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BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003

Waffles Inc. posted:

for whatever it's worth, i graduated high school in 2006 in USA midwest and at no point at any level of my education did anyone of either gender use a shower after PE; there was absolutely a social pressure to not. if someone were to strip nude and shower they would absolutely be shunned and everyone would be weirded out

at the university gym i go to there is absolutely a generational divide with nudity; older dudes walk to/from the showers without a towel at a much much much much higher rate than younger folks. younger guys will put the towel on their waist and take off their underwear underneath it, and the older the guy the more likely they are to just let it hang free

i don't think it's controversial to say that previous generations seem to be more comfortable with same gender nudity, the question i think OP is asking is why that is
So you just walk around in all that sports stank for the rest of your school day? You Americans are absolutely disgusting. Ever heard of body hygiene?

At the nude beaches here you usually see the older people giving less of a fuss about letting their body parts swing around freely, but I think it's less a generational and more of an age thing. Once today's kids are 70 years old they're probably be the same. At some point you're old enough to not have to give a gently caress about appearances any more.


rudatron posted:

America is unusually religious for a developed country, so I can't help but think that's partly to blame. Maybe the fact that continental Europe is mostly Catholic, and the anglosphere is mostly protestant? Though that's probably reaching.

In Germany it is the atheist eastern part where free body culture was promoted heavily during the socialist regime. So I don't think Catholicism plays into that.

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