Communal showers
I was raised in the tiny stare of Rhode Island and at least in the public middle (5th - 9th grade) school of the small town I went to in the early 70's, the boys locker room was communal, as was the shower. (The shower consisted of one big, tile-walled room with maybe a dozen shower heads on 3 of the walls.) Showering was mandatory after gym class and we thought nothing of it. The only negative issue we ever had with it was the worry about getting snapped on the bare ass with a towel by your buddies! (Pay back was a bi*ch!) Having been in the girl's side when we could sneak in there, we all knew that the girls all had separate changing cubicles with attached showers. I don't know why there was a double standard but again, we thought nothing of it!
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