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Forty-two Kids by George Bellows (1907) depicting boys swimming from a pier in the East River, New York City "Swimming baths" and pools were built in the late 19th century in poorer neighborhoods of northern industrial cities of the US to exert some control over a public swimming culture that offended Victorian sensibilities by including not only nakedness, but roughhousing and swearing.
In 1909, the New York Times reported that at an elementary school swimming competition, the boys in the 80 pound division (age 8 to 10) competed nude after finding that suits slowed them down. a Boys had been skinny-dipping in open water for generations, which only became a problem when urbanization brought this activity more often into public ...
Initially, men and boys swam in the nude in indoor swimming pools, as had previously been customary in lakes and rivers. [50] YMCAs everywhere had nude swimming beginning in the 1890s until they became coed in the 1960s. [51] Given the limits of chlorination at that time, behavioral measures were used to maintain water quality.
Attica senior Joe Parkhurst (50 free, 100 free, 100 breast, 100 fly) plays football but is a "powerful" swimmer who owns the school's 50 free and 100 breast records.
Recreation is any human activity done for pleasure (or "play") during leisure time as opposed to those activities that are necessary for survival.Historically, this means that recreation only existed after human society reached the stage where leisure time existed, perhaps during the late stone age (Upper Paleolithic), as shown by the first appearance of cave paintings and musical instruments.
A particularly famous one is Manneken Pis in Brussels, showing a nude young boy urinating into the fountain below. A female equivalent is Jeanneke Pis. Henry Scott Tuke painted nude young boys doing everyday seaside activities, swimming, boating, and fishing; his images were not overtly erotic, nor did they usually show their genitals. [9]
1934 (): Though full-body swimming attire is mandatory, men begin to appear bare-chested on crowded public beaches despite the threat of arrest, Long Island, New York. [28] 1936 (): Male bare-chestedness is legalized, United States. [28] 1938 (): First naturist clubs are established, New Zealand. [29]
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