.
>They often patted him on the rump, which he found
>degrading.
>
>----as a matter of gender but not age
>
>In the family in which Ken (2020, Voy 223876) grew up,
>not only the boys but the adult males were nude. The
>family placed responsibility on the part of the
>visitors by posting a sign at the front entrance
>stating that “any males present would be naked and
>in full view of anyone who entered.”
>
>Ken’s mother had a book club in which some of the
>women brought their daughters. Ken commented, “I
>guess they wanted them to enjoy the view and I did not
>mind giving them that view.”
>
>I wonder what rationale was given by Sean’s hostess.


This reminds me a lot of what happened to me as a kid I would always have my privates tickled 🤗 and kissed 💋 by old relatives. Also being naked at a nudist beach 🏖️ ⛱️ or a Forest campground 🏕️ my mom would always put lots of sunscreen over my naked pale body making sure to rub it in all over my skin living the best part for last 🍆 and she would do the same thing again with liquid aloe before bed.

p.s. I went in more detail in another post feel fee to take it for your archive Spelvin

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Author:
curiouys to Cute Little Irish Boy
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Date Posted: 09:49:32 03/30/26 Mon
Author Host/IP: 24.57.206.80

>>So nudity in the home was not only permitted, but
>>mandated!
>>I have found a few cases similar to this.
>>What are some possible reasons for such a policy?
>>There are at least 5 reasons:
>>
>>----for disciplinary purposes
>>
>>Tina (2019, Voy 223876) had two brothers whom their
>>mother undressed “to keep them under control.”
>>Although the boys eventually became more accustomed to
>>Tina and her friends seeing them nude, they never
>>stopped having erections.
>>
>>----for educational purposes
>>
>>In 2013, when Raymond (2019, Voy 223876) was 13 years
>>old, his 10-year-old sister Joanie was caught viewing
>>pornography.
>>Their mother determined that the sister’s curiosity
>>should be satisfied.
>>
>>Their mother undressed Raymond in Joanie’s presence,
>>which gave Raymond an erection.
>>That brought up another topic.
>>
>>Mother gave Joanie instructions about handling
>>Raymond’s genitals.
>>This resulted in an ejaculation, which brought up
>>still another topic.
>>From then on, Raymond was kept nude at home for Joanie
>>to see, to observe, and ask further questions.
>>
>>----to alleviate the laundry work
>>
>>During the coronavirus quarantine, the parents of
>>13-year-old James (2020, Voy 223876) forced him to
>>stay naked.
>>Their stated reason was a wish to cut expenses from
>>using of the washing machine.
>>
>>But there seemed to be another reason.
>>James was unwilling to comply, partly because he was
>>physically immature.
>>James’ parents were insensitive to his feelings of
>>immaturity.
>>His mother insisted that he was “still her baby.”
>>Both parents teased him by pinching and slapping his
>>rump. When he erected, both parents poked and tickled
>>his penis.
>>
>>----for everyone else's enjoyment
>>
>>In 2019, Anton wrote a couple of messages to the Voy
>>223876 forum, stating that he was an 11-year-old boy
>>living in an apartment with his older sister, his
>>older sister’s friend, and his older sister’s
>>friend’s 12-year-old daughter.
>>
>>At least Anton’s co-residents were honest about
>>their motives.
>>He was pressured to appear nude when at home because
>>all three of his co-residents thought he was cute that
>>way.
>>They often patted him on the rump, which he found
>>degrading.
>>
>>----as a matter of gender but not age
>>
>>In the family in which Ken (2020, Voy 223876) grew up,
>>not only the boys but the adult males were nude. The
>>family placed responsibility on the part of the
>>visitors by posting a sign at the front entrance
>>stating that “any males present would be naked and
>>in full view of anyone who entered.”
>>
>>Ken’s mother had a book club in which some of the
>>women brought their daughters. Ken commented, “I
>>guess they wanted them to enjoy the view and I did not
>>mind giving them that view.”
>>
>>I wonder what rationale was given by Sean’s hostess.
>
>
>This reminds me a lot of what happened to me as a kid
>I would always have my privates tickled 🤗 and
>kissed 💋 by old relatives. Also being naked at a
>nudist beach 🏖️ ⛱️ or a Forest campground
>🏕️ my mom would always put lots of sunscreen over
>my naked pale body making sure to rub it in all over
>my skin living the best part for last 🍆 and she
>would do the same thing again with liquid aloe before
>bed.
>
>p.s. I went in more detail in another post feel fee to
>take it for your archive Spelvin

sounds like it was fun for you back then, what with all of the tickling and such.

