A few thoughts on Showers and such -

From Thunder Cloud

(This may not be worth posting, but it's kind of amusing.)

There was a news clip on TV recently about tearing down a vacant school that was built in 1900. The reporter tried to be poetic. She talked about demolishing the building "from the pigeons in the attic to the boys locker room in the basement."

Hmm. That means boys showered and changed in 1900, doesn't it? And very likely they thought nothing of it.

So in 1900 people were civilized enough to take showers out of respect for each other. But 118 years later, after all the advances society has made, we're now a bunch of smelly wimps?

That's kind of absurd

 

 

From Farm Boy

Today if the kids do not want to take a shower they do not have to. They go to class smelling dirty. When I was in school, we had to take a shower. as soon as we got back in the locker room. The teacher yelled out "Strip out of your clothes and get into the shower... use soap and shampoo." 

When you come out of the shower you will use deodorant when you get dressed, when we were all dressed we stood in a line and the teacher checked us to see if we used soap and shampoo and deodorant. the shower was large enough were we all could take our shower together. never bothered any of us to see any of us naked. 

Then My rant.....

Okay so we know that through the ages, including the Greek and Roman classical era people bathed in a communal public setting, Completely unconcerned of age or gender. The obvious and practical purpose was to cleanse the body and to effect a societal gathering. Indeed in our modern age, it was not that long ago that young men swam competitively in the nude at School and at the YMCA.

  

What dementia exists in our civility of modern conscience that describes that males should abhor any display of the nude form. What pious revolution has secretly  happened to deviate our minds into disgust for the human body? I am curious how, our modern minds are riddled with modesty and why do we posture accusations of sexual deviance of anyone who might kindly observe a nude partner of  the same gender?

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