Taking shirts off at a public pool

[teachccd]

I don’t know what this thread is doing in apologetics.

There’s enough nudity in the art at the Vatican to make this entire subject a moot point from an ethical standpoint.

Today, the tendency is for young men to have tatoos, which I find to debase them. Like women’s clothing or lack thereof, men’s tatoos are meant to be shocking and provocative, very visually offensive.

My friend got a tattoo of the face of Christ on his upper arm. HMMM…Not so sure if it is visually offensive but then I can see your point when I view some other chosen artwork that is far from promoting Christianity…teachccd

 

[Fitswimmer]

Yes, I think it would be sinful to take your shirt off at a public pool.

Just because a particular behaviour is entrenched in the American culture, does not thereby mean it is acceptable.

If swimming pools must be used, then male/female areas should be kept separate. As it stands, they simply facilitate immodesty and lust. Would anyone still be comfortable wearing their swimsuit in front of nuns, or for the ladies in front of monks? Yet they are no less called to avoid lust and immodesty than we ourselves are.

Being counter-cultural is part and parcel of the Christian faith. Modesty no longer exists in mainstream America, but that does not mean it is no longer required!

Peace and God Bless!

That sounds more like Orthodox Judaism or Islam than Catholicism!

And yes, I have been comfortable in a swim suit in front of Priests and Sisters-it was called Swim team!

Swimming for exercise or competition, and being at the beach with your family are NOT the same thing as strutting down that beach or around that pool with the intent of getting people to look at your body.

 

[Magicsilence]

That sounds more like Orthodox Judaism or Islam than Catholicism!

And yes, I have been comfortable in a swim suit in front of Priests and Sisters-it was called Swim team!

Swimming for exercise or competition, and being at the beach with your family are NOT the same thing as strutting down that beach or around that pool with the intent of getting people to look at your body.

Given your username, am I right to assume you have a natural bias towards wanting to swim in public?

Maybe the American culture is so intertwined with everything you (plural) do, it is difficult to say no?

 

[Fitswimmer]

Given your username, am I right to assume you have a natural bias towards wanting to swim in public?

Maybe the American culture is so intertwined with everything you (plural) do, it is difficult to say no?

I’ve been swimming for exercise since I can remember. When I was young, it was in my parent’s backyard, then at the school pool for the team, and now at 5:30 am at the Y pool. God gave me a natural talent and love for the water.

Swimming to me is about keeping the body God gave me healthy and strong. My Dad will be 79 years old next week, swims nearly every day and is in better shape than people half his age. I want to be just like him!
I don’t think about the other folks in the water in the AM, and they’re not thinking about me. We’re all just doing our own thing, getting our laps in before we start our day.

I think there is a HUGE difference between people dressing appropriately for exercise-whatever that exercise is-and dressing with the intent to “show off their wares” as my grandmother used to say.