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Date Posted: 04:29:39 10/31/25 Fri
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The double standard at gym and especially pool was interesting at time. I just viewed a lack of provacy did not matter in a poll or locker room.

When still 17 I joined boys team as stil eligible by age.Practice was always nude but some people used far lanes during our practice time. Sometimes it was seniors, othertimes it was sisters and brothers waiting on us to finish. A few boys even walked to car naked after practice, and some younger ones played in field naked too when warm enough. I started to do same in summer but stopped to avoid trouble but no one ever said anything.

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Date Posted: 19:12:37 11/01/25 Sat
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Just out or curiosity, Nathalie, does your son still see the girl cousins and friends who used to see him at the beach, or the girl who stood at the bathroom door and watched you bathe your son with her mother, and if so, does the subject of his nudity in his younger years ever become a subject of discussion?

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Date Posted: 05:08:08 11/02/25 Sun
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Yes, he still sees the girls who used to see him naked at the beach, or naked in the bath. Most of these girls are his cousins, or daughters of my friends. I am still close with my sisters and friends, and so when we visit them, or they visit us, our kids see each other. And our kids also have a good relationship with each other.

As for whether or not the stories of my son's nudity gets brought up in discussions, well normally no, it does not get brought up. Because back then it was just normal for us. And all the boys in my family got openly changed and bathed up to a certain age, not just my son. So I guess we just don't see it worth discussing, because it was just a casual thing and nothing else. Unless of course we actually have a reason to talk about it. For example, after I discovered this forum, I wanted to actually talk about the topic of boys nudity with my friends and family. So afterwards when I visited one of my sister's house, I brought this topic up and then we discussed about it. But in typical casual discussons, this is not a topic that gets brought up.

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Date Posted: 04:09:12 11/04/25 Tue
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In past the away team used to use the opposite sex change room before sports games. When in highschool I did this almost weekly. Girls would still come in to use stalls to pee all the time. We would intentionally strip and walk around naked and shower longer than needed to entertain these brave girls. A few girls did change while in there too but much more discrete than us.

I was shocked and first and then amused. I never thoguht much of it at time but would be huge deal in some parts of US. We chatted with them and got hard sometimes. Doubt they came to see the game really.

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Date Posted: 17:29:18 10/31/25 Fri
Author Host/IP: 72.78.201.247

It has often been said that forced nudity on the boys could curb the boys’ misbehavior, especially misbehavior toward the girls.

This could be because the boys then did not want to be noticed by the girls. Alex (2018, Voy 223876) wrote, “When a few girls were around us I tried to turn the front part in an opposite direction.”

It could also be because the boys regarded their nudity as humiliating. Veteran assistant swim coach Lena (2017, dead link) wrote, “They were nice and did not have so much attitude as boys have now sometimes.”

It could also be because the boys regarded their nudity as a sign of immaturity. Joe (2019, Voy 223876) wrote that “our bare bottoms could always be swatted. We were still ‘little boys’ who needed to learn how to behave and needed more care.”

However, in the case of high school swim meets, the boys might have seen the institution as a mating ritual, or at least a rehearsal for a mating ritual, and believed that a feeling of reverence was in order.

Or, if you hold a naturalistic philosophy, you may contend that the boys are returning to the blissful state which Nature intended.

But are NM’s always agreeable in the presence of CF’s? I have found a few exceptions:

---A negative reaction to boys’ nudity from the girls could encourage teasing.

Curious (2021, Voy 206801) remembers a 12-year-old boy “who would often take out his penis and shake it in front of the girls to tease them.”

----The question could depend on the cultural standards of modesty.

If you call up some pictures of the Tukano tribe of Colombia, you may find that the children are not exactly nude but not exactly bundled up.

Reichel-Dolmatoff & Reichel-Dolmatoff (1961: 96) note “a certain tendency to exhibitionism” in 2- to 5-year-old boys of the Tukano tribe of Colombia. The boys hold contests to see who can urinate the farthest. They also tease girls by trying to urinate on the girls’ clothes.

----A game could be set with CF’s and NM’s on each side.

In 2017, I went on the 202532 forum with the same question which I am asking now. B. Williams responded that the boys in his community did not feel self-conscious:

“We never even thought about the girls being around, we primarily focused on having fun and being naked was part of the fun.”

The boys and the girls did not segregate themselves:

“I remember playing games in the pool with them. They'd climb up and sit on our shoulders and each boy/girl team tried to unbalance the other team.”

The boys even teased the girls:

“We'd sneak up from behind them and dunk them.”

----United we stand, divided we fall.

Lenora Jones (n. d.) grew up in the 1950’s in rural North Carolina. She did not have a brother, so she requested instruction from the local skinny-dippers. When she asked about the purpose of the testicles, the boys at first ridiculed her for not already knowing, but later explained.

The boys were not bothered by Lenora’s presence. She recalled, “In fact, some would stand right in front of me and not even turn around as they urinated, wherein I'd watch the entire spectacle in amazement.”

The boys also showed contempt toward Lenora’s friends for wearing swim suits. They tried to persuade the girls to take off their suits, but to no avail.

Now let’s turn it around and talk about CMNF instead of CFNM:

After junior high baseball practice, the coach asked Joseph (2023, Voy 206801) to take the bases to the equipment room. The only route to the equipment room was through the girls’ locker room. He was unabashedly watched by the cheerleaders, who were fresh out of the shower.

All twelve cheerleaders rushed to Joseph’s aid when he slipped and fell. Some of the girls helped him back up while some helped him gather up the bases, “not even concerned about their nudity.”

Here's another anecdote:

When Patrick (2023, Voy 206801) attended high school, he was so girl-shy that he could not even talk to a girl without stuttering. “I think girls thought I was kind of cute, because of how harmless I was to them.”

One day during the volleyball season, Patrick stayed after school to tend to some scholastic matters. A girl came to his desk and requested help. When the two neared the girls’ locker room door, another girl came out and joined the first girl in pushing him inside.

There he was greeted by a very saturated, very feminine, and very underclad volleyball team. “Don’t be shy.” “Do you like what you see?”

Patrick concludes, “They knew I was not a threat so they felt empowered.”

So I ask Sean, Anon, Stevem552001, Cal, Tor, Scamptoo, Asher, and any other veteran NM’s: do you remember ever threatening the CF’s in any way?

And I ask Nathalie, Angela, and any other veteran CF’s: do you remember any NM’s ever threatening you in any way?

Jones, L. n. d. Early days at Deep Bottom Hole, Wallace, North Carolina.
https://sites.google.com/site/historicarchives4maleswimming/home

Reichel-Dolmatoff, G. & Reichel-Dolmatoff, A. 1961. The people of Aritama. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Cited in Janssen, D. F. 2002. Growing up sexually. Volume I: World Reference Atlas. Interim report. Amsterdam.
http://www.sexarchive.info/GESUND/ARCHIV/GUS/SOUTHAMERICAOLD.HTM#_Contents_of_Section

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Date Posted: 05:43:11 11/02/25 Sun
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I think in my case, the boys just weren't self-conscious about nudity until a lot older compared to girls. Girls were taught to be more modest, and this idea gets insisted upon them from a much earlier age by parents. Boys on the other hand, nobody cared about their modesty until a lot older, and thus the different standards of nudity. Cultural expectations is what mainly decides I think, and in my case childhood cfnm was the norm. And if I was in a culture where cmnf or nmnf was the standard, then things would have been different. I don't think there was ever any aggression or threat involved in this scenario.

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Date Posted: 17:20:23 11/02/25 Sun
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I never thought of it in those term CFNM or such but I experienced it growing up, except unlike your boys I experienced it into teens.

At a local gym, a younger boys class might sometimes start when I was a teen showering. I would walk past them boys with moms nude to my locker along side them. Also girls our own age would enter to to talk sometimes too. No one seemed to think it was wrong at time and I was accepting of it.

I even remember being at a beach 1/2 mile from car with no clothes. I only did it because younger boys in group did it but after 20 minutes I forgot and enjoyed day. Most boys stop at 12 though I thinkl but not sure.

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Date Posted: 06:26:01 11/03/25 Mon
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Nathalie, I think this is primarily due to differences in parenting styles. Girls' privacy is considered precious, so parents teach them from a young age to protect it from men. However, few parents teach boys to protect their private parts from girls. I remember when I was eight years old in elementary school, I accidentally touched a female classmate's chest. She immediately became very upset and told my mother that girls shouldn't let others see or touch their breasts and genitals, and demanded I apologize immediately. Many girls learn to protect their privacy from a very young age thanks to their parents' upbringing. But in my memory, my parents rarely taught me anything about boys' privacy; they only told me to respect girls' modesty and not to touch them without permission.

