John R, I'm with you there. Went through school in the same decades, and it was the same. Shower after PE with the other guys, and no one thought about getting into the shower with anything on. It would have drawn the bullies and stupid jokes faster than anything else.  I also remember towel-snapping and other shenanigans; but like you, I'm happy I'll never be in that situation again. Things have just gotten too weird.

What is interesting is that a lot of people do not even consider using the changing rooms or showering. The sports centre local to us in Cornwall would never have anyone changing or showering after a gym work out, weight lifting etc they walk in off the street exercise and then walk back out again. No matter how sweaty they are or how hard they have worked. The changing rooms are always derelict. 

This even happens to the swimming pool too. People swim in street clothes which is crazy, and not just shorts but also t-shirts. Some will get showered in these clothes afterwards and then change in the cubicles, but some don't. Even in the winter they just slip their trousers on over their shorts. 

Take a trip to popular public beaches this summer and note how many young adults will not strip off at all. Not even into swimming shorts or removing their tops. They stay in layers no matter what the heat. 

But if you look at the internet it seems that people are willing to strip off for attention and money all the time. There are more extreme double standards and we are losing the sensible middle ground.     

what i find annoying is all the ignorant stupid questions about naturists that people think are true

a question i saw on quora-
if you're at a naturist place what are the rules on masturbating in front of each other?

and this is the sort of BS people will believe over and above actual naturists like us telling them it dont happen and if it did you would be chucked out.

but where do they get these very odd ideas from, it's not from being brought up to cover themselves as children.

Steve Kelly. Every intelligent, thinking person in civilized society feels your frustration, I'd imagine.  We now live in the age of weird, false and empty information. Apparently, many who have access to the internet and so-called artificial "intelligence" are more willing to believe the insane than the truth, because to their shallow and weak minds it is much more interesting.

P.J. O'Rourke hit it on the head when he asked, "Whose idea was it to connect every idiot in the world with every other idiot in the world?"

There was a time, not so long ago, when someone coming across that topic you mentioned above, would have said, "Hmmm... that doesn't sound right. I think I'll ask around quietly or just ignore it altogether."  No longer. Now, it's 'fact' because they saw it on Wikipedia, or some rapper's Twitter post, or came up with it in their twisted little broken brain. 

 Welcome to the snowballing decline of civilization.

George Orwell could never have guessed just how bonkers and disturbed the future would really have become, mind you back in 1984 things were a lot better. Maybe he should have written a follow up "2024."

It is like the video someone shared the other day with some comedienne pretending she had performed to a naturist group in a London pub theatre. Talking about the man in the front row trying to keep his aroused penis down and the staff complaining about all the chair scrubbing afterwards because of naked bottoms on the seats. This is both fowl and unfunny but also highly misleading, unrealistic and prejudice, but those that listen take it as gospel and it undermines the whole idea of naturism.  

The world and society we all grew up in had a clearer idea of fact and fiction, fair and unfair, how to relate to the human body and much more. The internet should be helping to educate but the sheer amount of nonsense out there leaves all fact and learning drowning in a bog of unhealthy, stinking sludge. Sadly many of the worlds publications, presenters, journalists, leaders and other voices seem to want to encourage such puerile drivel and even some people presenting naturism to the world like to cash in on the dirty humour and mistaken thought processes. I am still angry with some of the naturist yoga comments allowed in a video that a national body was happy to be involved in. Presenting naturism is not just good enough, presenting naturism with respect is the only way. We should not degrade the ideas of naturism for a cheap laugh. 

Society no longer seems to understand things it once took for granted, Naturism should be part of a movement to encourage better habits and attitudes towards our fellow humans and ourselves. I think each generation is stepping further away from a world that can deal with naturism with maturity and acceptance and it is not a good thing. As it is not just naturism that we are losing it is all manners of values, respect and intelligence. 

Move over 1984 and embrace Planet of the Apes, with humanity not being overthrown by apes but becoming the apes themselves. We are only a couple of decades away from many humans going back to dragging their knuckles on the ground.