[ta1243]

> kids are more embarrassed/ashamed about their bodies because all the other penises they've seen are so huge.

And this is the problem. In years past kids would be naked with other kids, when changing after gym for example. Nowadays the only penis a boy sees is his own and that of porn people, because we've made normal nude situations extremely rare, especially outside of the context of sex.

[marcus_holmes]

This. The whole "you westerners are weird about your bodies because you didn't get to see your grandma's tits when you were kids" thing. We need to normalise nudity as non-sexual, especially within families.

[rightbyte]

Don't childen shower together anymore after gym classes?

[dmd]

We certainly didn’t in my public school in the 1980s; they’d stopped doing that by the late 70s. (NYC suburbs)

[delfinom]

Nope, the only kids that used the showers in my high school were the ones after their sports training after school.

[HaZeust]

Nope; but to be fair, I also think it's better without it - especially in a post-smartphone era where everyone has a camera in their pocket. The repercussions are just not worth it.