I remember one summer when I was 10, my mom took me and her best friend swimming. Her friend had a 10-year-old daughter with her. When we got to the river, she realized she'd forgotten my swimming trunks. She asked if I could swim naked, telling me it used to be normal for boys to swim. Although I had to wear swimming trunks when I started swimming lessons at 9, I still thought swimming naked was acceptable, so I agreed. That afternoon, I swam naked in front of a girl my age. At the time, I didn't think it was a big deal. It wasn't until I was 12 or 13 that I felt a little embarrassed when I thought about it.

The lack of parental education about male modesty in my youth led many boys to not care about exposing their bodies when they were young. This resulted in a huge difference in privacy between boys and girls in school rooms. The boys' restrooms in my elementary and middle schools were quite revealing; the urinals were right at the entrance. When you urinated, your penis was exposed to people outside, and most girls would glance at you as they passed by. The girls' restrooms, on the other hand, were very private, usually at the end of a corridor, and the doors were often closed. I didn't know what the girls' restrooms looked like until graduation, but I believe most girls knew what the boys' restrooms looked like from day one. You could tell how many stalls, sinks, and urinals were just by glancing around on your way to the girls' restroom, and you might even see a boy's penis while he was urinating. The summer camp I attended was the same; the boys' showers had no partitions, so all the boys could see each other naked, and there were relatively few of them. Because of the large number of boys, some had to use the open-air showers. Meanwhile, the female campers told me that the girls' showers were newly built, with more stalls and partitions to protect the girls' privacy. This double standard in the construction of these facilities reinforced the idea that boys' privacy was unimportant, while girls' privacy was precious.

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Date Posted: 10:14:56 11/03/25 Mon
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tim99’s post reminded me of a Websearch on modesty training which I made a few years ago.

I made two major discoveries.

Discovery number one:

----Modesty training is mainly a religious doctrine.
Psychology research has nothig to do with it.

I expected to find controlled studies, published in technical journals, on the benefits of modesty training and instructions on how it should be done.
Rather, nearly every site I could find was a religious site.

Discovery number two:

----It goes without saying that modesty training is important for girls.
However, we must add that modesty training is also important for boys.

I found 8 sites which discussed modesty training for both boys and girls.
12 sites discussed modesty training for girls only.
The double standard was sometimes defended with a quote from I Timothy 2: 9: “In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel…”

One might think that the mother of three boys and one girl would have three times as much to say about the former than the latter.
But one mother (dead link now) didn’t. Except for one sentence, her entire page dealt with latter, except for one sentence, which read:

“(I should note here that we are also teaching our boys to be modest in how they dress and act as well.)”

Notice the parentheses.

2 sites discussed modesty training for boys only.
Although one site was already a dead link, I was able to glean the title, which I found to be quite revealing:
“3 Things I'm Teaching My Boys About Modesty....because it's not all about the women only when it comes to modesty!”
The other page was entitled “Modesty is for boys too.”
Here’s the link:

https://www.walkinginhighcotton.net/2014/08/modesty-is-for-boys-too/?epik=dj0yJnU9WmJBY3FQTDB1eGlYUHpKY1BrdS1UekxCMUFCY3hGbWkmcD0wJm49a1ctY3hlaFBBTUw1WjQ1ZFZ3S1QwdyZ0PUFBQUFBR0FRcEFv

Until this point, all of the sites mentioned have been mainline Christian sites.

I also found a Catholic site:
I was interested in the writer’s informal thought experiment:

“With teens, I use the ads that we are flooded with that show women with practically nothing on, and I ask them if the effect would be the same if the face of the woman of the advertisement was that of their mother. Obviously, the effect is not the same, because their mother is a person they know and love. In this situation, or in others that they themselves have experienced of an intrusion into their privacy, I invite them to tell me what their immediate reaction was. They all answer me without exception that they felt a sense of shame.”

There was no mention of immodesty in men or boys.

Here’s the link:

https://aleteia.org/2018/10/06/how-to-teach-human-dignity-and-modesty-to-kids-from-an-early-age/

There were also found a few Mormon sites.
It seems that the question is not clearly answered in the Mormon scriptures.
In one Website, in which opinions from many Mormon parents are collected, there was a variety of opinions.
Some of those parents decried the double standard:

https://www.timesandseasons.org/harchive/2005/04/teaching-modesty-to-children/

The author of another Mormon site (Allred n. d.), however, did not seem to set the exact same standard for both genders:

“Girls might not recognize that the physical display they create when they dress immodestly affects boys more than it does them. Help children, especially daughters, understand that attracting someone of the opposite sex solely by physical means does not create a lasting relationship.”

