So... more than once on Reddit, I've posted or commented on the medical exams and procedures that the generations before them experienced. Needless to say, many of them were appalled or even downright horrified. Stripping down to your underwear or even fully nude in front of all your friends, your teacher, your coach, your parents, your friends' parents, your bully, your commanding officer, clerical and administrative staff, and whoever else happened to be in the room or in the building? And while in that state you're standing around for 10 or 20 minutes waiting your turn to be poked and prodded by the doc or nurse? Oh my God! Hell no! Never! Most of them felt the same way about the nude male swimming tradition of the past.
One young lady, who was a hardcore feminist, said that those were all situations created by men, and was a good example of why men can't be trusted to be left in charge. Another commenter compared them to slave auctions or a POW death march. Still another commenter stated that anyone who defends those old practices probably belongs on a watch list.
When I reminded them that all those things were standard procedure for decades and that none of us who underwent those were any psychologically worse for wear, somebody suggested that many of them probably have PTSD that was never properly diagnosed or treated. One final person said yeah sure- but back in those days lynching, beating up your wife, and drunk driving were ALSO ok.
How ANYONE can place open underwear and / or nude group physical exams or sanctioned nude competitive male swimming in almost the same category as racially motivated murder, domestic violence, rape, concentration camps, or vehicular manslaughter is beyond me. How did we as a society ever get HERE???