Its a religious thing about being clothed.

It's a religious 'Mental' thing about being clothed and you are not allowed to talk about it in your own house.
You are not even allowed to mention the word 'Nude,' either; especially if raised Catholic.

It's instilled in us at a very young age and mostly,
............very, very true after the age of 4 no longer allowed to run around the house without clothing that is a positive No, No.

if you were to notice only religious people are shy like that.

Only Religious people in America; Europe are far less prudish, more open, more at ease with their bodies.

I'm telling you, as far as, I was concern I had no body, wasn't allowed to even acknowl...

Its a religious thing about being clothed.

It's a religious 'Mental' thing about being clothed and you are not allowed to talk about it in your own house.
You are not even allowed to mention the word 'Nude,' either; especially if raised Catholic.

It's instilled in us at a very young age and mostly,
............very, very true after the age of 4 no longer allowed to run around the house without clothing that is a positive No, No.

if you were to notice only religious people are shy like that.

Only Religious people in America; Europe are far less prudish, more open, more at ease with their bodies.

I'm telling you, as far as, I was concern I had no body, wasn't allowed to even acknowledge the fact that I even had a gender...........never discussed anything relating to my body or anyone else's. These things were definitely now allowed within my family or my faith.

Silly but very true.

http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3100
HistoryLink Essay: Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) of Greater Seattle -- Part 3: Readjustment, 1930-1980:

An early casualty of gender equity was males-only nude swimming in the
downtown pool. Men and boys had been accustomed to swimming au naturel
at the YMCA, not only in Seattle but in Ys everywhere, since the 1890s.
The practice may have evolved from problems created by the long, wool
swimming suits then in fashion, which apparently shed so much they
gummed up the pool filters. Later, nude swimming was justified on the
grounds of hygiene. A handboo...

http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3100
HistoryLink Essay: Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) of Greater Seattle -- Part 3: Readjustment, 1930-1980:

An early casualty of gender equity was males-only nude swimming in the
downtown pool. Men and boys had been accustomed to swimming au naturel
at the YMCA, not only in Seattle but in Ys everywhere, since the 1890s.
The practice may have evolved from problems created by the long, wool
swimming suits then in fashion, which apparently shed so much they
gummed up the pool filters. Later, nude swimming was justified on the
grounds of hygiene. A handbook in use at the Seattle Y in the 1920s
required that “A good soap bath must be taken before entering the
swimming pool” in the same paragraph that specified “The wearing of
swimming suits or supporters will not be allowed except by permission
from the director” (Information for Members).

In any case, the
custom was phased out as co-ed swimming became more common, although
the pool continued to be reserved for men from noon to 2 p.m. daily
until 1974. At that point, Sonstelie -– then a newcomer to Seattle who
wanted to swim during her lunch hour –- fired off a letter asking how
an organization supported by the United Way could maintain such a
discriminatory policy. “They changed immediately,” she says. “I had
never seen an organization move that quickly” (Sonstelie Interview).

The
new policy led to what Dick Knapp, the Downtown YMCA’s physical
director in the early 1970s, called “interesting times,” since many of
the men who regularly used the pool at noon had never had to wear swim
suits before (Knapp, "Last Blast"). When the gender barriers fell, it
took a while for all the men to get used to the new rules.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y.M.C.A.#Trivia