Here’s the link on that one:

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2009/07/modesty-a-timeless-principle-for-all/teaching-modesty-to-our-children?lang=eng

Other Mormon adults regard girl modesty as a foregone assumption.
In a Webpage entitled Teaching Modesty to Children (Madison 2020), one would not expect to find any semblance of, or even reaction to, a double standard.
Yet a person quoted on the page (Evans 2020) wrote: “For me, modesty is an attitude that reflects healthy body image. Cultivating this attitude can improve self-esteem in both girls and boys. Yes, boys!”

https://www.cleomadison.com/teaching-modesty-to-children/

The Webpage ended with the words, “If you’re a mom, how did you teach modesty to your daughters? Comment below with your answer.”

I was able to find one secular Website. It was a question-and-answer site, now with a dead link, which a parent of a toddler asked about the subject.
In one of the answers, we again see modesty for girls treated as a unspoken assumption:

“I believe it is very important to teach about modesty. Not only for a girl but also boys.”

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Date Posted: 05:08:21 11/04/25 Tue
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Of course, Spelvin , I agree with your point that modesty is important for boys, but like many things, although it's said to be important online, reality is different. The reality is that most people don't care about boys' modesty , or rather, they think it's less important than girls' modesty . Sacrificing boys' modesty to protect girls is acceptable.

When I was in fourth grade, our classroom moved to a new floor. The girls on that floor said there weren't many stalls in the girls' restroom. Some girls told the teacher that there were sometimes long lines during breaks, and they often couldn't use the restroom during breaks because of the lines. The teacher didn't hesitate to tell the girls that if they really needed to pee but couldn't go into the girls' restroom, they could use the boys' restroom. She also warned us boys that if a girl had to use a boys' stall, we boys must not try to peek in any way. If any girl reported a boy peeping while she was using the restroom, she would immediately call the boy's parents because this wasn't an academic issue, but a serious moral one. However, the teacher never told the girls not to look at boys' private parts when they entered the boys' restroom. As far as I know, girls who have the opportunity to use the men's restroom will glance at the exposed genitals of the boys urinating in the urinals before going to a stall. Some boys don't think it's a big deal, while others have spoken to teachers about this, but the teachers think they're being ungentlemanly by not wanting girls to use the boy's restroom only for a moment and have scolded them. I think this shows the significant difference in privacy between boys and girls at that time.

This happened more than a decade ago, and perhaps now boys' modesty is indeed valued more. I'm just sharing my experience and perspective from back then.

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Date Posted: 15:30:52 11/03/25 Mon
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I had those experiences as Tim did too being thrown into being naked sometimes. I can not say it upset me any really though accounts from others here, show it did upset them.

I was simply in a backyard with a pool one day with a girl my age and I was told to swim at about 7 and we both swam naked. I enjoyed day and was invited back to play often. It was the standard that I play in pool naked after that always, except that after swimming I stayed naked too, while girl put on tshirt and shorts when done swimming. To my surprise my mom encouraged it for me. This house was very nearby and when I was told to get ready to go over there is meant to get naked in summer. It was just the way life was.

I was sort of the naked boy a lot. On a beach trip with them, we stopped at one of those tacky beach shops for supplies and I was told to pick out a beach toy while girl picked out a swim suit. It did not dawn on me that I was to go without . I can not say I cared even and enjoyed freedom. Best I perceived at that age and time was that naked boys on beach under 9 or so were just cute and accepted. Just like the backyard pool, when I went naked on beach first time, then I always went naked on beach. Even if I got a bit toasted I went under umbrella and stayed bare ass. We were regulars at that same spot and played with the other kids. Now I know we are on topic of double standard but some girls did play naked and some with bottoms, but most were clothed after a certain age. Now when I got older I learned the beach we went to was adjacent to a clothing optional beach so no one cared about being 100 meters past the edge of a nature area, so my beach experience might not be the norm. I really do not know for sure. I think I stopped at 15 not because I cared but because I had other things to do like jobs and sports. Even then with sportssome nudity was involved but that is enough from me.

The question was more the cut off age though for boys. I do know at some public pools it is quite young, say under 8 when it stops. For me though I did not have to stop at backyard pool or beach as it was clothing optional way back then. It may have been unoffical spot.

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Date Posted: 04:17:27 11/04/25 Tue
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Yes, Trent,I agree with your last paragraph. Although there are strict restrictions on nudity in official areas, many naked children, mostly boys, still exist in unofficial areas.

Girls are far more likely to see naked boys than boys are to see naked girls when they are young. Many girls have the chance to see naked boys by chance when they are young, but this is not the case for boys. I only saw naked girls when I learned to use internet search engines. Before I had a girlfriend in college, I had never seen a naked girl in real life.

