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Whether kept as a trophy or merely on display on-screen, special-effects designers are now stepping up their game to satisfy the entertainment industry’s big dong energy. It wasimportant to go there, unflinchingly and boldly,” Cooper, 47, said of “Nightmare Alley,” which marked his first-ever nude scene. While he “had to” do it for the story, his first day of filming granted more exposure than he might have been expecting — he was naked for six hours in front of the film crew. From 1926 until 1962, every edition of the APHA guidelines recommended nude swimming for males. [16] Given the limits of chlorination and filtration at that time, behavioral measures were also used to maintain water quality. In addition to recommending nudity, all bathers were required to empty their bladder and shower nude before entering the pool. Those suffering from skin or respiratory disease were prohibited from using the pool. [17]

Swim Schdule Set by Recreation Department". Sheboygan Press. 1961-06-09. p.2 . Retrieved 2022-10-12. The male nude was the ideal and principal subject in art in ancient Greece and early renaissance art” says photographer Yushi Li, who appears in the exhibition Nude alongside Scruggs. However, she explains, “since the early 19th century, the female nude started becoming the most prevalent subject in art. Unlike the male nude, which is often perceived as an autonomous subject, the female nude is normally presented in a passive way. I think in my work, I try to present men in a different way to question this masculine and feminine opposition, and cast the gaze onto the male body, which can be equally eroticized and desired as the female body.”. Over the last year, much has been made over male nudity becoming slightly more commonplace in popular culture – in the Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That, Harry’s full front scene went viral, Sex Life's Adam Demo’s nude scene was much talked about, and even the cover of Julia Peyton’s novel Vladimir shows a naked man. But as Li notes, these acts of nudity have far more autonomy that women’s do – we still need more parity. By the 1950s, new developments in pool chlorination, filtration, and nylon swimsuits led to the gradual elimination of nudity from recommendations for pool sanitation. [50] The APHA abandoned its recommendation of nude swimming for males in 1962. [26] However, the custom did not immediately cease, the rationale switching from hygiene to the cost savings and maintaining a tradition of male behavior. [51] [52] [53] [54] In the summer of 1944, the Chicago Parks offered a summer swimming program for children, boys on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday, girls on Thursday and Friday. In indoor pools, girls were required to bring a suit, but boys swam without. [39] :6 Johnson, Campbell C. (1940). "Negro Youth and the Educational Program of the Y.M.C.A." The Journal of Negro Education. 9 (3): 354–362. doi: 10.2307/2292606. ISSN 0022-2984. JSTOR 2292606 . Retrieved 2023-03-18.

a b "Boys Will Continue to Swim Nude at Menasha High Pool". Appleton Post Crescent (82ed.). Menasha, Wisconsin. 1961-11-14. p.13 . Retrieved 2022-10-17.

Inside Recreation Calendar Is Announced by Department". Sheboygan Press. 1953-11-11. p.6 . Retrieved 2022-10-11. a b c d Eng, Monica (September 10, 2017). "Baring It All: Why Boys Swam Naked In Chicago Schools". WBEZ.com . Retrieved March 22, 2020. A 1940 article in LIFE magazine describes the pool in the Olneyville Boy's Club as providing an alternative to juvenile delinquency in a declining mill neighborhood. Photos show the naked boys crowded into the "dingy little 60 ft. swimming pool" as they had for fifteen years. [24] In 1941 the Olneyville Club won two of the five final events at a national Boys Club of America swimming championship. [25] Public schools [ edit ]In the 1920s, schools began building indoor swimming pools for purposes of physical fitness and swimming instruction. [26] In 1900, there were only 67 public pools in the United States; by 1929 there were more than 5,000. Male nude swim at school approved 1935". The Tennessean. Nashville, Tennessee. 1935-09-15. p.2 . Retrieved 2022-09-17. Cumberbatch and Bradley Cooper are among the front-runners who manned up and stripped down in the past year. Mann, Channing (1963). "Swimming Classes in Elementary Schools on a City-Wide Basis". Journal of Health, Physical Education, RPecreation. 34 (5): 35–36. doi: 10.1080/00221473.1963.10621677. ISSN 0022-1473 . Retrieved 2022-10-29. Grierson, A. M. M. (1930). "Observations on the Hygienic Condition of Public Swimming Baths". Epidemiology & Infection. 30 (1): 66–78. doi: 10.1017/S0022172400010299. ISSN 0022-1724. PMC 2170546. PMID 20475054.

Male nude swimming remained a common practice in the Midwest and Northeast through the 1950s, but declined in the 1960s due to technological and social changes. After the passage of Title IX in 1972, requiring gender equality in physical education, most schools found mixed-gender use of swimming pools to be the easiest means of compliance. A generation later, nude swimming in public pools as a widespread practice was forgotten, and in the 21st century sometimes denied having existed. Rec" Department Accepting Learn-to-Swim Applications". Sheboygan Press. 1965-05-03. p.11 . Retrieved 2022-10-12. While Richard Gere’s groundbreaking pants-dropping “American Gigolo” scenes from 1980 has acted as a catalyst for male on-screen nudity for the decades since, it is a lone wolf: No pants-dropping scenes that followed caused the same cinematic stir. Instead, prosthetic penises used in films such as “Step Brothers” and “We’re the Millers” were reserved strictly for comic relief. The first YMCA indoor pool in the United States was built in 1885, in Brooklyn, New York. [9] :154 Male nudity was required at YMCA pools in both the US and Canada until they became coed in the 1970s. [20] Outside the United States during the same time period, the issues of hygiene were recognized, but close supervision of swimmers and control of bathing suits was an alternative to nudity. In Canada, public health recommendations allowed for suits, but nudity was recommended in pools used exclusively by men. [18] In England, it was recommended that suits for both men and women be inspected and stored by the facility. [19] Public pools [ edit ] Young Men's Christian Association [ edit ]In 1940, the wool suits worn by male swimmers continued to be recognized as a source of water contamination. Cotton suits supplied by facilities for female swimmers were no problem, because they could be boiled to decontaminate them. Wool suits cannot be boiled or heated above 105 degrees F. without shrinkage. Wool suits used in salt water cannot be washed effectively, because soap does not lather due to salt. [15]