Memories of youth
I wonder how many had similar experiences growing up in the country. I grew up in a small Ohio farming community. Being born in 1944, I refer to a time in the mid 50s. Many of us boys aged 11-14 were involved in scouts so we had occasional camp outs in the woods. Sometimes we just did it on our own without adult leaders. We had a couple favorite spots in woods and near a creek. We set up a couple tents that the older boys had. We played with knives and told stories, made spears and ate canned food. We shed ours clothes and were all nude and loving it. We also went skinny dipping in the creek. I remember these as wonderful fun times with fire and no adults. What kid doesnt like that! The older boys would tell stories about girls (likely fantasy) and erections would bloom. Then they would tell ghost stories and erections would disappear and we would hear all kinds of noises outside the tent. Finally we would fall asleep around 1-2:00 am.
I remember these times so fondly and wonder if others had similar experiences.
well certainly we babyboomers had it made unsupervised from sunup to sundown and some overnight camp outs, with our bikes we roamed all over town than there was the neighborhood woods every town had them before every tree had to be cut down to build a shopping plaza/mall but our woods was fun and apparently off limits to adults . once there we stripped and ran and chased each other around , boys only though once a friend decided to invite the girls in the neighborhood and one girl went to tell his mother lol she gave us all the parent eye but blew it off and we went back to cutting up and riding our bikes.
I begin to understand why older people get nostalgic. As many ways as today is better than the past (e.g. schooling tailored to kids with ASD or ADD, more acceptance of sexual and gender diversity), it is true that we have lost good things, too. Those happy days you describe would not be permitted today.
I'm Gen X. Although my generation still accepted nudity in common showers, swimsuits were de rigeur for Scouting related aquatics. (Not that it prevented the sexual abuse for which the organization is currently paying out compensation; thankfully I didn't experience that.) I would like to experience the world you knew.
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