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Date Posted: 07:03:36 11/04/25 Tue
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Haha, you are right. All my nieces have seen my nephews naked, along with my son. Countless girls have seen my son naked in the shower rooms, bathrooms, beaches etc. till he was about l0 or 11. But on the other hand, I think the oldest girl my son ever saw naked was only about 3 (excluding any girlfriend of course). I just can't help but laugh thinking how some of his cousins who are closer to his age has seen him naked countless times but he has never seen them naked. It is what it is I guess.

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Date Posted: 04:38:54 11/05/25 Wed
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It is what it is. You are right, Nathalie ,That is the reality. Before puberty, we boys often expose ourselves naked to girls our own age, giving girls a lot of education about male anatomy. Girls' genitals, on the other hand, are always firmly covered by their clothes. This is undoubtedly a double standard. Some say girls may use this advantage to tease boys (although I didn't encounter many such girls growing up). Have you encountered this situation while raising your son? You say countless girls have seen you son naked in different area. Your son might not react much because he's not at the age where male modesty is expected. But what about the girl who saw him naked? And if a girl sees your son naked multiple times, how will her reaction differ from the first time?

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Date Posted: 06:19:58 11/04/25 Tue
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You are absolutely correct. I already have wrote here about how parents raise girls and boys differently when it comes to modesty due to cultural expectations. I will add to your comments that a lot of the times we moms see our boys in a very innocent way. Even when there over 10 years old we see them as babies. Not that it doesn't happen with girl moms, but it's just much more common with boy moms. And so we moms don't care much to insert modesty on our boys as naked boys is nothing for us. And this plays a big part in different nudity standards between boys and girls, as mothers are usually much more involved with a child growing up compared to fathers.

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Date Posted: 23:25:29 11/04/25 Tue
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I enjoyed beach and pool and was around same small group of girls seeing me naked so looked forward to it.

Perhaps you are right about double standard being more prominent in locker rooms. As a teen, moms still went in boys room to attend younger boys. I would change right beside them sometimes and walk to shower naked and back, not being modest about it. Some teen girtsl were there with younger brothers too. Some girls enjoyed it and others were shy and just doing it quick to get out.

One girl from perhaps russia or nearby changed with her dad sometimes. I left her alone but chatted with her in gym otherwise about normal kid stuff and we were friends.

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Date Posted: 17:12:48 11/05/25 Wed
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So, there I was, a young lad in the '70s, and let me tell you, it was a time of double standards that would make youblush. Skinny dipping and streaking weren't just rumors; they were practically national pastimes! My mom had a friend who was a nudist, and that was about as mainstream as avocado toast is today. It was a hot topic, but not something you'd see on every weekend.

My mom's close friend was a nudist, but my mom? Nah, she was more of a "clothes are optional, but I'll stick with the usual" kind of galbut both thought it was super important for me to be comfortable in my birthday suit growing up as aboy. I mean, who doesn't want to run around naked like a little wild child, So, I did it. I went from being a shy little thing to not at all/

My friend's mom was a nudist too! So, whenever I'd go over to their place, Both mom and daughter were as bare ass the day they were born, and I, being the innocent little boy I was, didn't think twice about it.

But even in this world of nudity, I couldn't escape the double standards. I'd see girl dressed up to go for a bike ride or play in the park, and I'd be naked sometimes. I just accepted it.

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Date Posted: 19:06:28 11/08/25 Sat
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I heard term double standard but did not care about it or know what it meant.

Some girls did play without tshirets like boys did often. It was not a concern. I would also took a bath with a girl my age at a young age till she no longer wanted to do that.

The double standard was more from 9 to 13 or so when boys went naked and girls had fully stopped. Beach seemed to be an exception for no reason I understood.

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Date Posted: 00:21:45 12/15/25 Mon
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Hi Nathalie I swam nude at home growing up as did my younger brother and two boy cousins.My two sister's and four girl cousins always wore swimsuits.

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Date Posted: 17:41:05 12/16/25 Tue
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My double standard was at a back yard pool, and a local gym.

Bad yard pool was often 3 boys and 2 girls. I started going nude at this pool in private large field at 10, when other kids were 9, 7, 8, and 5. All boys were treated same and if using pool we did not get dressed again in back yard until leaving usually. The girls saw it all and were not shy about it. They would give you a tug if they wanted to play a game to get you to move.

