The End of Naked Locker Rooms - What We Lose When Casual Nudity Disappears
Excerpts from the article:
"Not long ago, after a day of work, a colleague and I met
for a friendly game of racquetball at our university gym.
In the newly designed locker room, I began pulling off my shirt
to change when he quickly stopped me: You cant do that here.
Undressing, it turned out, was now permitted only in small private stallswhich struck me as odd.
Its a striking reversal. For more than a century, the cultural norm
in the United States was that nudity was acceptableat least within
same-sex environments. Over the past couple of decades or so, that idea has largely dissolved.
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"This decline partly reflects shifts in the culture ...
Although these changes are largely positive, they also introduce a new reality:
Today, the only naked bodies that many Americans will
likely ever see are their own, a partners, or those on a screen. "
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