Reading a comment like this I mainly think "wow TV and social media have really f-ed up young people these days".
Back in my high school days, we had some bathing events and also shared sauna. One could either voluntary use the nude beach, or walk a bit and go to an outdoor pool with proper changing rooms and dressed people.
I think the split was roughly 50/50 and there also wasn't much gender skew.
But that was a time before smartphones. When people still walked over to each other's house to hang out.
When I was a teenager on the swim team in the early 00s, the school had to ban 'deck changing' [changing into or out of your swimsuit in view of the public] because, in a game of one-up[wo]manship, it became overtly sexual with towels falling "by accident." The sort of prudishness described above surprises me.
Back in my high school days, we had some bathing events and also shared sauna. One could either voluntary use the nude beach, or walk a bit and go to an outdoor pool with proper changing rooms and dressed people.
I think the split was roughly 50/50 and there also wasn't much gender skew.
But that was a time before smartphones. When people still walked over to each other's house to hang out.