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modesty and nation [message #30995]

Mon, 17 April 2006 00:01

timmy

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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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In Europe the UK is not the most nor the least modest.

The modesty covers all things (pun intended) from beach to locker rooms at gyms and in schools.

My gym has open changing areas and like 2 cubicles for the modest, and now has installed doors on the showers where before there were none. But schools have become obsessed with rights to privacy in showers where all used to be communal. Speedos were once the norm, now flappy baggy swimwear is. Games shorts were once short, now long and baggy.

Can you describe the level of modesty where you live? Are today's kids more relaxed about their bodies than yesterday's or less relaxed?

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

		modesty and nation By: timmy on Mon, 17 April 2006 00:01
		In the nation founded by Puritans By: pimple on Mon, 17 April 2006 02:13
		Simon, I agree entirely. By: cossie on Mon, 17 April 2006 03:04
		Re: Simon, I agree entirely. By: timmy on Mon, 17 April 2006 10:18
		Re: In the nation founded by Puritans By: Deeej on Mon, 17 April 2006 16:59
		Re: In the nation founded by Puritans By: Nigel on Mon, 17 April 2006 17:59
		Re: In the nation founded by Puritans By: Deeej on Mon, 17 April 2006 18:31
		Re: In the nation founded by Puritans By: timmy on Mon, 17 April 2006 21:18
		Modesty is infectious... By: pimple on Mon, 17 April 2006 21:53
		Today's climate sometimes interferes with proper child ... By: charlie on Mon, 17 April 2006 15:55
		Re: Today's climate sometimes interferes with proper child . By: pimple on Mon, 17 April 2006 16:37
		Re: Today's climate sometimes interferes with proper child . By: electroken on Tue, 18 April 2006 06:37
		Re: modesty and nation By: marc on Mon, 17 April 2006 20:50
		Re: modesty and nation By: NW on Tue, 18 April 2006 14:24
		Re: modesty and nation By: timmy on Tue, 18 April 2006 22:42
		Re: modesty and nation By: marc on Tue, 18 April 2006 22:45
		Re: modesty and nation By: NW on Tue, 18 April 2006 23:20

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