The columnist replies that Englishmen have no problem with their daughters playing with naked boys to the age of ten, but draw a line at fifteen. In 1891 an American visiting England writes to a travel columnist that he cannot bring his young daughter to the beach without their being surrounded by naked boys. Images of nude children appeared in soap ads and fine art. Children were free to run about naked in the nursery, and in Britain children of the royal family were photographed nude in the 1920s and 1930s. Despite the prudery of the Victorian era, children being unclothed was accepted as natural and ordinary in many circumstances. Īny sense of shock at seeing naked children is a recent phenomenon in Western societies. The degree of personal privacy now considered normal developed only in the modern era, families in the Medieval period often slept naked in a communal room. See also: Nude swimming classes in the United States In England, boys swimmming nude and girls in suits, 1910
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