But the MOST exposed and MOST double standard was a local boy's room in a gym I used till I left that home around 17. It wasn't every single day but, once I was walking to shower nude and a girl my age was in boys room changing her brother. I was shy when I saw this but got over it. It became a regular occurrence of her changing her brother. But what was more of a double standard is one of the female gym instructors always went in boys room to what younger boys change before and after class. She was maybe 22 I was 14 and younger boys were 10 and under in swim class. It was common for boys to do swimming and calisthenics nude back then, so you got over shyness or dropped out. A few boys got picked up naked too and no one said a word as uncool to complain about that during peak hippie times.

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Date Posted: 04:02:41 12/23/25 Tue
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My double standard was less subtle. I was intentionally kept naked on beaches till 12. My mom did not want me shy. Sometimes I was only naked kid and other times many. Id get shorts pulled off as soon as at beach for entire day. I recall playing with same girls dressed all time but seemed ok for times.

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Date Posted: 04:37:01 12/25/25 Thu
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I was treated to same.

When we went to beach as a summer event, I was just given a towel adn flip flops and my two sisters had one piece suits. I wore towel from car to beach and was bare all day. I loved it though.

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Date Posted: 20:27:20 03/28/26 Sat
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>Stumbling upon this forum has been such an eye opener.
>I am a mom of a now 19 years old boy. When he was
>around 9 or 10, I used to take him to a local sports
>club for soccer practice. After the end of a session,
>the boys would take a shower. During this time some of
>the moms would go into the boys shower room to help
>them out a little, or some of us would just go there
>to chat with other moms. The boys would all range from
>8 to 10, as the session was divided into age groups. I
>guess it wasn't a big deal that we moms saw the boys
>naked, as nobody cared. But it was also pretty common
>for girls, like sisters, or players from the girls
>team, to be in the boys shower room. Some of these
>girls would be older, younger or the same age as the
>boys, and would see the boys totally naked. There were
>times when I even saw girls from my son's grade. But
>it never happened the other way around as dads or boys
>never went into the girls shower. At the time it was
>so normal and nobody cared about it, but looking back,
>it was definitely a double standard. Nobody just
>thought about giving boys privacy until much older
>compared to girls. Other scenarios also come to mind.
>When I used to go to the beach with my friends or
>sisters, we usually would have a mixed group of boys
>and girls children. When it was time to leave, we
>would make the boys upto aged 10 or below drop their
>trunks to wash of the sand and get changed. This was
>done openly. The boys would just stand butt naked for
>some time in full view of their girl cousins and
>friends, and it was totally casual. But I can't
>remember ever that a girl would get undressed this
>openly past the toddler age. They would only change
>privately in the stalls if those were available like
>us adults. Back then I never thought twice about it,
>maybe because I only have a son. I guess would thought
>about it more if he had a sister. It's not like we had
>any strict rules or something, it's just how things
>were. The boys became more private only around 11 or
>12, and that is when we respected their privacy. But
>until then, I guess we moms just didn't thought about
>their modesty. Boys would also get bathed by moms alot
>older compared to girls. My son could wash himself by
>8, by I still bathed him irregularly until about 10 or
>11, until he asked for privacy. Oh and of course there
>was peeing openly 🤣
>
>So from my experience of raising kids, the double
>standard for girls and boys nudity was definitely a
>thing. It was just so casual and only reading this
>forum made me look back and think. What do you people
>think??

All that you say here is definitely true because I experienced it myself growing up.
After sports events until age 12 or so moms and sisters would be present in the locker room with us boys showering naked. If males were present in the girls changing room this would cause a scandal.
At home it didn't matter if female visitors saw us boys naked, but not male visitors seeing girls.
Same on the beach like you described.

Also boys until 11 years being bathed by older sisters or babysitters or moms friends. But girls that age being bathed by older brothers or other males from outside the family was unheard of.

Girls modesty from a young age was always protected, while it didn't matter for boys. Males were always considered as predators and could not be trusted with young girls, while females were considered as carers and could be trusted with boys.

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Date Posted: 11:36:44 03/29/26 Sun
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I saw double standard too as a teen.

Boys under 8 or so were fair game to be kept naked at pools, but even so moms would eneter boys locker rooms when teens present.

I remember being 14 going to beach and younger boys were all bare and since in group I joined them. It was fine at time.

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Date Posted: 11:54:28 03/29/26 Sun
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Totally agree, women are very blase about the privacy of boys. When I was 12 I had to get changed in an open communal room with boys aged five plus and I remember one woman was in there helping her son to get dressed after a swim session but the reality was her eyes were all over and looking at the other boys, most of them totally bare.

