showering nude?

[laura*]

I can't really explain why when morals seem to be so much more lax today than they were in the 1960-1970's. There are probably those who would take exception to the term "lax" and identify or label current standards with the term diversity or tolerance and maybe lax is not the best word but it is the one that comes to mind.

I think this (subject of this thread) is a result of the USA's increasingly diverse population. Decades ago, the wider community matched one's family unit. The red haired Irish kid was the odd one out. Today it's the Somali kid who doesn't fit any of the old labels.

Years ago, kids likely got used to sharing a shower with siblings, cousins, and so on. The comfort with this would easily translate to school where all the kids looked like one's relatives. Not so any more.

Somewhere I read an article about a study that found that in diverse/integrated communities "everyone" hides behind their home's closed doors.

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Near here there's a skinny dipping spot in a river. It was popularized many decades ago by (presumably) kids from the nearby Baptist community / summer camp. Yes, the very conservative Baptist community! The one where I'm a bit on edge when I cycle through wearing cycling clothes!

[Crankin]

I don't know, I think, maybe from being a teenager/college student in the late sixties and early seventies, that things were way more open back then in certain ways. We treated young people more like grown ups, for one thing. Maybe this is just a reflection of my own upbringing, which was fairly progressive, but today the "lax" standards seem to border on the sleazy. I am the least prudish person around, even compared to my closer friends, and I think most of that has to do with the way I was brought up.

[goldfinch]

I don't know, I think, maybe from being a teenager/college student in the late sixties and early seventies, that things were way more open back then in certain ways. We treated young people more like grown ups, for one thing. Maybe this is just a reflection of my own upbringing, which was fairly progressive, but today the "lax" standards seem to border on the sleazy. I am the least prudish person around, even compared to my closer friends, and I think most of that has to do with the way I was brought up.

My experience and feelings are the same.