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Originally Posted by Ustwo
You know, this may come as a shock but we don't lock the fat girls up in the US and keep them from going swimming. Women in the US see EVERY body type quite a bit, we are a 'large' nation. I'm pretty sure they shower naked too before going in the pool, at least thats the rule on the door.
Really comparing anywhere to iceland is a bit difficult. Iceland is for all intents one people, and my suburb has almost 2/3rds its population. If you include a neighboring one, we have a greater population, and a more diverse one.
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Have you been in a women's locker room lately?
I can honestly tell you that the majority of women do not shower out in the open in the locker room. The university gym's locker room here is half open, half closed off cubicles, and the open half rarely gets used. And the rinse-off shower required before getting in a pool does not require nudity. Nudity is actually quite hard to come by; Americans don't have the same sense of skinship that other cultures do. We see the body as something that needs to be covered. Even in the sauna, I've only ever seen one or two women besides myself naked. I joined another gym last year, and one of their selling points was the individual changing room/shower room/bathroom combinations instead of locker rooms.
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