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Yes, The Sydney Skinny is a nude swim, but its emphasis isn’t on nudity. It’s more about thumbing the nose at the stigma associated with nudity, promoting a healthy body image, and about freeing people from their internal sense of judgment. Our bodies come in all shapes, colours and sizes, and it’s this diversity that The Sydney Skinny celebrates.
Excellent site. I do, however, wish to take exception to one of the conclusions concerning the authenticity of the pictures. Under the category of Teams, item 4 Girls with Bares appears to show several nude males behind a row of female swimmers. The moderator went neutral on this. I found this a few years ago, did a reverse image search and found it was the University of Virginia’s swim team 1976-77. The original image shows the guys in suits; the guy on the left, in fact, is wearing trunks with a loud striped pattern that stands out. Unfortunately, I no longer have the url; the internet is often compared to a library, but books don’t change their titles, urls frequently disappear. I do, however, have a screen shot of the original, and if anyone wants it, post a request. Live long and prosper!
Fortunately, I got screen grabs of the deleted items and have them, along with one which I found elsewhere in a blog about Shears Green primary school of their pool also being used by nude boys and girls. These form the only photographic evidence I can find (so far) of nudity in public-sector schools in the UK, in the primary or secondary age groups. Photographs of relatively recent nude male use of school pools (including those in this site) in the UK are all private-sector establishments. It makes it possible for people to doubt (or, often, to pour scorn on) assertions that public-sector schools had their pupils swim in the nude. This is very annoying, when I know that my county primary school unofficially allowed both boys and girls to swim naked if they wanted to.
The Y in Nashville certainly gave swim lessons with all boys nude in the late 1940s at least, because my mom threatened me with having to go when I was a kid, and she told me that was the way they did it. I never went, which I now regret, because I never did learn to swim.
Hello Glyph, I just came across this site – really great job. Fake pictures are a problem in many areas, I am convinced that there are now more fake than real pictures on the Internet for some topics. This is probably also true for the topic of nude swimming in the USA. I have experienced this myself: I was a 16 year old European exchange student in 1982 at two high schools in Illinois and Wisconsin and we boys had to swim naked at both schools without exception. That was probably the final phase of nude swimming at US schools. From what I have seen and experienced at that time, I dare to say that many pictures are fakes at first sight. You can tell by the following simple points:
