The next instalment of “A Coordinator’s Story” will be in the feed soon. Sorry for the delay. Having some medical issues, but hopefully resolving.
The first six chapters of this story set the stage for how the Naked in School Program came to be. That is, those chapters contain my vision of how it could have originated. Did how I described how society viewed public nudity seem unlikely—or even impossible—to you? But consider this... As I mentioned in the Foreword to the story, a version of mandatory nudity for high school students actually existed, from about the late 1940s to the early 1980s, in many high schools in the U.S. and in schools in other countries too.
Nudity in those high schools was required for P.E. swimming classes, mostly for boys, but in some schools, girls were required to be naked when they attended those swimming classes too, and compliance was usually militantly enforced. As it was in my high school, where I recall that the gym teachers would allow (encourage?) other students to forcibly strip any unwilling kids. So if mandatory school nudity happened in the past, could social conditions evolve to allow it to return again? Why not? It’s very possible. Cultural changes do occur, and some changes happen with surprising speed. Witness the lightning attitude changes to sexual freedom in our society in the 1970s when reliable birth control meds became available. And the reverse shift when AIDS appeared went even faster. So, given those ideas, “A Coordinator’s Story” explores one way that a form of mandatory high school nudity could return to our society.
I hope that you enjoy your reading.