Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 17:24:43 +0000 (UTC)
From: Jat Tepper <jattepper (at) yahoo.com>
Subject: Hundreds Of Naked Boys (Chapter One - Swimming and Background Info)

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This is not a fictional story. It's a personal memoir recollecting events
which occurred in my life during puberty and adolescence. Much of the story
is devoted to my own experiences surrounding the requirement that all the
boys in my school district were required to swim naked during our
P.E. classes. I participated in this activity when I was in grades seven
through ten. This first introductory chapter mostly serves to provide
background information in order to better understand the remaining
chapters. The "good stuff" will start appearing in Chapter Two.I will
provide some background information about myself, the schools I attended,
and the town where I lived during those years. My name is Jimmy, I am gay
but I didn't realize that fact nor did I understand anything about
homosexuality until I was around the age of fourteen. I was born in July of
1952, and I entered the 7th grade in September of 1964 when I was twelve
years old. Our town was a somewhat affluent suburb outside of NYC. It could
be accurately described as a mostly middle to upper-class bedroom
community, consisting mainly of families living in four bedroom houses on
tree-lined streets with neatly manicured lawns. At the time when I was
growing up, about 95% of the town's population was white.Regarding my
family background and personal appearance, I am the youngest of four
children in my family, and the only boy. My three sisters are eight, four,
and two years older than me. Our dad was considered to be the
"bread-winner", and the rearing of the children was largely considered as
my mom's responsibility. I was basically a rather cute boy, perhaps a
little bit on the skinny side, but with broad shoulders. I would usually
often go shirtless and barefoot during the summer months. At the time when
I started seventh grade, my body was still totally hairless, my skin was
slightly tanned, and I had dark hair and eyes. I also had a classically
cute boy bubble-butt. My penis and my testicles had recently substantially
increased in size, and my erections were becoming more frequent and
uncontrollable. I was an above average student, I was fairly good at most
sports, and I was a very good swimmer.

The practice of having boys swim nude during public school P.E. classes is
not some sort of urban myth. In fact, it was the recommended guideline
provided by the National Institutes of Public Health for many years
starting in the early 20th century up through sometime in the mid
1960s. The primary reason cited for the guideline for all boys to swim
naked was primarily a sanitation issue. (Female students were often not
required to take P.E. classes, and even when they were required, swimming
was often omitted from their curriculum.) Nationally, the practice
gradually started to die out in the mid to late 1960s when chlorination
science and pool filtering were better understood and became widely used
and accepted. By the end of the 1970s, nude swimming was no longer
practiced in any public schools in America, as far as I'm aware. I will be
happy to provide links which will corroborate evidence of facts related to
the former common practice of boys swimming together naked in schools to
anyone who is interested.  The pool used for this was an indoor private
facility located within the school. Women and girls were strictly excluded
from ever viewing the boys during our naked swim sessions. Male faculty
members, as well as male janitorial staff, were always permitted to
observe, however it was only the male students were ever naked. The
P.E. staff instructors and any other adult males who may have been present
were always clothed. There were also always several high school boys in
attendance who served as helpers, lifeguards, co-instructors, as well as
providers of examples of proper form for swimming and demonstrating all of
the different types of swim strokes, etc. They were generally members of
the HS swim team, and they too were always required to be completely
naked.Although women and girls were always prohibited from entering the
pool area whenever boys were swimming naked, it was allowed for male
faculty members and male janitorial staff to be in our pool area during the
boys swim classes. Adult males were never permitted to be naked with us,
including our P.E. instructors. To help assist with swimming instruction
for the JHS boys, there were always several HS boys who attended our
classes, and they would help out with demonstrating proper form for all the
different swim strokes, providing in-pool instruction for us, and also to
serve as lifeguards. They were often members of the HS swim team, and they
were always required to also be naked.

I would love to hear from you. Especially if you happen to recognize any of
the events, persons, or locations described in this story, please let me
know. (It's possible we might have been classmates!) Most of the names of
the people in this story have been changed, as well as some information
which would indicate the exact location of where this occurred. I would
also love to hear from you if you have also experienced mandatory nude
swimming in public school in a different time or place. I'd also really
like to know your own views regarding the past requirement for mandatory
nude swimming for boys only in public (or private) school
P.E. classes.Before continuing on with the story, I'd like to share my own
thoughts and personal feelings with regards to requiring naked swimming for
boys. On a strictly personal level, I'm very glad that I was a part of this
phenomenon. I actually loved it in more ways than I can even express in
words. Overall it didn't have any sort of negative impact on my life. There
were some occasional times when I was teased about my displaying of
erections more frequently than most other boys while in our naked boy swim
classes, but I was never a victim of brutal beatings or any type of
violence, and for me personally, the positive aspects far outweighed any
negative aspects.My memories of swimming naked in school with other boys
are all happy ones. Personally, I really loved everything about it. I think
it was a thrilling experience that seems to be perfectly natural. And for
myself it was also very often and in many ways a very sexually exciting
thing. But mostly it was just lots of fun. More than anything else, it now
provides me with very sweet memories of being naked with all of those other
cute naked boys. Sure, there were a few embarrassing moments for me, but
there was much more joy and pleasure than anything else. I'm very glad that
I had the opportunity to enjoy and participate in doing it.

That being said, it was still probably not the right thing to do, simply
because I'm aware of the fact that it did ruin the lives of more than one
young man or boy. And for them, I am very sad. But I also do not think that
it's wrong for boys to enjoy or participate in activities such as swimming
naked together, but it should probably be voluntary rather than forced.
Another thing to consider is that naked swimming for boys might have worked
out much better and might possibly still be widely practiced if it occurred
everywhere and started no later than around third grade instead of having
it suddenly start as most boys are entering puberty.

I will try to answer all email sent to me regarding this story.

jattepper (at) yahoo (dot) com