Fifty years ago I was growing up in a rural area where the summertime was filled with exploring the woods and swimming. Since we were all boys we swam naked. Even in town it was the rule that boys swam only with boys [ages 8-12, then 13-18] without suits at the Boy's Club and at the Y. Even scout outings to the pool or to camp had nude swimming. There were annual school physicals which saw dozens of boys of all ages standing in the gymn naked for the doctors to examine.
And there were the standard, mandatory showers after gymn. The coach didn't have to stand there blowing a whistle at anybody - we all jumped naked into the cascading water without being prodded.
Boys in those days saw each other nude in official and casual situations all the time. It was a way of life, a common occurence. We grew up, not in secret, but in public (so to speak), sharing almost every moment of maturity with each other. It was a healthy, encouraging environment.
Contrast that with some of the messages that are posted by today's youth in this forum. A concerned guy these days is in danger of being labeled some kind of perv - and a rule requiring mandatory nude showers in a school today would be grounds for a class-action lawsuit.
No wonder so many boys today have to have some kind of drug fed to them in order to for them function in a politically correct way.
Oh, for simpler times and simpler lives.
Pecker