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Subject: Re: The Double Standard Author: Charles [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 19:49:56 03/31/26 Tue Author Host/IP: 73.151.49.126 In reply to: Nathalie 's message, "The Double Standard" on 03:36:54 10/14/25 Tue 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. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> Subject: Re: The Double Standard Author: Summer Fun [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 03:59:06 04/01/26 Wed Author Host/IP: 76.195.201.31 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. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]