[Nea Wood]

My high school didn’t have a pool, but girls could get out of gym class during their periods. I had an aunt who hated gym class so much, she pretended to be on her period every week and never got caught. I’m guessing girls probably got out of swim class during “that time of the month.”

I think in England it may be normal to swim in the nude. I was at a hotel pool (in the US) recently, and some young kids were swimming in the nude. A hotel employee went up to their mother and told her that kids were required to wear bathing suits in the pool.

[dfwgator]

My high school didn’t have a pool, but girls could get out of gym class during their periods

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If only Carrie went to your high school.

[pfflier]

I was a military brat in Germany in the 1960's (Rhein Main AFB, Frankfurt). Going to the river there, every kid was nude and the adults were too in many cases. It just wasn't a big thing...except to my mother.

We went to the river many times with our German friends behind her back. We just did what they did, no big deal.

[ladyjane]

I think in England it may be normal to swim in the nude.

In England you were starkers.