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Bathing is an important part of the daily routine in Japan, where bath tubs are for relaxing, not cleaning the body. Therefore, the body must be cleaned and scrubbed before entering the bathtub or ofuro. This is done in the same room as the tub, while seated on a small stool and using a hand-held shower.
A family, a group of housewives from the same neighborhood, a group of businessmen, or a group of classmates might spend time together naked at a sentÅ bathhouse, at an onsen hot spring, or at a health club. This allows opportunities for social bonding.
In 1947 girls aged 9 to 13 at the Liberty School in Highland Park, Michigan were directed to wear swimsuits by the Superintendent of Schools in response to a protest by mothers to the board of education. Boys in the schools had not worn suits in their classes for years, and girls requested to do the same in order to give them more time in the pool.
"When we get into the ages of 8 and 9 with a functioning, healthily developing child, that's the cut-off for when you should be bathing with them," she says. "They should be able to bathe themselves."
Together, Futaba, Kazuhiro and the two girls reopen the family bathhouse, which will provide them with a comfortable life. Other challenges facing Futaba include helping Azumi to fend for herself at school and taking the girls on a road trip to introduce Azumi to her biological mother, Kimie (Yukiko Shinohara), a deaf woman who gave birth to ...
Other schools continued allowing it, but it was never a universally accepted practice as was nude male swimming even though classes were not co-ed. A 1963 article on the elementary school swim program in Troy, New York stated that boys swam nude, but that girls were expected to wear bathing suits, continuing the practice of prior decades. [140]
[13]: 12 Sea bathing resorts modelled themselves on Bath, and provided promenades, circulating libraries, and assembly rooms. [13]: 9 While sea bathing or dipping, men and boys were naked, women and girls were encouraged to dip wearing loose clothing. Scarborough was the first resort to provide bathing machines for changing.
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