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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The End of Naked Locker Rooms - What We Lose When Casual Nudity Disappears

"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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The End of Naked Locker Rooms - What We Lose When Casual Nudity Disappears

For the full article:

www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/11/naked-locker-room-end/684907/

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