Swimming Pool to be Open to Public on Monday". Sheboygan Press. July 8, 1926. p.3 . Retrieved 2023-07-11. Cross, Alex (1957). "The Supervision of Swimming Pools". Canadian Journal of Public Health. 48 (6): 244–248. ISSN 0008-4263. JSTOR 41981084. PMID 13437239 . Retrieved 2023-07-07. Johnson, Campbell C. (1940). "Negro Youth and the Educational Program of the Y.M.C.A." The Journal of Negro Education. 9 (3): 354–362. doi: 10.2307/2292606. ISSN 0022-2984. JSTOR 2292606 . Retrieved 2023-03-18. While Richard Gere’s groundbreaking pants-dropping “American Gigolo” scenes from 1980 has acted as a catalyst for male on-screen nudity for the decades since, it is a lone wolf: No pants-dropping scenes that followed caused the same cinematic stir. Instead, prosthetic penises used in films such as “Step Brothers” and “We’re the Millers” were reserved strictly for comic relief. Ryan Reynolds and his male member were honored with the Lifetime Skinchievement honor for his body of work that included performances in Buying the Cow, The Proposal, and, of course, Deadpool. (Mark Ruffalo won the coveted award last year.)

Horwood, M. P.; Gould, B. S.; Shwachman, H. (1933). "Indices of the Sanitary Quality of Swimming Pool Waters". Journal - American Water Works Association. 25 (1): 124–135. doi: 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1933.tb18220.x. ISSN 0003-150X . Retrieved 2022-09-13. a b c Wiltse, Jeffrey (2003). Contested Waters: A History of Swimming Pools in America. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-8898-8 . Retrieved November 2, 2022. Craig, H. W. (1941). "Safety and Hygiene in the School Swimming Pool". The Journal of Health and Physical Education. 12 (4): 242–279. doi: 10.1080/23267240.1941.10620207. ISSN 2326-7240 . Retrieved 2022-10-29.Gage, Stephen (1926). "Swimming Pools and Other Public Bathing Places". American Journal of Public Health. 16 (12): 1186–1201. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.16.12.1186. PMC 1321491. PMID 18012021. The primary reason given for nudity by officials was for public health, swimming pools being prone to contamination by water-borne diseases. During the early developmental stages of filtration and chlorination, behavioral measures were also needed to keep the water clean. Because indoor pools were generally male only, the health of swimmers could be monitored most easily by forbidding swimsuits, which often were a source of contamination, while female swimmers wore suits that were more hygienic. As the century continued, more indoor pools were built by local governments, schools and the YMCA, primarily in northern states, to provide year-round swimming as a sport. As with other physical education activities, swimming was gender-segregated. Taylor, Wayne G (1947). A Survey of the Requirements in Physical Education for Boys in Region One of the Utah State Athletic Association (Thesis). Utah State University. Inside Recreation Calendar Is Announced by Department". Sheboygan Press. 1953-11-11. p.6 . Retrieved 2022-10-11. Origins of swimming pools [ edit ] Forty-two Kids by George Bellows (1907) depicting boys swimming from a pier in the East River, New York City

It wasimportant to go there, unflinchingly and boldly,” Cooper, 47, said of “Nightmare Alley,” which marked his first-ever nude scene. While he “had to” do it for the story, his first day of filming granted more exposure than he might have been expecting — he was naked for six hours in front of the film crew. Campbell, George W.; Litsky, Warren (1956). "Swimming Pools: A Problem In Disinfection". The Sanitarian. 18 (5): 219–226. ISSN 0096-560X. JSTOR 26326488 . Retrieved 2023-07-07. Williams, Jesse Feiring; Brownell, Clifford Lee (1939). The Administration of Health and Physical education (2ed.). W.B. Saunders Company.Grierson, A. M. M. (1930). "Observations on the Hygienic Condition of Public Swimming Baths". Epidemiology & Infection. 30 (1): 66–78. doi: 10.1017/S0022172400010299. ISSN 0022-1724. PMC 2170546. PMID 20475054. At the YMCA in the South End of Chicago in 1944, a summer program for boys and girls had classes for 500 students in half-hour sessions separated by gender and age. Fridays were family night for adults to see the student's accomplishments. [21] :6 In 1946 when the Tucson, Arizona YMCA pool was used to teach only boys age 9 through junior high, suits were not worn. [22] :25 a b c d Eng, Monica (September 10, 2017). "Baring It All: Why Boys Swam Naked In Chicago Schools". WBEZ.com . Retrieved March 22, 2020. In 1920, a review of swimming pools found similar concerns for hygiene at the collegiate level. "In men's pools, where bathing suits are not ordinarily worn," inspection of swimmers was done by attendants to see that a thorough preliminary shower was taken. [49] Questioning and decline of nudity [ edit ] Many of the images in this portfolio are from his ongoing series "Return to Nature," which toured in 2017 and was shown in Fire Island, in Provincetown, and at the Leslie-Lohman Project Space in New York City. He is currently working on a new series titled "Male Intimacy" set to tour in 2019. He has work in the permanent collection of the Leslie-Lohman Museum and won several placements in the 2018 Nude Photoshoot awards.