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Date Posted: 07:14:39 03/30/26 Mon
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It's not just women; most men also don't concern their own privacy. When I was a child, the swimming pool near my house had a rule that children over 5 years old couldn't enter the opposite sex's changing room. This rule was well enforced in the women's changing room; slightly older boys entering the women's changing room would face resistance from the girls. However, this rule was practically ignored in the men's changing room. Girls as young as 7, 8, or even 9 or 10 often accompanied their fathers into the men's changing room. Most boys didn't seem to mind these little girls freely entering the men's changing room to see boys naked.

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Date Posted: 03:39:10 03/31/26 Tue
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I would see same thing, all the time. Infact I likely never even went into girls room.

It was long ago, but our summer town pool had kids, and adult pool, and boys and mens room separate. In boys room, girls would always change their little brothers. Younger boys would use the kids pool naked on quiet weekdays too. It was mostly up to mom I guess what the cut off age was, but seemed relaxed. I was with few younger boys and joined them to watch them swim sometimes.

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Date Posted: 20:00:07 03/31/26 Tue
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>It's not just women; most men also don't concern their
>own privacy. When I was a child, the swimming pool
>near my house had a rule that children over 5 years
>old couldn't enter the opposite sex's changing room.
>This rule was well enforced in the women's changing
>room; slightly older boys entering the women's
>changing room would face resistance from the girls.
>However, this rule was practically ignored in the
>men's changing room. Girls as young as 7, 8, or even 9
>or 10 often accompanied their fathers into the men's
>changing room. Most boys didn't seem to mind these
>little girls freely entering the men's changing room
>to see boys naked.

I don't remember a specific rule at our local pool, but one time my wife and I took our young girls , age 2 and 6, or so, to the local public pool. When it was time to leave, I went to the men's room to change and my wife took the girls to the women's. That particular day, a dad was there with his 2 daughters, maybe early grade school age, and the 3 of them were changing in the men's room with other guys changing around them. Dad and girls didn't care and none of the guys seemed bothered, either.

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Date Posted: 19:49:56 03/31/26 Tue
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I never experienced nude swimming as a kid. I grew up in California's Central Valley in the 1960s and 1970s and other than showers at summer camp and then after PE class, I didn't experience group nudity. I never remember seeing kids at our public swimming pool swimming naked, although some kids have changed in the shower room. The pool was a block from my house and I just went home wet. I was an only kid, so there were no siblings in the tub.

I think the first time I skinny dipped was around age 18. I made money in the summer by mowing yards. Some of the houses were empty when I mowed. One hot afternoon, I finished mowing and the pool looked very good. Nobody was around, so I stripped off and jumped in. It felt really good and since then I've preferred swimming naked, if I can.

My wife and I have 2 daughters, now in their 30s. They bathed together growing up and sometimes had a friend or two in the tub or shower with them.

We had a big Jacuzzi tub at one house and our girls, a cousin, and/or friends would sometimes get in there, dump a bottle of shampoo in the tub , and have bubbles completely hiding them. Or they'd get wet and muddy in playing and get showered or bathed while their clothes were in the washer and dryer.

When they were small, they and friends would sometimes play naked in wading pools or sprinklers in the back yard, and other times would wear swim suits. It depended on if the water play was planned and the friend would come in a swim suit or they just decided to play in the water and strip off to not get their clothes wet and muddy.

We moved to a house with a pool when our girls were 10 and 6. We'd sometimes swim naked and the girls sometimes were naked with friends the first couple of years, but that pretty much finished by the time the younger was 10.

So, we were the reverse of the double standard, with me growing up wearing swimsuit all the time as a kid, but our girls swimming and playing naked at times.

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Date Posted: 03:59:06 04/01/26 Wed
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I think its normal for kids in 10 or so to be comfortable naked. I had three older sisters that just wore panties in house all the time, and would swim naked in pool too.

I was a surprise and much younger, so by time I was 10 they all moved out. I could be naked in house and pool into teens though. So it was a double standard.

At gym I saw same thing at a local college I used and also at a local state park. I would not say it was common but often boys played naked at that park in summer under 12ish. They had a lake and open fields and if camping we would walk to showers naked in morning, and at lake it was all day.

I also had pass to college gym in summer, boys swam naked. This is not unusual and mostly just boys in class. However, in locker room, dad changed daughters often. It was not daily but on weekly basis we would see dad showering with daughters with no shyness at all. Also one girl in our group changes with us. Her dad was often nearby on weekends.

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