Apparently, in , as part of a freshman requirement for the city college he attended, all male students took a swim class at the YMCA. He remembers the instructor telling them something about it being more sanitary that way. Was his swim teacher some pervy old dude? Or was this requirement legit? And if it was, why?
Two female members of the Young Men's Christian Association have challenged the scheduling of the nude swim on weekdays from A. The women contend the pool should be open during the lunch hour to all adult members. Many of the Y. The downtown Y. Last November, Eileen Barrett and Linda McKenna, both 26 years old, asked the association's executive committee to allow women members to swim at the lunch period because many of them worked downtown and it was convenient for them to swim at that time.
Nude swimming , or skinny dipping , is the practice of bathing naked , whether in natural bodies of water, in swimming pools , or in hot tubs. The term skinny-dip was first recorded in English in Thomas Guidott set up a medical practice in the English town of Bath in He became interested in the curative properties of the waters. In , he wrote A discourse of Bathe, and the hot waters there.